The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-17

/ OF William Waldorf was 70 transfer the
| Office TO No. q West Twenty-sixth street
This Is well built. unpretent:oRs brick
and stone edifice. Two stories high. A com
panion Office was erected BY Colonsl As
tor at Ne. - The windows OF the twin
Offices are guarded with heavy psrpen-
dicular bars. carved outwarlly like the
sails Of an onconains ship. No Spanish
saileon ever carried treasure equal in val
Ne 10 that represented here An impor-
;snt branch Of this business is the receipt
OF deposits and the crediting OF loans fer
nc owners or the establishment. Another
s the reiavestment OF The surplus income
in real estate.
The amount received every year through
each OF the little brass windows Is several
tented Is the work thai I corps OF half
d dozen men In each Office manage both
the receiving and the reinycsting
Every bit OF ground owned by the estates
Is carefully set down, with measurement
and distances. on a series Of illuminated
maps. hung on rollers for ready reference.
Real estate when purchased T. generally
unirnproved. The usual course is either
to Improve It or 10 lease II az once On
ground leases. The property OF the estates
on the lower east side and in the Ninth
ward is mostly he'd on ground leases. ard
has been improved by the fsnanta TIE
Astors viii make any alteration desired
by tenant before he moves into one %
their houses. but ouce Ia ne must abide
by the terms OF the lease In regard 10
repair or improvements
The finest section OF the Asto- estates
is the Middle Road property. on Fifa
avenue. on Thitry-dfth and Thirty-sixth
streets east or Fifth avenue. and on The
west side q Madison avenue avenue be-
tween Thirty-fourth and Th.rty-slxth
streets. IL contains more than ono hun
dred well built houses % brick and stone
within a radius OF a block or TWO. In thss
section Is the Hotel Waldorf-Asforfa. ths
Waldorf portion built b. William waldorf
the Astoria by Colonel John Jacob. but
now run as twin houses under one man
agement Hotel men talked az n the
Astors were making a new departure IN
building hotels. forgetting that they we're
the first important hotel men IN New
York when they buiIt the Astor house.
Large lots on the boulevard from
Eighty-ningh street 70 Tenth street "a
Harlem and IN westche-ter county preve
the ability % the Astors 20 anticipate ne
growth Of the residential district. A. soon
az the Harlem River Canal projecs was
approved by the legislature they bexan
TO buy and improve tbe natural do-kase
property IN the Oats above kingsbriaxe.
ull they possessed a hundred acres IN the
future centre OF Ne% York A. tns canal
opened this dock ana Wharfage property
was Immediately ready for barEes @ en-
ter and warehouses 20 30 erected
II vac in Isss according 20 % Tribgne-s
that william Wa.a1rf Actor
preached q hts father the idsa % r Lon
don branch and represented abe asyaa-
'sEes - 2 vesidraes ard Once abroad. -
y airh the ritter arreed has 50 WOLF
probably hr conducive - comfort ard
hsf-Hncss. ard mich; BE- expected a. as
% ,ne efetrify ~ -ue cs'8s tnaash in-
garao:y Declining e save any. tirs . Do
0orre.1ly wlth hls n'H E1qiisa n,1n. as
i came r. be called between them
II am roo Old" she father urged. Tor
any change Some day you wlH take ms
place and then sou can 30 az you please
tgt." he added. on the i8si occasion
when the project Nas discussed ''6s qalts
'ure before beginning. that you hage fhe
lefve - carry h through "
The blograpaer ~ aut05inErapaer. naa-
cautiously adds. ~Th.s edmonton uaa
ieepiy laid 20 heart. and g may b. ssH
aat NJ Actor has f7sns re serve 70
.arry i through, and 20 make far himself
md his children tbs opportunity for ass-
'ui and happy and probable lives