RIL BUILDING FIGURES TOPPLE OLD RECORDS; PERMITS TOTAL $375,000 HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT HERE? Pretty Booklet Insued by Hain- Ivn Improvement Association Gives Points AT OAK PARK COLONY "Where Life Is Worth Living" Is Attractive Pamphlet of Information If you're weary of the noise and confusion of the city, but want all its conveniences, with the additional ad vantages of pure air, fresh flowers and vegetables and the open life of the country, why not board a trolley car some day and visit Oak Park Colony and Hainlyn? Take it from the dainty little book let that has just been-issued by the Hainlyn Improvement Association, there is "where life is worth living." Shoop's Church. Hainlyn Nos. 1, 2 <fnd 3. Oak Park Colony and the Co lonial Country Club, all on the age-old road to Paxtonia, are some of the most interesting little suburban plots where one can build his country-city home. And a glance at the pictures of the little booklet—especially these days when one can get a good glimpse of blossoming pear trees through a near by window—starts the Spring fever burning. Oak Park Colony Is a little com- I munity that is unique in itself. I.isten | to what tiie booklet says about it: "Oak Park Colony on Xlainlyn No. 1 j is a. unique plan of suburban enter- ! prise. It is a community settlement of five city families who together de veloped a section in one-acre plots, each building a beautiful home, facing a circular boulevard. The several acres inside the boulevard are owned in common and forever reserved as a playground. "A central water plant was installed, which, with the walks, drives and grass reservations, are maintained in com mon. The grounds are beautifully > landscaped, with spacious lawns .where i ihc 'kiddles' have a chance and are; growing up to bo good citizens." The Telegraph's ever-growing de sire to boost things that help make life worth •while is referred to by the publishers of the booklet, too. The attractively bound, prettily illustrated pamphlet quotes a recent Telegraph editorial to this extent: " 'God Almighty first planled a gar den. And indeed it is the purest of '■ human pleasures: it is the greatest re- | freshment to the spirits of man: with out which buildings ;• •>tl palaces arc hut gross handiworks: and a man shall ever see that, when ages grow to! civility and elegancy, men come to; build stately, fooner than to Harden finely: as if gardening were the greater [ perfection"." In Realty Realms Eyes of the realty world were cen-1 tered with the particular interest this week on the Dauphin county court.! Early in the week President Judge i Kunlel handed down an opinion In which the contention of property own - \ er« on Front street north of Mactay | FOR SALE | On account of engaging In •' % other business, I will sell my 1 J complete crushing outfit, con- jt J sisting of 9x16 Acme Crusher; f / portable bin, 25-ton capacity; 5 ? / sections of screen; all In good ij £ condition. One 15 horsepower % J Frick Traction Engine. A-l con- '» J diton. One 12-barrel capacity J i J water tank. Ingersoll steam ? drill. Wood saw. 30-inch blade, ■! 2 new. Bars, sledges, hammers, % 5 picks and shovels. Good belt- % J, ing for above machinery. J< Geo. A. Mowery New Cumberland. Pa. '! •J J sth Street Bell Plione :M J»-H '! North Fifth St Monies Located at 2311-13-15-17 N. Fifth i Street. EASY TERMS Frcal C, Miller Builder 213 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, Pa. \ Bell phone, 797-M. L ' \| For Sale No. 206 Walnut Street Fronting 32 feet 9 inches, ex tending through the same width to Locust street. Applications For Renting First floor and basement may be considered. Floor area about 5,272 square feet, including show win dows. APPLY TO Commonwealth Trust Co. 222 Market Street , I V |* Camp Hill The Suburb of Natural Beauty; go out with us and inspect our new addition, "Cooper Heights," with ita concrete walk, electric lights, water and gas with Its fine build ings and bungalow sites. We will help yon select a lot and build you a home. One hundred bungalow designs and plans to select from. West Shore Realty Co. Baer ft Rice Lemoyne Trust Co. Building Lemoyne, Pa. llell Phone 3188-J SATURDAY EVENING, HARRJSBURG TELEGRAPH A'PRIL 29, 1916 ONE OF THE NEW TYPE HOMES IN BELLEVUE PARK The development of Bellevue Park is one of the most notable examples of conservation of natural formation and beauty of land to be found in this sec tion of the country. It is a community modeled over a standard of beauty in building and gardening* such as have but few counterparts in real estate circles. And this because the Union Heal Estate Investment Company, when they set about the developing, proceeded along lines they meant to follow. Bellevue lark is a suburb directly connected with the city, vet segregated enough to afford those features which makes a suburb desirable. All of the homes are built with certain restrictions and conform well with the landscape gardening upon which so much stress has been laid. Fullv one-third of the ground has hern devoted to roadways, terraces, parks, ponds, and public reservations for tiie permament cnjoymcflt of Bellevue Park