The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-28
Home Investors Taking Place
Of Real Estate Spectators
Broker Believes that Change Now Under Way Will Help
Washington Popularity of Mount Pleasant
Residence Section Expected to Continue.

ingS as a nucleus. the property owners
have planned their building operations
to conform with those Of Uncle Sam.
In speaking of the architectural SUI
premacy of Washington Mr.. Taft says:
The educational effect that the archi-
teleCtual development of Washington
along proper lines will have upon our
people throughout the country will be
most elcvating. 1t will show itself in the
Plans for the improvement of other cities
and it will cultivate n love for the beau
tiful that Will make for the happiness of
all
Builders and real estate men through
out the country realize today that the
wisdom and foresight of George Wash
inSton and his aid, iEnfant. in their
planning of the city has given ii an
advantage over the country. City
planning is now a factor in the de-
; velOpment of any community, but, alas.
this was not realized until the cities
of the country had been well develop
ed Washington alone was planned
in advance.
Lack of Plan Causes LOSS.
Practically every city of the coun-
try is facing serious problem today
because of the lack of early planning.
, In discussing this situation in re-
cent number of the National Real Es-
tate Journal George b. Ford. of New
York. says:
City planning prevents duplication of
/ Improvement work. 1t sees to it that the
subdivision plan which the city accepts
for tract will not have to be done over
at great waste of the taxpayers
money twenty-five years hence. 1t would
see to it that the main thoroughfares
do not have to he widcned AT great cost
" hen the growth Of the city demands
more ample facilities for traffic OF transit
lines
What George Washington and rEnfant
saved for the District of Columbia when
they laid off this city with such large
hens to be let down" when the
city grew is shown by this statement
of Mr.. Ford: city planning years ago
would have saved (for New York; the
81, 900. 900 we are now spending for the
extension of Seventh avenue City
planning would have avoided the
spending of 100000 for three little
breathing spots in the lower East
Side"
The majority of real estate brokers
hesitate to say that the Jitney bus
will, with its present method of opera
ton, supplant the street car in trans
por.ation to suburbs. 4. r. Dearborn,
OF Birmingham Ala, says of the jit-
new: 1T is not at all clear how the
intermittent service of the jitney can be
depended upon to take care of the
suburbs mite who must have regular
schedules in order to live in the out
lying sections. In serving the sub
urbs street car companies carry pas
sengers at loss under franchise
agreements forced upon them in eX-
change for the privilege of operating
at profit in the more congested dis
tricts. If forced to give up the lat
ter il is certain the car companies
cannot take care of the former with
out ultimate bankruptcy.
In spite of this, Mr.. Dearborn con-
tinues: 1T is too soon as yet. perhaps,
TO risk an opinion as to the perma-
ncncy of the jitney bus. But it can be
stated with reasonable safety that
should il continue to increase in the
same proportion during the coming
year that it has in the year past, 1t
will prove a serious menace to the
present system of trolley transporta-
ton, and will have to be reckoned as
one of the important innovations of
the age"
With the completion of the Lincoln
Memorial in Potomac Park. the cree
ton of a memorial bridge across the
Potomac to Arlington. the erection of
a memorial to George Washington on
the site of the old Pennsylvania sta
ton. Sixth and b streets northwest.
and renovation OF the Botanical Gar
dens. within the next few years WASH
ington will be worthy of being called
the most beautiful capital in the world "