Evening star. [volume], March 01, 1913, Image 13

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T WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH I, I'll:;.
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Two Big
Beautifu
?> Located oil Lark road we
<N> three >tor\. colonial brick; t
o concrete cellar; hot-water lie;
,) and electric liydil ; many nove
>> 1 c to an alle\ : room tor trarai
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lmildcr> and >??hl at
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$ tnnitv to make a profitable hi
A St '.500! IH'V AS \ IK )M L.
>\ I \ * I * f i k \ * I* . ..... a ^ ? ho
i. \ I n i t iaiv mv
(> urge ap inspection. The loc;
^ (lcntial sections of the citv.
<f vicinity are held at higher tign
To inspect, phone M. 48K
Columbii
One Square fr<
\ttracti\e t\vo->torv. pre*
>> hall: modern hath: concrete ce
v> attractive and expensive mat
neighborhood. Surrounded 1
K $7,500. Price tor a quick sab
' C about $4,500. The lot is very <
| Gardiner &
<> Exclusivi!
I 8112 14th
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I Do Not Rent?
BUYa h
*-* ^ * you
I At Iciicss<
I (Between B s
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I PHILLIPSSSAGEI? 1
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I Price, On'
| Cash or Easy
:: To inspect these homes ta
|| get 'off at Tennessee avenue a
|: within one square of tlie pr
j: streets car and gel off at I^tl
|; you are within one-half squar
|: Or Phone Main 11597 and
I Sam pie aloisse, No. 230 '
I OPEN AND LIGH'
I Phillips i
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i; 7L5 Fourteei
s
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The Essentials.
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m ML I K INK t RLIB.
The ni'-s: marked trait that distinguishes
tic- -.i- <ng from the weak Is1
tie ability to so,, what is ess. ntial anil
\\ at is non-essential.
Th< power or the artist i- first of all
,< power of his abilitj to se:
from tl. ix-wild'.-i itig eompl? xities
f .!' tlo ?'! i.iing that l- :a-antiioTtie
mo<leiali.-ti,- h-. this
"iivcr. All fjs-t" aii of ,i impo,''aree.
The slop jar in tie- h ?os. is as
worthv to .? described as ; woman's
-ou lli iii tin- ui'tar.- . iiitolfraltk
ominorpia * and the f?,**lini: nf nnui,
vv :?rd cynicism ?>f tin avtr.
tio\?l pubiisiied b\ Tain';: nitz.
I i.. t b* :i|i rtls and ^ f Mr-.
11 1 ni? ? and T!i?- lnithe?s t' a r
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VI SE MAN
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t: Mrs. Flitter?"Have any difficulty
f noakinr yourself understood while in
Paris?"
< Mr. Sk5pi?e?"Not a Mt. I didn't try
ft* talk French."
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Bargains j
il Home! |
st oi lOtli >t.; practically new. >>
0 rooms: modern tiled bath; />
it: hardwood inlaid floors: j?a- ))
1 convenience-: wide and deep })
;e. Built by one of the leading
I hc owner having the oppor- )?
isine-- invc-tmcnt w ill sell for ^ |
IWKSTMKXT ()K SPKCl*real
\ aluc <>i this property we $j
ition i> one of the finest resiTwo-story
houses in tlie same
ires than we offer thi>.
4 for auto. ??
i Heights I
om 14th Street I
;scrl brick: (> rooms; reception <<
liar: handsome interior finish; <<
itcls and fixtures. Splendid <<
>v houses selling as high as <s
? only $3,250. Actually worth ?
Jeep to a wide paved alley. ??
: Dent, Inc.
s Agents |
St. N.W. I
ome with the money ||
1 are wasting in rent ;
A 1\T IT I I
X AYC. I^Joldo I
and C Streets)
Small monthly payments simlar
to rent are all that's rejtiired.
These payments buy
\<u a modern 6-room home of
>ressed brick construction, renforced
with steel. They have I
? porches and a full three-story
ront effect. Very imposing in
ippearance on the outside?
practically planned interiors.
Immediately adjoining are pubic
park^. and within one square :::!
pf beautiful Lincoln Park.
Payment Terms* t
ike any East Capitol street car,
md Lincoln Park, and you are i:
operties, or take 13th and I) j
i and C streets northeast, and :
e of the properties.
We Will Motor You Out ji
Tennessee Avenue N.E. ;i:
TED UNTIL 9 P.M. I
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& SagerJ
ratlh St. N.W. |
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day were better than the sick drabness,
the hopelessness and sadness of mail}
I modern authors. The form.er had at
bast some selective power.