residents. The community spirit* Is well worked out In Beilevue Park in that every resident become* a member of the Bellevue Park Association which promotes mui l? ro l* er upkeep of trees, public reservations, grass plots and shrubbery. This is done through community meetings, committees, and communltv instruc tion classes. is sustained on the paving: question. The city, the court held, is liable for half of the assessment. The other problem was "Hardsorabble." Argu ment was heard on the question of exceptions early in the week. A deci sion is expected soon. | That the Spring activity in build | ing circles is really under way is indl ; cated by the activity in tho depart ments of public safety and highways las well as in building, inspection. ! During the present week bids for pav | trig more streets in Bellevue park, j Ilarrisburg's pretty suburb, were opened while water pipe bids will be opened May 8. An up-to-date apartment and de partment store is planned for 502-04 Market street, it is said. Charles Adler a day or two ago obtained an option on the property from Miss Fannie Eby. M. I. Kast, a well-known architect of this city, was elected last evening to the vice-presidency of the south ern Pennsylvania chapter of the American Institute or Architects. The ! meeting was held in the i.afayette J Club, York. KI'TH ERFORD ESTATE SKI.I.S NEW EXTENSION FOR $45,000 Formal transfer was made to-day of tho eighty-two and a half-acre plot just east of Paxtang which E. M. Her- I shey recently purchased from Robert Rutherford and the Steelton Trust t tetnpany, trustees for the s. s. Rutherford estate. The tract which will be developed as the "East Harris burg Extension,' will lie divided into • some 400 lots. Bungalows will be the feature buildings. A general sale of I tli!> lots has been fixed for Aiay 4-5-6. ! The tract which lies to the north of Derry street and immediately adja cent to the city limits, was purchased for $45,000. BE SURE TO INSPECT * Park: Place (East of Colonial Club) Present activity makes important your immediate selection if you de sire to share in choice lots. I.ots 25 feet frontage li>- l.'O to SSO feet deep. Terms to suit purchase* —no Intercut or tuxes for two years. Take Uinglestown Car. For further particulars, call 87-R, Bell phone. H. M. BIRD UNION TRUST BUILDING* M. R. ALLEMAN lias real estate in all parts of Steelton for sale and for rent. Look over our list. 145 North Front Street STEELTON, PA. Real Estate For Sale The man who owns his home has gained the first step in his future independence. It is the first step of suc cess. Scan this list of homes for sale. There are many good values to be found in this list. ISB ltttli St. —3-story brick house ISKiI Green St. — 3-story brick —8 rooms and bath, hot and dwelling house—9 rooms and bath, water, front porch, side entrance, front porch, steam heat, side en near State street, good condition; trance, all improvements; you will splendid location. Price $3,500. not be disappointed, if you buy this. 1111 Sixlli St. 3-story brick ' North St. 3-story brick house—lo rooms and bath, steam ' IOUHP - ten rooms and bath, all im heat, side entrance, 10-ft. wide al- provetnents, corner property; faces ley rear of lot. Possession at once, • " ne location. Price Price $4,600. $7,200. v „ , . , 285 Macla.v St.—3-story brick 191.1 V be St. 3-story brick house—nine rooms and bath, out house 10 rooms and hath, steafn kitchen, electricity, gas, cemented ? I entrance, electric, gas, ce iiar with laundry and hot and front porch. It is a good one. c . o |d water, front porch, balcony, ce »b,i«o. *ido and front bay windows, gas 714 Capital St.-3-story brick ttke'Vsof* C ° rnW Pr ° P * house—nine rooms and bath, hot y * $4,800. and cold water, furnace, bay win- o.w *i. lf .| av si t atnrv hrinb- Price 000 Cat n * Wly ~al)eretl' dwelling, four rooms' first floor; th|-ee rooms and bath second floor; Green St 1 storv brick four r,,oms thir<l floor, steam heat, house—9 rooms and bath' steam ' ,1?, lltwn heat, side entrance, front porch I• , flont - "> feet between ad good as a new house. Price $4,500! p,jce S P r °P er, y- Soe rne about 15 South I Mill st. —Cor. Zarker 207 Harris St. 3-story brick St. 3-story brick dwelling. 9 house —9 rooms and bath, hot and rooms and bath, all improvements, cold water, furnace, side oorch. If you want one of this good kind, corner property, in good repair; see me about this one. Price splendidly located. See me about $4,900. price. tat s iß.i. c. * 4 , : , 1,5 Verbeke St.—3-story brick i™!,,'! n —B-story brick house—B rooms and bath, hot and i i rooms and bath; not aim cold water, furnace, gas. centrally '"i * furnaeo ' Corner prop- located, well constructed. See me erty, front porch. Price $2,800. about price. M. A. FOUGHT 272 North Street . TO-DAYS KEAI/TY TRANSFERS To-day's realty transfers included i tho following: J D. C. Rhoads to A. H. Smith, Hum melstown, $150; A. H. Smith to j Daniel Stair. Hummelstown, >350; A. I ft. Rupley to W. D. Miller, L.ower Swatara, $200; Paxtang Cemetery As sociation to Mary H. Lawson, Pax tang. $400; N. F. Matter to P. F. i Pendergaat. 