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THE WASHEraTOJF TIMES RTSDAY JTLY 7 1907

Municipal Building to Be Under Roof in Two Months Now Presents Beautiful and Commanding Appear stnc

EIGHT SYMBOLIC FIGURES ON NEW MUNICIPAL BUILDING

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SCULPTURE

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Contractor Parsons Does Not Expect Any Further Trouble on New City Hall
The new municipal building on the AV nue will be under roof within two months according to James L Parson the contractor and wilt be ready for occupancy within a year Mr Parsons trave surmounting the columns Thorn are twcntyolght of these in all eight each facing north and south and six on the other two skies of the building The figures are of white marble from South Dover N Y the same material M has been used throughout Figures Nine Feet Tall They stand nine feet tall each on a pedestal two feet high They are the work both in modeling and sculpture

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Colonial Design Homes Proving Most Popular

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Out of Thirty in Northeast Section Have Recently Been Sold to Desirable

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8lHarry Watdnan from p1055 by ilesrs and a nwnher ware beNgh before the holldtes was completed Most of those void have been taken for reel purpnn but see have been bought for investment The remarkable rapMlty with wMeh these homes have been dtspesM fit ill only another instance Of the dcsnand toWashtagton for homes of liassnslilt price Thus shows the popularity of this section of the northeast among hOme

said yesterday that very satisfactory progress had been made and was con- tinuing to be made on the new city 1 oil and that h did not anticipate any titlay The first steel roof trusses have been placed in position and the others are Going rapidly set in place From the pprullar plans of the building it is dif- ficult to get a view of the roof from a short distance Building Now Beautiful The building now presents a beautiful end commanding appearance a distinct addition to the broad avenue en which it faces Those who have noted the progress of the building operations have noticed that no aide arose move quickly than any other but all seemed to grow up gradually with even progress

HIM bare now sold twenty Moore two out Of the thirty rwo tory and basement houses at the earner of QuID oy and Kcktngton place northeast The block i a attractive ODe caoposed or xroom houses with colonial front and overed porches extending the entire width of each hero The lots are 18 by K feet allowing for r tty lawns in front and spacious hack The price at which theee houses Mrd Inv e sold mane from tft4tt to tMOt with the exception of the corner which brought J4500 The houses were built this spring by

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of Washington artists Adolfo DeNestl was the modeler and they were carved in this city by Ernest B Bairstow They are not mythological figures in any sense but purely symbolical and expressive of the ideas o the artist He chose for his work eight distinct lines of human endeavor arts profes- sions and businesses sculpture paint- ing architecture music commerce en- gineering agriculture and statesman- These are represented by four ship female On either figures and street side or the Avenue side D the may bo seen all of the figures but It Thp symbolic figures have been placed has been nee eary to omit two on the ri position just above the broad archt others

