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| $ 100 CASH 4 SOLD 14th & D Sts. S.E.; $2,450 More genuine values at the price than ever offered before In Washing ton. Designed, constructed and fin ished to give the greatest posslb'e amount of real home comforts, real home conveniences, real home cheer, at the price. Trimmed In hardwood throughout. Polished floors, tiled bathroom, large yaids with alley at rear. Commodious Colonial Porches pive an imposing front. To inspect these homos take Kast Capitol street cars to Lincoln Park. Get off at Kentucky avenue and walk blocks south, or take Penn sylvania avenue cars to Fourteenth street southeast, and walk north S squares. Fnsis-ect Tonight. Open Untal 9' O'CUcck i ? 1 t t 1314 F Si N.W. or 7th and H Sts N.E | *?XK"X><"X~X~X"X"X"X"X"X"X"X~X?*X~X*?X"X"X*?X*<8'<?fr'S*$fr'>?>$l>'8>0 V V X"X-X-!-X-v\-X'<X-X-X-X-X-XK*<X'*X~X~X-X-X-X**XK*?X~I?'>^<~X'<*^ I FOR SALE= g I Two Attractive New Humes I 924 amid 926 Spriinig Road N.W. V V x v CLOSE TO CARS Price- Only $3,975 And on Very Easy Terms 1 2 Six Rooms Tile Bath Hot-water Heat Electric Lights Hardwood Trim Colonial Porches OVERLOOKING LARGE ESTATE We invite Your Inspection Before Selecting Your Home. Allan E Walker k Co., lie J 338 O Street N.W. R. R. COMPANY ADOPTS | STATEMENT OF EARNINGS POURED CONCRETE PLAN Same System Tested Thoroughly in Suburb of Virginia Highlands. OF W., B. & A. LINE June Figures Affected by Great Traffic of Democratic Convention. The Lehigh and New England Railroad Company has adopted for its new l.ne 1 einlorced concrete poured in steel forms. This net* method of building was tiist developed and demonstrated at Virgin.a lligh.ands, a suburb of th.s city, where &uiue tuenty-fivi of these new type j>er uruient. yet inexpensive, houses have l*?n bu It and sold. This new construc tion was first developed lor suburban ho we bui!d n;i to produce attractive per manent houses at low cost. The develop ment of Virginia Highlands has been care fully watched, and as a result of the 'su-'ftss hen this new system has been widely adopted for all types of struc tures. Reinforced concrete is fast becom ing th?* un versal hui.ding material, but h?r?jtofoi tt ? wast.- 'n lumber and labor fur forms, t ni.structed only to be after ward removed, increased cost to such an extent that the material could not be adopted for the lighter typ< 3 of building. Tl is n. .v system of steel forms tan be uttliZ'd hundreds of times on diftr-rent styles a:.'! types of buildings, and con sequ?ntiy .1 cuts out th? waste, v."ht<h 1 as heretofore been encountered. It h?cs been suggested that tl,i< sari tary con struction lie adopted th?* bui 'iir'K of a group of liousts ii W:tsi inirton to take the place of the alley how <es which it is now proposed to tea' d Hanri have already l*en prepared atul presented for ?-uch a i-rou;> om nwd? v are earners* hOUS?M. The report of operations of the .Wash ington. Baltimore and Annapolis elec tric railroad for the month of Junu na > an un'avorable comparison with the cor responding month a year ago, due to the extraordina: y business in June, 1912, be cause of the democratic convention. Compared with June, 1911, however, the showing is decidedly better. The shrink, age In gross revenue in June last was $9,834.37, compared with a year ago. but a gain is shown of $19,286, compared with the corresponding month in 1911. Operat ing expenses were reduced only $713.20, the result being a loss in net operating revenue of $9,121.11. Net income afte. deducting th? month proportion for taxes interest, etc., was $11,242.00 less than a year ago. Results In the six-month period were better. Gross revenue gained *2!>.3!)",.02; operating expenses were $lx,i>4<J.tt4 great er, leaving Slit, ,r>4.38 as the increase in net operating income. After providing for tax< s. inte est, etc., which required $10,673.5^ more than in the corresponding period a year ago, the net income for the six months showed an increase of $<:?jo. **7. Patience?She's the most obstinat tv war. 1 ever knew. I'atricc?How so? l'atlenoe?