The Washington herald., 1921-06-12
(ULK OF ACTIVITY
IN Home BUILDING,
| STATISTICS SHOW
43,612,0OO Is May Total,
Bringing Figures Above
Average
LABOR HALTS WORK
residential Building Booms
Above All Other
Classes.
4ABOR HALTS WORE

Real estate activities have gone
ver the top.
In Washington there has been i
bean increase in contracts let Of
o per cent, ana one-half of this
Jain has been in the contracts for
he erection of individual dwellings
In the groups of states of which
he district is a part, there have
een contracts let during the month
ggregating s45,612.0O0. Total con-
truction contracts for the first FIVE
nonths of the year have amounted
o s12s,212.oo0, which is practically
quail to the average of the first
We months of the preceding five
ears
Included in the May total were
he following items: s13.Oss.000, or
0 per cent. for residential build-
ngs; s11.647.O0O. or 2s per cent. for
|ublic works and utilities; S6.2Ol.-
100. or per cent. for Industrial
tlants: and s4.271 900. or per cent
or business buildings
Contemplated new work was re-
ported in May to the amount of
ss,107. 900.
Countrys Gain Is s1s Per Cent.
Construction activity in May.
throughout the nation. according to
cures published by the F. W.
Dodge company, was 9ls per cent
greater than in April Contracts
warded in the twenty-seven north
Eastern states of the country
mounted to s242.O93, 900. compared
With s220. 900 in April.
The increase in activity should
have been greater but forrvidespread
abor troubles In New England
knd throughout the middle west,
where wage disputes have been
pretty general. building activity
kept up during May at about the
same ra:e as in April. Substantial
Increases in activity were reported
in the territory along the Atlantic
BOAST from New York to South Car
blina
RESIDENTIAL building continues TO
cad all other classes. In May con-
tracts for this class of construction
amounted to sS2,9s2.O00, or "a per
cent of the total Public works and
utilities amounted to s64.99s 900. or
|z7 per cent of the total, business
buildings s29.494.0o0. or IL per cent
bf the total; educational buildings,
ISz4,462, 900, or 10 per cent of the to-
taI: Industrial buildings, s2o,4o4,ooo,
or per cent of the total.
Weeks Permits.
Another active week closed yes
|terday at the ONCE of the building
Inspector at the District building.
]. J. Moebs was issued a permit
Ito build one four-story apartment
house at 1929 Sixteenth street at
|cost of S25.O00. A great number Of
permits were issued to individual
builders
Many permits were granted for
1.-The erection of garages and for re-
pairs Following are some Of the
permits issued during the week:
l. E Breuninger. one two-story
brick building. 1902 Varnum street;
sec. 900.
j. F. Brennan, one two-story
brick dwelling, 1901 Monroe street
northeast; $4,000
H r. Howenstein, two two-story
brick dwellings, 1881 Girard
street northwest: $4,000.
Standard Construction company,
one two-story frame dwelling. 1928
Kearney street northeast; $1,000.
Lacy & Belt four two-story
brick dwellings. 12o2-o4-o6-os Bu-
|chanan street northwest; $4,000
r E Moy. one brick private ga
rage, rear sol R street northwest
s7oo.
], l. Sherwood. one two-story
tram. dwelling, 3Sos Tenth street
northeast: $4,000.
r. o. Belt one two-story brick
dwelling, 14Io Good Hope road;
$500.
III. A. Kete. four private frame
garages, rear 5225-27 Thirty-third
street northwest: $4,000.
c. E. Tolson, one metal private
garage, rear IL Claiming street
northeast: $500.
Charles Some. one two-story
brick store. 1921 NJ street north
west: $4,000.
J.L. Banyon. one two-story frame
avellinz, at 4sOl Forty-sixth street
northwest: S1.275.
s. KIuft. one brick private ga
rage, rear 1117 Buchanan street
northwest: 5000.
! B. Henderson. one concrete
swimming pool, Sixteenth street
and Florida avenue northwest; S3,-
900.
E.E. Cuppen. one two-story frame
dwelling, 1921 Jenifer street north
west; $500.
A. Newman, one private brick
garage, rear 1920 Lanier place
northwest; S775.
NJ. Heilman. one brick private ga
rage, rear 7o7 Sixth street north
west; $500.
A. W. Gregg. one brick private
garage, rear 1926 Columbia rosk
northwest: $1,000.
R. B. Bradley, one two-story
frame dwelling. 5719 Sherrier place
northwest: $4,000.
T. H. Cohn. one brick privats
garage. rear 2417 Eighteenth street
northwest; $1,000.
Rogers & Fischer. one three
story brick warehouse. 1918 street
northwest; S2s,oOo.
II. B. Huhn, private garage, rea
Eighteenth and T streets northeast
5000.
r. H. Gruver, private garage, rear
3s1o Kansas avenue: $3.50.
Thomas 4. Jameson. build new
houses, l3Os-1l-13 Shepherd street.
tuo and three-story brick: s2O.r
D. S. Murphy. build 410-412 Nine
t..nth street northeast; 5000, two
two-story tile dwellings.
NJ d. Lines. one-story frame |
house. 1929 Rodman street north
west; $3.50.
3. z. Pippenger, one two-story |
frans dwelling. 3507-Os South Da-
kota avenue; $4,000.
w C Houk. Ill Carroll street
private garage; s275.
s. Ferry. repairs and alterations.
aIs Louisiana avenue northwest: