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EAST PRUSSIAN BOY
GERMANY'S ORATOR
Herbert Schaumann Will Ar-
I rive In U. S. Sunday for
International Contest.
, Germany's contender for the high
school speech-making championship of
the world, a 19-year-old lad of East
Prussia, is schedul' d to land at New
York Sundav *>n his way to Washing
ton and the Fourth International Ora
torical Contest finals here October 26.
Herbert Schaumann of Isterburg, a
city located in the far northeast section
of Germany's domain, is the German
spokesman.' His victory in that coun
try's national finals marked the con
clusion of one of the most intensely ad
ministered contests in the world-wide
fight for the international champion
ship and contrasts strikingly with last
year's German nationals when a youth
ftom the immediate Berlin sector won
the right to come to the United States.
Supports Peace Pact.
Schaumann is bidding for world fo
rensic honors, with a speech on "The
Significance of the Weimar Constitu
tion to the Youth of Germany.'* As he
speaks the German champion pleads
fir allegiance to the constitutional form ,
of government as against the monarch- '
ial scheme, and he appeals to the youth
of the world to uphold the ideals of the
Kellogg-Briand pact.
A slim, lightly built boy. Schaumann
la credited with having striking speak- i
lng ability by Dr. Johann Btrunz of the i
German ministry of education, under i
whose guidance the contest is staged in :
Germany. His ability, in the opinion !
of the educator, is superior to any other i
product of the German oratorical con
test. Besides Dr. Strunz, the contest j
Is administered in Germany by Dr. Emil
Lelmdorfer, eminent German journalist, :
who holds the position of director gen- ,
eral of the contest.
Bchaumann left Bremen on the steam- ;
ship Stuttgart a week ago today. On
his arrival in New Y»rk he will be met
by Counselor General von Lewinski,
with whom he will stay for two or three ;
days in New York City before coming !
to the National Capital. While in Wash
ington the young orator will live at the ,
German embassy as the guest of Dr.
O. C. Kiep, charge d'affaires of Ger- ;
many and counselor of the German em
bassy here.
The same dispatches which brought
news of the present German oratorical !
champion carried the fact that Heinz
Barth, who represented Germany in
last year's contest, now Is writing for
German newspapers. His ability in this
direction was discovered when a series
of articles written by the boy about his
visit last Fall to the United States ap
peared in some of the papers. Barth
plans to eventually enter the diplomatic
service.
INDIAN RACER FAILS.
Mustang Pony Outruns Hopi in
Track Test.
ROSWELL, N. Mex., October 10 OF).—
"Plying Eagle,” sturdy Hopi runner,
today failed in his attempt to match
speed and endurance in a race against
"Boss,” 9-year-old Western cow pony,
on an oval track here.
At the end of the forty-third mile of
a programmed 100-mtle race the Indian
runner fell exhausted on the dirt track
and was taken to an emergency hospi
tal. At that time he was five miles be
hind the mustang.
“Flying Eagle" is one of the best j
known of the famed Hopi runners. He
was used recently in the long search!
through the Hopi mesa in quest of the
lost air liner, City of San Francisco.
PLAN GREEK PLAY.
Society to Give Production for In
stitute's Benefit.
A play in which only Greek will be J
spoken is to be presented Sunday night
in the Immaculate Conception Hall. N
street between Seventh and Eighth i
streets, by the Greek Letters and Fine 1
Arts Society for the benefit of the j
Greek Institute. The play, which is in ;
four acts, is nttmed "The Genovefa.”
Its rehearsals are being directed by '
Charles Foss.
The Greek Institute is a school for i
Greek children, where the teaching is \
done in the Greek language. It has been ;
in existence Mr two years. More than !
200 pupils are enrolled.
Truck Falls on Man.
Horner Looper, 26 years old, of
Damestown, Md., in the employ of the
Beth Motor Co., at Beth, Md.. was
brought here yesterday and taken to
Emergency Hospital for treatment for
a severe injury to his head. His skull
may be fractured. Looper was injured
as a result of a motor truck falling on 1
him, police were Informed. His condi- j
tlon today was reported undetermined.
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TAX RATE FOR HOME SITE TOPS
. 11-STORY BUILDING PROPERTY
Mr£ Dewey's Ground on Sixteenth Street
Assessed at S3O a Square Foot;
Investment Structure s, $25.
This is the fifth of a series of articles on the sontnp of lower Sixteenth
street. The sixth and final article will appear tdmdrrow.
BY DON S. WARREN.
Operation of the District's time-honored system of assessing property for
taxation purposes, tried and proved in many • contested case, has created on
lower Sixteenth street a situation that has all the earmarks of an out-and-out
paradox.
