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The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01
DENVER BRANCH N. A. A. c. p
TO ELECT OFFICERS DEG. 10

The annual election of officers of
the Denver branch of the n. A. A. G.
=. will take place at the Negro Wom-
ems Club home on Tuesday night,
Dec. II. The annual report of Off
GERS will be given and the meeting
should be well attended.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

For Rent-NiceIy furnished modern
front room, suitable for man and wife,
gentlemen preferred. Apply Colorado
Statesman's office, 1924 Curtis Street,
room 25. Phone Main 7417, or Frank
lin 1464-W.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

The address of Mrs. William e.
Parks before the joint meeting of the
Y. NJ. and Y. w. last Sunday after
noon was greatly enjoyed by all pres
ent. The only regret was that <the
crowded condition of the rooms did
not permit larger crowd.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

THE LUMIERE STUDIO, in the
Barnett Building, 1880 Sixteenth Street,
is attracting the public's attention in
its display of photographs of the bet
ter kind. Life-like photograph, quick
work, beautiful finish and special hol-
iday prices within the reach of all are
the qualities of this modern studio.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

Miss Bessie Marshall was hostess to
an elaborate dinner party in her home,
Wednesday evening, in honor of Miss
Frances Black of Omaha, Neb. Covers
werel aid for twelve.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01
ATTENTION, LADIES!

LADIES, you may find the most COM
pIete and best grade of French and
Creole Hair Goods at 222e champa.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

FOR RENT-9-room, newly decorated
house; all new plumbing, at 31o1
California street. Apply 311o Frank
lin. Phone York 5451-W.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

The Guild of st. Perpetua gave n
most delightful and well attended
dancing party at Fern hail last
Thursday night.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

FOR RENT-Two furnished 2-room
apartments, also one store room. APP
ply 24o2 Welton St., Phone chamPa
9181-W.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

Neatly furnished and comfortable
room for single man; with board it de-
sired. Within one block of car line
Mrs. Maud Dixon, 3o63 Welton st.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

Front room for rent, upstairs. APP
ply 1917 Gaylord ST. Phone Franklin
379.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

Rooms for rent, all modern conVen-
fences. Man and wife preferred. APP
ply 1850 Clarkson ST.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01
FOR SALE

First-cIass Cafe at 1865 Curtis St.
Price reasonable. Call champa s46o.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01
DOUGLAS UNDERTAKING CO.
FUNERAL NOTICE

Remember our services arc Of tho
velvet kind.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

Miss DOME, Robertson lert Monday
for her home in Corinth, Miss, for an
indefinites tay.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-01

EIGHT Dollars a week for furnished
House at AIS 2eth st. Phone South
51O4-W.
Evening star., 1923-01-20
APARTMENT HOUSE.
IN S75O,O()O DEAL
St. Adams Property Traded
for Loudoun County Es-
tate Through D. C. Firm.

Closing of a real estate transaction
by which the st. Albans apartment
house. 2310 Connecticut avenue. was
exchanged for a 1.300-acre estate in
Loudoun county, Va, was announced
today by the firm of McKeever &
Goss, which handled negotiations for
the transfer. Total value of the
properties involved was $750,o00. it
was stated.
The st. Albans apartment house
was sold for David a. Baer to H. a.
Toulmin and the large estate in Vir-
ginia was transferred by Mr.. Toul-
min to Mr.. Baer The apartment is
located at the south end of the Con-
nectIcut avenue bridge on the west
fireproof, of modern design and with
two electric elevators. The building
contains forty-eight apartments,
ranging in size from two rooms and
bath to five rooms and bath. each
apartment having an outside bal
cony. The building Is practically en-
tirely rented and a large part of 1t
is now occupied.
The Virginia property is located
near Upperville, some sixty miles
from Washington. at the foot of the
Blue Ridge mountains, with extensive
fields on the slopes of the mountains
and some $50 acres of woodland on
the top of the mountains. 1t is sur
rounded by other extensive estates,
some occupied all the year around
by the owners as their permanent
dwellings and some during the spring
and summer and in the hunting sea
son in the fall. Among these estates
are Caratoan: Ayrshire, owned by
Gen. Buchanan, formerly governor
general of Porto Rico, and Bowling
Creek.
The buildings include brick man
Evening star., 1923-01-20
D. c. BUILDING OWNERS
AND MANAGERS UNITE
Robert McKeever Elected Presi-
dent of New Organization at
First Meeting.

