Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-04

Many Advanced Ideas
Included in Nine
Story Structure.
AIR TO BE COOLED
OR WARMED AT WILL
Business Was Founded IS
Years Ago-Will Add Other
Lines of Goods.

The new 9-story building of Julius
Garfinckel & Co., just completed on
the northwest corner of Fourteenth and
F streets, which constitutes major
private development IN downtown
Washington, will be opened Monday
marking a decided change not only In
the business of this old Washington
firm, but also in the physical appear
ance of the center of the city.
All day today and tomorrow the con-
Germ will be engaged in moving from its
old store, at Thirteenth and streets, to
the new building.
The new Garfinckel home represents
one of the largest and most costly prl-
vate developments in the Washington
business area in recent years.
Building Has Setbacks.
In conformity with the regulation
adopted about two years ago by the
Zoning Commission the buildings up
permost floors are set back above the
110-foot height. This scheme represents
a comparatively new departure In the
architectural plan of the city's new
buildings.
The new store has frontage of 185
feet on F. street and of las feet on
Fourteenth street. Adding to the size
of the Garfinckel project are the two
story business buildings which are being
erected both to the north and the west
of the department store building.
The facades of the department store
are of buff limestone. Large show win
dow spaces are provided along both
street frcntages of the first story OF the
building, with entrances also located on
both F and Fourteenth streets.
The building has many new and I'M
81 ctr
the cold-storage plant for furs, the
fresh-air intake cooling system, pneu-
matte tube carrier system, automatic
sprinkler system for fire protection, belt
conveyors, scientific heat control, vacuum
cleaning apparatus and other modern
equipment features.
Two Wells Are Sunk.
The sinking of two wells some dis
lance below the second basement of the
building to provide water for the cold
storage plant is an unusual phase of
the construction job. Refrigeration is
provided by cold air maintained at an
average of 20 to Is degrees, propelled
into the fur vaults by electrically driven
fans which drive the air over brine
filed coils and into the storage cham
bers. The temperature of the coils is to
be kept at at least 10 degrees, and auto
matically controlled devices sound bell
warnings when the temperature falls
below the required level.
Water for the sprinkler system is
drawn from the city supply pipes, with
two pumps in readiness to add force to
the streams.
During Summer months the tenn
perature in the building is to be main
tanned at a comfortable average by the
air-cooling system. This unit embraces
devices for driving air through cham
bers into which a continuous flow of
cool water is sprinkled. The air is cir
culated through the building via huge
square piping and propelled into the
various departments through artistical-
ly concealed apertures.
Warm Air In Winter.
During Winter months the same ap-
paratus will be diverted to convey warm
air, instead of cold, and will work in
conjunction with the steam-heating
system, automatically controlled, to