New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-17

90, CLOUDS STILL EXERCISE DEPRESSING Eff
cr on PENDING rRANsAcrIoNs-soME
Trading But FEW CASH SALES
THE AUCTION ROOMS.
., estate business transacted last week was
INV r,o,t ordinary character but the worst that
~" aid Is that the market was no worse but
""u,v little better than IN the preceding week.
po'' ,.,,s.cs of the private sales market even
i a slight Improvement. but little Importance
y" :. attached to so small variation In so short
81. ,unend!ns war Is Of course. the depressing
.n.r,. on transactions IN realty. but It Is good
n that most OF the pending sales merely
"s,ooncd according 10 the brokers. and few have
pr.n absolutely declared Off There is. In fact.
org The larger operators. a feeling that the war
90. OIL; OF the way there will he something like a
Wv, IN city realty. Some good property is ex-
...sa 10 be forced the market. and this. 1t Is
ySsr,,d Is VIVA, investors are waiting for. Thus
Outraged II is believed that buyers Will be nu-
,ou, the competition will send up prices TO a
It,, Standard and in the general trading business In
Al sections Of the market Will be benefited.
rha, there is no better more stable security
,,sn Manhattan real estate Is generally admitted.
ra with this fact before them real estate holders
I'd brokers' are waiting patiently jus: now for the
s,ssent uncertainty 10 end They are resigned 10
r. nrosnect Of war. and are preparing for the
me- e times which they believe will follow the
conflict.
RECENT SALES BY BROKERS'
I. Napoleon Levy who recently bought Nos s43
ava sS West Ffty-eighth-st.. has resold them,
nth other property. to w. X. Webb. In exchange
tor Waldhelm the latter's country seat at larry
town Mr. Webb also takes in the trade No. $5
fsxington-aye three story dwelling house, at the
SS.ch Mr Levy bought in 1875 for sas 800; No 1853
iES as house lot 2oxs2 5. bought in 1895. and
house in Twenie'h-st waidhs'.n is valued in the
v. n Newman sold :cr Oppcnheimer Brothers &
veth 10 Moore Brothe' 3. the two iive-story nat
dred and twenty :hfih-st Ss6xioo. taking in ex
change plot Of -four los the south size Of Sixty
f william Roo sns' sold for NJ Hutton to Dr.
D " Smith 10 2ss West Thirty: fourth; three
Ss nsaS soi To- -'S
shappe No az teXns'09 o., "a tds $40
No. "a West Thirty. thlrd-st. three-story brick
dwelling house, lot ls.sxss' has been sold for
GARRISON & Edgar sold to a builder. for improve
ment. seven lots at tha southeast corner Of First
ave and hssn aoa no.
srs-s, one Of the houses he recently bought from
fJ'1 f. oee efs" soid to Henry j. Brner No East
Nnety-fourth-st., q four-story dweiling-house -oA
x Elizabeth W Gwynne sold to the American In
vesment Company for $3.50. a vacant lot 2oXlls;
on the north side OF Tenth-st.' 80 feet west OF
H. r Drew & Co. leased for G. F. johnson the
corner O; Broadway and Thirty-sixth.st to the
Douglas Company for five years at tosal neh'a,
the scuthwest corner OF broadway and Forty -sev-
en;h.st.. to the Mahushek Plano Company for fvs
years, at total rental OF about *ZaW'
IN THE AUCTIoN-RooMs.
The important sales held In the Broadway auc-
don room last week due TO the settlemen. o.
estates Most Of the buyers were persons in inter-
ntpt uas Prescott Hotel, AT
the northwest corner OF Broadway and spring-st''
- and knocked $4,000 The net SH income s
y o os one but the plot on which It stands contains
ISIS feet ana shs price low for
'uch parcel j. L. Buitenweiser paid SO 10 "a foot
So r iss' parcel S4 ns sod last week has
the Hamilton family for over "a esni1ry and the ne
nay have deferred bidding, though mere was "a a
spirited contest between the loves, ana ~, sfne ns On
northwest corner q Rrni ana b no bd
,ess Sorthcouins for H. Withdrawals and adjourn
nents again accounted for an unusually large NUM-
lot OF unusually small dimensions I: listed for
sale partition In the salesroom on May .. IL IL a
and n,nth-st. 1853 feet west OF the Grand Bouls-
YARD 1873 feet front by ~ feet on inc n9rth"estery
,ide and 49, fee, on the northeastery s'de'
STATISTICS OF THE WEEK.
Fi,ty-three sales at private contract were reported
last week against thirty-seven in the preceding
week The considerations given In sixteen
cases showing a total OF s55s7oo or an average OF
about s34 800 each as against S7o6o for twenty-five
In the preceding week. an average OF about *S22o'
zach. , TIL 1,ro,x
realized s;sseO7 for the week. as compared with
IA s25 in the corresponding week OF 1891 In Brook
yn the auction sales realized s.l;55 as compared
y In s327. so IN the same week of last year
These tables compare the conveyances. mortgages
And buidines protected In the three boroughs last
week with those Of the corresponding week oi 1885,
MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX
CONvEYANCES.