Evening journal., 1914-02-21
REAL ESTATE
TRADE BETTER
Dealers Say Spring Buying
HereabOutS has Started
In Earnest
MUCH NEW WORK
FURNISHED THIS WEEK

Increased activity In real estate and
contracting circles during the week
has turned the thoughts Of dealers.
contractors and arcnhccts 20 spring
although the Weather 90 the week
caused many Of them 10 stop large
operations and the dealers looked for
a scarcity of buyers seeking summer
homes in the country or purchas-
ing lots for CITY residences The long
hoped for increase IN business has
started. however. and I'd is thought
from now on tho usual spring buying
and building viii increase until It
surpasses the record OF last year.
Fred *. Felt. agent Of tho Concord
Heigf- Company. made two sales
during the week and the owners eN-
pect to build residences on their lots.
Tho buyers were John Y. McDougal,
az Twenty-seventh aud Rroome
streets. and n. ". Aldrich. on Frank
lin street between Twenty and
twenty-uinth streets. Elwood HILBERT
rs also planning 10 build three
story residence az Concord avenue
and Boulevard.
Many inquiries have been received
by local real estate men for country
places between Wilmington and Ches-
ter along the Delaware and around
Chadds Ford. Pa. Many Philadel-
phians wishing to own country places
have been looking at farms In these
localities and dealers of this city eX-
peci several sales 10 be made this
spring.
Formerly Phiadelphians desiring
TO buy country places sought sitcs
alonc the Main Line Because Of the
demand prices became so high that
ground Is being sold by the foot in
stead of the acre. An example OF the
luying toward this locality was fur
nishod by the sale Of the Preston B.
I.ea's country estate near Chadd 8
Ford on the Baltimore Central rail-
road. by b. T. Moody 10 Charles J..
Patterson. of Wilmington Tho CON
sideratlon was sl7.5O0 The estate
consists of i39 acres and "A room
stone mansion.
Jacob Thompson. grocer, owner
of thc-rroperty AZ Seventh and Tat
nall streets. has lot contract to
Charles TT Tindall and Sons 10 partly
domolish the building and 10 erect a
three story addition 10 II. The new
building will contain large store
room and q rmall apartment on the
FIRST hoor and two apartments on the
other stories. The first floor apart
mont will contain the store and q
eour-room apartment. The second
aud third-story apartments viii con-
tain Eve rooms. baths and outside
porchcs The building is AZ present
occupied by Mr.. Thompsons store
and am apartment. Plans for the ad-
dition we're drawn By Roscoe Cook
+ Tindall
W. H. Jones is finishing work on
the handsome little bungalow for l.
w Printon at Twelfth and Grant
streets
A. S. Reed and Brothers expect 10
start work on the swimming pool al
/ Sixteenth and Brandywine about
March 15 1t Is 10 be finished by
June l.
Tho Home Building Company which
recently purchased the LOT az Nine
teenlh and Tatnall streets. will be-
gin the erection Of ffteen houses on
the property as soon as the weather
permits. The houses will be built on
The square plan and viii contain
about six or seven rooms.
j. A. Bader and Company have re-
Gently completed five houses for the
Home Building Company on Garter
street between Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth streets
Several Of the architects OF the
c'tv report that they arc maksnE
numerous sketches for prospective
home builders and prospects look
exceedingly bright for q large busi.
/ ness this spring. Roscoe Cook Tin.
/ DALI Brown ara Whitce'des md Leor
W. Crawford all report many pros
pecta.