-Why the other night while rt the ooera. when everybody else was talk ing. . lie was listening to the music.?Yon koi\s Statesman. JACKSON PLACE 10 HAVE NEW OFFICE BUILDING ? . Thomas Blagden Will Remodel Property Purchased This Week From C. C. Glover. An Important move looking to the transformation of at least a part of the one-time fashionable residence district It Jackson place on the west side of I,a fayette Square was made this week when Thomas Blagden purchased from Charles C. Glover, president of Rlgg! Xational Bank, the property at No. Jackson place. Th^ transaction was con summated through the real estate cor poratlon of Boss ?fc Phelps, and it was ! stated that the price paid for the prop ! erty was about $45,000. The lot is 22.5 feet wide and 145 feet deep, and it it said to be the Intention of Mr. Blagden to remodel the present twenty-room hous. into an office building designed to mee. the needs uf physicians and dentists For many years, and until his new home | was built on F&rragut Square. Mr. Glove | occupied the Jackson place house as hi* ! residence. ! Involved in this transaction also wa< the transfer by Mr. Blagden to Mr. Glove of his holdings on the north side of Blag den avenue, adjacent to Rock Creel Park. This property is located opposite the Italian villa of Alonzo Bliss, and i contains nearly si* acres. This deal alsi was made through the offices of Boss & Phelps, and it was announced that th? consideration given by Mr. Glover wtu 155,000. Other Sales Reported. Other transactions reported this week by Boss & Phelps include the following: Residence at 1650 Newton street, the southeast corner of 17th and New tor. streets, for Charles Williams, to P. N. Mclnroy. Three-story house at 1235 Girard stre.t for Charles J. Walker, to B. 1^. Graham Nine thousand square feet of ground o Woodley road, for H. Balantyne, to A C&rr ' i For Mrs. Bdith Oottwals. to Mrs. L. j Paine, the residence at 4117 8th street. I RES DENCE PROPERTY SOLD. J .tu. JAtl\?uA 1'I.AI I- | tuiiitA I KI) 41V CROSS)) THAMiFURKBP THIS WEEK THROUGH LOCAL REAUTY OFFICE. GROUND TO BE CLEARED FOR UNION STATION PLAZA Two Whole Squares of Houses Will B_> Razed? W orfc to Begin Sep tember U In connection with the plans of tha government to complete the great park plaza between the Capitol and the Union station, work will be started in about one month's time in the demoli tion of two whole blocks of residences and other building* in the squares bounded by New Jersey avenue, Dela ware avenue and B and C streets. It is expected that all of the structures on the blocks in question will be rased by November 1, and Elliott Woods, superintendent of the Capitol buildings and the grounds, under whose Jurisdic tion the property comes, proposes to .have nearly all of the grading com pleted prior to the opening of the next regular session of Congress, Monday, December 1. An interesting side light on this big governmental operation occurred a ween or so ago, when formal notifica tions to vacate their varioua and sev eral premises were sei ved upon the tenants in the two blocks. Ihese no tices specified that the properties must be vacated on or before September. 1, and many of them either m.Bunderstoou or tnought the notice tantamount to a re lease from any ooiigation which they otherwise might have felt to pay the ?eat. Uncle Sam, landlord, however, v>as no more disposed to be lenient than wouli> be any individual owner of property which might be under lease. The net result of the general failure to pay rent on part of the lesi uents in the block was that a properly acci edited attorney for the government appeared in the Municipal Court a few days ago and enterfed suit against all of the delinquents?ana Uncle Sam, landlord, collected all of the rentals quite speedily. To Open Bids August 16. Notice has been given to all of the con tractors from whom proposals art ex pected that their sealed bids for the work must be in the office of Mr. Woods in the Capitol not later than August 16. and two weeks later, or on September 1, the work will be started in demolishing the several scores of buildirgs on these two squares which bonier upon the northern e<lge of the Capitol ?townds. Much of the build ing material contained in the old houses? the bricks, the stone and the, lumber?is valuable, and as it did when the ground was cleared for tb?> Senate and House of- ! lice buildngs, the government Is expected j to realze a considerable amount of money from the sale of the material?in fact, many thousands of dollars in excess of the labor cost of removing the structures. In clearing the ground for this part of the Union station plaza there will be de stroyed many of the housts and other buildings of historical note adjacent to the Capitol. In the early days of the na tional city many of the men who were high in the affairs of the city and the na tion resided, with their familes, on these squares, and some of the original houses which they occupied are among those now marked to give, way before the march of progress. The old hotel on New Jersey avenue now known by the name "Wash ington Inn," although not occupied at the present time, is one of the number to go and it is both notable and notorious in thi annals of the city?notable because on many occasions it afforded shelter to George Washington, and notorious be cause It was the scenee of the AyTes-Bo nino tragedy. Final Plans Not Adopted. Final plans have not been adopted for the treatment of the ground which will thus be available as u park after having been devoted solely to residence purposes ever since tht National Ca: ital was found ed, and Mr. Woods has several different methods under consideration. Under the general condemnation pro ceedings by which the government ac quired title to nearly all of the pruperty for the Union station plaza, the western line of this new park was fixed about one-half square east of 1st street north west, and in a general way it Is now proposed to construct the great boule vard, which is to extend from the Peace Monument to the Union station, on a nearly straight line between these two points. Tliis boulevard will be 150 feet in width, and one of the plans which is now under consideration Involves the placing of all of the converging street car lines upon this thoroughfare. One desideratum to be thus attained will be the elimination of the crossings and switches at Delaware avenue and C street, which, on account of the noise, causes considerable annoyance to the United States senators whose offices are 'n that corner of the Senate office build ing. Between the Capitol and the Union sta tion there is a considerable '"dish," or hollow in the ground, caused by the slope of the land between the two ele vations. One of the projects for the im provement involves the adoption of an even grade from the Capitol to the sta tion. and if this plain is followed It will make possible the placing of the street HnU^FS cOON TO RE RAZED Ifl I I I I i i i i | -ct?p?i-^g T ^ :V < , -S'^ :,^V ~ v;??? , _ ,s, . *. ...VA- ,.w?-?? .V?>.:<.%W--^. . ? v ?? V<. >?> ?? yMy'<^4? ??&.;*>?.?.?? ; .' '< y >? > ?, '?? ? * ? " A ^ v . '* > - j ' ' ? ? ?? ? ? - ? '?*/ '? v->: * >?? ' : ?' *???''?$ ? ,? ???? ' -?> ? . ' ^ . .. -IS: ft - '- .i.-- ? .. ?.??X..S . <> . . i*i v ">? . ? ? ' ? \ , ?' . . v ;V v; <::%j * ?. 'iV ???* '??? -^ytf ? . -4 , . >? - :? ? ' **' :*' * ?? '? <? v i- ?ii.rv,: i<( :>?? . .? 83 ?? . * ?*"?*?? ? ?? V *: liKBLUIir,? IX TWO BLOC life TO BE TO HA DOWN WITHIN TWO MONTHS IN PREPARATION FOR COMPLETION OF UNION STATION PLAZA car line In a subway for at least on? square on C street. The bottom of the subway would be seventeen feet below the present street level. Appropriations at present available will be sufficient only for a mere beginning of the work, but it Is expected that Congress at its next regular session will make provision for the completion of the park-plaza project. LOCAL BUILDERS PUN EXCURSION TO NORTH Many Members of Exchange Are Expected to Join in Trip to Niagara. "Northward Ho!" for the next month or more will be the slogan of the Builders' Exchange, for on August 27 members of the local exchange in company with dele gations from the Baltimore and Philadel phia exchanges will leave for a trip to Niagara Palls, Buffalo, the Thousand Is lands and other places. The trip will oc cupy Bix days, crammed full of travel and sightseeing, and the return to Washing ton will be made on the evening of Sep tember 1. This is the first tour in this direction ever planned by the Builders' Exchange, and members are already looking forward to it with keen relish- Charles E. Welsh is in charge of the local arrangements, and he is now planning to distribute cir culars descriptive of the trip among mem bers of the Washington Builders' Ex change. H. H. MacLellan and I. IT. Scates are In charge of arrangements in Baltimore, while B. K. McC'loskey and F.anklin M. Harris, jr., and John R. Livezey ?re look ing after the Philadelphia contingent The Itinerary. The following itinerary, which is subject to revision, has been arranged by the committees: August 27?Leave Washington (Penn sylvania railroad), 7:4a a.m.; leave Balti more 8:55 a.m.; leave Philadelphia 8:2a a m.; arrive Buffalo 8 p.m. Baggage will be transferred to Hotel Iroquois, where accommodations have been secured from lodging on arrival up to and including breakfast following