New-York tribune., 1886-04-03
REAL ESTATE.
AT TIE EXCHANGE.

.uo xvas much interest shown yesterday In
~. nv John F. B. smyth OF the four-story brick
-. Nc. 547 Fifth-ave The house belonged TO the
no's ,he firm Of Smith, Gould Martin whose failure
-. considerable comment at the time. The property
-, ,od under foreclosure by the Emigrants' Savings
-, that held mortgage OF $4,000 on the house and
.,o.t There was considerable competition. and the
",.rty was knocked down to Benjamin Fairchild on
sshalf of General Eckert. general manager OF 'he
,v..tsrn Union Telegraph Company for $2625o above
".o-,cage and interest The plot OF five lots In
tes tes,im1third-st, between Fifth and Sixth aves. is
!Sas,cct to restrictive covenants but the owner
Ssrss e. annual rent of s. each lot Mr s@yh also also
80 four-story brOwnstone house No. ITO East
Eeh,ieth-st.. for s22.soo to Marcns Murray louis
Ms.r ,od 10, 26oa4i oSS25142 on the sJ% nsr5a non
&c The plaintiff. Auctioneer Phillips sold two frame
boues lot No s2l East Tas,e
iUr 40, amounted to I27s7l 25 The Registers Office re-
ggSr gSr: s sS was the largest known for William X
PeytOn no l47 East has been pS''S6 %
James Jsl Lcviness and Elliott Roosevelt; also
Ws@ ,oms :s'T ToAcSss of and S owaTs ys W Coates
Al the brokers' meeting there call for West Side
lots between Lexington and Madison aves four-story
ssSoSo Cheap lots east OF below Eighty
Of rPs2a
per cent good aoTntSwn property hne and
T%en,sftSst HS M rented for eight from May at
$500 for $4,000 hrec.story onoWhstohe noW % i
No
fweptyfve acres about sixteen miles from Jersey Cy'
for S3 the bouso contains sixteen rooms iuy ui
The Executive Committee appointed at a recent meet
INC Of members of tho bar TO consiier the Vailou'
avances e>i.ting at County Clerks ana REGISTERS
cfaces met yesterday at the Real Estsle E4cnangr.
lanes Richards Of Coudert Brothers presided Iherc
were a. John c. Lockman Richard "a Hhrison'
taIi and W. C. orr After Mr. Richards had stated the
heci ana Of the committee Mt Coggeshaii pro-
yosed that application should he maze througa tne
1ress "a, the bar instance In which uncu-
Ties have been raised the County Clerk In returning
sssrrn.s bill similar TO that proposed affecting the
Connty Clerks Office. to reform the Regisers ouce was
sngcested aud committee organized To prepare H.
Tbe ,cnm mittee Of the Bar Association TO whom was
referred rival schemes OF ny the nock
~ the latter With reference TO the objections made py
Mr the OF the tax maps as the OASIS OF
rerstratlo ION the committee say:
beiieve that the disadvantages urged aeainst the
r.. of the lax maps basis for the new register In
dexes are exaggerated 1t is true that IN some or the
lower wards city ihe map lines DO not always
coincide with the lines OF the premises as occupied on
this n not believed obtain To appreciable extern
ss to the upper wards 1t may be at
m,tted thai in isolated instances conveyancers
1av meet with difficulty ut first
in me use OF copied from tue present YAK
mans bat some difficulty 10 Devltahle uhuer any heW
Tbs element OF uncertaihty however. can be
and must itself necessarily disappear I'D tue
conr.e of a through the corrections maze III
tSs AS property hands. and under the pro-
.1s,n,s Ia that end contained In the proposed nls .
n seems To your committee That the PrrstF part oi
,he objections urged disappear upon oonsieratlon
or will h. found disappear III the artua operation oi
tbe system To say that some or ihr provisions pro
asai may he suhec abuse In bac hanis IL not sum
.nt IN T.ce M the many substantial advantages which
tenn as proposed by the majority OF the COMMISSIONERS