Formation of the Building Owners
and Managers Association of the Dis
trict of Columbia was accomplished
yesterday at a meeting at the City
Club. The new body will be affiliated
with the national association, whose
headquarters is in Chicago.
Lee Smith of New York city, first
vice president of the national body,
addressed the meeting. The follow
ing were elected as officers: President,
Robert L. McKeever: first vice presi-
dent, Thomas Bradley; second vice
president, e. ). Poston; secretary and
treasurer, Capt Charles II. Ruth; di-
rectors, three years, Earl E. Goss;
James Med. Shea: two years. d. c.
Paterson; T. c. Willis; one year, r. S.
Freer; L. L. Brady.
President McKeeVer appointed Ar
thur A. Riemer chairman of the mem
bership committee. Those attending
were Earl L. Goss. r. L. McKeever.
f. S. PoSton, Edward L. Brady, Allan
+. Walker, James Med. Shea. Thomas
Bradley, +. J. AXley, James NJ. Carter,
Capt Charles l.. Ruth, r. S. Freer, T.
c. willis and Arthur A. Riemer. The
association will meet next Friday at
luncheon at the City Club, and will
have as special guest an expert on
building management, who will ad-
dress the assembly.
Evening star., 1923-01-20

made for those who withdraw before
the series natures.
Accounts Opened ut Any Time.
These accounts can be opened at
any time in either class of associa-
tlon. The advantages of membership,
the speaker said, are Three hundred
dollar dividend is exempt from fed
eral income tax: all deposits are eX-
empt from municipal intangible taxes,
except special deposits. The associa-
ton, however, pays per cent on its
gross earnings as an intangible tax.
A person desiring to become a bor-
rowing member must make applica-
tion, and his property is then ap
praised by the associations appraisers
at the average cost of about 81. If
penses to bear are fer the eXamina-
tion of title, drawing. necessary pa
pers, recording, revenue stamps, fire
insurance, notarial fees and tax GER
pay back monthly on his loan 81 for
each 500 borrowed. Half of this
amount is credited TO interest and
half to principal, the interest being at
the rate of 6 per cent.
For illustration. If, it was ex-
planned, a person borrows $4,000
his monthly payment would be
$25 per month, $3.50 interest and
Sl2.50 principal. He has the option of
allowing payments on stock to ac-
CuHnuldle ana participate III the lull
earnings of the association. or. If he
desires to reduce his monthly pay
ment, of canceling half share or
stock-in some associations 800 or
5000 in some others-and reduce the
monthly payment 81 or So per month,
respectively.
If he keeps the same monthly pay
ment and takes the option of can
ceiling a half share or a share, when
he has paid in that amount on the
ha n
smaller and the principal payment
gets larger
These loans are paid off like rent in
about twelve years, Mr.. James said.
The loan can, however, be paid off as
fast as the borrower Is able to pay.
He can pay any amount at any time
on the principal and thus reduce the
amount on which he has to pay in
teTest.
mo commission to obtain said loan
is charged" the speaker stated. The
loan does not have to be renewed in
three or five years. After 1t is once
made. If the borrower makes his
monthly payments promptly lit auto
matically runs until 1t is liquidated.
No Anxiety EntaiIed.
The borrower need have no anxiety
about his loan being renewed in three
or five years from the date 1t is made,
as the association cannot call the
loan as long as he keeps his monthly
payments paid. The payment on his
loan is a very low rent for the prop
erty. and in this way he pays 1t off
without feeling 1t as a hardship. On
loan on new houses interest Is gen.
orally charged on each payment as
the money is advanced as the work
progresses.
"If man borrows s2,500 on a prop
erty that is appraised at, say, $4,000
and finds within ten years that he
needs $500 or $1,000 more he may get
a further advance under the pro-
visions of a deed of trust of a build
ing association, and the only expense
he is put to is to have the title con-
tinued and a tax certificate and new
appraisement, all of which amounts
to a nominal expense"
Evening star., 1923-01-20
NEW HOTEL TO PROVIDE
MOTION PICTURE OUTFIT
Exhibit of Legislative Films a
Feature of Equipment of the
President Hostelry.

