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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02
Freedom From House Work.

While the man whose tastes run to
IA house with yard where he may dig
and plant things may not think SO,
there are undoubted advantages at
tached to living in an apartment. Free
dom from the work of caring for a
ihouse-such work as attending to fur
mace, etc.-no buying of coal, no water
bills, compactness of the average apart
ment and the ease with which it may
be cared for-all of these things pos
Sess undoubted attractions. OF course.
they are all paid for; property owners
are not yet sufficiently advanced in
philanthropy that they are going to
furnish service without a price. But
the dweller in an apartment figures
that even after paying for the service
he is ahead of the game.
Nor is the return on the money in
vested in apartment structures any
thing near as large as a great many
persons seem to think. A careful can
vass among owners of apartment prop
critics in Washington, as well as repu-
table agencies handling such proper
/ ties, shows that the average return on
local apartment properties is in the
lucighborhood of 4 per cent net Own
ers of such properties are apparently
satisfied with such a return after all
eNpenses-taxes, upkeep, wages, dete-
rioration, etc.-have been paid. OF
course, some properties pay a much
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02

Children Taken Care Of.
Another feature of apartment house
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02
Demand for Small Apartments.

Nor are the large. luxurious apartments
in fashionable localities principally In
demand, according to statements of rental
agencies. The demand for small apart
rnents OF three. four, five to seven rooms
and bath. by families Of moderate in
= comes. the agencies say, is always in
excess OF the supply. One of the largest
agencies in the city, handling a score or
or more apartment properties ranging from
the small buildings with ten dozen
apartments TO the large ones of thirty
forty suites, said that the demand for
apartments consisting Of living room. din
ing room sleeping room, kitchen and bath
in several Of its properties, was far in
excess of the number of such apartments,
and that they maintained a sort of wait
ing list OF persons desiring such accom-
noda lions. In one group of apartment
buildings handled by this agency, in a de-
sirable street in Mount Pleasant. an
APARTMENT. such as the one described
rents for s2s.50 on an annual lease. Com
pare this rental with the prices demanded
by the big. exclusive, fashionable places,
one Of which. now nearing completion, is
to lease its smallest apartments, of seven
rooms. two baths. separate servants
quarters, garage accommodations, etc,
for the modest price of $4,000 per year
Apartment architecture and equipment
has undergone a marvellous TRANSFORMED
ton in the last few years Where as re-
Gently as five or six years ago an apart
nlent was only an apartnent--a more or
less dark, ili-ventilated, chedply decorated
pigeouhole in which family might exist
but not really live-the apartments Of to-
day are plnaneG and constructed with
every modern convenience and luxury
that has been developed for the purpose
of making living quarters handsome and
attractive, iessening labor. etc Practi-
cally all of the larger new apartment
buildings now in course of construction
contain built-in refrigerators cooled from
cold storage and refrigerating plant in
the basement. Most, If not all, of them
are equipped with built-in freless cook
ers: lighting and ventilation of every
room has apparently been the architects
first thought; all are equipped with gas
for cookins-nodern ranges built in
being a part of the regular equipment
and electricity for lighting cooking or
other purposes. One of the new apart
ment buildings features electric ranges in
the Kitchens, as well as other electrical
equipment, such as toatsers, coffee perco-
tators, etc. in the dining ROOM and all
the various electrical knckknacks for
nilady in the chambers Power for light
ing. cooking, etc. in several of these
ultra-modern apartment buildings is to he
supplied from plants connected with the
buildings.
Children Taken Care Of.
Another feature of apartment house
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02
NEW APARTMENT DE LUXE. AT
18TH STREET AND MASSACHU-
SETS AVENUE.
wARDMAN COURTS.

