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The Detroit times., 1914-08-27

TO the Honorable the Common Council:
Gentlemen--This Department recon-
mends that the City Treasurer be d.
rected TO cancel sidewalk assessment
on roll $500 s. Caniff. lots 20 and "a.
plat OF Ia section IS. 10000 acre tract
amounting TO s566.30. the property
having been subdivided since the walk
was built. A new bill will be trans
mitted TO the City Treasurer
Respectfully submitted.
GEORGE H. FENKEI.L.
Commissioners
By Aid Heating. r. q
Resolved. That the City Treasurer
be directed 70 cancel sidewalk assess
ment on roll $500 for reasons stated
In the communication herewith trans
mitted
Adopted as follows:
Yeas--Ald. Behlow. Bell Case, De
Galan, Dill Field. -EreiRald,- Gnthard,
Hindle. JakeL Heating, Knapp. Little-
field. Lodge. Move, OBrien, owen.
Rutter. Schemansky. Skrzy-
cki. Thompson. Vernon, Wartell, Wen
eel Wilson and the President--2T.
Nays--None.
The Detroit times., 1914-08-27
From the Clark.

To the Honorable the Common Council:
Gentlemen--1 beg TO advise your
Honorable Body that I am In receipt
OF the following Communication.
Respectfully submitted.
RICHARD LINDSAY. u
City Clerk.
referred TO: =. 80.
The Detroit times., 1914-08-27
From Department Of Public Works.

To the Honorable the Common Council:
Gentlemen--in reply TO notice
from this office the following propos-
ais were received for the contradiction
|of Ornamental Fountain In Williams
square:
williams Bros. Co. In the only and
Lowest bidder. Department OF Public
Works has entered into contract with
1.-THE said lowest bidder and hereby asks
THE approval and confirmation OF the
same by your Honorable BODY
Respectfully submlttet,
GEORGE III. FENKELL
@ Commissioned.
|By Aid. Heating:
Resolved. That the contract enter
led into by the Department OF Public
Works with Williams Bros. Co. for
the construction Of Ornamental Foun-
tain I'm Williams Square. total cost
$4,000. be- and the same Is hereby.
approved ard confirmed.
Aid Thompson entered and took his
seat
Adopted as follows:
Yeas---Ald. Beh1ow. Bell, Case, De
|0alan, Dill. Field. Freiwald. Guthard.
Hindle. JakcI. Heating. Knapp. Littler-
field, Lodge Move. o'Brien.. Owen
|Reinhardt. Rutter. Schemansky. Skrzy-
|cki, Thompson, Vernon, WartelL Wen
eel, Wilson and the Presidential
Nays--None. $3.50 r
The Detroit times., 1914-08-27
From the eoard q Asssssors.

To the Honorable the Common Council,
Gentiemen-we herewith transmit to
The Detroit times., 1914-08-27
III. II. gPRENzLAuER. /,
From the Clerk.

Referred to Committee on ways and
Means.
The Detroit times., 1914-08-27

der p,,h,tc works has
.rtsred into contract with the iowess
bidder IN each case and me-, he,e 90 the same
by your Honorable Redy; 80
The Detroit times., 1914-08-27

north or Grand River avenue, from
sixth street TO Greenwood avenue, IL
feet wide. with one-eourse concrete
The Detroit times., 1914-08-27

la1 90

JOS; N. Afreld ,.......... 1871 90
VIM, Porath Is the lowest bidder.
No; zt2T--ln alley between Emerson
And whitman. south OF Essex avenue:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
CHATTEL MORTGAGES
OF FRENCH ORIGIN
Not as Old as Land Mortgages,
Magazine De-
clares.

The word ehattel is of French origin.
and means goods of any kind Chattels
were originally divided into chattels real
and personal chattels. Chattels real car
ried property annexed to or concerning
real estate. as lease for years for land.
says the National Real Estate Journal.
We're movable, as animals. jeweiry, grain.
machinery, goods, and such property of
like kind. Chattel mortgages were not in
use as early as real estate mortgages
and the reason is that at first all prop
erty of value was i'll the land. The first
use of personal property as security for
the payment of debt was by putting the
property up as a pledge. in which case
the creditor held the property and re-
turned 1t to the owner when the money
was paid.
The mortgagor is the one who owns
property and the one who signs the in
strument. The mortgage is the one to
whom the mortgage is given and the one
TO whom the debt is due.
The mortgage is conditional sale of
chattels, and operates to transfer the
legal title to the mortgage, to be de-
feated only by a full payment of the
money and a performance of the con-
ditions.
A chattel mortgage is an instrument in
writing in the nature OF an absolute con-
veyance as security for money, the fun
fllment of some obligation. or the per-
Torrance of some act by which the holder
acquires specific and paramount lien on
certain personal property or chattels
therein described, with a condition for the
redemption from satisfaction of such lien,
and the release of such security upon
payment by the inortgagor or the per-
Torrance of the act therein mentioned,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
SALES INVOLVE $46,55O
Real Estate Transactions Reported
by Gardiner &
Dent. Inc.

