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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-02
EIGHT DOLLARS A FOOT.
R. T. Warwick Buys E Street Prop.
ertY as an Investment.

y large transaction in property in the
business section was recently made by the
Simpson-Sullivan Company, real estate
brokers. when they sold for Mrs. Julia 1.
Saunders a wide frontage on the south
side Of Z street between 10th and 18th
streets northwest. The purchaser was
Randolph T. Warwick, who will hold 1t as
an investment.
The property comprises Nos. 1OOS-1O and
II T. street, having a frontage of SOL feet
by depth of S9.5 feet, and contains 4. 4S2
square feet. The price paid was about
$4,000. which is at the rate of about s.
per square foot. The improvements are
three-story buildings which are under
rent and in use for business purposes.
A few weeks ago, through the same Of
flee. Z. r.. Meyers purchased the property
1904 + street. couple of doors to the
east of the above mentioned property.
The dimensions of this piece are 25x1O0
feet. and the price paid also was about
IS per foot.
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Cement Too Expensive.

There was not sufficient money to lay
in cement floor. so it was suggested
that a hard brick pavement with ce-
mented joints be put down. This wac,
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done, and though half a dozen years have
elapsed since the floor was laid, there
has not been one cent spent on 1t Tor
repairs, and it is as sound and as clean
and as good from a sanitary point OF
view as when first laid, and cost but lit
tie more than half the money 1t would
have taken for cement floor
This is one of the evidences among
many which might be produced that the
wideawake brickmaker could often sug-
gest the use Of brick to advantage to
himself and owner where other more
expensive materials are intended to be
employed. While it is always better to
employ an expert bricklayer to lay down
brick pavement, it is not absolutely
necessary, as an intelligent laboring man
or any other handy man can, with lit
tie care and practice lay any brick pave
ment of simple design. and it is aston
ishing the number of handsome designs
that a clever fellow can evolve by jul
dicious use of the common, unassuming
plebeian brick. The combinations are be-
yOnd count.
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going to overflow to the other side As
has already been noted. beginning has
been made, not only south of Park road,
but north Of it, in making the east side
of 14th street like the western side,
place where trade is carried on and not
a place for dwellings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-02
ENGLISH BUILDING MEN
IN NEW WAGE SCALE
Employers and Carpenters and
Joiners Sign Agreement for
Winter Months.

There was recently signed az agreement
between the Manchester, Stafford and
District of England Building Trades En-
ployers' Association and the joint commit
tee of the carpenters and joiners of the
district of England touching the matter
of wages and hours of work, which may
interest the trade in this country.
For March to October. inclusive forty
nine and a half hours are to constitute a
weeks work: in December and January
the men shall work fOrty-one and half
hours per week and the rate of wages
shall be 1Od. GO cents per hour both
summer and winter.
Overtime is to commence at the times
stated for leaving off work and shall be
paid for at the rate of time and a quar-
ter for the first two hours. then until 10
o'clock at time and a half. and from IL
o'clock until starting time next morning
at double time.
Saturdays and Sundays.
From noon until o'clock Saturdays the
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drain uniformly to one point. H., sug-
CESS that one inch i'm ten feet Will give
sufficient slope and without this there is
very likely to be water standing on Tn.
floor which is both insanitary and un-
healthy
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BRICK CELLAR FLOORS
AS GOOD AS CEMENT
Builder of Hospital Tries Ex-
pertinent, Finding Ma
teriaI Cheaper.

Apropos of the extent to which concrete
and cement floors are being used in cell
lars Of buildings of various kinds the fol-
lowing comments touching the use of
brick for such a purpose may not be
without interest. The ideas are those
of a correspondent of the Clay Record:
Some time ago. the writer says, built
fairly large hospital, the basement OF
which was full measure below the top
Of foundation walls. Owing to lack Of
funds the question of flooring the base
ment was left over until the upper part
of the building was about completed.
when an additional sum was realized,
and a portion of it put aside by the trus-
tees for the purpose Of putting in some
sort of a floor in the basement.
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Saturdays and Sundays.

