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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26
REAL. ESTATE TRANSFERS.

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& Bemadetta M to Jane McNamars
GA g NV & 1on Sd ne,
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S to Jacob NJ Stein $40 tr $1,000
(le5-T 18th st nwl
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(l633 nw)
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ropolis A No s1,2D IS
list bet T & sci
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Francis S Carmody $40 q
(E Of ID N of r mel
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w Trey SO 2
E of Cd \ Of r mel
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Rose to Walter Dixon $40 covenants
Raleigh st of Esther Pr sci "a
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ard to Jos Laroche ct Mary SO tr $500
Q529 nw) II
So 1885 1t Mass Ave Hits-FABRE Ellie to
Catherine Hurney $40 46
wis of Davis ST nw)
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Eliza NJ to Robt G Smith SO So
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(25th bet L & NJ & rear
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] s ct Tx Annie r to Eudora B johnson
$40 "A
(4ll9 7th nw)
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Mary c & Rose Green $40
(29th & o SITS nw)
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Carolyn to Beulah Maupin $40 60
&c Cap st bet 18th & 18th tse)
So s4 1t 1s-H0WENSTEIN, II r ct ux Carolyn
TO Herbert S Gormley $40
(B bet 4th & 5th mel
So 1857 II 10 Eckington-IREY, Chas W ct Tx
Elizabeth A to J 8 Gruyer $40 q
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26

walter 1GseArthur, Of csast ses.
nan's journal, Comnissioner.

walter 1aoeArthur, 81 Coast see-
nan's Journal, ConHissioner.
Secretary OF Commerce william C.
Redfield has appointed Mr.. Walter Mac
Arthur. editor of the Coast seamen's
Journal. San Francisco, Cal. u. 8. Ship
ping Commissioner at San francisco at
1900 per annum. The appointment Is
effective June ]. 1913
The position was rendered to Mr.. Mac
Arthur by wire on April g. and accepted
by him April g. The incumbent. Mr..
Charles e. knight has been asked TO
tender his resignation. effective at the
close Of business on May 81. 1914
Mr.. Mac Arthur was in the British
merchant marine service from 1876 to
1885: I'm the American merchant marine
from 1885 to 1891: was manager and asso-
ciate editor Of the Coast Seamen's Jour-
nal from 1891 to 1895, and editor In 1885,
which position he now holds. He Is the
author of the RED Record. A brief
resume Of some of the crueities perpe-
trated upon American seamen at the
present time. 1885," the Handy Bill$,'
book OF new century pamphlets for sea-
men. 1901. and contributor on labor
questions.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26
Schaener with New Firm.

Thomas w. Schaeffer has associated
himself with the firm of Thomas j.
Fisher & Co., Inc. Mr.. Schaeffer for the
last year and a half has been with the
firm of Stone & Fairfax, prior to that
having been with willige, Gibbs & Dan
iels for period of about five years. He
is well known in the real estate frater-
nifty of the city, particularly among
builders. as he has specialized largely on
residential properties. In his new con-
nection he will be assigned to the home
department, where he will continue to
handle the class of residences with which
he is most familiar.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26

When the owners of Massachusetts,
Avenue Heights opened that subdivision
about two years ago, they boldly an
nounced in the booklet issued that
Massachusetts Avenue Heights is not
an ordinary real estate development. 1t
is extraordinary in all its features. The
unusual shines out in its location, its
characteristics, its history, and the GER
tainty of it's future" At that time a
large portion of the tract was nothing
but forest. The only roadways were
faint and long unused wagon trails. 1t
was not possible for the lay observer TO
realize the possibilities that lay in such
a tangle of underbrush.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26

Today the creative imagination of the
engineer has taken concrete form. Mag
nificent roadways following easy grades
and winding around wonderful villa sites
mark the old wagon roads. Granolithic
sidewalks, cobbled cutters, macadam
roads,. sewer and water mains have been
laid. David ]. Howell, the engineer in
charge, has, in the opinion of many ex-
perts, built a monument destined to be
a standard of civic development Through
the heart of the tract park was dedi-
catetd to the District. this park being a
spur of Rock Creek Park.
Massachusetts Avenue Heights now
compares with such famed sections as
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26
FOR SALE" SIGNS
AID REAL ESTATE
Broker Says Placards EeIp Deals, but
He Urges an Artistic
Standard.