at least so far as can be seen at present
by keen, farsighted realty men. The
demand for modern apartments ranging
UP to whatever the applicant chooses
to pay keeps steadily in excess of the
supply of such accomm odations, and
this has been true for the last five or
six years, at least. Apartments I'LL a
distinct want in modern American city
life; there can be no denial of this
fact. AS long as it continues to be a
fact and as long as Washington con-
tinues to maintain it's present steady
rate of growth, the demand for apart
ments of the modern type will con-
tinue increasing as it has done for the
last several years. Conditions here
make the city rather peculiarly one
suited for apartment house life-pecu-
liar. that is. for city no larger than
Washington. At the same time this is
a city of suburban homes. places where
families may have their own detached
houses. with room for lawns. flowers
and gardens, without the trouble and
inconvenience of committing or travel
ing long distances in coming to and
going from their work. But it is safe
to say the day of the old-fashioned
apartment house fiat is gone for
ever here. No new apartment house
can hope to make a return on the in
vestment unless provisions are made
for children, unless every room Is an
outside room with plenty Of light and
air and unless modern conventences Of
every kind are included in the equip
ment This is true even in the small.
moderate priced apartments. and much
more generally true in the more ex-
pensjye ones"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02

The same Office also reports the sale
for A. NJ. Albert of six lots at Mclean.
Va. the lots having a frontage Of fifty-
feet EACH and the consideration betn :,
$500.
Two-story brick residence at 7c2
Hobart street northwest. bought b.
Mrs. C. Murray. consideration beins
s3,2so.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02
Recent Real Estate Transactions.

Among sales reported this week by
Gardiner & Dent, Inc. are the follow
ing:
Two-story brick store and dwelling at
3497 Holmead place. sold for Matt
Frederickson to David Bornet, the con-
sideration being in the neighborhood of
s4,250.
Two-story colonial dwelling at 38th
and Kanawha streets, Chevy Chase. D.
c., sold for A. S. Jones. the name Of the
purchaser being withheld. Also resi-
dence at 3743 Kanawha street, which
has been purchased by W. H. Spignui,
who is to occupy it as residence. Con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02
No Danger of overbuilding.

Even at the present rate of apart
ment house construction" said Wash
ington real estate man, who owns and
handles a number of such properties,
there is no danger of the city being
'overbu1lt' as regards apartment
houses in the next ten or fifteen years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02
CHATHAM COURTS, 1871 COLUMBIA ROAD.

larger return than this; some go as
high as or 10 per cent net. But these
are exceptions, as are those apartment
properties that yield a net return on
the investment of from to 31a per
cent. In the case of a certain large
apartment building for which a deal
has been pending for several months
the price to be paid for the property
is said to have been figured on the
basis of a net return of 5A per cent to
he investors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02

sideration for the frst Of these proper
ties was stated as slo.soo, the latter
being sold for $4,000.
Two-story dwelling at Q street
northwest, to A. J. McGra!l, the con-
sideration being $4,000.
Property at 4S street northeast, sold
for T. ]. O'Brien, the name of the pur-
chaser being withheld. and the con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02

sideration being reported as $4,000. The
same price was paid TOR the two-stoFy-
and basement residence at 1904 T
street. sold for James NJ, Menereiff to
an unnamed purchaser.
The two-story -and-attio frame dwell
ing at 25 Takema avenue. Takoma
Park, bought by +. E. Graham at a
price said to be $4,000,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02
NEW WARREN APARTMENT ON
CONNECTICUT AVENUE.
FALksToNE COURTS.
APARTMENT SEASON
ON IN WASHINGTON
Fall Influx From Suburbs and
0ut-of- Town Already Be-
ing Noticed.

The annual fall moving season is at
hand, when Washington residents who
have occupied suburban or city houses
during the summer get ready to hive
up for the winter in apartments. and
when occupants of apartments. in the
desire for change. seek yet other apart
ments. Along about September real
estate agents expect the fall flood of
Inquiries for accommodations in one
or another of the innumerable apart
ment houses of which the National
Capital has its full share. and advance
indications this fall are that the de-
mand is already in excess of former
seacons
Washington has more than 300 such
buildings, with more than score in
advanced stages of construction to be
ready for occupancy by October 1. Real
estate men say no other city compare
BILE in size area and population =
with Washington has anything like that
number. For several years the pre-
diction has been made by men pre-
sumably capable of judging that this
city is largely overbuilt with apartment
houses and flats. but men who have
been in the real estate and rental BUSH
ness here for years are united in the as
sertion that this is not true. Each year
more new apartment houses are built.
they say: each year the buildings, old
as well as new, are filled; each year
the demand for desirable apartments
exceeds the supply. This condition
prevails year after year. according to
rental agents handling this class of
properties. notwithstanding the heavy
building of apartment properties in the
last five or six years. A popularity
of this condition is that the increasing
demand for apartments apparently has
No ieSgeneI degree demand
for houses, either rental or purchase
propositions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-02

such amusement paraphernalia as is
approved by competent authorities in
charge of public Fairgrounds form a
part of the regular equipment of the
new structures and apartments are no
longer to be considered as places in
tended solely for the use of bachelors
or childless couples with families con-
sisting of pug dogs. Pomeranians or
Persian cats
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-07
100 PERISH WHEN SHIPS
COLLIDE IN IRISH SEA
Only One Survivor From Two
Ships, According to Lon
don Report
(By Assol lated Press,)