Here stands a private residence, occupied for years as a home, that has a
greater assessment rate per square foot on its site than that levied against a
costly, exclusive hotel on an opposite corner, and a greater rate even than that
on the site of an 11-story office building, despite Its relatively large rental In
come. which Rtands just one block away.
This paradox, if such it be, develops not by reison of judgment as to the
accuracy of the assessed values placed on the properties specified, but rather
because zoning restrictions on Sixteenth street sites, according to the statement
of the tax assessor himself, are not given predominate consideration in the
making of assessments.
The facts In this Instance stand out
in bold relief in the data gathered by
The Star in its study of the facts under
lying the trouble Rnd contention arising
from the decree of the Zoning Commis
sion that Sixteenth street must be re
tained in the residential classification.
Business Properties Bring More.
Business properties notoriously are
more valuable on the market than resi
dential areas, and this is attested by the
many applications that come before the
zoning body from property owners seek
ing to have areas restricted to resi
dential uses zoned to permit business.
The instance cited is the home of
Mrs. Mildren McLean Dewey, widow of
Admiral Dewey. The ground of her
property at 1601 K street, on the north
west comer of Sixteenth and K streets,
has an assessed valuation of S3O per
square foot.
Diagonally across the intersection
from the Dewey home is the Carlton
Hotel, which has levied against its site
an assessment rate of $22 per square
foot.
One block to t*S east of the Dewey
residence, on the northwest comer of
Fifteenth and X streets, on a corner site
the same ss that of the Dewey home,
except that it is one block closer to the
downtown center, is the 11-story Invest
ment Building, one of Washington's
largest office structures, the site of
which has an assessment rate of -525 per
square foot.
The figures cited here were taken
from the District's official assessment
record books for the current fiscal year.
Two Reasons for High R^tes.
Two reasons are given for the high
assessment rates on Sixteenth street
properties. One is the presence of the
high-value commercial properties which
lie on both sides of the Sixteenth street
residential "island.” William P. Rich
ards. the tax assessor, in discussing
Sixteenth street assessments, explained
that the fact that properties on this
thoroughfare are in the residential
classification could not prevent the high
values of property on nearby sections,
zoned for commercial use, from having
a ‘‘lifting” effect on the lower Sixteenth
street values. He added, frankly, that
zoning restrictions are not given pre
dominate consideration in the making
of assessments. Assessment rates are
determined, he pointed out, largely on
the basis of sales prices on land in the
section under consideration.
The other reason for the high assess
ment rate on the Dewey residence, ac
cording to Mr. Richards’ explanation.
| is that the District has a rule that cor
- net properties, having frontages on two
streets, are more valuable than the in
side” lota between intersections. There
fore. generally speaking, the smaller the
corner lot (to a reasonable-degree) the
greater the assessment rate would be.
This is because a large comer lot would
have frontages running farther toward
the center of the block and therefore
partaking of the lesser value of the
more “inside” lots. , •»
This rule is seen clearly in a study
of land assessment rates on properties
having a frontage on K street, both to
the east and west of Sixteenth street.
This may be an extreme case, since the
Dewey property has the highest assess
i ment rate levied against its site of any
i residence on lower Sixteenth street. It
| is cited here for that reason because
! this property is in the section of Six
teenth street involved in the notable
zoning hearing when Mrs. Dewey was
I listed as a petitioner for relief from
; existing conditions arising out of the
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conflict of zoning restrictions and high
assessments.
As stated above, the assessment on
the Dewey property is S3O per square
foot. The property immediately to the
west, on the same side of K street, has
an assessed valuation of $18.60 per
square foot. -The next property to the
west has an assessment of $17.40 per
square foot. All three properties are
in the residential zone since they come
within 100 feet of Sixteenth street.
The properties farther to the west on
the north side of K street between Six
teenth and Seventeenth streets, how
ever, are zsned first commercial and
have a height limit of 110 feet.
The first property to tne west of Mrs.
Dewey's home In this commercial area
has an assessed valuation of $16.60 per
square foot. The next has an assessed
valuation of $12.25 per square foot. This
is the low point, being near the center
t)f the block, between the two intersec
tions.
The next property to the west has an
assessed valuation of $13.25 per square
foot. The next is also $13.25; the next,
sl6; the next, $16.60, and the next
property, occupied by a fire engine
house, is sls. The headquarters build
ing of the Young Women's Christian
Association, standing on the northeast
corner of Seventeenth and K streets,
has an assessed valuation of $22 per
square foot.
The south side of K street between
Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets pre
sents approximately the same picture.