morning. August 28?Automobile ride. Leave Buf falo (New York Central lines) 12 noon arrive Niagara Falls 12:43 p.m.; luncheon International Hotel; automobile ride; trip over Great Gorge route; leave Niagara j Falls 5:15 p.m.; arrive Lewiston 6:45 p.m.; itave Ltwiston (Niagara Navigation Com pany) 0 p.m.; arrive Toronto 8:30 p.m. baggage will be transferred to Hotel Prince George, where accommodations have been secured from lodging on ar rival up to and including luncheon follow ing day. Visit Builders' Exchange. August 2i>?Automobile ride. Leave To ronto (Richelieu and Ohtaiio Navigation Company), 2:30 p.m. Au&ust oO?Arrive at Alexandria bay 8 a.m. Baggage transferred to Thousand Island House, where accommodations have been secured from breakfast on arrival up to and including breakfast following day. Sightseeing trips. Island ramble by daylight and searchlight. August 31?Leave Alexandria bay 7 a.m.; arrive Clayton 8 a.m. Leave Clay ton (New York Central lines) 8:30 a.m.: arrive Albany 4:45 p.m. Baggage trans ferred to Hotel Stanwix, where accom modations have been secured from dtn nei on arrival up to and including break fast following day. Automobile trip around city. September 1?Transfer to steamer dock. Leave Albany (Hudson River Day line) 8:30 a.m.; arrive New "York (West 42d street) 5:30 p.m. Transfer to Pennsylva nia station in Ne*' York. Leave New York (Pennsylvania railroad) 6:15 p.m.; arrive Philadelphia 8:20 p.m.; arrive Baltimore 10:30 p.m.; arrive Washington 11:30 p.m. Booklet Describes Trip. A booklet which has been gotten out by the committee describes the trip in detail and publishes some very interest ing Information regarding Buffalo, Niag ara FaLls, Toronto and the Thousand Islands. The trip down the Hudson also is described in detail. Reservations for the tour are now be ing made by the local committee, which anticipates a record-breaking party of sightseers. The time has been well chosen?just toward the summer's close, when every one is pretty much fagged out with many weeks of hot weather strain, and a Journey to the cooler, If not frozen, regions of the north is a very pleasant prospect. To Build Club Addition. By formal action of its board of di rectors. the Commercial Club has award ed to S. J. Prescott, builder, the contract for the construction of a large addition t^ its new clubhouse on Farragut square. Mr. Prescott's bid, the lowest received, called for $54,469, and the work, which is to commence at once, will be under supervision of Milburn, Helster & Co., the architects, who prepared the plans. Judge?'You said the defendant turned and whistled to the dog. What followed? Witness-The dog,?Illinois Siren BEST HOMES LOWEST PRICES An Unusual Combination, But We Can Give You Both 9 Rooms $6,250 2 Baths Small Cash Payment Balance Monthly ?? 3f i Investigate this carefully. We are certain of the Conclusion you will reach. Exhibit Home 723 Quebec St. N.W. Open TO INSPECT?Take 9th street car to Quebec street. One square south of Rock Creek Church road. t X ? T ? N. L. Salisbury Co., Exclusive Agents, 721 13th St. N.W. Kennedy Bros., Inc. Owners and Builders. ?> ?? T < ? i* THE OBSERVANT HOME-SEEKER Who has had the pleasure of an inspection of these magnificent homes located on LEXINGTON STREET N.E. (Bet. 6th and 7th, D and E Sts. N.E.) Cannot fail to be impressed with the fact that we are offering in the purchase of one of those an exceptional home at a remarkably low price. Every modern and up to-date improvement for the convenience and comfort of the occupants. Six Large Rooms and Bath $5,250 Very Attractive Terms off Purchase Exhibit Home 646 Lexington Street N.E. Open V N. L. Sanshury Co., Kennedy Bros., Inc. Exclusive Agents, 721.13th St. N.^. Owners and Builders. NEW OPERATION HIGH ELEVATION. FIRST TIME OFFERED. THREE SOLD BEFORE COMPLETION. 8 Rooms Floors"" Colonial Design Price Only $6,300, Small cash payment?balance monthly, which includes every thing?taxes, water rent, insurance, etc. In center of Detached Residence section. Sample House open daily?Sunday lighted until 9 p.m. Allison St. & 14th N.W. BRI F DESCRIPTION ONLY. YOU MUST SEE THEM TO APPRECIATE THE REAL VALUE. 