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as compared with plans prepared with
out beneAt of architectural service.
ITO further this work the directors
Of the American Institute of Archi-
tects indorsed q a IN to establish local
groups Of architects prepared to fur
nish architectural service In the small
house field In o manner to meet local
opportunities and demands for such
professional service.
Assistance rendered.
The directors also rendered to
Government agencies promoting bet
ter small house building the assist
ance Of the institute In raising the
standards Of value by means Of the
employment Of competent architec-
tural service"
In the field Of architectural design,
there has developed during the eco
nonic depression q greater conscious
ness Of the social aspect of the archi-
tect's practice, Mr.. voorhees, points
out.
Town and regional planning is
receiving greater recognition by the
architectural schools in preparing
architects to broaden their horizons
and to participate to greater extent
In social and civic activities" he
continues. The value Of planned
communities and garden suburbs as
opposed to the haphazard placing Of
dwellings 80 prevalent In our cities
Is receiving increased attention.
I'm view Of the prevalent pre-
occupation Of many architects with
functional planning. and with full
recognition Of the research and rea-
soning 80 logically expressed in plan
and structure, the Institutes Com
mittee on Education believes that the
time has come for the expression in
our architecture Of something beyond
the purely utilitarian, that might be
called either charm or beauty, but
without which our creations fail to
realize their full possibilities.
The committee believes that this
quality Is more likely to be embodied
In our architecture when we recoa-
nize our debt to the past and the
value Of its lessons In meeting the
problem of today"
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improvement in this class Of con-
struction.
Residential building continues to
lead the field In volume of new
construction. 1t Is not necessary to
quote statistics to show the obvious
need of this activity. The cessation
Of building during the past four years:
losses resulting from fires; deprecia-
ton; the increase In number OF fam.
lilies; all are factors in the impending
housing shortage.
Federal housing agencies, by their
promotional activities, have directed
public attention toward home building
and financing on a sound basis. Pres
ent building prices and rising rentals
are factors favorable to residential
building at this time and indicate
continued activity in 1885.
Time Given to Study.
THAT the architects of the country
have devoted much time during the
recent years Of inactivity in building
to q study of the problems of their
many-sided profession is indicated in
the reports of committee chairmen
made at a meeting of the board Of
directors Of the institute.
New materials and methods of
construction have been studied and
experiments conducted looking toward
an improved technique In building that
would parallel the improvements made
in other lines Of production. The new
year will see many Of these expert
ments put to the test Of practical ap-
plication to building.
How to improve the poor quality
of design so evident in the average
American small house has been the
concern Of the American Institute Of
Architects for many years. Efforts to
find way to apply the architects
talents in this field have met with
little success. Lending agencies have
been slow to see the advantages Of
architectural service as q protection
to their loans.
"One of the most encouraging ex-
periences Of the past year has been
the higher rating attained by plans
prepared by architects when submit
ted for Government-insuredm mortgages
Evening star., 1936-01-04
HOME CONTEST
IN SECOND WEEK
Interest Unusually High in
Competition Sponsored
by MilIers.

The 500 MY Home Competition"
sponsored for the public by the firm
Of W. c. q A. N. Miller, builders and
developers. entered its second week
today with interest in it running un-
usually high.
The contest Is open to everybody,
except professional architects and en-
ployes of the Miller firm. 1t is
contest for home design which may
be entered either by submitting q
sketch or q word picture. The spon-
sors feel there are thousands Of peo.
pie In and around the District who
have ideas about the home they would
like and hope to own. 1t is these
dream houses" they want entered
in the contest. II Is stressed by the
sponsors that entries will not be
judged BY the quality of the drawing
submitted, but on the arrangement,
convenience and Inability Of the
plan suggested, whether a sketch or
q word description.
Commissioner Melvin G. Hazen, r.
Eliot Middleton. president of the
Washington Real Estate Board. and
Arthur Heaton, president of the
Washington Chapter, American In
stitute of Architects. have been Sc
lected as active judges, with Stewart
Mcdonald, Federal housing admins
traitor serving as honorary chairman
Of the Selection Committee. These
judges will select the five best ideas
in home design entered in the con-
test. Exact scale models will be made
of the five houses. and they will be
placed in a window Of Woodward e.
Lothrop's store, where the public may
view them and vote on them. The
winner will be one of the Ave houses
receiving the most votes.
The Miller firm has selected a lot
on the southeast corner of Forty
ninth and Upton streets, in their SUBJ
division of Westerleigh, where they
will build the winning home. The
home must not exceed $4,000 cubic
feet, approximately the size Of the
average three or four bed room home.
Entries may be sent to MY Home
Competition" In care Of the Wash
ington Board Of Trade, The Star
Building. The contest closes Janu.
ary l9. and entries must be post
marked not later than midnight on
that date. Home design ideas en-
tered will be kept anonymous until
the winner Is selected. When the
judges gather to consider the entries
these will be identified by numbers
with the names of the contributors
kept in the Board Of Trade ofiices.
Residents Of nearby Virginia and
Maryland as well as the District may
enter the contest.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
BY LEAH STOCK HELMICK.