From noon until o'clock Saturdays the
overtime charge Will be time aud q hall
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How to Drain Cement Floors.

In discussing the construction of con-
crete floors for barns and stables writer
on the subject recommends that the floor
be so planned that every part of it will
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and from 4 o'clock until starting time
Monday shall be double time.
Night gangs Omade up of men who have
not been employed during the day. are
not to be inaugurated for less than q
week and in these cases the rate of pay
shall be Is I'D per hour CO centsl.
In the event of dispute it is agreed
that no strike or lockout shall take place
until the question has been referred to a
local joint committee of not more than
six employers and six operators. Where
there is ia lure to agree the point of diff
ference will be submitted to an umpire
mutually agreed upon by the committee.
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larger type. AS might naturally be
expected, the provision stores furnish
instances Of establishments of this
character.
In one sense it is not large business
section that has grown up with 18th
street and Park road as a starting point
from which it now stretches south some
four or five blocks and also to the north
following, as it were. the course OF house
building out that throughfare, which has
been such a remarkable phase in the de-
velOpment of the city during recent
years.
Two Miles From 18th and F.
But for a locality more than two miles
from 14th and + streets this center is
not only large, but one of unusual &C
tivity and business hustle and animation.
Besides the stores of all kinds, there are
three motion picture places and Il skating
rink, TO say nothing of a market.
Plans have been prepared by B. STAN
ley Simmons. architect. for d building
which will house another movie The
amusement place proper will occupy the
rear Of the ground on the west side Of
14th street between Columbia road and
Irving street. with an entrance through
a one-story store building that now oc-
cupies the front of the lot.
The Park Savings Bank. established
three years ago is doing well and pros
pering and another sign Of a large COM
munity life is the Northern Dispensary
and Emergency Hospital, which is right
in the heart of this busy center. For
the most part the business places are
ranged along the western side of the
street, but north of Columbia road there
are Indications that commercial life is
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going to overflow to the Otner SIDE AZ
has already been noted. beginning has
been made, not only south of Park road.
but north Of it, in making the east side
of 14th street like the western side, a
place where trade is carried on and not
a place for dwellings.
Western Side Full of Stores.
along the southern section of 18th
street at least as far north as Thomas
Circle the western side Of the street
as far south as Fairmont is practically
a continuous line of stores, and it Is
road is reached that the invasion of the
eastern side begins, and one finds
stores among the dwellings,. The
dividing line between the business
section of the Columbia Heights re-
giOn and the residence section along
18th street Is found at Fairmont
street. which is on the brow of the
hill that overlooks the city
Between that line and Florida avenue,
not alone along 14th street. but also
on the side streets. is one of the larg-
est groups of apartment houses to be
found in the city. They are of all
types and sizes. in great variety as
well as number. Just now the latest
addition is approaching completion, as
the rent sign of the SwartZell, Rheem
& Hensey Co. indicates. II is quite the
largest in that locality, and while only
five stories in height has a frontage OF
unusual stretch along Fairmont street
Impressive Rows of Buildings.
The apartment houses in this vicinity
are impressive on account Of their num-
bers. but perhaps not more so than the
row after row of houses that stretch
east and west on each side Of 14th
But that street is only one of the great
arteries of the vast residence area
north Of Florida avenue. stretching
from the Soldiers Home to Rock Creek
Park.
Along 14th street and it's network Of
feeders the houses in rows are almost
continuous for some three miles north
of 14th and streets. occupying
ground that was until q few years
ago cultivated as farms or covered
with a growth of trees. The business
center that has grown up at 14th
street and Park road is surprising per-
haps, when it is considered by itself.
but natural when the extent of the
region for which it is center is con-
sidered.
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MORE ROOM FOR BUSINESS
NEEDED NEAR PARK ROAD
Section of Fourteenth Street at This Point
Being Developed Into Commercial
Center Rapidly.