Sales of residential properties involving
$3.50 were reported today by Gardiner
& Dent. Inc. real estate brokers. as
follows:
For Nellie 4. Forbes they have sold
premises No 121l Girard street north
west 1t is a three stor3 brick dwellin2
containing ten rooms. The lot has
frontage of abou; seventeen feet BY a
depth OF 100 feet to an alley The cor
sideration was said TO have been S'.2'o.
They have sold for Mrs. Annie .. Nickie
premises No. $40 Webster street two
story dwelling containing six rooms. The
consideration was $3.50.
For A. S. Gardiner and ~. 9. Dent
joint tenants, they have sold premises
two-story brick dwellings which Were
purchased as investments for a consider
alton of Sll,Uto
Miss j. Blackstone purchased through
the firm the two-story dwellings Nos
343-5-T-9 y street southwest The con-
sideration was 5000
Mrs. Annie L. Forbes purchased
through the firm the two-story dwell Ing
No 1878 ontario pace. 1t contains SIX
rooms and occupies a lot ID by 10 feet
to a paved alley. The price was $3.50
She also purchased premises No. I4o Har-
ward street. fwo-story, slS-roofn prich
dwelling. for s3..:N.
j. s. Clemence has purchased premises
No 1876 Monroe street, which Is two
story dwelling containing six rooms. me
consideration was $3.50. II was pur-
chased as AN investment.
Gardiner & Dent also report the sale or
properties, Nos 7i7-49-5l Harvard street.
being two-story, siN-room brick resi-
dences valued at 5000 each. They were
purchased as investments by H. ;. KING.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
GUESTROOMS PROVIDED
Are Rented to New York Apartment
Tenants for Brief
Periods.

Though New York city houses already
contain about everything that the tenant
can think of as necessary to his comfort
and convenience. builders have not vet
ceased to look for new features which
will make apartment homes more livable.
Some of this years houses contain a few
novelties, but nothing radically different
from the buildings of the last year or
two.
In several houses special rooms have
been provided apart from the apartments,
which are known as guestrooms. They
are for rent by the day or for longer
periods to tenants who may have more
guests than they can conveniently take
In. These rooms are furnished i'll the
best of taste, and are quite on par with
the sleeping rooms in the finest apart
ments. They are not rented 20 tran
sients. nor are they regarded as rentabIe
apartment They are exclusively for the
purpose for which they have been pro-
vided.
In practically all houses where wash
tubs and roof drying places have given
way TO washing machines and drying
closets. the space formerly occupied by
wash lines has been give: to comforta-
Bile roof gardens. These serve the pur-
pose of supplying a place where young
children may play in safety and where
their elders may get fresh air far from
the heat and dust of the streets
Among the innovations is a new sys-
tenn of regulating the temperature OF
heat and the burning of all refuse and
garbage the latter by use Of incinerators
attached directly to the gas ranges used
in kitchens. Refrigeration with distinct
ice water lines running directly to re-
frigerators and to pantry sinks is also
found there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14

forded by long-term lease, which is
merely an easy way Of buying real estate
A few artistic changes for the front of
the building and few interior partitions
removed and you have a far more eco
nomical and desirable place of business
than before.
Several architectural firms have found
it advantageous to buy private dwellings
and after them to suit their professional
purposes, instead of continuing on in con-
tracted rented quarters. Some of the
most artistic business homes in the city
are old buildings made over to some ex-
tent Where there is a rear building also
it is usually a great convenience. as 1t
can be used for storage and for the ship
ping department. Oftentimes old build
ings can be acquired on long leases with
privilege Of two renewals, If not on a
ninety nfne-year lease.
The effect of such Improvements is to
gradually broaden out the downtown
business sections and improve the pros
poets Of premises long dormant because
the main stream Of business construction
has passed them by. A business that
owns and occupies its own building eX-
clusively has certain Importance and
dignity that is everywhere recognized.
and such building is most often a meas
ure of economy rather than an evidence
of opulence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
ARCHITECTS PLANNING
HOUSE FOR GALVESTON
Dom & Deming Designing Resi-
dence for Mrs. S. A.
Willis.