Georgetown's Harlem" is no more!
One hundred and thirty-five years
ago Gen. James McCubbin Lingan,
Revolutionary hero and friend Of
George Washington, built a rambling
country house in Georgetown, high
above the Potomac and the busy
foundry. He named 1t Harlem" after
the battle in which he was wounded
Now the last vestige of this estate
the very hilltop where Lingan's mur-
dered body was buried one feverish
August night-has been removed.
Preparatory to widening Foxhall
road. eastern boundary of the "Har-
lem" triangle, st. Patrick's Chapel,
built in 1914 on the last Lingan
land, was recently condemned and
razed.
However, road work was stopped
suddenly-for beneath the chapel site
were broken caskets and scattered
bones. One headstone buried in
nearby grass is that of a Lingan
neighbor. Nv. A. Ofutt. decd July 27,
1878" Among the seven unidentified
skeletons was one whose great thigh
bone-four inches longer than the
average-might we'll have been those
Of Gen. Lingan, a man of unusual
stature. The discovery lends wings
to a local legend that the body re-
moved to Arlington in 1908 was not
that Of the general.
Bones to be Reinterred.
The finding Of skeletons is no new
experience for local contractors.
Underground Washington is pitted
with graves. But by District law,
no body may be removed without q
death certificate and permission Of
the heirs-or an act of Congress!
While steam shovels waited. Rev.
Francis E. Warren, rector Of st. Pat
rick's, sought to comply. But Lngan
heirs we're dead, there are no District
burial records before 1855 and even
the earliest church lists fail to specify
graveyards. Congress was not in
session. The Commissioners, perforce,
ordered work to proceed. The bones,
carefully gathered, will. soon be re-
inferred under the $4,000 chapel to
be begun this month opposite the old
burying ground.
Discovery Of the giant skeleton
revives the story of day when Amer
leans went mad and struck down Gen.
Lingan, an idol of the Revolution.
This brave soldier was born the
year and month that Georgetown was
founded. He worked in its tobacco
warehouses, served with its soldiery.
In later years he owned half Of its
land. In the Revolution he was
three times wounded, was captured at
Fort Washington and imprisoned on
the "Hell-ship Jersey"
Lingan might have escaped these
wretched years Of foul food and
cramped confinement. His cousin,
Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, offered him
release, high rank and 10000 pounds
to change his allegiance. I'll rot
here first" was Lingan's answer. For
months after the war, he could not
stand erect and could sleep only in
an armchair.
In the following years of peace,
Lingan was active in business and
civic affairs. He was alderman and
collector Of customs, named by
Washington.
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Georgetown Harlem Gone
Foxhall Road Widening Recalls
Lingan Tragedy.