Maj. H. A. ellis of Chevy Chase.
builder of the new Hotel President, at
New Jersey avenue and 1st street
southeast, announced today that the
hotel will contain a motion picture
theater and projection outfit for the
exhibition of legislative films.
Although not generally known"
he stated, there are exhibited before
members of Congress and the Senate
each week many thousands of feet OF
film dealing with phases of public
welfare throughout the entire coun-
try. Films concerned with local in
dustrial projects, irrigation and agri-
cultural improvements, genealogical
developm ents, forestry and fisheries
movements, as well as public safety
and welfare campaigns. are shown
continually before legislative COM
mittees and constitute q vital part of
legislation today.
1.-The Hotel Presidents projection
room will be equipped with the most
modern motion picture devices, and
will have a silver screen. The theater
will be at the entire disposal of the
government"
Evening star., 1923-01-20
FIGURES SHOW OWNER
LIVES MORE CHEAPLY

A computation showing that the
owner of house has the advantage
of the renter has been made by the
American Institute of Architects.
The institute starts at the begin
ninss with a lot, erects thereon a
house, and the total, together with
financing charges. comes to $6,545.99.
The average gross rental on homes it
puts at 1873 per cent. which would
make the rental on this home total
$903.34. Against this it sets up the
carrying charge on the home at a to-
tai of $626.39. divided as follows:
Seven per cent on average building
loan of $5.040.36, amounting to $352.S2:
per cent on average equity of
$1,260.12. amounting to s50.40: insur-
ance average, SIS; taxes, average.
$110, and upkeep estimated at 1k per
cent. s9S.17. These figures leave an
annual balance in the owners favor
of $276.s5. the saving which the in
stitute estimates accrues to the aver
age owner of a house built at the
cost given.
The monthly figures are: Rent,
s75.27; carrying charge for owner,
$50, a saving TO the man who owns
his home of s23.27 a month.
Evening star., 1923-01-20
VISITORS PUT D. c.
HOTELS TO TESTS
Capital Handicapped in Car
ing for Large Conventions
of Near Future.

That Washington will be, greatly
handicapped in providing hotel ac-
commodations for the great influx Of
convention visitors during the next
few months is the fear expressed in
trade body and hotel circles. Exist
ing hotel accommodations have been
found, upon careful investigation, to
be entirely inadequate for housing
not alone the army of convention Wis
itors, but also the newly elected con-
tingent of congressional and senate
rial representatives and their families
who will arrive next March. Trade
body officials and the Shrine head
quarters in the capital have been can
vassing in a search for boarding
house as well as private home accom-
modations to care for the overflow
visitors during the height of the con-
vention season. In connection with
the hotel shortage here, officials OF
the Hanford Hotel Company, builders
of the new Hotel President, have conf
piled statistics giving the hotel fig
ures for the principal cities OF the
United States. Washington has been
found to run far below most smaller
western cities in the number of ho-
tells. The principal source of these
figures is the Hotel Associa tion. Ac-
cording to these figures, New York
leads all other cities in the United
States in the number of hotels within
its civic limits. The second largest
city in the matter of hotel accomino-
dations, curiously enough, is San
Francisco. which has less than 4 mill
lion population, and is not only small
er than Chicago and Philadelphia, but
also smaller than Detroit, Los Ange-
les, Boston, Cleveland and some other
cities. San Francisco has 149 hostel
ries, as against 2S4 in New York. Chi
cago comes In third with 112, and Los
Angeles is fourth with So.
Washington is shown in these fig
Evening star., 1923-01-20

sion erected more than 100 years ago,
but modernlzed at considerable ex-
pense, with brick porches and large
columns supporting the Grecian por-
tico. 1t has hardwood floors, three
baths and numerous rooms. Other
buildings on the estate consist of
seven resident houses for the man.
ager and farmhands. a coachhouse,
stable, caretaker's house, large horse
barn and cattle-feeding barn with
silo. etc. The entire farm is equipped
with modern machinery and stocked
with live stock of various kinds. The
property Is watered with springs and
streams and the drinking water at the
mansion house is supplied by springs
and reservoir on the. side OF the
mountain and a deep bored well near
the house. with elevated tankhouse
in tower, pumped by electric motor.
By the purchase of the st. Albans
apartment house Mr.. Toulmin has
made another addition to his already
large real estate holdings in the city
of Washington.
Announcement of Mr.. Baer's plans
with regard to the Virginia estate
was not made.
Evening star., 1923-01-20
BUILDING AND LOAN BENEFITS
!, EXPLAINED TO REALTY CLASS
c. c. James Discusses Principles and
Methods of Operation IN Address
at Y. M. C.. A. Session.

