Evening star., 1927-10-23
HOME EXPOSITION
; OPENS TOMORROW
Real Estate Boards Annuc!
| Show Has Host of New
Features This Year.

The second annual Better Homes
hnd Building Exposition to be conduct
ed under the auspices OF the WASH
ington Real Estate Board. at the
WASHINGTON Auditorium. will open to-
morrow evening and VIII continue
throughout the week.
Designed on a more elaborate scale
than the Better Homes show of last
Winter. which attracted thousands OF
visitors to see the exhibits, this years
exposition will be a demonstration OF
latest building methods and architec-
tural and furnishing developments,
3liustrating all phases of the building,
equipment and financing of modern
dwelling. In addition, also there will
he daily lectures by experts on mat.
fers of real estate financing, home
decoration and domestic science, ac-
cording to final plans announced last
night by A. n. Miller, chairman of
the committee in charge.
Many local organizations are assist
ing the Real Estate Board in the expo
eition, and Friday will be observed as
Board of Trade night, and Thursday
evening the members of the AleXan.
dria, Arlington County and Fairfax
Real Estate Board and the Arlington
County Chamber of Commerce will be
special guests. Pupils of the Wash.
and teachers also have been rendered
special invitations and arrangements
have been made for the mailing out of
tickets to these and other groups.
Offers Public Instruction.
The purpose of the Real Estate
Board in presenting the Better Homes
and Building Exposition, while it is
designed in part frankly for the bene
fit of the real estate and building busi-
ness, is primarily to afford the gen.
eral public with a more adequate and
detailed knowledge of the problems
that enter into the building of a home,
the equipment of a house, and modern
methods of operating and maintaining
household.
The program and the exhibits Of the
show have been planned with view
to presenting to the purchaser Of a
home, to the seller, the housewife, to
the real estate operator. to the builder |
and to the architect and others having |
to do with home building and |
home-ownership the most recent de- |
velopments in housing in the National |
Capital and throughout the United |
States.
In addition to an array of exhibits |
by building material manufacturers |
and agents and furnishing and equip. |
ment concerns, there will be other re. |
lated exhibits of interest to the pub |
lie, including those Of the Visiting |
Nurse Society of the District of Co. |
lumbia. the American Red Cross and |
the Public Library, officials of the |
board announce.
Model Home Exhibited.
A small model house of the bunga. |
low type, complete in every detail of |
construction and equipment, has been |
built on the floor of the Auditorium |
and will be one Of the chief exhibits |
of the show.
OF particular interest to the house. |
wife will be a series of lectures to be |
given during the evening programs |
of the week on topics including cook. |
ing, interior decoration, landscape |
gardening, color combinations. house
hold hints and proper house light
ing. Methods Of heating a
home, latest kitchen equipment and |
other demonstrations will be given |
during the week and with other |
exhibits will be those Of The Evening |
Star and the other newspapers of |
washington, showing. the relation OK |
the newspaper to home-life and the |
efforts Of the newspapers to encourage |
home ownership. Life insurance com. /
panies viii have booths showing sta. |
tistics Of value to home owners and |
builders.
officials in charge Of the exposition |
say all phases of the show will be |
exclusively on an educational plane, |
with all contests and other stunts |
ruled out. Members of the committee |
in addition to A. n. Miller, chairman, |
are Horace G. Smithy, Wilmot w. |
Trew, Thomas L. Phillips, ]. Curtis
Walker and A. c. Houghton. The
committee is assisted by James p.
Schick, secretary Of the real estate
board, and ]. H. Snyder.
Many Exhibits Planned.
The following organizations are
among those who will have exhibits
in the show: Acme Duco Corporation,
Aidmore, Inc, Asbestos Covering &
Roofing Co., Aurora Hills Homes, Inc,
Automatic Heating Corporation,
Arthur Sign Co., Ballard Oil Equip
ment Co., Barber & Ross, Inc, Bell.
man Heating Co., Building Associa-
ton Council Of the District of Colum.
bia, C. o. Buckingham, Carroll Electric
Co. Chambers Fireless Gas Range,
Chevy Chase Dairy, Doubleday-H Hill
Electric Co., A. n. Dobson, Domestic
Sewing Machine Co., District Title &
Insurance Co., DcMoll Furniture Co.,
Equitable Life Insurance Co, Fries,
Beall & Sharp, Frigidaire Corporation,
w. T. Galliher & Bro, Inc, General
Electric, J. c. Harding & Co., Inc,
Hutchinson Manufacturing Co., Inter.
national Bedding Co., Iroquois Co. Of
Washington, Inc, Kinser Sales Co,
Ludowici-Celadon Co., Ruby Lee
Minar, Inc, Moreno Products Co,
Minneapolis Heat Regulator, Edgar
Morris Sales Co., National Electrical
Supply Co., Northern Virginia Bureau,
Oil Burners, Inc, Operative Builders,
Inc, Overhead Door Co. of Pennsyl-
vania, Rock Creek Nursery, Rosslyn
Steel G Cement Co., Savage Appliance
Agency, Smoot Sand & Gravel Cor
poration, Stoneform Corporation of
America.
The Shade Shop, Silent Automatic
Corporation, Potomac Electric Power
Co., Standard Homes Co., Stoneyhurst
Quarries, Sterrett-Fleming, Inc, Syra-
cuse Washing Machine Co, Walker
Sales Co., Washington Impeller Co.,
Wilcox-Gibbs Sewing Machine Co.,
Washington Gas Light Co., Wood.
ward & Lothrop, the Insulite Co, w.
c. & A. n. Miller, National Com
mittee on Wood Utilization, Washing
ton Times and Herald classified depart.
ment. Housekeepers' Alliance. Chill.
dren's Welfare Bureau, DeWalt
Manufacturing Co., Silver Spring
Chamber of Commerce, Washington
Public Library and The Evening Star
Newspaper Co.