More room for business, meaning addi-
ments. is recognized as a need in the
upper section of 14th street in the
neighborhood of Park road. A num-
Der of improvements of that character
have been made in recent months, so
recent, in fact, in some cases, that the
buildings have not as yet been occu-
pied.
The entire first floor facing 14th street
Of the large apartment house just COM
pleted at the northwest corner of 14th
street and Columbia road has show
windows and is divided in spaces so as
to be adapted for use for stores of
moderate size. Altogether, there are
eight places of this sort along 14th
street front and most of them are al
ready occupied
On the opposite side of 14th street
and a t the southeast corner of 14th and
Irving streets four One-stOry store
buildings have been built, while farther
street is a building where provision
has been made for two stores.
Expansion of Business.
The erection of these buildings for
business section that is already of good
size. For, in addition to the usual ar
ray Of small stores characteristic of
the small business centers that are
scattered through the city. and espe-
cially along the line of street cars.
there are also business places of a
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-08-15

'AIl new arrivals are washed, "
explained the prison warden.
'And if they make a fuss?"
'"Then they are ironed,"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-08-15
BOSTON IS THE BEST
By Hugh Jennings.

Boston just now is the best
team in the American league.
Still, the-Boston players have not
reached a full realization of that
fact. The Red Sox should win
the per1nart and probably will,
but the road will not be smooth
sailing, sgz.a = -
Boston lacks confidence /
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would not have you infer the team
is not game aggregation, for
such is not the case. I simply
mean that the players do not seem
to realize their great possibilities.
When the American league sea-
son opened, l feel frank to state
that not member of the Boston
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-08-15
TEAM, SAYS JENNINGS

= 1NsA1 VA \ ~ JG1ANANAAN~AO
club figured very strongly on
winning the pennant. l thought
the Athletics outclassed the field
and would win rather easily. 1
believe every other player and
manager in the American league
had a similar opinion.
Suddenly the Boston club found
itself out in front, with a good
lead, and favored to win the pen
nant. Naturally the players got
enthusiastic over their chances,
but they do not seem to play with
that sublime confidence that
marks the style of every great
team, like the Athletics, the Cubs
and the Giants.
The Boston club can hit the
ball, has pretty fair speed, and
with fair pitching can go out and
win the average ball game. The
Red Sox don't need air-tight
pitching with such hitting ar
ray, although the pitching of the
staff, with Joe Woods its only
real star, has been high class.
While favoring Boston to win,
don't for a minute think that I
have counted Washington and
the Athletics out of the running.
The Washington team is the best
young ball club that I have seen
in years, while the Athletics have
the class, if the team will but as
sert itself.
There is liable to be a driving
finish down the stretch in the
American league, with a blanket
covering the first three teams.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-12
CHAPTER XVIII.
Marooned.

On this the sun rose. on this tableau
arranged upon a stretch of pink coral
sand, with smiling breadth of water of
wonderful fulgent blue as foreground.
a thicket of cedar and pitch pine and
strangely tinted tropical underground for
a background: young and beautiful
woman. dressed in a bathing suit that
would have seemed not out of place on a
Newport beach, lying in the attitude of
one who had succumbed to the need of
sleep at nadir of pure physical pros
tration, her head pillowed on the rounded
softness OF one bare arm outfiung: stand
ing above her, in pose of complete and
absolute stupefaction, young man in
torn shirt and soied trousers, coilarless
and barefooted and lacking a hat. in one
hand the straps of canvas-covered life
belt, old. discolored, damp and stencilei
with the name Cydonia
Crittendens features were drawn and
haggard and darkened beyond their nor
NAL shade by coat of fresh sunburn:
slightly bloodshot, his eyes shone like
smOldering Goals in their deep-set sockets.
There was a hint of grimness and de-
Spair in the set of his mouth and chin,
rusty with day-old stubble. One sleeve
of his shirt was ripped to the shoulder
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FREE SWIMMING LESSONS.
Offer by Head of the Playground As.
ISOLATION Being Considered.