Operating principles of building
and loan associations were explained
to members of the Y. NJ c. A. real
estate class at this weeks session
by C. Clinton James, president of
the District Building and Loan AS
sociation Council.
IA building association" he point
ed out, us a mutual cooperative
financial institution composed of
members who have thus associated
themselves together for their mutual
benefit and financial advantage. The
membership of a building associa- =
tion may be broadly divided into two
classes. designated savings members
and borrowing members. The former
use the association as a place where
they may deposit from time to time
such sums as they are able to spare
from their wages, salary or other
income.
Explains Borrowing System.
THE borrowing members use the
association as a place where they can
borrow funds for buying. building or
repairing a home, or for other use
full purposes.
THE members save money to-
gether.
"They lend money to each other.
They divide the profits with each
other.
"They work together to help each
other.
Years ago Judge Durack of New
York was quoted as saying that a
building association was an organ
ized effort to extract wealth from
aggregated poverty.
Building associations have been
pioneers in teaching thrift. They
have been indorsed by the National
Real Estate Board, by Secretary of
Commerce Hoover, who says our as
sociations are true peoples banks,
popularly controlled and locally man
aged.
Encourages Thrift.
"'They encourage thrift throughout
the nation Mr.. Hoover declared.
Through the system of amortization
in which the building and loan asso-
Citations were the pioneers, they have
made their assets sound and worthy
of confidence. Through loans prin-
cipally upon homes they are an in
strumentality not only in solving the
housing problem, but in developing
self reliance of our citlzenry 1t is
my earnest desire that the building
and loan associations of the Unite d
States should be encouraged by the
public spirited citizens of every local
ity.'"
To become an investing member of
a building and loan association, Mr..
James stated, one can start an ac-
count in the associations operating on
the permanent plan, which means an
association that declares dividend
each year, by depositing 81 up, and
such other sums as one may be able
70 spare from his income. In the
serial associations, in which a new
series is started every six months, a
person may become a member by pay
ing back the number OF months that
have elapsed since the series started
and thus get the full earnings of said
series if you stay in until the series
natures, a slight reduction being
Evening star., 1923-01-20
BUILDING PERMITS
TOTAL $1,ab8,Ol0
One Outstanding Project Es-
timated to Cost $780,
, 000-0ther Construction.

Construction projects calling for the
investment by Washington builders
of more than S1,S6S, 900 were approved
during the past week by the munich
pal building inspectors office.
The outstanding item in the list of
permits from the viewpoint of cost
of the project passed on was that of
the Transportation building opera
tion, sol 18th street northwest This
structure Will be ten stories high and
will cost s1.25o.OoO.
Other Projects Listed.
Other permits follow:
II. r. Howenstein, to build, 749 Ken
lucky avenue southeast; cost, $1,000.
II. G. Smithy, to build. 1024-1042
Quincy street; cost. $4,000.
w. G. Dent, to erect garage, 9iS-920
II tn street; cost, $4,000.
w. G. Dent, to erect, ten garages,
rear 511 10th street southeast; cost,
$4,000.
NJ. C. Brennan. to build. 4211 18th
street northeast; cost. $4,000.
H. A. Kite, to build, 1901 -o5- o9 Is
17-2125 and 20 Windham place; cost,
$50, 900.
Marcus Notes. TO repair. 434 9th
street; cost, $1,000.
VI. ". BULL 10 Duliu SlOEt'p IVV INllOnV
Island avenue northeast: cost. $4,000.
William Rosenberg. to repair, 1889
18th street: cost, $4,000.
W. P. Kenealy, to repair, Myrtle
avenue northeast; cost, $500.
Catholic Sisters College, to build, 500
Bates road northeast; cost, 81 $4,000.
Middaugh & Shannon, 70 build, 5000
Woodley road cost $4,000.
NJ. Silver and n. Smith. to build, 1886
Shepherd street; cost. 100000
CoIo fr hull
avenue northeast; cost, $500.
street: cost $4,000.
Cement Block and Supply Company,
to build shed. rear Farragut and 3d
street northeast; cost. $4,000
J. T. James and j. c. Tanner, to build.
5805 Sherries place: cost, $4,000.
Shannon & LuchS, to build seven
houses, 52035215 14th street; cost,
$91,0
]. J. Moebs, to repair, 1925 Vermont
avenue: cost, $4,000.
w. NJ York, to build, 1850 Jocelyn
street: cost. $4,000.
C. e. Cornell, to build, 109 street
southeast: cost, $4,000.
NJ. A. Hill, to build, 220 Alabama ave-
nue. southeast: cost, $500.
0. w. Hammond, to build. 2424New-
ton street northeast; cost, $4,000.
Transportation Company, to build ten
story Office building, sol 18th street;
cost, $1,250.000.
Wardman Construction Company. 20
build two houses, 3230-3232 Woodley
road; cost, s50,000.
Evening star., 1923-01-20
Washngtons Growth Reflected in Real Estate and Build
Eliminate Waste
and LoWer Cost
ofHon1e Building