8 rooms on 2 floors. Hot-water Heat. Electric and gas lights. Quartered oak floors. Double back porches. Big reception hall. Large bay windows 2d floor. $7,500 value for $6,500. Rear bedrooms open to sleeping porch. Lot 23x100 feet. Large sleeping porch, screened and glass inclosed. Servants' toilet and laundry. Steel beam construction. Hy-tex tapestry brick. Plenty deep closets. All windows screened. Deep front terrace lawn. HOW TO GET THERE? Take 14th st. cars, get off at Allison St., to sample house. Open for inspection. , HARRY WARDMAN, war:;man building, 114JO K Street N.W. I INTO PERMANENT HOI New Financial Institution Will Occupy Structure at 9th and G Streets. Some day next week will be movlne day for the Security Bavin*, and Com mercial Bank, and the National Cap! tal's newest financial institution will then be located in lta permanent home at the nortneast corner of 9th and G streets northwest" Ever since this bank was organised a few months ago it has occupied temporary quarters -it 733 9th street. After the decision was reached to place the permanent home of the institution at the 9th and G streets corner, and when title to that property was secured, the task of de signing a structure auitable to the needs of the new bank was Intrusted to Milburn. Heister & Co.. architects The attractive new building at 9th and G streets is the result. Oiflcers and directors of the bank at a special meeting to be held the first of next week will decide upon the exact date for the formal opening of the bank's new home, and this prob ably will be next Thursday, jujy 21 The new bank building is two atorles SEVERAL SALES RECORDED. N. L. Sans bury Company Gives List of Transfers of the Week. The N. I* Salisbury Company reports 1 the following sales for the past week Sixteen lots in Metropolis View for Paul Sleman and Warren Foster, trustees, and Mrs. H. E. Marean, to the Missionary So ciety of St. Paul the Apostle. The lots contain 65.500 square feet and the price paid was about $10,500. For Kennedy Bros., Inc., premises 650 Lexington street northeast, to Mrs. Ma rian Pyles, and 640 Lexington street northeast, to C. E. Grubb. The sale prioe in each case was $5,250. For Lewis E. Breuninger, the house No. 3328 17th street, to Henry E. Burlingham, at a price of $5,950. House No. 1221 Delafield street north west, in Saul's addition, sold for Edward McAleer, builder. The price was $8,500. TO OPEN HEW SUBDIVISION. Realty Company Will Develop Tract Near Fort Stevens. Plans for the development of a new suburban section of Washington have just been announced by the National Capital Realty Company. This company has completed the purchase from Jama* L. Karrlck of a tract containing 206 lota, bounded by Longfellow street on the south, 5th street on the east. Quackenbos street on the north and 8th street on the west. It adjoins Fort Stevens and the buildings and grounds of the home of W. V. Cox, preaident of the Second Na tional Bank. The new subdivision will be known as Longfellow Terrace. It la understood that the aale price of the property to the realty company waa about $00,000. e In Fairlop Friday. Fr?m the Loudon Chronicle. "Fairlop Friday"?the first Friday July?Is an East End festival that haa fallen out of fashion. It was founded by Daniel Day, commonly called "Good Day," a benevolent pumpmaker of Wap ping, who used to feast his friends on bacon and beans beneath the branches of a great oak tree at Fair'op before Haln ault forest was dlsaiforeated. The cub torn of going out to eat beans and bacon at this spot on this date spread through East London, and a regular fair waa es tablished around Fairlop Oak. With the destruction of the old oak trees and the inclosure of Halnault forest, the Fairlop festival fell into desuetude, but the phraaes to "give beans" and "bean-feast' ?till survive. Great Indian Acrobats. From the Wide World. The traveling acrobats who wander from village to village In India are often surprisingly clever. In a remark ably short time they will erect their primitive apparatus consisting of a few bamboo poles and ropes, and will then go through ? moat wonderful per formance, the dating and skill of which would greatly astonish peo^L* used to western aarobatlc feats. The poles and ropea are fixed up in the most haphaxard fashion, and the per formers risk their lives over and over again, well satisfied If, at the end, the audience rewards them with a few an nas. viee president An Enemy to Rhetoric. From the Ohio 8tst* Joernal. Another thing that day ? ?. I Her father (sternly)?Young man, can | *n?"g ?ai ???"? ?? you aupport my daughter in the style slightly la to refer la oar classical way ehe'a been accustomed to? I to Jove's bolts and then have the line Lover?I can, but I'd be ashamed to.? type machine make ua speak of 'em as Ufa Joaee'. _