An offer to provide instruction in swim
ming for boys and girls under fifteen
years of age at the municipal bathing
beach has been made to the District
Commissioners by Arthur c. Moses. presi-
dent of the Washington Playground Asso-
citation.
1t is the result of Corporation Counsel
Thomas decision to the effect that the
guards or other employees of the beach
cannot give private lessons during the
hours the pools are not formally open
and that all fees collected at the beach
must be turned into the District.
The Commissioners are undecided
whether, in view of this decision and the
statute which prohibits them from ac-
cepting volunteer services, they are pre-
Guided from accepting Mr.. Noses offer.
which was transmitted to them today
through Edgar S. Martin, supervisor Of
the playground association Mr.. Thomas
will be asked to render an opinion in the
matter.
The corporation counsel now has before
him the question of whether an effort
should be made by the District to collect
from guards at the beach the amounts
paid them for private swimming lessons.
Accounting officers of the District admit
that this would be a difficult task, as the
pra ctice of the guards to give private
lessons has been in vogue since the eStab-
lishment of the beach, lin 1891.
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sum- whose level rays were like lambent
| flames.
Surely her fairness was surprising.
I" a. so fair" his memory prompted:
| And, 10, her wonderfully woven hair. .
He looked upon her consummate lowell
ness and his heart melted. and he under
stood the vanity of Self-delusion. He
loved her beyond expression. in his eyes
she was more fair than any living thing
and more to be desired; and thus il
would ever be with him. despite what
ever alchemy of time and change.
, The heat of morning WAS becoming un-
endurab BILE: i'm distress of IL the girl stirred
a little with the faintest of complainant
means. And she sadly needed further
rest. A single glance had served to tell
him that.
Compassionate and tender and reVerent.
he knelt and PASSED his arms beneath
her. gently gathering her into them. II
seemed impossible that she should MOI
waken. None the less she did not. Her
eyes it's true. opened as her head fell
against his breast. but their look was
dazed. uncomprehending; and her lips
moved. shaping single word. his name
then again-as if subconsciously assured
that she was with him, all Well with her
the SAUNDERS demanded of drained en-
orgies regained complete possession OF
her, mind and body.
Inch by inch he lifted himself and his
burden. stood at length erect. balanced
himself and bore her slowly and care
fully at a measured and sure stride. in
land TO Swallowed glade he knew OF.
where with the same infinite precautions
he put her down upon a couch of messy
turf
Go be continued tomorrow
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STAYS HER DAUGHTER,
SENTENCED TO DEATH
Washer Gets Extreme Penalty.
Son Who Shot Father
Granted Leniency.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star

Foreign Cores pondence Of The star.
PARIS. August |. 1872.
\ melancholy story concerning the
assassina ton of "A beautiful young
woman by her mother was told recently
to the jury at Rouen. The victim.
Marie Gauthier. aged twenty. was in
sured for 81 900 and it was TO obtain
the insurance money that her mother.
a widow of fortv-one. who kept small
grocery store at Bouelles, stranglcd
her and then placed the corpse in an
clubhouse in a hanging position, as il
Marie had committed suicide.
Throughout the trial the prisoner
maintained that she was innocent, but
the evidence was overwhelming. The
two little brothers of the murdered
village belle testified against their
mother and related how during the
night of the crime they heard their
sister repeatedly call out Mamma,
mind. YOU are strangling me-.
When the body was discovered hang
ing to nail Nine. Gauthier explained
that her daughter had committed sui
eide. and that she had been very mel
ancholy for some time. This was
proved to be untrue. for the girl was
to he married in September. and had
told all her friends joyfulIy of her be
throthaI. The murderess was sentenced
to death.
While Nine. Ciauthicrs trial was pro-
ceeding at Rouen the jurymcn of tho
Allicr department were considering the
case of a son who murdered his father.
They were in lenient mood and the
parrlcide was sentenced to only one
years imprisonment. Louis Auclair. Il
youth of nineteen, was trying to break
open the desk in which his father kept
his savings when NJ. Auclair, senior I'M
expectedly arrived and caught his son
by the collar. They struggled, and to
free himself the son seized revolver
and shot his father dead.
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lessly to and fro. hither and yon, crying
his name. needless of whittier she wan
dered. I" "
In this course of blind ranging, and
after lapse of time, she came out again
upon the beach. at a point near that at
which she first had left it,
There was more light now. in the east
forerunning pulsation of dusk. The
lagoon showed CLASSY and blank. pale be-
meath the fainting stars and empty.
The Cynthia was even then steaming
slowly out between the converging capes,
the Orion having preceded her at some
distance.
Cynthia's breath stopped in her throat
for al instant. her heart in her bosom
seeming to fail. With a short, Saspne
cry she came to the last of her ebbng
strength and sank down on the sands,
staring after the vessels with eyes hor-
ror Smitten
Crittenden vanished. the Cynthia aban-
doning her. Terror of loneliness
overcast Cynthia s senses. Unconscious
ness claimed her, and from it she passed
unstirring into deep slumber, docile to
the demands of an overwrought mind
and an overworked body.
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PAWNS COUSINS WATCH.
Greek Joins Greek in Police Court
and One Draws Fine

