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Sales of residential properties involving more than $40,000 were reported today by N.L. Sansbury Company, real estate brokers, as follows:
For Charles L. Tankersley, builder, the new six-room dwellings at 1856-58-60-62 and 64 3rd street northwest, to Theodore N. Webb, Furman N. Wormley, Charles N. Pryor, Edward A. Ridgeley and Walter and Bessie Colbert, respectively, for a total consideration of $21,225.
For Kennedy Bros., builders, the new residence at 626 Lexington street northeast to William H. Wetzel for a consideration of $5,250. Of the 100 houses recently erected by Kennedy Bros. in this locality there remains only one to be sold. Another row of houses of the same type soon is to be started on 7th street near Lexington street. With the completion of these the entire square bounded by 6th and 7th streets, D and E streets northeast will have been improved with homes. This square is bisected by Lexington street.
For Lewis E. Breuninger, the residences at 1687 and 1651 Hobart street northwest, to Charles Childs and Charles K. Philips, respectively, for a consideration of $7,250 each.
For Edward A. Ridgeley to Minnie L. Hill, the residence at 213 Elm street northwest.
For Thomas R. Senior to B. Carl Dodson, the residence at 203 Elm street northwest.
FOUR ROOMS POPULAR
Apartments of This Size in New York Number 304,283.
An enumeration of the number of rooms in apartment houses in all the boroughs of Greater New York recently completed by the tenement house department shows that there is but one apartment in the entire city containing as many as twenty rooms; only fifteen apartments having fifteen rooms each, and not more than 1,075 apartments containing ten rooms.
In the borough of Manhattan there are 159,541 apartments containing four rooms each, as against 99,487 of this class in Brooklyn, 36,362 in the Bronx, 8,117 in Queens and 776 in the borough of Richmond, making a total for the entire city of 304,283 apartments made up of four rooms each.
Announcement has been made of the exchange by R.S. Wolfe of the California apartment at the southeast corner of California avenue and 18th street northwest for a platantion in Georgia containing 1,635 acres of land, owned by Jacob C. Witt.
The California is a four-story structure and is reported to be valued at about $65,000. It is said to produce an annual rental return of about $8,000. The apartment has a frontage of forty-six feet on 18th street and 105 on California avenue. The new owner will hold it as an investment.
H.V. Bouic & Co. represented Mr. Witt in the transaction, and Mr. Wolfe was represented Messrs. Goldenberg & Moran.
SHOW EFFECT OF PAINT ON RADIATING CAPACITY
Tests Made of Methods of Decorating Heating Apparatus.
The effect of color and finish of the paint used in decorating radiators and in protecting heating pipes has formed the subject of a long series of tests made by Prof C.L. Norton, Boston, Mass. In the transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers the results of the tests are given and these seem to indicate that the loss of radiating efficiency in radiators through painting is less than has been popularly supposed.
Taking for his standard the amount of heat radiated from a new pipe, and placing it at 100, Prof. Norton obtains the following relative values for the heat radiated, under similar conditions, from pipe treated as follows:
Loss of heat at 200-pounds pressure from bare pipe:
New pipe ............ 100
Fair condition ........... 115
Rusty and black ........... 119
ROW NEARING COMPLETION
Finishing Touches Being Given Residences Erected by Winfield Preston.
The finishing touches are being added to a row of attractive moderate-priced dwellings erected at 427 to 437 Columbia road northwest by Winfield Preston, builder. They are six-room structures of light brick construction. There is a wide covered porch across the front of each and double porches in the rear. The houses are wired for electricity and hot-water heating plants have been installed.