REPORT

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CANADA

FAILURES

DELIGHTS OFFICIALS
COLONIAL HOUSES AT QUINCY AND ECKINGTON PLACES

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Twelfth Third w Jellea X TIIt IIy St M Mohlbofer et vtr Francis W to Mary and Thirteenth streets Frank Sexton to to Alp square 0 Ttngkry trustee port V McDrvttt sad M Teresa McDevltt Quiet Cotton Conditions HI JL sauarv Ml WC Elizabeth A Herlihy all Interest in j4rt lot = A Yleth et tot Toast W F street northwest William Eo Quiet cottdlUob in the primary mar- original lot IS square 1007 5L sac to Glenn E Busted half interest Warren to Ida V Dorsey lot lit square place Frederick Itiggs northwest kets for cotton goods are more largely 3M Ot lot 6 square 4H9 stet et ux to J Theiman lien tolast of manufactur- R Parks 110 Capitol street between Thir- Pleasant PWru bert Bless et alVASTLY IMPROVED due to the indifference square 1W Us thick lot Margaret to H Latane Lewis tots G9OOtf7Sstreets Fourteenth stockholiday teenth season or and ers than the White Haven St Philip A to H Damon Nolan 48 William et ux to same E et John lie vir taking Most deliveries are tardy and cob P Clark trustee to MaryJacobJa D Tally W Harding lot 10 square 10ft SM B moss tolots M9 and CO Sit J mill agents do not seek new business lot 1 block 2 10 fIR and CS2 Sm Caroline A me betweenIota street northwest Fourteenth A Henry et Vieth West CS1 prospect making strap is tots of to to Fristoe until there and K 310 better and K streets to Warren L Pushaw lots X aad 2 I Benjamin B Bradford original lot t2 John B Blow to same lots 2T OS ail Holiday Midsummer and desired shipments As a rule there is al square 4388 10 square part original lots 1 A no anxiety regarding fulL operation of Pelworth Harry Wardmaa to Eunice and Addition to Beteir Gertrude 21a Us I Do Not machinery for the next six months Murray lot 72 square 74 0 Repair M Hubbard to Abram L Etter tot H beavenue Carolina southeast North Langdon PArkJeannette E H Lin- tween First and Second streets Mary J block U SJOThis forward business and the high po- coln al to Ira J Baker part lots OChiche er Floyd E Davis to District Slrames to Margaret T Hamilton parts sition of thc raw material prevents any to 7 et Bother square 17 1000 of Columbia Iota 1 to 4 square RSfc4 square 734 SW consideration of more normal prices for Seventh street extended near Howard lot 11 004 between street Fourteenth F northeast cotton goods during the balance of this avenue L Melendez King to Alice V and Fifteenth streets Edwin P Brink K street southeast between Thirteenth Williams part lot 11 block 4 EfOagnam to Robert M Ryce sad Maggie M Kyce and Fourteenth wtreets Lillie A Gib- near Results of inventories are very place 10 son et aL to John S Arnold part orfarEncouraging- satisfactory Crop 20 uare MO lit disclosing no accumulation Kenllworth Bstelle Foster to Clement lot inal lot 7 square 1042 3M 1832 Fifteenth street northwestRobertof stocks in the hands of producers or E Laser lot 16 block 3 X10 Bttsabeth HIt to MC4 First street southeast B Donaldson et ux to Carrie A Kiss Cotton Rose Wilson to same lot 16 block 3 10 jobbers Ernst Oer John C Weedon et23 ux to lot ttt squats Ut 10 Alliance Kphriani S Randall execu- Icy part tots stenberg and 24 square 74Obetween 3M Church street northwest Sensation in Cotton tor to Charles C Glover part described- Seventeenth Sharply and Eighteenth street SaOOBt9i second addition I by shoe manufacturers inOfour parcels Inventories Brown to George D Brookes lot Moore A Barbours alley northwest Emma Rig Lee square Fratik Peer et ux to Ada BlLuprteD Iii SM prevented any aggressive efforts to gles street et vii Charles W 10 Wilbur F 298 tS tot St block Virginia avenue southeast between Despite the interruption of a holiday get new business during the peat week NAsh lots C and H squareB12 JH EaK Capitol street between Thirteenth Fourth streets Richard R street northwest between L and Bailey and Fourteenth street Albert Carry ft und the usual inventories and midsum- The result for the six months has been MFirst et al to Franklin A and Myrtle and M streets to Blrckhead Wil Charles ux to Bartholomew Daly part ongtnai larger shipments from Boston than in ber F Nash lot 40 square M ttO Koontz lot 37 square 794 10 mer stoppage of machinery for repairs any 8 tots t It square 1086 10 street between ThirEast previous year except 1S6 the fa- American University First Addition niO Third street southwest a vast amount of business stile tran vorable weather prior to Baster fully ParkGalen L fait et al trustees to teenth and Fourteenth streets Margaret J Htoton Jeremiah J Quinn lot 3C Murphy et vir William to Ellis Dal square 04 to 10 sacted during the past week and the neutralizing the adverse effect of sub- A L Hawse lots 9 and 10 block 97 E lot 52 square Mtt SIt rympl 1200 sequent accordimproved 496 SM still further outlook unseasonable conditions and F street southwest John Twining City John Herath et ux to J street northwest between Thirty Quinn et ux to George J Holtman lots Prospects are now considered bright third and EmU Schmid lot 3t ing to Duns Weekly Review of Trade and Thirtyfourth streets Fran 14 block A 2 Bvator SMt 37 square 4tt and 10 Corbett to Adolf Behrmann part Settled warm weather has reduced for fall business and factories have be I eesW Water street northwest between Twen Talburtt estateRobert H Bell et ux tyfirst 109 square USA SM Twentysecond streets stocks of summer fabrics at many gun cutting in preparation for large lot and 1 block 1 Mulligan W to Philip lot avenue northwest betweentrustee to Marthapoints where congestion wee threatened orders of whi h a substantial quantity T Vermont to Henry P Gilbert Souls addition Harry Wardman and U streets Mary V Barbee et vir Della 30 and 31 square Berry 8lots H JO 23 ZTtt square Ki appeared already lot Burtt F Reports has from the William J to Emma D Lewis lot IOU and in some cases supplementary or Same to Amy E Adams lot 12 square MZ tfTs from wholesalers replenish de- St Louis section are more favorable stiuara 361 l 8Kenllworth Allen W Mallory et al 27 fajatPetworthClarence B Rheem et al pleted stocks that it was feared would than those troll New England LeatherV Hef to Frank S and Holmoad ManorElla M Adams to trustees 3 to George G Brown lots 