When war loomed again in 1912,
Gen. Lingan felt that France was the
instigator. He joined Alexander Han
son in editing a Baltimore anti-war
newspaper, the "Federal-Republican.
Their attacks upon President Madison
and the War Hawks" we're bitter and
implacable When war was declared.
Lingan continued his invectives. I'VE
shall never breathe under the domin-
ion Of Napoleon!" he shouted. Bal
timore violently resented the news
paper that dared to speak for peace.
Hanson's presses were destroyed and
the two editors fled for their lives to
Georgetown. To retract? Never!
They continued their burning sheet
at M and 30th streets.
House In Baltimore.
On July a.. 1912, the editors and
Federalist friends carried their latest
edition to a fortified house in Balti-
more. In the group were not only
Lingan and John Howard Payne. but
Light Horse Harry" Lee, whose s.
year-old son. Robert Edward, was des-
tined many years later to lead his
countrymen in another lost cause.
AS they entered the house, a crowd
gathered as if by magic. 1nf1amed
by doc" Gales, "the most riotous
assassin Of them ALL" it hurled bricks,
smashed windows. Warning shots
failed to stop the mob from smash
ing the door. doc" Gales, first to
enter, was fatally shot. From that
moment, 1t was Blood for blood!"
ofhcials appeared. then an spa
thetic militia. A rough volunteer
guard succeeded at last in conducting
the Federalists through the wild mob
to the city gaol-"for safety" At
sunset. the crowd scattered, and the
militia and mayor went home.
Swiftly and silently the crowd re-
assembled, its fury increased. BY
some means, the gaol door was opened
and the prisoners we're at the mercy
Of maniacs.
At 8 o'clock all was over. The
prisoners lay. scarcely breathing.
They had been stabbed, beaten,
tarred and feathered. Hot candle
grease had been poured into their
eyes. Gen. Lee had been dragged
into the street in the hot July dusk.
AS rapidly as he fell, he was pulled
to his feet and struck again. His
skull was fractured and his face dis
figured. He never fully recovered.
Gen. Lingan was the victim Of the
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hideous Mumma Although mortally
injured, the most cruel hurt to the
gallant old soldier were the shouts of
"ToryI" "Traitor!" Does this look
as If I were q traitor?" he replied,
barring his battlescars. But Mumma,
deaf to honor, felled him with a
sledgehammer. Lee and Lingan,
white-haired patriots. struck down
by a mobl "Oh. my country" de-
claimed Gusts. how sweet must be
thy liberties when purchased at this
price!'
Grave Under Poplar.
Lingan's pitiful body was carried
over dark roads to Harlem and
buried under a poplar tree near a
statue of liberty he had erected long
before.
A revulsion Of feeling followed news
of Bloody Tuesday" and a tornado
of wrath swept the Colonies. Balti-
more was regarded with horror and
"Mumma the Butcher became .
household ogre.
September /, Georgetown held q
memorial service for its hero. Sur
vivors of the massacre were borne on
stretchers. Thousands followed the
procession to PARROTS Woods. Minute
guns were fred from Georgetown's
first ship. the newly-constructed
Gen. Lngan.
The grafton of George Washing
ton Parke Gusts stirred many to
tears and was widely quoted. "Oh,
Maryland" he exclaimed. would
that the waters of the Chesapeake
could wash this foul stain from thy
character!"
As the poplar tree shed its yellow
leaves over the unmarked grave that
Autumn, the winter of life was already
setting in for Lingan's widow and
children. Within year. his wealth
had vanished Harlem was sold for
debt, save only "the section used as
o burying ground"
The little plot grew wild with
honeysuckle Seventy years later,
nephew, visiting Washington, restored
the grave. He erected an iron paling
with a gate marked "Lingan." In
1908 the Daughters of the American
Revolution moved body. thought to
be the generals from its again-for-
gotten mound to q rightful place in
Arlington.
But the oldest inhabitants say that
Lingan's remains were not removed
in that ceremony, since the body
taken to Arlington was found out
side the iron railing. Perhaps after
all, fate has decreed that the mar
tyred patriots bones shall remain on
his own land, reverently buried be-
meath the new st. Patrick's Chapel.
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brick dwelling, 4204 Alabama avenue
southeast; to cost $4,000.
Sherwood Bros, Inc, Baltimore,
Md, owners and designers; Lee T.
Turner, 1866 Perry place. builder; to
erect one 1-story brick Office and gas
station, 4521 Fourteenth street; to
cost $4,000.
Henry C. Herath, 1905 r street
southeast, owner, designer and builder:
to erect one History brick-andframe
dwelling. 2406 Thirty-tfird street
southeast; to cost $4,000.
RusselI's Restaurant, 1884 Four
teenth street, owners; w. E. Dickinson,
designer; Jerry Maiatico, woodward
Building, builder; to erect one 1-story
brick addition, 1884 Fourteenth street;
to cost $3.50.
M. Morris, 712 Fourth street south
west, owner and builder; R. C. Archer,
jr.. architect; to erect one 2-story
brick addition. 712 Fourth street
southwest; to cost $500.
The Arcade Co., 3134 Fourteenth
street, owner; Davis, Wick, Rosen-
garten Co., Inc. builders; to make
repairs. 3134 Fourteenth street; to
cost $1,000.
Garfield Memorial Hospital, owners;
w. M. Miller, architect; r. K. Fergu-
son, Inc, 1881 Georgia avenue, build
ers; to make alterations and repairs,
Tenth and Florida avenue; to cost
5000.
Miss Julia Kennedy, 3119 Thirty
fifth street, owner; to install toilets,
801 Tenth street; to cost $500.
Marco De Cesaris, 1910 Morse street
northeast, owner; Joseph G. Herbert,
builder, to erect brick garage, 1910
Morse street northeast; to cost $500.
Edward F. Colladay and Enoch
Chase, receivers; to make repairs, 1716
L street; to cost $500.
Miss Nellie Jenkins, owner; j. A..
Cook. Bond Building, builder; to make
repairs, 10 Fifth street northeast; to
cost $500.
J. Edward Farrar, 927 Fifteenth
street, owner and builder; to erect
brick garages ca, 3247 and 3243
Quesada street; to cost S400.
Mary NJ Robertson, 1856 I street
southeast, owner; Stephen Ames, de-
signer; William F. Smith, 1882 Fourth
street southeast. builder; to erect one
1-story brick addition, 1882 Fourth
street southeast; to cost $3.50.
Howard Etchison, Clifton Terrace
Apartments, owner and builder; to
erect brick garage. 560l Thirtieth
street: to cost $400,
H. v. Karrick and others, trustees;
j. M. Haliett, designer; to install
toilets, 1882 Fourteenth street; to cost
$500.
Charles B. Campbell. 900 Seven
teenth street, owner; j. M. Hallett,
designer; Petworth Hardware Co.,
builders; to install two toilets, 3249
Mount Pleasant street; to cost $400.
william Wolf, owner; B. r. Lemke,
3001 Charming street northeast,
builder; to make repairs, sol D street;
to cost $500.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
.LUCHS PREDICTS
NEW YEAR GAINS
General Improvement in All
Phases of Business
F0reSeen.