Plans are being prepared by. Dom Il
Deming. Washington architects. for a
residence to be erected for Mrs. 5. n.
Willis of this city near Galveston. Tex.
The building is to be % feet long and
50 feet wide. On the first floor there will
be a center hall l. feet wide opening into
a living room. - by % feet. and on the
opposite into dining room. % by - feet
and office. II by 13 feet Fireplaces of
sufficient size to accommodate full-length
cord wood will be provided in both the
dining and living rooms. There will be
a sun porch II by % feet, adjoining the
dining room Service rooms will be
located in the rear of the house.
Seven bedrooms, three baths and two
sleeping porches will be located on the
second 1.oor. Although far south and
in a territory where frost is almost I'M
known. a hot-air furnace will be INSTALL
ed The house will be lighted by cleo
tricity from an individual plant and many
devices located throughout the farm will
be operated with the same power. In
addition to the residence new barns,
stables. meat houses. water supply and
sewage systems are to be built.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
SLIGHT GAIN SHOWN
IN BUILDING REPORTS
Permits Totaling $41,173,253 Is
sued in Sixty Cities Dur
ing February.

Returns of building operations for Feb
ruary in sixty cities, received by the
American Contractor, New York, reach
a total of i,173 2253, as compared with
total of s4i.12s. 1870 In the same cities
for February 1913.
the comparison shows a difference of
only small fraction of l per cent. Trade
year ago was regarded as active, and
the showing must. therefore. be regarded
as favorable. There are the usual fluc-
tuations in different cities, thirty show
Ing gains and thirty losses. Among the
cities making the most favorable COM
parsons may be mentioned the following,
with their percentages of gains: Detroit
90, Kansas city. ZIG: Manchester, 81;
Duluth, 90: NV Haven. 1877; Peoria, a21 ::
Pittsburgh, 16l; San Antonio, ::5i; San
francisco. %; St Paul, 20; South Bend,
All; Topeka, -: Wilkes Barre, "a.
For two months the totals are SSH
S4I,3G4, as compared with SS0.s46s49 for
the corresponding period last year, a
gain OF l per cent. Details are as fol-
lows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
REAL ESTATE BUYING
NOT GUEsSWORK NOW
purchases involve Scientific Study
These Days, Magazine
Declares.

The prejudice which financial institu-
tons and corporations have held against
real estate investments for many Years
is dying out, says the Real Estate News
More and more We find conservative
banking institutions handling real estate
securities. They are beginning to realize
the soundness of an Investment which has
from time immemorial been the bedrock
foundation of savings bank strength.
We find individuals of wealth putting
into improved real estate profits earned
in merchandise Real estate is coming
into its own because wealthy and CON
servative men and corporations are in
vesting in it, and they arc investing only
where facts and figures prove a profit on
the money expended.
Real estate is not bought and sold to-
day as it was ten years ago. nor are
Office buildings erected In the haphazard
way. The very definition of real estate
has changed. We used TO think OF il as
a lot. bare ground. Today every building
Is real estate. Before a building is erect
ed the owners know how many persons
Will pass its portals in the course of a
day. They know. SO far as can be known.
office buildings They study downtown
land values and rental values They
study the trend of occupancy in various
trades and professions. They study the
service given tenants by other office
buildings.
II is in this way that the profitmakers
in improved real estate operations play
the game today: They look behind and
ahead; they seek tips from the assessed
valuations of former years. In short so
far as 1t is possible. they become thor
oughly familiar with all conditions. past
present and future, which have affected.
affect or are likely to affect the property
they contemplate improving And they
do not stick to one locality.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
SHOULD STUDY LEASE
Prospective Tenants Should Elk
anime Agreement Carefully,
Writer Declares.