66 Iota and 4 square 51tB Sit fcc Carried over to 1908 is quiet but activity IK expected after trustees Taylor lot 5S Mock 45 5000 ner to G square 74 and lots 48 to BS 00 Marcella Bayleys Adelbert C Jor- Eighteenth street northwest between- dan et ux Purchase trop news is encouraging on the the middle of July Local tanners have 61 square 7SSS4400 to Theodosla Robinson lot and I streets Maria S Cheston to 2 10 whole although grain rose sharply in had fair orders for hemlock sole chiefly Tennessee avenue northeast between- H P Hates part original lot 27 response to aggressive manipulation I for export Hides hive not developed A and B streets Felix A Van Reuth Virginia West Ecktogtcn Harry Wardman to ux to Emma M Gillett lot M square I square Hi JIOKraus lot 44 block S 10 and cotton was affected by an official the activity for June salting that pack- et street northwest between John Fourteenth 1011 10 1723 Lee H street northwest Jennie I T and rt port of condition that fell below ex- ers anticipated tanners having appar U R et etreetsWiWam Roes al 3 8 street F Frederick Theodore Davis Boal east half of W Stubbtefield lot 27 square to pectations et ux to Lucy A to Thomas ontly supplied their needs for the pres- W SML 7 square 137 original let 127 10 10 Midyear dry goods clearance sales ent and the tone of the whole market- Lake lot 12 block 141 Burlelth Dulany U street northwest between Sixteenth Cleveland ParkH Rosier were satisfactory local Jobbers aollliig is depressed by efforts to dispose of trustee SAME HERE part and Seventeenth streets John Morris et to Edward B Rosa freely to the interior where deltvr1e longhaired hides ux to Michael Morris part origtofel lot57W1S is a scarcity of laborers in There S square 10 ITS could not be secured from the mills U between Sixth street southwest and At the leading commodity exchangesstreets Andrew J Sanford et ux to F1rte th street southeast between- Sweden but plenty of college students it has not been a holiday week The N Fireworks Sales A and B streets James Martin et ux Three hundred young men from the Lucy Hall lot C square 602 1 most sensational developments occurredWardman to to Henri J Sappey and Mary A Sappey University of Upsala have accepted Vest Ecklngton Sales pf fireworks were estimated as employment in the fields for this years cotton which rove over 2 per bale Walter Allen lot 58 block 3 10 lot 49 square 1069 10 20 yur cent larger than last year Al in 206 Pleasant Union Trust Company street northeast Christina C harvest season Mt upon the publication of the official re 601large though a few failures swelled the port of condition It was generally ex trustee to Allison L Adams tots total abilities for June above all re- pected that an Improvement of five to fOl M7 to 611 block 4 5060 Sixth street northwest between E and c nt monthly records the average for points would be shown for the month of F streets to Ed- each finn in business during the second June but when the condition S York part original lot 29 square ward was an quarter was only 3860 agnlnst 2301 in nounced as only 72 per cent ioa short Fourteenth street noctltwest betweenthe preceding three months and while account was forced to cover the When in Doubt Buy of House Hermann contracts- I and K streets Benjamin B Bradforbank exchanges at this city were re- at heavy losses and prices touched the ux to William E Dunnington part dt duced by the dull stock market the highest point for this season in about original lot 21 square 21S 5M William B3 Dunnliigton conveys same property total for the whole country showed a thirty years to Edgar J Hulsc 510 ratio of only 5104 of bad debts to 1000 186 Virginia avenue southwest John solvent payments through the clearing- NEW RANDOLPH HOTEL J Brosnan trustee td Elizabeth Hen houses against 77 cents in the first nessey 1 part lot 15 square S WILL HAVE A DOME Fifteenth quarter and C street southeast Ben jamin Snyder et ux to William P P Iron and Steel The proposed Randolpt Hotel will ap- McGee original lots 4 S 0 square 1073 are now offering special values in all sorts of Activity has continued at mot iron pear only slightly different from the 10 Addition to Le Droit ParkHermAn R furnaces and steel plants except where way in which it was shown in last Sun Homerstein summer needs Including ux to E et Gertrude Lewis repairs were imperative and the tone d ys Times During the week the Com- lot 13 block IS W of the leading markets is firm IeJters missioners have granted permission to East Capitol street between Thir rre constantly In need of pig Iron the erect a dome thereon Even including teenth and Fourteenth streetsMargaretWilliam to Mary T enormous active capacity of domestic the dome the entire height of the build- E Murphy ctalvir square 1086 lot furnaces being supplemented by liberal ing will be sixteen feet less than that of Rlortian Cleveland Park Ella B Sherman et Imports and British shipments for the the New Wlllurd vir John to Thomas Bell part lot on two months of May and June estab- Newark street 10 Thomas Bell et ux We shall be glad to arrange accommodating terms conveys same property to Ella B SherCAMPHOR FARMS IN TEXAS lished a remarkable sixtyday record 1Q JD of Credit if you wish Inventories at steel nuts show no sur- Camphor farms are the latest addlr man Joseph R Edson et al h City to the resources of the Lone Star trustees plus stocks but specifications are ingr- Levering lot 21 to State So far there arc only two both block 8 S2S Thomas H ess of capacity and numerous com- of which operated are by Govern1336 the street Thirtieth northwest Celeno plaints are heard regarding tardy de ment but Texans confidently expect V Newman to J McKenney Berry par iiverlojs Many contracts for pig iron their State to one of the great lot 89 square 1242 10 were under negotiation early this week tho world Newport placo northwest between experimental Tho camphor N W farm at Twentyfirst and streets but the interruption of tho holiday post- f Wharton established nearly a year Clarence Brapdenburg ot ux to poned settlements although many con- ago says was Southwest the The S 43 shrubs square Frank sumers were anxious to provide for haw thrived wonderfully well and they 09 10 needs uunng the third quarter that hull I are now as high as a mans head R street northwest between Firstand

