The sun., 1906-12-31
ASK FOR A LOT IN YIDDISH.
THEN YOU PAY 81 4 WEEK FOR
THREE HUNDRED WEEKS.
II Is In This Way That You May Become an
Esteemed Fellow TOwnsman In WaIlkor
Town when n IL Built Plan Is 90 RE-
+ MeNe the Congestion OF the East Side.

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+ heNe the Congestion OF the East Side.
All those last touches that make for artis-
tic completeness were added yesterday
20 the programme for the big noise with
which part of the East Side that surrounds
the Pitt street headquarters Of the East
Side Wireless News Association will in
hugurate the opening of Wallkof Town,
". l., Tomorrow morning-the day cele-
brated as New Years in other portions Of
the city. Wallkof Town is to be a coopera-
tive colony, exclusively Yiddish. right
next door to August Belmont's racetrack,
over in Nassau county. The colony is now
completely built in blue print just as
Soon as spring comes some final details
, cutting the streets through the woods,
building the houses and raising population
will be rushed with all possible speed.
Next to the big parade OF colonists
through the East Side tomorrow one OF
the most interesting items OF the scheme
IL the town itself. Jacob Harris Wallkof,
who is called the Baron Hirsch of Brooklyn
, and who is one of the best known men
Of Pacific street, got up the idea last May.
when he got hold of ll112 acres Of good,
pleasant woods on the Van Nostrand farm.
Elmont road. For a time the suspicious
East Side fought shy OF the venture, under
the mistaken impression that the real
estate man was trying 70 sell real estate,
hut when IL was learned that the lots could
r,c had by any one able to ask for them in
Yiddish the coloniz alton idea spread. The
only red tape about acquiring a lot is TO
pay Mr.. Wallkof 81. This is continued for
600 weeks to show good faith on the part
sof the purchaser, after which the colonist
is presented with a chunk OF the woods.
Deserving people who pay Mr.. Wallkof 81
a week for 800 weeks may have three lots,
with no extra charge for the timber thereon.
Mr.. Wallkof explained at a meeting Of the
executive committee held yesterday after
noon at the towns Offices, RivinHton and
Suffolk streets, that his one idea is to relieve
the congestion Of the East Side. More
than forty persons parted with the initial
dollar yesterday afternoon, and as there
have been 300 or 400 lots sold since May
the executive committee shed tears Of Joy
when they called attention to the fact that
che 900, 600 more or less, residents left east
pf the Bowery will now have some elbow
sfoom.
Besides Mr.. Wallkof and the executive
acommittee, the Wallkof Town Offices were
axlecorated yesterday with the silk banner
OF the colony, blue prints Of Wallkof Square.
Vstas of Wallkof boulevard, stretches Of
Mrs. Wallkof avenue near Ike Wallkof lane,
with gasolene pushcarts flying merrily by,
and the charter of the Jacob Harris Wallkof
Volunteer Fire Department. which is to
have a sassy firehouse back OF the last
bunker on the far side Of the Wallkof Golf
u4nks.
Dollars crinkled and tinkled on the desk
before which sat Sam Wallkof as the colo
lhists came up 10 take the first steps in
colonization. Ida Gerver a cousin OF Sam
@nd Jacob Wallltof, walloped Yiddish out
. of a typewriter, and Leonore Gerstenhaber,
WHO is to lead the fine ladies' section of the
parade tomorrow forenoon. told how she
Js to award the purchasers their lots out OF
wrab nag on January at Golden Rule Hall
in Attorney street. President Louis Zelt-
her abutted on the telephone and took wire-
less notes Of the proceedings.
Miss Leonore Gerste nhaber explained
how the lots are to be awarded to the lucky
colonists.
~You see they don't know now what they
are buying" explained Miss Gerstenhaber,
who il a cousin of Mrs. Jacob Wallkof.
,kThey pay the money down, going 1t blind
like, and then on January everybody
homes to the Golden Rule Hall and we rattle
sem off-the lots. Three boxes on the
Ktage there will be and me. Should you be
n one lotter. yes? | draw out ticket from
the first box, and there number is, which
is your lot. Should you be two lotterT 1
draw from a ticket by the next box, in
which il tickets with only two numbers on.
sSo YOU get the two lots only at one drawing.
tShould you be three lotter? And 80 forth
Sthe same. Go as far as you like, there is
0box with all your lots.
just for that Miss Gerstenhaber has had
D street in the colony named after her
Gerstenhaber Boulevard. The rest OF the
streets have been named in elaborate blue
printing after Jacob Harris Wallkof and
family Jacob street and Harris street are,
next TO Wallkof boulevard, Wallkof avenue
and WaIlkof street, two OF the most i'm
portant proposed streets in town. They
all meet az Wallkof square, in the centre OF
which will stand Wallkof Pushcart Market,
(which has been named after the city founder
10 commemorate his name around Wallkof
Town. Other streets are named after the
Wallkof children and grandchildren, OF
which there are some forty or more OF as
isorted sizes. Rebecca avenue Will be gwen
over almost exclusively to clothing mer-
chants, except one lot between Esther and
Moses streets. on which will be erected
fireworks factory.
Sarah avenue and Isaac Boulevard seem
20 be very genteel localities to judge from
the blue prints. They are almost as vide
rs Simon avenue and really much wider
than Gerstenhaber boulevard. On Israel
street where Solomon avenue cuts across IL
Mr.. Walkof has kindly donated two twenty
foot lots for the proposed Wallkof Memo
rial Hospital. Mrs Wallkof has also come
up with a couple Of lots for the Mrs. Wallkof
Annex for Sicknesses and has relinquished
ali rights TO any mineral deposits that may
be found during the excavation work.
Almost everybody had had job awarded
10 him on the Board of Aldermen. the Police
Depa rtment, the Pushcart Commission OF
Complaint and other civic bodies. when
some one thought OF the necessity for a
fire department. The suggestion was
happy one in that it gave the city fathers
a chance to appoint Simon Moselkase to an
honorable position. Mr.. Moselkase had
vainly sought a city job ever since his great
grandson, Moe, had bought two lots near
Zeltner avenue, but owing to his decrepit
condition the fathers did not think It wise
TO assign him TO a job that necessitated
hard labor.
When Mr.. Moselkase was appointed
.Dhief of the fire department yesterday after
noon tears OF joy coursed down his wrinkled
Nbheeks. He Immediately recruited a COM
bany from a number Of his cronies and the
lire company will give a charming touch
Of sentiment TO the parade tomorrow.
President Louis bZeltner has been re-
Warded for his untiring labors in promoting
che parade by being appointed grand court