Lvery great passion is selective. Love
I e:looses, emphasizes. Religion ha< the
same blessed qualitj of disproportion.
llomer. Dante. Victor lingo, every nn-'
J dying author, lias been 'Ike tbe Parthenon
at Athens or the Cathedral at
[Cologne. not like the world i?? or was,
j but like the world wants to be.
At- n are inspired by soaring ideals;
they are deadened by the pitiful comi
monplace.
The master merchant differs from the
peddler chiefly in his power to grasp
essentials.
And tbe strong, victorious life lias the
same git. simply the ?l;ill to choorc
what is worth while.
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APARTMENT HOUSE IS SOLD.
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The St. Lawrence Bought by New
Jersey Woman.
Tne apartment house, known as the
' St. Lawrence. l.M>7 California avenue, has
j been sold to Mrs. Alarj 10. Arthur of
Ocean Grove. X. J., for S70.WJO. The
| > wilding has three stories and eighteen
t suites of from two to live rooms each.
.' ri~.e transaction was made by 11. If. How
i ar?i of J. J. Lampion Company, in con-]
iifction with Godenberg & Moran, real j
j istale brokers.
.
Suspicion.
l ioiu Skerrli.
The llowel Ck-jk (suspiciously, to prospective
guest whose bag lias come apart,
thereby disclosing a strange contrivance)
: ?May 1 ask what that queer tiling is?
The Prospective Guest?This is a new
patent lire escape. If your hotel caught
j lire I could let myself down from the J
v.indow so easily?see?
j The Hotel Cleric?Exactly: our terms for j
guests with tire escapes are invariaoly >
cash in advance.
Fish Stories.
i From the Venters Statesman.
[ Izaak Walton- I see after the Panama
j canal is complete experts expect the fish
j of the two oceans to mingle, eventually
! producing some new species.
' Mrs. Walton?Well, I'm glad of that.
I'm on to all your old tish stories.
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SEVEX HOUSES OX K STREET BE1
AXD SOL.IB H'
BIG TOTAL REACHED!
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Harry Wardman's Building
Operations Extensive.
BUSY IN PAST FOUR YEARS
Has Erected and Sold 1,053 Apartments
and Houses Valued
at $6,571,200.
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This past week negotiations were com- j
pleted by which the last of the seven !
four-story apartment buildings on the
south side of R street between 14th and
lath streets northwest were sold by
Harry Wardman. In closing these transactions
Mr. Wardman completes an enterprise
which he entered upon a year
ago last December when he bought the j
ground which comprises the whole of the
frontage of that square with the exception
of the lots fronting on 14th street
which were built up.
He began at once the improvement of
this unoccupied ground by the erection
a group of apartm^A houses seven in
number and standing detached. All of
them when completed and occupied have
been sold, the last three, as lias been
stated in The Star, having been exchanged
for building lots in the city
of Buffalo. It is the purpose of Mr. Wardman
to open in that city a branch of his
building business and erect there 1W twostory
houses.
Review of His Activities.
In arranging to make this change, which
involves no alteration in his business in
tills city. Mr. Wardman has had an opportunity
to pass in review his activities
during- the past four years, which represent,
however, only about a third of his
I business career in this city. However,
I they have been busy years.
He finds since IIXW) that lie lias erected
in large operations alone and sold
1.021! houses and thirty-one apartment
houses. For the houses lie received
$2,800,200 and for the apartments
f3.7G5.tXJ0. making a total of f6,u71,200.
These large operations conducted by one I
man are notable in the history of the
grow tii of the city and represent an effort
made to meet a market demand, for, as
stated, all the houses have not only been
sold, but for the most part are occupied
by the people who own them.
Tn carrying out his building enterprises
11 r. Wardinan has gone ij.to localities
where there were no improvements and
created new centers of population. At
Rhode Island avenue and 2.1 street northeast
he built 230 houses in a subdivision
which lie called Highview, along 14th
street from Park road to Spring road and '
the intersecting streets he built US* j
houses, at Georgia avenue and I-amor.t j
street there are lbs Wardnian houses, and :
at 14th street just north of Florida avenue
there are* Kit; houses.
His apartment houses range from the!
