Evening star., 1934-10-07

Reilly, 60O6 Broad Branch road,
Chevy Chase, D. c.. and Mr.. and Mrs.
C. M. ShiSler, 1909 L street north
east.
The landscape award of 500 given
by the Washington Board of Trade
was given to Royal H. Carlock, 64l0
Ridge drive, Brookmont, Md, and the
committee took the privilege of award
ing an additional honorable mention"
prize in the landscape class Ito take
the place of the award omitted from
the over $4,000 class to the land
scaping improvements of Mrs. Richard
R. Bassett, &c Linden avenue, Cherry
dale, Va.
Cash prizes of $3.50 each will be
given DR.. Lucas and Miss Binyon;
S1O0 each to Mr.. Smith and Mr.. Ap-
person, and $50 each to DR.. Ezekiel
and Mr.. See.
The honorable mention awards of
$25 each go to Mrs. Rozzelle, Mr. Nc
Alpin, Mr.. Savage, Mr.. and Mrs. Shaf-
fer, Mr.. Steinkuller, Mr.. and Mrs.
Reilly, Mr.. and Mrs. Shisler and Mrs.
BaSsett.
The delay in announcing the prize
winners-the contest closed to entries
on September 15-has been caused by
the careful scrutiny given each entry
by the Judging Committee. A great
many conditions were taken into &C
count in the awarding of the prizes,
and the committee made its final de-
cisions only after long deliberation,
personal inspection of many of the
projects, and careful consideration.
Each entry was judged solely on its
excellence. and small. inexpensive i'm
provements had equal chances with
the larger, more pretentiouS ones.
Conditions of Contest.
The conditions taken into account
| were set forth in rule No. of the
| contest regulations, issued at the start
of the contest. 1t reads:
awards of prizes will be made to
those whose home Improvements do
most toward making the home a more
convenient and comfortable place in
which to live, and at the same time
! improve the exterior and interior ap-
| pearance and help beautify the neigh
| borhood"
It is not the purpose Of The Star
to describe all Improvements which
| were awarded priZeS-nor the others
| entered which missed being chosen by
narrow margin-at this time. 1t is
proposed to run the projects as a
weekly series each Saturday in The
Stars real estate section.
First prize awards will be described
here, and the others will follow, one
each week. Inasmuch as the entrants
each wrote a letter telling of the i'm
provementS made to their homes,
there is no better way to describe the
| projects of the two first-place winners
| than in their own words, as submitted
i'll letters to the Better Homes Con-
| test editor.
DR.. Lucas letter follows:
"As you may recall from the in
| closed snapshots, the house which ]
remodeled has on several occasions
in the past been the subject of inter-
esting stories in your paper. 1t was
created and occupied by the late C.
G.. Riker, erstWhile inventor of SUBJ
marines and other marine subjects
but had been unoccupied for some
time. A popular curiosity in the form
of tree house still stands at the rear
| of the premises.
Story and Half.
Before purchasing the property
| the house was carefully appraised
and plans drawn to existing scale fol
the remodeling. The wooden super
structure was razed and the lumber
salvaged for use in our work. The
entire lower floor area being incloseo
within unpartitioned concrete block
walls, this portion, together with
basement, floors, chimney, window
and door openings, well, ETC., was
preserved intact. Some of the open
ings were relocated, the interior par
titioned, furred and finished, plumb
ing and heating added, the exterior
veneered with a combination of ole
brick and gray stucco and the whole
reroofed and covered with variegateo
Vermont slate We thereby created
story-and-a-half structure contain
| ing two bed rooms and two baths up
stairs, bed room and nursery with
connecting bath, dining room, living
room and kitchen below instead oi