Speaking the other day of real estate
signs and their propriety, whether they
are agents for good or harm, leading
Washington real estate dealer said:
There has been some discussion re-
Gently in real estate circles regarding
the eXpediency of posting signs upon
property that is for sale or rent Per-
sonally, / feel strongly in favor of the
custom of using signs, based upon my
own experience in the Washington real
estate field and my observations Of real
estate conditions in other cities-Balti-
more, New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Phil
adelphia, Cincinnati, and elsewhere. The
wise thing to do when you have property
to sell is to let the public know it in the
most direct way-by placing signs upon
it, Signs bring inquiries from persons
who are really interested in that parti-
cular property.
Signs Are Valuable.
''It has been suggested that signs do
harm where there is a large proportion
of vacant property; that so many signs
give hurtful impressions to visitors re-
garding property conditions in Washing
ton. Do not forget that ii is often the
visitor who becomes a purchaser, and
when you remove the sign you remove
at the same time many chances to make
a sale. You will not change conditions
by taking down the sign; you will only
lesson chances of improving conditions.
While il is true that the enormous amount
of vacant property is a reproach and a
most undesirable advertisement for Wash
ington, taking down the signs will not
secure tenants nor fool the public very
long. The only effective remedy for va
cant property is to find tenants. The
sign helps to do that, therefore ii should
be utilized. 1t would be a great mistake,
in my opinion, and detrimental to the
interests of the property owner to do
away with signs The best proof Of that
we find in the universal custom of re-
sorting to the use of them.
Apply TO Any Broker.
Signs are usually made to advertise
a particular broker, although in New
York and elsewhere we often see signs
reading: Apply to your own broker
This is an indication of the very general
custom prevailing of doing real estate
business through brokers, and particular
ly in New York.
Cooperation Needed.
with proper spirit of cooperation
between the real estate man and the
property owner, a great Improvement in
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26

Fishback. George p. Meade. Theodore L.
Weed. Hon. William Stuart Reyburn.
Gen. William Crozier. and Chester D.
Gilbert.
Massachusetts, Avenue Heights lies
along the avenue whose name II bears
for about a mile. 1t Is in the famous
triangle of values" the apex Of which
is Dupont Circle.
Upward of a dozen houses are now in
course of construction or recently COM
pleted. Many more are planned for the
spring and summer.
The new connecting line between Rock
creek and Potomac Parks skirts the en-
ure eastern end of the property.
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q TO jos Martin SO q
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McGoNIGAL, Augusta to Melvin F Fishez
$40 sub to right of way tr $1,000
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& Thos P Bones Joint tenants to Walter
Mcmillan $40 covenants 81
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MAN, Harry & Thos Bones TO Henry G
Morton SO covenants & trust 5000 g
Is of v st 4 Of Summit Pl mel
So 2los 1t blk Is Woodley Pk-wETMORE,
Katherine to Miriam Wolf $40 covenants
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Lanier Hts 1t IS-ZARIN, Jacob ct ux Esther to
Isaac Kriksteine & Lewis Fridman $40 80
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Of Brookline, and others equally as
famed.
Already more than 100000 feet OF
ground have been sold by Thomas j.
Fisher & Co., Inc. general sales agents
Many prominent in the social and finan-
cial affairs Of the city are among the
purchasers. Some Of them are. John A.
Carver, of New York; Capt e. Z. Hay
den. Mrs. Joseph w. Babcock. DR.. j. j.
Richardson, Miss Julia d. Strong, Will
lam f. Dennis. j. William Henry, MRS
Charlotte Daley, Fred A. Walker. Thom-
as Armat, Hon. Martin b. Madden
Frank H. Briggs, Reid S. Baker, FREQ Il.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26
BRYCE TO VISIT CHINA.
Retirfng British Ambassadors
study Repahlie's Evolutfon.

James Bryce. Ambassador Of Great
Britain to the United States for more
than six years, relinquished his post yes
terday afternoon and left for New York.
He spoke at the dinner given in his
honor there last night by the Pilgrims
Club He will await the arrival OF his
successor, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, who Is
now en- route.
Mr. Bryce plans to travel in the Orient
this summer. proceeding thither via San
Francisco. Mrs. Bryce will accompany
him. 1t is his intention to make a study
of the evolution of the Chinese Republic.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26
President Invited to Virginia.

Representative C. C. Carlin of Virginia
yesterday invited President Wilson to at
tend the celebration Of the founding If
Purcellville. Va, one of the earliest es-
tablished settlements in the colony, to be
held August H. The President promised
to try to attend. but added that he ex-
pected to be in Panama at that time.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26

Washington values may be gradually
brought about. There is no reason why
we should not hope for ultimate values
here at least as high os those which OBJ
tain in Cincinnati city with only two
thirds of our population"
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EDGAR 8. MARTIN HONE.
flaysrounds supervfser Back frss
Trfp 20 F1eoaea Districts.