Dresden of the large type to structures of
smaller size. j
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r\VEEX 14TII AMI J5TH STREETS
If HARRY IVARDMW I.Y ABOlT A
BRANCH RAILW
IN NORT
Extension Authorized
Developing Territor
Avenue and Ann
By the building of about two miles o
street railway, forming a branch of it
present system, the Washington Railwa;
and Electric Company will do much, i
Is believed, in developing a large trac
of country that lies between Wisconsii
avenue and the grounds of the America:
University and the bounds of the Dis
trict. The law which has just been en
acted by Congress author zes the con
struct ion of such a branch along -Ma
comb street west of Wisconsin avenui
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STREET RAILWAY CO\STRll
and thence for the balance of the dis
tanee along. Massachusetts avenue ho
yond the university to the Distr.'c
bounds.
The opening up and improvement o
Massachusetts avenue nearly the entir
distance .has already been done and ,
good deal of the property in the seetioi
has been subdivided into building lots
In fact, when the university project \va
started several subdivisions of land wer
made, but owing, mainly. It is thought, b
the lack of communication with the cit:
and the want of ready accessibility th<
improvements did not progress as ran
idly as was believed the character o
the section warranted.
Plnn Extensive House Building.
Since the extension of Massachusett:
avenue through to the District limits ad
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a?ed at southwest corner oi
BIG DEAL
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XORTHWKST WHICH WERE BUII.T |
YEAR'S TIME.
AY IN VIEW
'HWEST SUBURBS
[ by Act of Congress,
y Between W isconsin
lerican University.
f ] ditional farm lands have been acquired
s j by Allan E. Walker and others and ar'
tangements made for providing for house
i i building on an extensive scale. Ii is ext
' peeted the building of the railway and
1 the carrying out of plans for the devil
' opment of the land will pro on together,
' so that by the time tin- cars arc running
- there will be preparations made for a
. considerable population.
The people already settled there make
use of the Wisconsin avenue line of cars,
" hut reach it via the River road, which
cj joins Wisconsin avenue at Tenleytown. j
E NEW CAR L
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L I ION TO Bi; I M1KHTAKKX FROM V
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-i some distance to the north from Macomb
. I street.
I Plans are being discussed for opening
j the university during the coming fall, so
f ; that there will be an immediate need fur
t. railway connections with the city not
j only for the convenience of the students
:j and professors, but also for strangers in
; tiie city, who will wisli to visit an instis
tution that has been founded through the
e j co-operative efforts of such an lntiuenL)
tial body as the Methodist Church.
p ! Proposed Extension.
Another branch of the Washington
j Railway and Electric Company is pro- j
posed, which in some respects may lie j
called an extension to the eastward of i
the branch above referred to. instead of j
s continuing' along Macomb street east of
- Wisconsin avenue the new branch will
BUSINESS.
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! 12TH AND H STHKBTS XOHTIIWBST.
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| Sixteent
i "The
| SIXTEENTH STREI
H and by virtue of its locatioi
:: be preserved. Its outlook
g scenic attractiveness can n
is its street connection* and
dents mav enjov everv ci
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THE WOXDER1T1
is ' STREET HIGHLANDS
as a place of residence.
' i some detached residences
if worth while to WATCH
i| ' IT WILL ALSO IXT
i| HOMES now being compl
i| construction and finish.
: have ever seen for similar
2 I ILL houses, watch us li
a . t
winter, cooler in summer ;
| BEAUTHT L LOTS
8 on easy terms. Sold dircc
jj eliminating extra expense,
(Holm
Office,
begin several blocks farther south where
Garfield street, which forms In part the
southern border of the grounds of the
Protestant Episcopal Cathedral, passes to
the east from Wisconsin avenue.
The new Hue wUI run along Garfield
street through the newly laid out Massachusets
Avenue Heights property until it
rearhes Cleveland avenue, thence along
that thoroughfare to Connecticut avenue !
and Calvert street at the point where the ,
street railway and Connecticut Avenue ;
bridges are located. It is proposed to
bring: the new line over the Connecticut
Avenue bridge and then down Connecticut
avenue to Columbia road, where a connection
with the main line on that
avenue will be made.
With a through service either via Wisconsin
avenue through Georgetown or
across country via the Connecticut Avenue
bridge, both the region of the American
University and that lying east of
Wisconsin avenue through the locality
now being developed by the Massachusetts
Avenue Heights Company will be
provided with direct railway connection
with the center of th? city.
I "He seems to have a special talent for I
I argument."