LONDON, Nov. An one of the
worst gales ever known i'll the Irish
sea the British steamship Connenara
with passengers and q cargo of cattle
from Green0re. Ireland, for Holyhead,
Wales, collided last night Just outside
the Carlingtord bar with the British
steamship Retriever, laden with coal
Both vessels sunk Immediately with an
estimated loss of life of about 100
of the dfty passengers and crew o.
thirty-one aboard the Connemara. there
is only one survivor. IT is Virtually
ceg tain there were no Americans oil
board. The entire crew of the Retriever
was lost.
Many bodies are being washed ashore
on the Irish coast. Numbers of cattl,
also arc being washed up some alive.
The weather was so rough it would
have been impossible to launch an!
boats even had time permitted.
The Connemara l,1O6 tons gross ant
272 feet long, was built in Dumbarto-
in 1895.
The Retriever was 100 feet long, oi
ga tons gross and was built in Gooie
England. in 1909. She was owned BY
the Westcoast of American Telegraph
company, of London.
A steamer service is maintained by tbs
London and Northwestern railway be-
tween HOlyhead, Wales and Greenore
Ireland, distance of about so miles
across the Irish sea. ..
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-07

for Wilson, but was surprised, in talk
ing 10 several railroad officials, whom
I had known when was a railroad
man, to learn that they seem 10 have
nothing against President Wilson for his
eight-hour program.
"I couldn't see anything but Wilson
sentiment in the west. One wealthy
Republican told me that Hughes would
win, but / said:
Where is he going to get the votes!
You see the west is prosperous. 1t
is rolling in wealth. Travelling through
the country late at night you may see
factory, after factory with the lights on,
still at work. A workman who ordi-
narily would make $40 or S25 week,
now. makes $50 or more.
'T saw real estate agencies showing
plats of property to customers in hotel
corridors. A clerk in Detroit club
has Friday afternoon off, when, for the
time being, he becomes a real estate
salesman and makes more than his sal
ary in commissions on lot sales.
Naturally people enjoying such pros
perity are not going to quarrel with the
administration in power. They are go
ing to let we'll enough alone.
at looks decidedly like Wilson would
get all three states-Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-07
A W0MAH'S TROUBLE.

savannah. Cal have used your
.Favorite Prescription and have found
from the relief II gave me that it is all
that you claim it to be- used it for
woman's trouble, irregularity due to
taking cold from wet feet. and agoniz-
ing pains. / was a bunch Of nerves at
the time of taking the medicine (almost
TO a hystericaI extentl and was so low
spirited that I imagined 1 was about
to die. Ny strength was gone and
was in quite a debilitated state. Was
under the care OF a physician but was
discouraged with no Improvement. FL
naIly. after much, persuasion from my
sister. began TO take DR.. Pierce's Fa-
vOrite Prescription and can happily say
my decision was a wise one for / rapid
IL improved and soon regained my full
health in every particular."-Mrs. +.
Thompson. savannah, Ca
The mighty restorative power Of Doc
tor Pierce's FavOrite Prescription speed
uy causes all womanly troubles TO dis
appear-cOmpels the organs 10 properly
perform their natural functions, cor
reefs displacements. OvercOmes irregu-
Iarities. removes pain and misery n
certain times and brings back health and
strength 10 nervous. irritable and ex-
hausted women
What Doctor Pierce's FavOrite Pre-
scription has done for thousands il will
DO for YOU. Get ii this very day from
any medicine dealer. IN either liquid or
tablet form or send 80 cents TO DT.
Pierce. Invalids' Hotel Buffalo. y Y,
for trial box tablets.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-07
NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA,
GAS OR INDIGESTION
"Pape'S DiapepSin" settles
sour, upset StomachS in
five minutes.

