Evening star., 1941-04-26
Shop Talk
News About Builders
and Reel Estate
Personalities

The last two days have been busy
ones for real estate men here, with
the National Conference of Real
Estate Taxpayers meeting at the
rMayflower and the business pro-
motion session at the United States
Chamber of Commerce. The tax
payers meeting will end late this
afternoon. 1t brought a number of
real estates most prominent ma
tional figures to the Capital
The business promotion program
was purely local in scope, and Of
course drew more local men than
the conference at the Mayf1ower
1t was. sponsored by the Brokers
and Education Committees of the
Washington Real Estate Board, of
which j. Garrett Bietzell and
Joseph A. Herbert, jr., are chairmen.
More than 100 realtors turned out
for the talks and discussions which
endsa last night. They heard,
amd g others, Hobart c. Brady. vice
president of the National Associa-
ton of Real Estate Boards for the
South Central region, and Lester E.
.Frailey. sales consultant for N. A.
r. E. 3.
Myers Y. Cooper, former Governor
Sof Ohio and now president of the
National Conference of Real Estate
Taxpayers, made tour of inspec-
ton of Washington residential COM
smunities on Thursday and seemed
gquite pleased with what Capital de-
svelopers are doing in the way of
providing living space for the
crowded city Herbert U. Nelson,
iexecutive officer of the N. A. R E.
I B., also was in town for the tax
payers sessions.
, There is another big meeting in
I the offing. This is the first big
convention of the newly created
Home Builders Institute of the N. A.
r. E. B. Harry G. Atkinson, who
l has charge of activities for the ma
tional association, is in town max
ing arrangements for the meeting.
Edward r. Carr, as chairman of the
Home Builders Committee of the
: Washington Board, will be in COM
mand of the local end. The insti-
tute was organized to create more
J interest in the N. A. r. E. B. among
l the operative builders.
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I Frank r. Spear, the big Silver
2 Spring broker, reports that his Office
! has sold 80 houses so far this month.
/ and that's lot of houses. Friends
are welcoming william K. Hartung
back into the Washington real es-
3 tate business. Back from a pro-
longed stay in Florida, he has joined
the firm Of Shannon & Luchs.
:. A recent property sale of inter-
est is that of the former home of
President Garfield at the north
east corner of Thirteenth and I
streets NV, to Kachig Harry. who
has remodeled the old landmark
into hotel. Mr.. Harry earlier
bought the northeast corner of
Thirteenth and New York avenue
NV, which also was remodeled
1or nOtel purposes. Both sales
were made by the Brodt- Mclean
Realty Co.
The property at 1914 Connecticut
avenue NV, in which the Old New
Orleans Restaurant is located, has
been purchased by Mr.. and Mrs.
j. T. Richards from G. Calvert
Bowie, prominent Capital real es-
tate man. Mr.. and Mrs. Richards
operate the Old New Orleans. The
purchase price was not disclosed.
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Roger Brooke Farquhar, who has
been associated with Boss e. Phelps
for the last two and a half years,
has returned to the real estate
field as an independent broker and
has set up an Office in the Union
Trust Building, it was announced
today. Mr. Farquhar has been en-
gagged in almost every phase of the
business for the last II years. He
will specialize in assisting clients in
the selection, development and