One Of the easiest ways TO lower
hofne building costs and make your
dollars buy full value Is to eliminate
waste?
You have observed homes nearing
completion and noted unused lumber
lengths, studs. joists, flooring. bricks
short ends strewn "heIter skeIter''
around the house and lot. These
left overs" usually provide the
home owner with kindling wood for
several years to come. At $50. per
thousand feet this makes mighty ex-
pensive fuel. Sometimes this waste
amounts to as much as the first
years interest on the home building
Investment. In nearly all cases this
waste is unJustified. II the home is
yours, you pay for 1t.
Another important source of waste
Is the unnecessary use of elaborate
finish and expensive equipment on
small homes. You can select type
expense is concerned, with the cost
OF the home. You can build an ex-
travagant, complicated roof, you can
overload your home with unneces-
sary meaningless details, such as
monstrous brackets, wide, project
ing caves. heavy cornices and
''frilly" things which have the ap-
pearance of being filters or "stuck
on" in an attempt TO secure archi-
tectural effects.
Much of this has little or no archi-
tectural merit, renders no service,
detfacts from the beauty of the
home, and certainly piles up the
total costs TO unjustified amounts.
Details of this character and special
equipment frequently require special
knives and extra mill work.
Extras" are things which many
home builders can do without and In
no way interfere with the beauty,
service or comfort of the home. 1t
is worth while to remember these
things and see that your home plans
are designed to eliminate waste.
Evening star., 1923-01-20
PURCHASE BRICK HOME.

Sale of a new ten-room brick resi-
dence of the semi detached type at
1906 Allison street northwest to Mr..
and Mrs Edward Stafford was an
nounced today by L. L. Breuninger
& Sons.
The dwelling, which was erected by
that firm, contains three baths and
has a two-car garage. Many unusual
features were incorporated by the
purchasers.
Evening star., 1923-01-20
RENTS RAISED IN U. S.
Industrial Board Report Covers
Several Months Of Last Year.

There was an increase of l per cent
in the rents OF wage earners' houses
and apartments in the United States
between July, 1922, and November
1922. according to a report issued by
the national industrial conference board
of New York.
This is said TO be the first advance
in rents since March. 1921, when rents
reached their peak for the country as
q whole
Evening star., 1923-01-20

made for those who withdraw before
the series natures
Evening star., 1923-01-20

ures as having SO hotels. Boston as
SO and PHILADELPHIA So. In hotels
which have more than $50 rooms. New
York leads with Is and Chicago sec
ond with II. Los Angeles has such
hotels. San. Francisco and Min
neapolis. New Orleans, Pittsburgh.
Boston, Cleveland and Detroit, each.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-07
POISON TABLETS
END MANS
LIFE
Ernest G. Brewer Dies From
BichIoride Taken
Week Ago.

Six tablets Of bichloride Of mer-
curry, taken a week ago in a fit
Of dependency. resulted in the
death early this morning of Ernest
c. Brewer, thirty-three years old,
even though he regretted his action
and fought valiantly for life.
Brewer, the father Of six chill.
dren, was taken to the Casualty
Hospital by Mrs. Percy Roberts, of
East Washington Park, on last
Wednesday, following the discovery
by his wife Of Brewers near.un.
conscious form in the basement of
their small home at AIS Minnesota
avenue southeast.
Conditions Grew Worse.
Physicians at Casualty saw that
the mans condition was alarming.
They gave him first aid and kept
him there until 1t was decided ia
remove him to the Emergency Hos
pital. There Brewers condition
grew worse. He failed to respond
to the efforts of the staff physi.
Clans anu the pOlSOn-SlOW-aCtinR
and overwhelmingly painful in its
actions on the stomach-began to
paralyZe the stomach.
Brewers wife stayed by his bed
side, lending him what encourage.
ment she could in his desperate
fight. When she learned a day
ago that he was beyond all human,
medical skill, she broke down and
sobbed.
Six to Care For.
Brewers death leaves his little
widow with six children to care for.
She does not yet know what she
will do to earn a livelihood for her.
self and them.
Coroner hewitt was notified OF
Brewers death and Of the circum.
stances surrounding 1t. He gave
a certificate of suicide.
No one OF the Brewer family had
any knowledge of Brewers having
taken poison until his wife found
him writing in pain in the base.
ment. He told her he had taken
six bichlorido OF mercury tablets but
no refused to say where or why he
had taken the poison.