2!) South Seventeenth street, $4,000; 1,. A. Smith to Harry M. Kulin, 1621-23 Fulton street, $10; IJ. A. Hoffman to Louis A. Smith, 1831 North Fifth street, $lO. ACTIVITY AT PARK PI-ACE H. M. Bird. Union Trust Building, reports activity in Park Place, with the advance of Spring. This building plot development, located east of the ! Colonial Country Club, on the way to ! Linglestown, was opened last year, and a number of lots have already i been disposed of to purchasers. j : A HOME FOII YOIIR COMPOBT All Conveniences LOOK at Fourth and Kmernlit "GET SLATED" RETTEW & BUSHNELL 1000 N. 3rd St. APRIL FIGURES TOPPLE ALL RECORDS [Continued From First Page.] a record-breaker was Indicated early In the month, however, when Dr. C. C. Conklln started the ball rolling with an application for a permit for $20,- 000 for a modern two-story garage in Cameron street south of Market. Then there were rows and! rows of new dwellings started. William F. Bush nell gave the records a boost by tak ing out a permit for fourteen two-story bricks at Penn and Seneca streets at a cost of $18,000; William A. Mcll henny got permission to build eight two-and-a-half story dwellings at '9hNS— ft New House—S. W, Cor. Brlnrclltr and \ortlifleld Roads—Lot one-third acre—Price, SS'JO(>. HIS REASONS FOR LIKING BELLEVUE PARK Mr. J. Horace McFarland, whose splendid garden home at Bellevue has gained a national reputation for the quality and variety of its fruits, flowers, trees and shrubbery, also beauty and attractiveness when asked, "Why do you like Bellevue Park?" said: "For many reasons, one of which is that it gives me not only high, pure air to breathe, but a prospect of distant hill and river so lovely as to have led the cultured German who named it Bellevue in 1819, to say that 'even on the Rhine I know of no region equal in dimension with the vicinity of Harrisburg which surpassed the picture displayed here by nature in its variety of scenic effects and its pleasant charms.' "Bellevue Park gives opportunity to have a garden, also; and in the garden I find it possible to obtain not only flowers and fruit and vegetables better than can be bought, but health, recreation and relaxation from the strain of business life." MILLER BROTHERS & CO. JHWcEr * • • r v -«■ . , * Take Reservoir Park Cars to Twenty-flrst and Market Streets. We Invite You to Inspect HarrisburgYNearest and Most Talked About Suburb East Harrisburg Addition Located Against the City Limits on 29th Street Fronting on Derry Street and Bounded by the v Harrisburg Park Drive Way in the East Look the Ground Over and Secure a Good Location Before the » / Opening Sale Thursday, May 4th Take a Paxtang or Hummelstown Car—sc Car fare—Get off at 32nd and Derry Streets—Cour teous Salesmen on the Ground to Show You Around. Not Less than forty feet sold to one Pur chaser—On Corner not Less than sixty feet. Terms t0 Suit Purchasers Our automobiles at your service without obligation LET US SHOW YOU AROUND For prices, information and appointments Call 3683-J Bell Phone Wm. J. Sohland E. M. Hershey Manager Owner, Office: Room 7, Shearer Building, 204 Market St. Eighteenth and North at a cost of $24,000 and a little later he got per mission to build half a. dozen more modern little homes in Regina street near Seventeenth at an outlay of $lB,- 000. Uelnley and Thompson added their little mite of $24,000 to the grand total by erecting twelve three-story brick houics In Reel street. City Com missioner W. Lj. Gorges, Harry A. Sherk. David H. Hetrlck and Son. and Hamuel S. Etter added $9,200, $5,000, $13,000 and $6,200, respectively, by tak ing out permits tor the erection of new homes. Churches Roost Record Two permits alone boosted the rec ord a round SIIO,OOO. One totaling $70,000 was Issued to the Messtah Lu theran Church congregation for the extension of that church at Forster and Sixth street, while the $40,000 boost was given by St. Lawrence Ger man Catholic parish which will build its new church, parish houses, etc., in State street at the corner of But tonwood. Careful search of the monthly build ing records since 1909—a1l that are tabulated completely In the office of the department of bulldilng inspection —shows that no other .month of any year with the exception of May of last year, approached the present month. MriV the outlay for buildings totaled $326,025. Only one other month in these nearly eight years have topped April of 1916. This was .July 1914, when $409,055 was expended. In comparison with previous Aprils, however, the month just closing shows up remarkably. Here Is the record: 1915, $95,375: 1914. $292,175; 1913, sl*s,- 025: 1912, $58,240; 1911, $124,550; 1910 $130,985; 1909, $474,025. IMPROVEMENTS AT CRYSTAL REST AURA NT UNDER W\> Extensive improvements are now under way for the extension of the Crystal Hotel, 418 Market street, which was recently destroyed by fire. The upper floors of buildings 414 and 416 Market street have already been leased for a long term by Athens George and K. Hamawi. The improve ments will probably not be completed before the latter part of June. Approximately seventy-flve addi tional rooms will be added, making a total of about 125 rooms. 15
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