OF the formidable documents that enter
into various agreements, contracts Of
sale, leases, mortgages, building con-
tracts and divers other paper parapher
MALTA of the real estate business, none
is perhaps more complex or requires
more careful scrutiny than the average
apartment lease. according to a writer
in the New York Times
These documents. since the apartment
became the most popular form Of hous-
ing. have always taxed common-sense
to capacity in fathoming accurately their
purpose and intent, and they are beconf-
ing more and more tangling
One of the latest additions to the
dozens of ifs "ands' and butts in
the ordinary apartment lease is that of
a chattel clause, which places the tenant
boots and breeches''-at the mercy of
the landlord if he cannot pay the rent.
Heretofore. when one could not pay,
he moved out and took his possessions.
Now he moves out just the same, but
the furniture and everything in the
apartment must be left behind.
The chattel clause is a matter connect
ed with form of lease now in partial
use, which virtually gives the owner of
the apartment control of the tenant s
furniture, which according to the terms
of such lease. is forfeited when the
tenant fails to pay his rent. and there
is no getting these chattels back unless
the rent Is paid, for that is a pledge
the signer of the lease solemnly agrees
to abide by before the officer of the law
a notary public.
The average lease is voluminously
worded-unnecessarily so-said real
estate owner, who has several tenants.
thus bound to relinquish to him for their
rental obligation the minute they INSTALL
ed their furniture. and il is his advice
to future renters to carefully read their
leases before signing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
NARROW BUILDING SOLD
Tenth Street Structure Ten Feet
Wide Bought by Edward
Kosack.

Considerable interest attaches TO the
sale by Annie Z. Mcqueen to Edward
kosack of what is known as the Tow
er building, at 5l9 10th street north
west.
The property has frontage of prac-
tically ten feet, and is said TO be the
narrowest business structure in Wash
ington. The consideration involved in
the sale. which was negotiated by
James Strayer is reported to have
been approximately $4,000.
The property has a total area of 1.1So
feet. For the first sixteen feet it is
only ten feet wide. 1t then widens to
fourteen feet The depth is about eighty
five feet The ',uilding is two stories
high and is at present occupied by
printing establishment.
The purchaser owns the adjoining
property at 521 10th street. The ac-
QUESTION of the Tower building, so
called because of its architectural ar
rangement. gives him a total frontage
Of twenty-eight feet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14

dows, partitions and trim, and the next
logical step is to carry this evolution to
Office furniture. The utilization of steel
for these various purposes insures an alb
sGlute freproof structure Whens used in
connection with other fireproof materials
Wooden partitions. doors and trim per-
NIT a fire to extend from room to room.
If not quickly eXtinsuished, thus gener-
ating large vo ume OF smoke. which
may be just as fatal as fire
The elimination of this danger by the
substitution Of steel enables the owner
and tenants to obtain a lower rate of in
sGrance. Tic saving thus affected almost
entirely offsets the additional cost for the
installation of the steel.
Some cities have enacted ordinances
compelling the use of metal doors and
trim in all buildings above a certain
height, and some insurance authorities
believe it will not be long before laws will
be introduced compelling the use of metal
furniture in certain types of buildings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
CLUBS FORMAL OPENING
TO Be HELD MARCH 70
New Quarters for Newspaper Mems
Organization Are Practically
Completed.

Arrangements are being made for the
formal opening of the new quarters of
the National Press Club on the top floor
of the Riggs building, at 18th and G.
streets northwest. March 20. The new
home of the club has been occupied since
last Monday, but the decorations in sew
eral of the rooms are not yet completed.
A force of workmen is engaged in adding
the finishing touches to the quarters, and
it is expected that everything will be in
readiness when the formal opening is
held.
The major portion of the top floor of
the Riggs building has been rcmodeled to
provide for the newspaper mems organ
ization. The entrance to the press club
quarters is directly opposite the elevators.
A doorway with dark oak trimmings and
stained glass windows has been pro-
yi1ed.
The decorations in all the rooms have
Practically been completed. with the eX-
ceptiou of those III the private dining
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
URGES BUSINESS MEN
TO BE OWN LANDLORDS
Writer Asserts Opportunity Awaits
Merchants in Side
Streets.