Trfp to Flooded Districts.
Edgar s. Martin. supervisor OF play
grounds, returned yesterday from the
Middle West sections devasted by the
floods, where he has been engaged in
relief work and In directing Boy Scout
organization in their work Tor the strick-
en- communities
Mr. Martin has words Of highest praise
for the work being done by the Red
whose fortunes were entirely DESTROYED
by the flood He said that the Red
Cross work was being carried on with
almost perfect system. The cities and
towns through which the flood waters
poured are rapidly recovering from their
losses, he said. He will return to Ohio
Monday, and continue his services there
for two or three weeks longer.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26

Senator O'Gorman Of New York yes
terday leased RED Top" at one time
the summer home of Grover Cleveland.
The lease is for the summer. and the
New York legislator intends to move in
May /. The estate is located on Nc
Combs Street. between Thirty-fourth
and Thirty-fifth Streets Northwest.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-26
Blind VIII BE Entertained.

The programmes for the entertainments
for the blind at the Library OF Congress
for the week Of April % are as follows'
Tuesday. $50 D. m.-Reading. Miss Fran
ces Rodiffer and Miss Harriet Stone
Friday, $50 D. m.-Musicale, under the
auspices of Mrs Hobart Brooks.
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n r. CIaxton. wife Of the United States
Commissioner Of Education.
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There were nineteen commercial fuel
briauetting plants in operation in the
United States last year.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-09-27
"EN0CH ARDEN" IN REAL LIFE
Daughter Finds Father, After Fifty
Three Years, Who Failed to Claim
Remarked Wife

TarrytOwn, y. Y-As the last chap
ter in dramatic story which closely
parallels Tennyson "Enoch Arden.
Capt Lewis p Hunt of Tarrytown.
n. Y, now eighty -four years old and
quite feeble. has started for Oregon
with his daughter, who has just seen
him for the first time in fifty-three
years. He left his wife to another
man she had married in the belief
that he was dead
When Captain Hunt came home TO
Buffalo, n. Y. in 1868, after being dis
charged from his regiment at the
close Of the war. amazed friends met
him at the station and told him they
had believed for several years that he
had died in battle.
They told him that his wife had be-
lieved the reports of his death and
had married again. Like Enoch Ar
den, he turned his back on Buffalo
and went adrift into the world, leav-
Ing his wife in ignorance and to the
new happiness she had found.
When he went to the war his daugh-
ter was two years old. When he re-
turned to Buffalo he wanted to see the
child, but he dared not, because the
knowledge that he was alive would
ruin his wife's happiness. Therefore
he dropped out of sight Of all who
had known him.
This daughter grew to womanhood.
was married to a man named Miller
French and moved to Clatskanie, Ore
gon. Mr. Hunts wife and her new
husband moved to Wisconsin AS the
daughter of Civil war veteran Mrs
French recently wrote to the pension
bureau to see il she could not obtain
a pension. The bureau informed her
that her father was alive and living at
Tarrytown. where he was receiving a
pension.
Mrs. French hurried here and then
for the first time In fifty-three years
met her father.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-09-27
Novel Way Of ADVERTISING.

The advertising manager of a lead
ing French business firm has evolved
an ingenious plan for evading the pro-
hibitive taxes imposed by the law of
July IL, 1912, on unsightly billboards
disfiguring the countryside For the
long, ugly advertisement boards tank-
ing the railway, which formerly were
a blot on the garden city of Paris and
its suburbs, Juvisy firm has now
substituted a large bed of flowers in a
field adjoining the Orleans line, the
design representing a yellow COW,
which is the trademark of the arti-
Gle in which the firm trades. There
by 1t not only circumvents the law,
but also provides a more effective ad-
vertisement than that offered by the
former billboards. The plan has
proved so satisfactory, that it is ex-
pected that railways in the neighbor-
hood of large French towns will be
beautified by similar floral parterres,
designed to advertise articles of COM
merce
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-09-27
DIDN'T APPEAL TO SENATOR
Western Statesman Had Wrong I'm
preston as to Recipient of Pro-
posed Wedding Present

Soon after the converting OF a new
| session OF congress the announcement
was made of the approaching mar.
rage OF Arson G. McCook, who was
then secretary of the senate. A sub
scription was Immediately started
| among the senators for the purchase
Of wedding present. Two or three
prominent senators volunteered to col
lect the money. Senator Y, one Of
the richest men in the senate at that
time, was one of these.
Seeing a new western senator who
had not yet been approached on the
subject, Senator Y went to him and
said:
Senator Slocum. want you to give
me S25."
What for?" demanded the new
member
For McCook's wedding presen.,"
explained Senator Y.
IN see you about it tomorrow,
answered Slocum with a scowl.
All right" said Senator X, as he
walked away, but don't forget it,"
Senator Slocum watched him until
he was out of hearing, and then, turn
ing to his colleague remarked, with
warmth:
We'll, I've heard of cheeky things
In my life, but that man beats all!
What do you think? He just asked
me to give him s25 to buy a wedding
present for his cook"
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-09-27
POLICING OF PARIS
Waldo Tells CT Shakeup in the
French Capital.
Germans Are Very lawAbidlns-
No One In Berlin Olsobeys the
Injunction on Placards Read
ing "verboten."