Time il. Pspe's Diapepsin will di-
gest anything you eat and overcome a
sour. gassy or out-of-order stomach
surely within five minutes
II your meals Cont Mt comfortably
or what you eat lies like lump of lead
in your stomach. or if you have heart
burn that is a sign Of Indigestion.
Get from your pharmacist fifty-cent
case of Pape's Diapepsin and take a
dose just as soon as you can. There
will he no sour risings, no belching of
undigested food mixed with acid. no
stomach gas or heartburn, fullness o.
heavy feeling in the stomach, nausea,
facilitating. headaches, dizziness or in
festival gripping. This viii all go, and,
besides. there will be no sour food left
over in the stomach to poison You,
breath with nauseous odors.
Pape's Diapepsin is certain cure
for out-of-order stomachs, because it
takes hold of your food and digests it
Just the same as il your stomach wasn't
there.
Relief in five minutes from all stom-
ach misery is waiting for you at any
drug store.
These large ffty-cent cases contain
enough "Papes Diapepsin" to keep the
entire family free from stomach dis
orders and Indigestion for many months.
It belongs in your hcme.-(AdvtD
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-07
HUGHES ENDS CAMPAIGN
FOR PRESIDENCY SATURDAY
Travels Have Carried Candi-
date $4,000 Miles Through
Thirty-Three States

ALBANY, y. V, Nov. 3.-Charles E.
Hughes will end his travels as a presi-
dental candidate today. He left Albany
at Sis for New York City spending the
day campaigning down the Hudson river
valley. Today'S journey was the wind
up of four campaign trips which have
carried him approximately $4,000 miles
through thirty-three states. He started
August from New York and has spent
virtually 1-2 months on the road. He
has visited the chief cities of every
northern ana New England state except
Vermont, has been through the middle
west four times and has appeared in eV-
cry western and northwestern state.
In addition Mr. Hughes has visited the
four so-calied border states of Maryland,
West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri
and has spent one day in Tennessee at
Nashville. The nominee has visited his
home in Washington only once since
leaving it the day after his nomination,
and then only for two days to attend
TO personal business there.
In mileage and extent of time the CAM
paign has been one of the longest made
in recent years by Republican nomi-
nee. 1t has carried him from Bangor,
Maine, the furthest northeastern point,
TO San Diego, Cal, from Canada to with
in a few miles of the Mexican border.
Apparently the strenuous campaign has
agreed with him, for today he appears
to be somewhat heavier and in better
physical trim than when he started. 4
His program for today called for
speeches at Hudson, Kingston, Pough-
keepsie, Newburgh, YOnKers and Brook
Ign, where he will address evening
meetings.
The special train carrying the nomi-
nee was due at New York at 6:15 to-
night.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-07
ILLINOIS, OHIO AND
INDIANA ARE FOR
WILSON SAYS OTIS
President of Real Estate Board
Says Prosperity and the
Women'S Vote viii Defeat
Hughes in West

