Evening star. [volume], December 19, 1929, Page 44, Image 44

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LONDON HAS SURFEIT
OF APARTMENTS
Speculative Builders Spend Millions
in Construction, but Tenant
List Is at Low Mark.
LONDON UP). —For years there has
been a hue and cry about the housing
shortage In London.
Certain speculative builders took it to
heart, spent millions on apartment
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houses, and now are left holding the
sack. Their lovely buildings are half
empty.
There are more flats for millionaires
than there are millionaires to fill them.
So few Londoners feel like paying
SIO,OOO a year and up for apartments
with ‘'American” conveniences that *he
presence of a scattered few of them in
the up-to-date buildings only accentu
ates the general lack of tenants.
Some of the landlords, too, have been
complicating matters by insisting on
$125,000 for the purchase of a lease.
Several builders conclude that what
London really wants is apartments for
the ‘‘man of moderate means.” So a
new’ crop of apartment houses is rising,
in one of which it will be possible to
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D, C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1929,
i rent a one-room apartment with bath
' for as little as SIOO a month.
Meanwhile, spokesmen of the laboring
1 classes still keep on talking about the
‘‘great housing shortage” and the des
perate lack of small flats which a sls
--week cleric or mechanic can rent.
There is no shortage of sls-a-week
clerks and mechanics.
Photographs Badio to Plane.
As a result of successful experiments
1 over Berlin, Germany, weather charts
are to be photographed and sent by
radio to all passenger airplanes in that
country. In the tests, it is said, the
pilot easily picked up the weather pic
tures. which were perfectly clear.
WOMAN ‘FELLOWS’ LISTED
British Science Groups in Service
Showing Gain.
LONDON OP).—Woman "fellows” are
on the increase among the members of
British scientific bodies.
The British Institute of Chemistry
has 186 woman fellows and the Insti
tute of Physics 14. Wonlen scientists
obtain many important positions in
Great Britain, particularly as univer
sity profressors and as directors of in
dustrial research.
Two women assist professors in the
department of aeronautic in the Im
perlal College.
WOOD OF OLD COFFIN
IS USED FOR VIOLINS
Casket of Spanish Explorer Is Em
ployed by Florida Man to •
Make Instruments.
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. OP).—Wood
from the coffin of Pedro Menendez de
Aviles. Spanish explorer and founder of
St. Augustine, Fla., has been used by
Dr. W. B. Hentz In making two violins.
The explorer was buried in Aviles,
Spain, in 1574. nine years after he
founded the ancient city. In 1924 the
body was removed from Its tomb to be
placed In a mausoleum. The casket, a
remarkable piece of workmanship In
Spanish walnut, was presented St. Au
gustine in memory of its founder.
The coffin lay in the city vaults of
St. Augustine four years and deterior
ated. Then it was found by Robert
Ranson of the Florida Historical So
ciety, who rebuilt the top and restored
the lettering of the epitaph.
From the bottom enough wood was
saved for a memorial. This was turned
over to Dr. Hentz, connoisseur of vio
lins and musician of note.
Dr. Hentz turned the wood into two
violins, combining the ancient and
modern —strings and some woods of the
present with that which for 350 years
rested in a tomb in Spain.
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Employing the arts of the Latins, he
had learned in 40 years' residence in Rio
Janeiro. Dr. Hentz brought out the
beauty of the wood and was rewarded
by an excellent tone quality.
Novel Names for Dresses.
Unusual names lor dresses are the fad
in London this year. One of beige and
raspberry colored satin is called “Jam
Tart.” Gorgeous black satin models are
entitled “Nothing Much,” which has
nothing to do with the price. A rich
looking velvet dress, made in shades of
red wine, is called "Spill the Port.”
A pineapple taken to London ahead of
season by a sailor was sold for $25.
BOHEMIA GETS HARBOR.
PRAGUE (N.A.N.A.).—Bohemia has
at last acquired something In the na
ture of the sea coast that Shakespeare
so erroneously bestowed upon it in “The
Winter's Tale." The country of which
Bohemia is a part has. after long and
1 weary years of talk, secured a harbor.
The treaty of Versailles guaranteed
Czechoslovakia an outlet to the sea and
now a piece of land situated on the
River Elbe, at Hamburg, has been leased
to the Czech government for 99 years
for that purpose. To make a “sea
coast” of it will take a long time and
cost a good deal, however.
(Copyright, 1929. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance.)
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