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Qoethats and IaIa ata4 of army eqt asses during the month of June These agnrea are expected to prove that con- ditions on the isthmus are not nearlyas some persons so badly demorali have endeavored is portray sad that Colonel Goethals has ass dropped his shovel to return to the United States Instead of that dirt has been made to fly as it never did beforethat Is never did before la the month of June While the record surpasses May It does not come up to March and April when nearly 1000000 cubic feet were handled The report received from Colonel Goetaata yesterday shows that on the Caleoca division 2458 cubic yards were excavated during June 75 OIl were taken out of the Qaton dam handled to dredging and 81152 the canal prism This makes a total of 7SO 57 despite fourteen Inches of rain- fall during the month Officials here cite the fact that during the month of June 194C there were cubic yards taken from the but 245S Culebra division as yards for the same month this cubic

Officials of the Isthmian Canal Com told miMton In this city wore an y o smile yesterday when they produced a statement showing the record la excavations made by Colonel

Number Smaller Than in Any Recent Year

Except 1903
Insolvency tetutoo frost tits Iblslilea of Cinsis for the tost halt of KB as r by R G Den A Cs show 5l failures with tfabttftftea of These figures compare with fsdtare last year when ttaMUtttea were IB SM fa The number el failures smaller than to any recent year except 1MB and the to below the averamount of liabilities age for recent preceding years The In crease to liabilities over the figures of UN was supplied by the manufacturing data in which US failure Los JMCS3 compared with ISS test year when the indebtedness was 9SfaMt Trading failures were 47 to number against 4 and 2 U5T to amount against 5SHMK Nut year There were 14 other commercial fatturee t with an indebtedness of 277m K test year when the amount Involved year S was there was CJM In ndther a banking suspenaksn The comparison show that faUuren were as to pro more numerous than test year in On- tario and Nova Scotia while there was noteworthy Improvement 5u Manitoba and Quebec This year the largest liabilities were reported by Quebec bat there stilt appears a decrease of over WXMIM m com- parison with tine returns from the same province in M86 The total for Ontario was within mtM of the figures for Quebec this r while that province showed the heaviest increase over last years figures the difference being GOO and occurring cbJetty in shout and the manufacturing class both reported much Brunswick New a and smaller liabilities than a there was some decrease in British Co- lumbia and Prince Edward Island while more failures In Nova Scotia sup- plied a larger amount of liabilities

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CALIFORNIA MILLIONAIRES LIKE DUPONTCIRCLE

Bdson Bradley a new citmen of the Capital from California Is building a handsome residence on Dupont circle on the triangular lot where the old Gardiner Hubbard house stands After the remodeling has been finished and the additions made the place will be practically a new house Another Calt forums George Whitten is bufldi almost directly opposite HornbtowerMarshall have made designs for a handsome stone residence to cost

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MAKING ONE PURCHASEdence at 1711 Thirtyfifth street north- west to L E Shoemaker for 830 He has also disposed of the adjoining prop- erty at 1717 to J for 6750 The proceeds of these transfers went toward the purchase by Mr Hulse of 910 Fourteenth street from Benjamin Lamptcn handled Early Bradford the deals

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THE ROAD ALSO SERVING THEM Three of the younger generation of the Vanderbilt fatally are serving the New York Central railroad Alfred G Vanderbilt has his desk In the financial department Cornelius Soda his greatest interest to the shop and construction department and is saId to know a railroad from the roadbed up His cousin William K Vanderbilt has combined the financial and practical training New York Tribune

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And many other similar remarks are often heard when parties are exploiting the merits of lamps and other appliances for use in connection with less modern forms of illuminant It is well known that Imitation is the sincerest flattery fj conclusions own your you draw let Well
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