New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-01

DENT OF THE CONCERN SAYS.
Many nat~ops OF the United States Land Improve
ment Cornpanv a concern incorporated under the
laws Of NAv-Jersey and until less than three moh;nS
ago having an office at no. Il Broadway. are loucY
complaining Of the treatment accorded them p'
the company. The president Of the company -
Werner Bruins a lawyer. OF No. Jos Fulton-st j.
the company has an Office anywhere in Newly FN
now It's location is unknown. Ny. Drums Shares an
Office with T. Townsend Goldberg. A lawyer a
No 1O6 Fulon-st but ;he name OF the i'aho Jul
proven,cnt Company is not on the door OF his once
or in the building directory MI lTuhs NNe' d.
No. ia Summit-ave.. Jersey City. -
on March 81 1884, Werner Bruins ana John y
Bruins his brother. bought OF Charles y feed'
owner OF the Perrepont House in BrookNn' TWO
tracts OF wild land at old Breslau Suffolk county
/. L. and after plotting a town site name" j
Iindenhurst There were 1G2 lots In one OF these
tracts and as many moro IN the other il is Sa!u
They gave a purchase money mortgage ~ vi
peea in the sum OF s3.G5 FOR the tracts
and they executed ard delivered to Mr.. feen
a bond in the sum OF $3.50 for The payment OF
The MORTGAGE Interest the mortgage al . per
cent was payable sem-annually. The hrs' ana SEC
ond interest payments were met DIT no p"Hi''e''
was made after that, according to the summons
and complaint served within the last few weeks
upon Werner Bruins by Mr. Peeds attorney Inc
summons and complaint issued against MT
Bruins and others April 4. 1894 The summons c',es
Werner Bruins and others to answer the Complaint
in an action OF foreclosure. Werner Bruins John y
Bruins :he United States Land Improvement COM
pany and about 30 other defenaants are ""'"'" IA
The complaint.
NEWS TO THE LOTHOLDERS.
When the summons and complaint were served
there was CONSERVATION and Indignation among the
lot-owncrs who were made Defendants as ms was
the intimation ;hey mad had that the ttleS 10
the lots for which they he!d warrant! ueeN9 "'N -"
any way defective.
Az soon as the Mossrs. Bruins purchased the
tracts at Old Breslau which is between Babylon
and Amityvllle the Long Island Railroad, th.y
transferred them % the United states lahu I'M
provernent COMPANY which concern Immediately
put out agents who sold the lots. The company
cave The lot-buvers A pa ssbook or bondbook. IN
which was printed agreement on the part OF
the company convey 70 The purchasers the io's
they bought The payments were usually u
week continuing weekly until the whole sum was
paid As soon as the bondbooks showed tha' al
the instruments were paid the purchasers "o'o ~
receive warranty deeds.
One OF the company's agents was C. l. curtis o'
No ll6 Academy Jersey City. who secured d
number OF customers in Marion. a suburb OF Jersey
CITY among them Silas Holden. who purchased SIX
lots: Andrew Won Blarcom four lots; Mrs Bertha
Evans TWO lots Mrs. Evanss mother, Mrs Dor
ton two lois: Mrs. George Scott. two lots GURUS
representing the company. collected regularly Io'
the concern and upon :he fuflmen; OF the CON
tracts as printed In the bondbooks delivered war
ranty deeds signed by President Bruins ana Dy
the secretary and treasurer. John y. Bruins Inc
holders Of the deeds in almost all cases hard-
working people Mrs. Scott made her last payment
less than three weeks ago. and received her war.
ranty deed At about the same time she recei'ru
q conv OF the summons and complaint in the action
ny Charles y Peed against Werner Bruins ana
others This was the first intimatlOn she mad 'hat
her lot was encumbered She saw Mr.. GURUS VINO
impaired information which made it perfectly c'ear
70 Mrs Scott and her neighoorS that thel' war
ranty deeds were probably worthless
MRS. EvANs's EXPERIENCE.
Then President Bruins was waited upon BY Johh
Evans. whose wife he'd deed for TWO lots MIS-
Evans says: .
"My husband finally determined 70 hunt UP MT
Bruins and find out about the defective titles Afer
a good deal Of trouble. he succeeded In finding MIN
IN an Office in Futon-st. and told him that ne must
have al once clear title TO the lots ca..eu IoI J."
the deed or the money back, and told him Il he
adm, fix nm the matter satisfactorily ne would be
prosecuted for swind.ing Mr.. Bruins Offered TO give
him lots just good in exchange for those origin
a;.y purchased. lie tod Nh Evans that me 'rouD'e
all came from a dishonest Clerk When MI. EFa's
asked him how a dishonest clerk could nave s'ghf4
mortgage these lots and have anoTsI tts
mortgage 10 be forecosed without MT. BTnhs
know edge he couldn't exp.an IT," 30 CT,
AS soon as Mrs. Margaret DuIf, OF 80 %
ton-st Brooklyn learned that %, IN I1hirnhuIs
~ a LAWYER who tod her her warranty deed was
worthless Then she went 70 Preslieht biuhs a!'n
demanled settemeiI W. ~ p ia "a president
ser .ct ,.as on toi oeoreS bsr so which she
Fruns MRS DUR sais c b go r,,hon ,roube
acccplei % cohPlV'''Sc '"e N''N
COLLECTOR CURTIS GOT OUT.
,n.
The col. ecior Curtis. when seen BY the tribune
our.o- s,,d.
reporter sd!I' ,o
"lly record with the United States Land Improve
mont Company is straight left their employ
some time aso-as soon as "'''- n,,,.n ..-
the lots which my customers were NOUNS
ranty deeds for encumbereG b. a mortgage
y
II II kan tt,ornev .or Charles y. Peet, pain
tn in The foreclosure In which the Messis
yesterday: we I'D MOI know jus: what shape the
i-ni,ad Sta:es Land improvement Company and iis
customers were in until We began foreclosure pro-
eeedHgs Bruins mace only ,Wo sem d''i o ad