New York.-"London." said Rhine.
lander Waldo. commissioner OF New
York's police, respects its police;
Berlin obeys; Paris hates"
Mr.. Waldo didn't discuss New
York's turn Of mind toward the force
What's the use of awaking sad
erhoes? He has Just returned from
studious trip to Europe.
Il found three great policemen in
Henry, Hennion and Jagow," said he,
in Scotland Yard, Paris and Berlin.
LOndoD's police and police methods
correspond most nearly to these in
vogue in the United States. The Paris
detective system is being torn to
pieces and rebuilt. Berlins police de-
partment is highly efficient human
lied card index. Its main function is
to keep tab"
Mr.. Waldo explained the law-abid
ing ways and love of system OF the
German people.
Wherever you GO" said he, you
find placards, 'Verboten.' That means
forbidden No one ever thinks of
disobeying They do not even Ques-
ton. If mad wag were TO slip into
Germany over night and change all
those Verboten' pIacards he would
automatically alter the habits of an
entire people"
No German or Londoner ever
thinks Of assaulting a copper. In this
town one of the favored sports at the
weekly athletic meets OF the Gas
House gang or the Gophers is to
whang a brick on copper's cap
Il asked a Scotland Yard official"
said Mr.. Waldo. IF the Londoners
often assaulted his boobies.
my dear fellow, no. said he 1t
simply isn't done"
Paris policemen are heavily armed
and walk about in pairs. Mr. Waldo
did not care to go more deeply into
this matter He said that over IN
Europe they take the press seriously
One gathers. however, that the a.dvan-
tage OF the arrangement is that there
Is usually a survivor after the Apache
attack A sort OF $3.50 split, so to
speak. He would not make a direct
comparison of the personnel of the
New York police force with that OF
the three other great cities.
The police force OF a great city rs
always fairly representative OF the |
citizens Of that CITY," said he New |
York's force has the defects and the |
merits that characterize New Yorks |
people AS to Observation-Disclosures
1000 absolutely honest men can be
gathered by a civil service examira-
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-09-27
Too Innocent for Pa

The young man who thought he
knew how to manage old men told the
girl whose father he had just inter.
viewed on a matrimonial topic that
he believed everything would be all
right.
I'VE took to one another at once"
he said He even went 80 far as to
borrow $40 from, me. Surely, he can't
refuse to let you marry me after
that"
Don't be too sure" she said. You
don't know pa"
The next day he found that he did
not, indeed, know pa.
You made a mess of it with that
So" the girl told him. Pa says that
you are too easy, and that | had bet.
ter look for somebody more worldly
minded "
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-09-27

ton there will be no need for a police
force"
1t was suggested that the Houns.
ditch affair. in which London called
out regiment Of Infantry to capture
a trio of anarchists. and the moving
picture battles between the Paris DO
lice and the automobile bandits,
would be inconceivable on this side
of the water.
That comes under the head of
customs of the service" said New
York's police head. I'VE do things
differently over here. That's ALL"
New York is the only one Of the
four great cities which is under the
municipal form of government. Here.
therefore. and in all other cities STINT
larry governed. the police become an
item in the political situation.
While | was in Paris" said he, "a
brigadier and six men were fired for
grating. That would have been a DO
lice scandal here. There IL was dis
missed with line.
Hennion, who succeeded the famous
Lepine as chief Of Paris, was not ct
all satisfied with the bureaucratic de-
tective bureau He Is rebuilding n
on the plan in use in Scotland Yard
ard New York. Hennion is but forty
years old. looks like an American, has
the energy of dynamo and is q
great detective. He is constantly on
the lookout for improvements.
Under the old plan everything
went to the central Office in Paris"
said Waldo. "Hennion is doing awav
with that and holding his division
chiefs responsible for what goes on in
their departments. That is the plan
We took from Scotland Yard two
years ago. Berlin is the only one OF
the worlds four great cities which
still operates its police department
under the old plan.