Another Illustration.
The same general illustration of the
application of the corner lot assessment
plan, as opposed to the inside lot rates,
is seen on K street in the block east of
Sixteenth street.
On the northeast comer of Sixteenth
and K streets stands the residence
owned by Senator Frederick Hale of
Maine, who also was listed among pe
titioners two and one-half years ago
In the Sixteenth street case. This
property has an assessed valuation of
$25 per square foot for the land. This
property, of course, is in the residential
area
The lot immediately to the east, in
the first commercial classification, by
order of the Zoning Commission last
January, has an assessed valuation of
$16.50 per square foot. The lot to the
east of this, also in the commercial
zone, has an assessed valuation of sl6
per square foot.
The next lot to the east, also zoned
first commercial, 110-foot height, has an
assessed valuation of $16.50 per square
foot and the lot on the northwest cor
ner of Fifteenth and K streets, on
which stands the Investment Building,
has a current year assessed valuation of
$25 per square foot.
The Btar's study, hag revealed that
assessment* on the altes*of dwelling# on
lower Sixteenth street range from $7
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to S3O per square foot, while the rates
on residential sites on a number of the
city's finest residential sections range
from $1.75 to sll per square foot; and
that assessments on the sites of apart
ment houses on lower Sixteenth street
range from $lO to S2O per square foot,
while those on apartments In other sec
tions range from $1.65 to $lO per square
foot. - :
These statistics, taken from official
assessment records for the current year,
bring into consideration the types of
development on lower Sixteenth street
in recent years.
The study reveals that In the past
six years or more there have been no
new residences built on Sixteenth street
between H street and Scott Circle. In
the put six years on the other hand,
the Carlton and the Hay-Adams Hotels
were erected; an addition was built to
the offices of the American Tree Asso
rtatlon, and a former residence at 1109
Sixteenth street was converted into an
apartment house.
Also, in 1922 the Greenbrlar Apart
ments were completed. Between 1920
and 1924 the Presidential Apartments,
the Jefferson Apartments, the Mar
tinique and an apartment structure
at 1016 Sixteenth street were erected.
Standing on this section of Sixteenth
street now, according to -a survey made
for The Star by Alton L. Wells, an as
sociate of Story Sc Co., are the follow
ing:
One church, one parish house, five
hotels, eight apartment houses; two
business houses, that of the Radcltffe
Chautauqua System and the William
King Coal Co.; one office building. 17
residences occupied by their owners, 16
residences rented out by their owners,
seven vacant houses and the following
organization homes: Sigma Alpha Ep
silon, National Geographic Society,
Nature Magazine, District of Columbia
Chapter of the American Red Cross,
the unoccupied Russian embassy, the
Racouet Club, the National Education
Association and the National Society
of the Sons of the American Revolu
tion,
Os the 17 dwellings occupied by their
owners, seven of them are used by doc
tors for office purposes and residences.
Os these 67 properties, 34 are hotels,
apartments or organization homes,
leaving 33 occupied as residences. Six
teen of these are rented out by their
owners.
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ONJE OF WASHINGTON’S GREAT STORES
MEMBERS WANTED
BY CITIZENS’ GROUP
Michigan Park Aiaooiation Begins
. Extensive Drive to Increase
Roll*.
Anxious to double the membership
during the next two weeks, members of
the Michigan Park Citizens' Association
today instituted an Intensive drive. The
campaign was decided oil last night at
a meeting of the organization In the
headquarters, at 3912 Twelfth street [
northeast. Thomas O. Walsh was i
chosen as chairman of a committee to 1
solicit the new members.
The organization also went on record
an favoring installation of a traffic sig
nal light at Twelfth and Monroe streets
northeast, where there have been sev
eral accidents recently. Bteps also were
taken to have a atop sign placed at
Michigan avenue and Twelfth street
northeast and have a policeman as
signed to this intersection to aid chil
dren to crosa in safety.
Decislori was reached to resume a
movement intended to result in the es
tablishment of a branch public library
in the community.
The association approved a proposal
to have the Washington Railway *
Electric Co. move street car and buz
stops from the northeast corner of
Fourth street and Rhode Island ave
nue northeast In order to facilitate the
movement of traffic.
Plans were made to urge District of
ficials to pave Randolph street between
Thirteenth. and Fourteenth streets
northeast, and Thirteenth place between
Randolph street and Michigan avenue.
600 to Get Degrees.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MEXICO CITY, October 10.—Degrees
will be conferred on 600 graduates of
the University of Mexico here October
26 by Garcia Tellez, president. During
graduation week the student body will
give an elaborate banquet for the grad
uates.
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