James Lembaropolus and his cousin.
Peter Manolakos. with whom he lives, got
into a snarl about watch belonging to
Peter and check for $50 which did not
appear in time. which today required the
services OF Judge Mullowney to straighter
out.
James says he took a watch belonging
to his cousin Peter. and pawned il for
SO. in order to pay Peter some board
that he owed him. He said il was only a
temporary arrangement, as he meant &c
redeem tie watch and give it back TO his
cousin when a check arrived from some
where in Pennsylvania. At the time James
was arrested he had S31 in his clothes.
Judge Nullowney fined him So, and made
him redeem the watch from the pawn
brOkey.
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CHAPTER XVII.-Continued.

Presently she found the boxes of BIS
cult and the key of water, where the
Cynthia's sailors had left them. One of
the boxes had been broken open. the
key preached: but Crittenden was no.
where near them.
She called again. insistently, getting no
answer.
None the less. il was from this spot
that he had turned away to conceal HIM
self in the hnterland of the cay. The
girl hesitated here, little abashed by
the thought of attempting such eXplora-
ton of Drawing the occult perils and
pitfalls of the land: but panic dread of
being overtaken ere she should find him,
equally with her deepening anxiety. in
cited her on, stronger than her terrors
of the unknown. She advanced picking
her way through hedges of zimmerman
blackness. where strange things moved
with uncanny cries and ruStlings, through
a natural avenue. by this time dimly
lighted by the lessened moon newly risen,
over ridge of rocky ground. and down
again to the waters edge on the farther
side of the island.
Here Crittenden had camped She found
the still warm emberS of the fire he had
made for the comfort of it. unseen of
the vessels: and beside the area of ashes
a depression in the sand where, she had
no doubt he had lain in his suffering.
But no otter sign of hinl-saVe for in
terweaving trails of footprints on the
beach. crossing and recrossing between
the edge of vegetation and the lip of the
tide.
In this spot she waited longest, again
and again crying out his name. hearing
only the sigh of dawR-heralding breeze
and the unceasing mutter and Surgle ana
plash of the seas suSurration.
Forebodings assailed her with a hum
dred grim faces. importunate, dreadful.
What could have become of him? He
could not possibly have escaped hearing
her calls. She shrank from the waters
i'm horror. conceving they might have
taken him from her. knowing that fever
often attended on wounds, that fever bred
delirium. she had horrible visions of Crit
tenden maddened. seeking in water re-
lief from the fire thar consumed him.
= And the island appalled, her with its
silence and mystery. ma skiing who should
be able to say how many traps for the
destruction of her beloved g 9"
In her distraction, finding the weight
Of the lifebelt conStraining, she Embossed
1t and slipped it from her shoulders let
ting it fall without marking the spot.
She began to run frantically and aim