Many business man who under pres
ent conditions must meet a monthly rent
bill larger than he can really afford could
invest his rent money to better advantage
if he would, says the New York Record
and Guide. For the sake of having his
shop in a prominent building among
others in the same trade he pays great
deal more than he could be his own land
lord for If he would be satisfied with a
side street location and a non-freproof
building.
There are many opportunities to buy
for small Initial payment an old-style
house. an abandoned stable or an old
warehouse a little way from the main
currents of traffic-one which could be
altered for business purposes for a com
parattvely small sum. II the required
initial payment should be considered too
large then there is the convenience af-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
EXPECT ACTIVE SPRING
IN ALEXANDRIA COUNTY
W. G. Collins Reports Considerable
Home Building Is to Be
Started Soon.

he coming season promises To he one
of the best ever experienced i'm Alexan-
dria county, Va. according 10 w. q.
Collins of Clarendon.
Even this early in the year large
number of inquiries are coming in,'' said
Mr.. Collins. land the various builders
report plenty of work ahead. | have
never known of SO many rental inquiries
SO early in the season, and before the
1st of April Il don't believe there will be
an empty house in Clarendon.
Another gratifying feature is the
movement toward the Virginia side for
permanent homes. Orndorff & Smithdeal
houses in Cherrydale and vicinity for
Washington buyers, and Arthur j. Por-
ter. E. E. Speer, H. G. Ball, T. E Wilson.
S d. Hammer and George H. Rucker &
Co. are also building for Washingtonians
"A portion Of the Willett tract, situated
between Lacey and Livingston Heights,
containing about thirty acres, recently
was purchased by J. A. Connor, through
Orndorff d Srnithdeal. 1t is Mr.. Connor' S
intention to place the land on the market
in acre and half-acre blocks.
Mr.. Collins reports that work in the
Goo acre tract at Dunn Loring. Va, soon
will be resumed.
I'VE have already put in shape over
five miles Of streets. A number of pur-
chasers intend to commence the erection
of homes at once. With the Washington
Virginia and the Old Dominion trolleys
running through the center of the tract,
the .back-to-nature' movement has re-
ceived big impetus, and number of
Washingtonians who have been seeking
small acreage on trolley within an easy
committing distance of the city are taking
advantage Of the opportunity to acquire
home sites at Dunn Loring. Among the
recent purchasers are Mrs. Mamie Il.
Porter. two acres. and Miss Rita u.
Byrne, three acres.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
What He Forgot.
From Tit-Bits.

powers of observation. He made sure
that the class saw that he had a gold
mounted fountain pen in his waistcoat
pocket plainly displayed. Then he left
the rostrum. retired to the anteroom and
there removed the fountain pen to an
inner pocket. Returning he stood with
his coat thrown back and his vest dis
played pendess.
Now. boys he said. tell me what l
have forgotten"
There was a long pause and then a
small boy piped up:
Please. sir. you forgot to say .Ex-
cuse me- when you walked in front Of
the teacher"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
FlREPROOF FURNITURE
MAY BE DEMANDED
Law Requiring Use Probable in
Future, Writer
Declares.

In the process Of e!o:ution which is
going on constantly in Hfeproof building
construction. it is question whether the
day Is not near at hand when managers
Ct all kinds of buildings will feel justified
IN demanding that all tenants use none
but freproof furnishings. says the Record
and Guide. In fact, in many of the new
,arge office buildings nearly all of the Of
fee furnishings are of metal
That this substitution Of steel in place
81 wood may ultimately become general
Is ascribed to the progress that has been
made in its manufacture unto doors. win
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14

room and library. Tke former is to be
finished in the Dutch :style. A valuable
collection of books. in. iudins many rare
shelves which are TO chcircle the library.
\ unique wainscoteg decorated with
matrices used for casting plates used in
printing newspapers soeated in all sec
tions of the country Is a feature of
large assembly room i.ist within the en-
france. An enormous stone fireplace or
:iamented with carved Hgures is located
at one side Of the roora. Attractive writ
ing, card and billiard t.toms and an office
also have been provittI. a portion of
the roof of the buildins is being arranged
as a roof garden for tSa exclusive use of
the members of the Organization.
Plans for the arran-Ament of the club
quarters We're prepared by Appleton P.
clark. jr.. architect. Waio is an associate
rlember of the orGanizs:s ZION
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-14
BUYS ACREAGE TRACT.
Victor j. Evans Acquires Land Near
American University.

fe.ring the ownership 81 valuable acreag &c
property near the American University
fronting 700 feet on Inc Ridge road to
Victor j. Evans.
The consideration n.siltioned in the
deeds is nominal. bug It is understood
thA tract had been hes4 at about $1,000
.o,sr acre. In additios 10 the frontage
on the Ridge road the property also
frqnts on Nebraska avenue and com
r7ands an excellent View of the valley
OF the Potomac river.
The purchaser was REPRESENTED i'll the
transaction By John !. =. Mitchell and
l.. w. Groomes acted ..1r the sellers