Increased activity in the sale Of real
estate for investment. and general I'M
provement in all phases OF the busi-
ness, were pointed out today by Nor
ton j. Luchs. vice president Of the
washington Real Estate Board, and
wel-known realtor, as indications
that 1896 will be good year for the
business both in Washington and
throughout the country.
For the past two years" Mr.. Luchs
stated, "the public has been buying
real estate. They started the return to
real estate for investment by purchas-
ing small properties, and gradually
the transactions increased in size until
today very large properties are chang
ing hands.
The year 1885 brought marvellous
recovery all over the country.
There is no question but that con-
fidence has been restored and great
many people whos have accumulated
considerable cash during the past five
or six years now feel it is safe to invest
it, and are investing it. 1t looks as
though real estate is their first thought
when they consider putting their
money out to work, whether it be for
a home for the family. business prop
erty, or an apartment property for an
investment.
Investments Attractive.
Mr.. Luchs further stated that from
the volume of sales his company has
been making in the last two years, the
purchasers seem to like real estate for
investment, because it represents
something tangible. In his opinion,
the year 1896 will see even greater
buying of real estate. The more the
talk of Initiation, the more the invest
ing public will turn to real estate as an
investment
Mr.. Luchs went on to say that
during the past year or so he mas
known some wise business men who
put large amounts Of money into the
purchase of vacant land. well located.
to hold for the future. This shows IN
a greater way the return of confidence,
he said.
Pickup Over Country.
Reports coming in from all over
the United States have shown large
pickup in the sale Of real estate" Mr..
Luchs continued. In fact. they show
q greater volume of sales than during
1882. Sales were fairly good in 1882.
They did not hit the bottom until the
middle of 1888.
Real estate men throughout the
country. as we'll as those in Washing
ton, have in front of them for the
first time in IS or 20 years a real
investment market in real estate. In
certain cycles the public buys real
estate as an investment. For many
years this has not existed. 1t does
exist now and has existed for the past
two years. At the annual convention
of the National Association of Real
Estate Boards in Atlantic City great
many Of the realtors from other parts
of the country were very optimistic
and enthusiastic about the prospects
for 1886. Several brokers reported
that in their community there was
scarcely a home for rent. This shows
a general condition that probably
exists throughout the United States
because of the lack of home construc-
ton during the last five or six years,
also because of the fact that families
were doubled up in one home and are
probably now singing out, leasing the
majority Of desirable homes"
Evening star., 1936-01-04
19,757 DEEDS RECORDED
IN BALTIMORE DISTRICT
Considerations Involved for Past
Year Total $e,o5s,2lO-were
Ss,522, $50 in 1884.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE, January Real
estate deeds placed on record in the
Superior Court during the past year
numbered l9,757 and the considers
tions aggregated $s,o58,2l0, compared
with IA, ,45l and 81, ,522, $50 for 1894 and
with 14,185 and $8.e33 ,406 for 1888.
Mortgages during the past year num-
bered 10,222 and the total smount IT,
volved was $23, ,273 ,3o6. compared with
14.1S1 and So. .293, 200 for 1884.
In 1888 there were SITS mortgages
placed on record, with considerations
amounting to $2o, ,2so.s47.
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Twin Doors Hide Bar.