"Lawyer or pugilist?"?Judge. j
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INE WILL BE
iSCO\SI\ AVEM'E TO THE AMERK J
II LOTS TRANSFERRED
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Large Amount of Land andj
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Small Consideration
Prove Attractive.
Two additional transfers of unimproved
property in the section at tii** foot of Now
Hampshire avenue were recorded uuring [
the week, which had the same features j
that attracted the attention to the recent j
transactions in the same locality. These
features were the large amount of land
and the small consideration as compared
with values in current transactions.
By the papers recorded during the
week the American Security and Trust j
Company transferred to David J. Duni- j
gan a lot on the north side of JI street
between lioth and li.ith streets, having a
frontage of tift.v feet and containing 7,0ts>
square feet. Also a lot on the north side
of G street between -'Id and "4th streets,
with dimensions of Clixi-tl feet and a total
area of feel. The .consideration
paid for both lots was $:J.OOO. which is at
the rate of a little more than -? cents J
per square foot.
It is expected when the plan of public
improvements in this section are carried i
out that great changes will follow in the J
uses of private property. When the drive- !
way along the banks of the river in Po- I
tomac Park is extended northward to i
Kock creek and thence up the valley of ,
that stream to the Rock Creek Park it is !
anticipated the commercial uses of that i
portion of the Potomac river front will ;
not be continued- It is also ' thought j
probable the plant of the Washington t
Gas Light Company will be removed .
from that locality and consolidated with j
the one in the eastern section of the city. ;
Appropriation in Pending Bill.
A provision for an appropriation to effect
the connection between the two
parks is in the pending public buildings ;
bill. !
As the plan of the improvement also ;
provides for the restoration of the sec- |
tion of the valley of Rock creek that lies i
between Washington and Georgetown, j
thus transforming what is now a desolate I
and disagreeable dumping ground into its ,
original beauty and attractiveness, it is !
not surprising that it is a current uues- j
tion and that it is likely to remain so I
until its final disposition.
Doctor?Have you forgotten that bill ;
you owe me?
Jones?Not quite, doe; but I'm convalescing.?Chicago
News.
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m??Mni?nimii?mm?inii?ii?i?iiniiinm
h Street Hi
Best Suburb of Washir
\T HIGHLANDS is strictly a SI
i and environment its suburban el
over tlie National Park, its broa<
over be encroached upon. Yet it i
car service are so complete and s
ty advantage along- with the limitli
L ACTIVITY in building oper;
furnishes incontestible proof of i'l
The evidences of progress are eve
are being planned and built in all <
SIXTEENTH STREET IHGHU
EREST YOU to see the splendid
eted here l*OR SALE. Absolutely
Entirely different and infinitely b
prices. Examine the BRICK V'
mild them and note their points of
ind practically indestructible.
FOR SALE on and adjacent to iht
t to purchasers at our OFFICE
Phone Col. 3518.
ae? Centra! Realty Corpora
U4tih and Kennedy Streets
ti?n????ima?nmi?minn?Mntmnrmir
FINE HOME VOR HIS BUSINESS.
W. H. Marlow Now Occupies Remodeled
Five-Story Building-.
An Improvement on E street has recently
been completed which provides a new
office building In that locality, and. 1n
addition, furnishes commodious offices
for the coal business of Walter H. Marlow.
Some months ago Mr. Marlow purchased
the five-story building. 811 E
street northwest, and remodeled It into
an office building, reserving the first floor
for his own business
In entering upon his fifty-sixth year in
the coal business in this city Mr. Marlow
finds himself in an office that la better
equipped and better suited for his
? Ai-At* Kofnra Wban ho
pUI jJUPCB ll^au cvci '/Ciuiu. ?? uwi? ??T
started in the year I808 his office on the
| old canal at 7th and B streets northwest
was a small affair. During this period he
has seen all his cotemporaries in the
business pass away, so that he is now the
oldest living coal merchant in the city.
Associated with Mr. Marlowe are his
two sons, William B. and iMorrls E. Marlow.
BUILT.
MAS :
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l\ l.MVKRSITV A\D BEYOXD.
DESTROYS MANY HOUSES.
Manhattan Demolishes Enough Annually
to Make a City.