After three weeks stay in ohio,
Illinois and Indiana, r. r. Otis, presi-
dent Of the Atlanta Real Estate board,
who returned Friday night, is convinced
that President Wilson will carry all
three of these states. ..... ~.
Mr.. Otis on yesterday gave an inter
view which was unusual in many re-
spects. At the time he left Atlanta
three weeks ago, he was about per-
suaded to vote for Hughes because of
the presidents advocacy in the eight
hour law.
Consequently he went west without
any bias in favor of the Democrats.
What he learned there was surprising
to himself and will be surprising to
those in Atlanta who had been inclined
to fear that down here we had been
hearing only one side of the campaign.
He made the following discoveries:
That the masses of the middle west
will vote this year for a personality
and not q party. The personality is
Wilson. .'...
That Hughes, as a party hero or lead
err has absolutely failed to impress the
west.
That the women OF Illinois, particu-
larly the foreign-born women, will vote
solidly for the president.
That railroad employees are unani-
mously for him, and that railway execu-
tives either seem to be reconciled to
the presidents eight-hour program or
are indifferent to 1t.
That the west is so prosperous that
the rank and file of business people
out there don't want to bother with a
change of presidents. ;-
81 found that a certain type of old
line Republicans were still for Hughes,
Mr. Otis said. "They vote through
habit, just as we in the south are in
the habit of voting for the Democratic
candidate. art
"But the general run of people are
for Wilson. L talked to people on trains,
in hotels, to business men, drummers,
BARRIERS and the like. A poll was taken
on the train going out Of Indianapolis.
Thfrty-two votes were for Wilson and
twenty-five for Hughes.
HUGHES DIDN'T IMPRESS WEST.
"As far as 1 could see, Hughes has
made no impression in the west. Fall
ing in making hero of him. his party
imported Roosevelt.
you can count on the women of the
west to vote solidly for Wilson, espe-
cially the foreign born women One
night, at q Chicago hotel, group OF
US took an informal ballot. One man
said he was going to vote for Wilson.
Another said ne was paired"
"'Paired what do you mean paired?
we asked.
"'Yes, paired and double-paiFed,' he
sad. I am going to vote for Hughes,
but my wife and daughter are for Will
son. It's the he kept us out of the
war idea that appeals to the women.
There are a great may foreigners in
the west who came to the United States
from neutral European countries, fear
ing that their own nations would be-
come involved In the war. These for
eigners, for the most part, are for Will
son and peace. Particularly is this
true of the women.
"Of course the railroad employees are
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-07

You're bilious! Your liver is sluggish! YOU
feel lazy, dizzy and all knocked out. Your head
is dull. YOUR tongue is coated breath bad; stomach
sour and bowels constipated. But don't take sail
waiting calomel 1t makes you sic1, you may lose
a days work.
Calonel is mercury or quicksilver which causes
necrosis of the bones. Caomel crashes into sour
bile like dynamite, breaking it up. That's when
YOU feel that awful nausea and crampng.
If YOU want to enjoy the incest, gentlest liver
and bowel cleansing you ever experienced just take
a spoonful of harmless Dodson's Liver Tone to-
night Your druggist or dealer sells you 81
cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone under my
personal money-bacl guarantee that each spoon
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-07
GIRL IS FORCED TO CO
HUNGRY FOR Z YEARS
Explosion of Chemicals in Her
Body Finally Saves Her
Life
BY HONOR TANNING

WAUkEGAN, Ill, Nov 3.-Hungry fol
twelve years.
Sitting daily at a table filed with
tempting food, daily prepared food for
others that she could not taste herself
furnishing in q house of plenty!
That was the experience of Ethel Gar
nant, nineteen-year-old school girl, who
is just learning how to eat.
An explosion" operation has just been
performed by DR.. Charles H. Mayo, OF
Rochester, Mimi, to save Miss Garnant
from death by starvation.
This is the story as Ethel herself tells
it of the twelve-year fast and of the
intestinal explosion" that fairly blew
her back from death to razor-edgej
appetite.
II have been hungry since was sew
en- Miss Garnant said. They used to
call me the little gourmand,' / ate SC
much.
zone night at supper my bread and
milk wouldn't go down. 1 choked. Since
that night I did not swallow any solid
food until DR.. Mayo told me to go ahead
and eat, eat everything and lots OF it.
l didn't need a second invitation.
81 had been fasting almost ten years
before doctors-and mother had consult
ed at least 100 of them-could discover
what allied me.
Then they said the eSophagus, the
gullet, you know, was contracted and
the opening SO small only the thinnest
and hottest liquids could pass through
81 weighed only thirty-eight pounds
and 1 was seventeen years old A mere
skeleton.
81 had to quit going to school. Mother
kept ME alive some way on broths and
soups. 1 don't suppose anyone in the
world ever drank 50 much soup. And ]
was hungry all the time.
when the operation was performed
it seems they slipped a string with
chemicals on the end down this. esopha-
gus passage.
"The heat of the body acted on the
chemicals and there was terrific ex-
plosion.
ut was like when a frecracker goes
of, but it was no Fourth of July picnic
for me. The pain was so great I tainted
TN an hour or 50 T. was all right
again. In three hours ] was asking foi
something to eat and did eat
I'm! that juicy steak And sweet po-
tatoes-four of them.
ct didn't take any broth at my first
dinner I have feeling 1 will neve;
care for soups of any kind again."
Despite her hunger, Miss Garnant kept
up her studies and will prepare for a
business career.