New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-04-19
REAL ESTATE.
NEw-YoRk. Saturday, April It, 1862

NETWORK, Saturday, April IT, lS0S
A oreat deal of nonsense is put forth in some
nj the papers about the of the real estate MARKET
The real estate market has been sick and these papers
seem TO be anxious for its Improvement" The spec
uative element" also in for large share OF con
domination, though any great business hke 'hAs VI
traffic in houses land or provisions could be carrleu Oh
without specuators To read what these papers say one
would think that the Improvement OF the rea estate
market meant fall in the prices OF houses ana IOe VI
something else OF great benefit TO people IN gehera
whereas II means as things now, Just the reverse
The following extract from the editorial columns OF the
Times ia good illustration Of the lucid style Of writing
We have referred TO:
TO be hoped that in the great sales OF
lots which viii soon commence some 5eng ALREADY an
been Injurious will he excluded. II 1t Is introduceo II
again service, and the other tricks and claptraps
permitted the market will at once fall dead, ana IL Nil
be beyond the power Of any bring TO life again inc
prospect country good but they must be
honest and perfectly free from the slightest lmputato
Of fraud OF tncery The public have become suspicious
ana ID will be no easy task 10 regain it's confidence With
out IT, good sale is Of course imposstbe with IT,
tory almost certain The owners and a
hold the power entirely In their hands, and as they
use II, 50 Will they succeed or fail" -,
Not 10 descend to questions Of grammar we snoulu
like to know what right The Times has to mako te
latve element responsible for all the tricks ana
which are incident not less 10 other branches OF ao
than to the real estate business. The spec"i"'o
ment" is as often the victim OF humoug as any 80.
element which goes TO the composition VI " 10" ~,
When The Times has introduced celestial purify lnVo '
real estate auction business and carried u even 40 Ie
,nSt copdnss 81 New.JerseY then let 1t turn us aten
ton TO other branches Of trade, ana purge, ~,
the retail dry goods business and reauy
sores and render them perfectly free from the slightest
imputation OF fraud or triekery a., o, .hta ,roo,,
The business done at the auctlon-rooms Ihs Mes en-
though not quite equal last weeks was very large i9r
50 lafe i'm the season The WeymaD estate sold remark
will be- this Spring, any very strong demand Ior elIe
houses or at the high prices at which properly low
held Tho unprecedented number OF houses TO let com
bined with a variety Of other causes. OF which we may
mention the widespread expectation OF general iaI III
The following described property is advertised 10 oe
sold by auction, Monday at No. Ill broadway: by
Muller wilkins Co-The fOur-sory brown stone houscS
Nos l2s and 1870 East Thirtyseventhst the fourstoy
English basement, brick house, NO. 2tQ Wss1 aoI NJ
95 West Twenty fourth-st the brick cottage and Office,
Nos COS and COS Hudsons the bek iactOy OF the land
and brick buildings, No. SO Trinypaee ven dO'S ID
Bixthst the Fourhaye Boueyard Oss POINT
LII BY James NJ. Mer-The three-story frame MOUSE GUS
HUNDRED. forty-secondst. the land and improve
mepts No. andplaoe, Perry-st tnS aOiiin,tOl9
No 10 East Broadway and No. GOerck- the two
story dwellings No. 25S Deaneeyst bhe tWo ~
brick houses Nos 81 and 95 GCldst, Brooklyn ana the
twosory frame hotel called the River House,, on the
corner OF Meeker and Gardiner.aves. , -, -,
Mr. Seth Bird Of Tarrytown has SOLD nus residences a t
lot lOOxl6O feet Gr0vest, to Mr. john H. Bacon lOr
n,OOO. s.,, $50 .o,a two
acres Of ground, fronting the Harlem Railroad az 70
Messrs. Bunbarn selden Co OF New-f orK ior $500
The erection of large dsulery has Oeeh oonhehoeu
upon the site purchased.
sSGSOD' O"H0O y y - N'''' :.
The Methodist parsonage at Mount Ksco has been sold
to L. f. Dingee OF that place for $500 D,...
Samuel shaer has sold the Hobby homestead az PleaS
antyille to Nelson Mabee for 200. -
Henry l. Haight has sold to Col. Archibald and VIM
Henderson Of this city the property in Roeksnd county
Haverstraw aud from New City TO SuferI, known OF
BuchwOOd, containing 100 acres. for $4,000