The borough of Manhattan in Xew York
city destroys annually enough houses to
make a large sized town, l.ast year the
number of buildings demolished was 819, '
and a pas tank brought the total of dem- j
o itions to tCO. The front feet measurement
of the houses pulled down was i
-4,875. or approximately four and three-j
quarter miles. '1
Most of the demolition last year was in ]
the forties and fifties and as far north j
as tJOth street. Nine houses out of ten t
[ destroyed were of brick, the rest of wood[
en frame work. The majority of the j
houses were four stories high. The bu- '
reau of buildings issued permits during
the year to destroy "54 one-story houses,
ss two-story houses, 147 three-story
houses, 429 four-story houses, 09 five- |
story.houses, 11 six-story houses, 5 seven- i
story houses, 1 eight-story house and 5|
skyscrapers.
Manhattan was originally built of brick. |
Then came the era of brownstone '
houses, the majority of which remain.
The easy steps to the first story above
the basement ami the jutting porticoes
have now given way to entrances flush
with the sidewalk, however, in order to
widen the streets.
NEW APARTMENT HOUSE.
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Building to Be Erected at Rhode Island
Avenue and 9th Street.
The large unimproved property at the
northwest corner of Rhode Island avenue
and 9th street northwest is to be improved
by the erection of an apartment I
house. The title to the property was lecently
acquired by a client of the J. J.
Lampton Company, real estate firm, and
plans are being considered for the eree- ,
tion there of a four-story fireproof apart- (
ment house with stores along the t)th ,
street front. The ground lias an area of i
lo.fBNj square feet, with frontage of a
little over one hundred feet both on J
Rhode Island avenue and on 9tli street. i
Bates Warren Buys Large Tract. \
A large piece of unimproved ground on f
the south side of Harvard street between r
14th and 15th streets northwest has
just been acquired by Bates Warren. It
lias a frontage of 100 feet and a depth of
143 feet to an alley, and it is proposed to
improve it by an apa. tnicnt house which i
will cover practically the entire area. It I i
will be one of the largest structures of | '
the kind in tbe locality. 1
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inminimiiiiiiniiimiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiBm
ghlands
igton."
['Rl'RR of W'arhington,
laractcristics will always '
1 vistas and magnificent |>
s so close to the city and t
atisfactory that its resi- jj: *
ess pleasures of suburban *
f ;||
ations in SIXTEENTH
s remarkable popularity
xy where apparent. Handlircctions.
It will be well
\XDS GROW. :
types of DETACHED :!j
irreproachable in design,
>etter than anything you :
EXEER and HOLLOW !;[
superiority, f armer iti
h strcet-at low prices and
OX PROPERTY, thus
lion,
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nunmiininiiiiiiiiinniiinnnnnmiiiii?
Business Property,
27 Feet Front,
F Street.
West of 10th St.
Entire Building Leased
to One Tenant.
Paying $>,500 a Year.
STONE & FAIRFAX,
1342 New York Ave.
Business Property,
14th St., West Side.
About the best looking
business building on the
west side of the street.
Lot 20x140. Alley. ,
Price, $18,000. ,
STONE & FAIRFAX, \
1342 New York Ave.
Business Property,
14th St., West Side.
$15,250.
Leased $11J a Month.
Lot 2 fx 12 >.
STONE A FAIRFAX, .
1342 New York Ave.
Business Property,.
7th St. Near M,
$5,150.
Must Be Sold to Settle
Estate.
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STONE & FAIRFAX,
1342 New York Ave.
Choice Corner Lot,
20th and S.
80x90.
A Special Low Price.
STONE & FAIRFAX,
1342 New York Ave.
Business Property
Special Bargain?
E St. Between 9th & 10th $20,000.
Four-story Building. ,
Lot 24x130.
Stone A Fairfax, 1142 N. Y. Ave.
Business Property
11 th St., Very Near G, '
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Opposite Palais Royal,
, Near Boston House and .
All Large Stores.
Lot 29.6x95; Alley.
Less Than $39,000.
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vivire amiui w-w* m r?ww
hAPARTMENT
HOUSE SOLD. ,
Capon Springs Also Disposed of fey
District Broker.
The apartment house, 1945 CalrerS
street has been sold, through the offlc?
jr oscar t\. \v line, 10 onanes r. rsei?on.
The building is four atoriea tm
leight and contains twenty writes of flvd
ind six rooms each. Tha consideration
vas $100,000.
Mr. White has also sold to Howard
Stchison the property in the mountains
>f West Virginia known as Capon
Springs, for many years a favorite sumner
resort.
Usual Destination.
i'rooi Judfo.
Garagekeepcr?Looking for your ear,
sir? Why. your chauffeur took it out and
went for a joy rkle!
Owner?Ring up the hospitals! t
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