In sedate and simple dining room.
twin doors open to reveal gaily
painted bar, sparkling with mirrors
and glassware The inner surfaces
of the twin doors are covered with
oilcloth panels and on these panels
are painted bright garden flowers in
conventionalized design.
Evening star., 1936-01-04
TWO FIRMS INCORPORATE
Maryland Concerns Are Formed
by Washingtonians.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, January 1.-Two
realty firms, the Lombardy Shores, Inc,
of Sudley, Nd. and Realty Specialties
Of America, Inc, of Baltimore, have
been incorporated by Washingtonians
under the State laws Of Maryland.
The Realty Specialties Corp. is cap
italized at 5000 and the incorpora-
tors are Leroy r. johnson. B. w. Gair
and w. T. Hutcheson, while the Lom-
hardy Shores Corp. has capital stock
Of 500 shares no par value, with C.
Virginia Diedel, Charles M. Johnston
and Jacob Milwit as incorporators.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
INVESTING COMPANIES

NEW YORK September / P.-New
York Security Dealers Association:
afiAnS
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METAL MARKET.

quiet: electrolytic. spot and future. S.s6;
export. 10, Tin barely stssdy; spot ! asnd n
9s1b 99sseFes' Lead stssdS; SPOT New New York. 4.So
e6b: East ST. Louis rs. Zinc quiet; East
d. Louis. spot and future: 4.sS. ouick-
nony. platinum and wolffamite unchanged.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
.BUS|NESSL0ANS
INCREASE SHARPLY
Further Drop in Holdings of
U. S. Bonds Also Revealed
by Board.
By the Associated Press.

~ the Associated PreSS.
A sustained increase In commercial
credit demands, coupled with q con-
tinued decline In holdings Of direct
Government obligations, was reported
in the Federal Reserve Boards weekly
condition statement of reporting
member banks In l01 leading cities.
For the week ended August 26 COM
mercial loans pushed upward SIG, ,600,-
900 over the previous week to $3,721,-
000,00 This was an increase of $751;
000, 900 in three weeks and was $433,-
600 900 over the corresponding week
year ago. The increase over the
previous week in the New York dis
trict was 100000.
Loans on real estate were fixed at
81 ,147, 600, 900, an increase of $1,000
900 over the previous week, but &C
ceptances and commercial paper
bought declined $4,000, 900 to $317,-
100000.
Bond Holdings Down.
Holdings Of direct Government obli-
cations fell of $4,000, 900 under the
previous week, bringing this figure to
1926. 100000. but obligations fully
guaranteed by the Government in
creased 100000 to s1,23s, 900 900.
Slightly increased activity in other
security fields was indicated, with
holdings Of other than Government
securities increasing ss,000,00 over
the previous week to $685.. .0o0. 900.
Demand deposits adjusted climbed
Silt ,000, ,000, 900 to s14,sl1 ,000. 900, an
increase of s1,648. .000,0 900 over the
corresponding week year ago.
Reserve balances with Federal
Reserve banks rose to s4,976, ,000, 900
an increase of s92, 100000 over the
previous week and 1922 600, 900 over
the same week year ago.
Evening star., 1936-09-01
WHOLESALE INDEX
SHOWS RECESSION
Fertilizer Association Reports
Further Moderate Decline
From Previous Week.

A moderate decline was registered
by the weekly wholesale commodity
price index compiled by the National
Fertilizer Association in the week
ended August 30, following a slight
decline in the preceding week. The
index last week was 1871, based on the
1926-28 average as 100, compared
with 80.1 week earlier, 79.5 month
ago and TIT a year ago.
The trend of prices was generally
downward last week, with four of the
component group indexes declining
and only two advancing. The most
important decline was in the index of
food prices, which fell off to 800 from
$40 in the preceding week. OF the
IS price series included in the food
group Is declined while advances were
registered by only six
Prices of farm products were gen.
orally lower, with cotton, grains and
live stock all moving downward; with
the exception of the two preceding
weeks, however, the index of farm
product prices was at the highest level
for the current year. ..,e zs<-r --, e., -
There was weakness In the textile
price situation, with cotton, semi-fln-
ished cotton goods, WOOL woolen goods
and raw silk moving downward. Lower
quotations for cottonseed meal resulted
in a slight drop in the index of fer
tilizer prices.