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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
MECHANICS LIENS.

lS,5a st No 9ll and el5 East: James :. Lydon
' s:5:a H5:; 5s$ $50
4Sltls = c haeF: owner; sch.e'nssr 90
and I6ts aus s 81 g12s s5 f.on Ss5Ssen loIa
D., Fas Fine. owners oonSTa6t9Ts .' 80 20
Jst5b fsVne Honsrs ' S}Is SIroR w 81 al aF
IIa,eainss trustees owner: MOTHS Koit and
Henry ST. 10 ia . i6s. E1csi.!or FlroDroof 49,
Lane 20 aSt abraham Epstein owner o.,
80 ave No 2est !sms. = Hogan ast Elzabeth 80
,.oEneT' ana = 80. alss
95 TrsadsShsin q sGhonfoid aS g.. JACOB Oh Freed
owner and contractor -. 776 o
schneidler q BaehTs9h owners. Berniek ,ooo
St, Nicholas ave. 10. 70 70 %; Ioowe Bros ast.
Moersfelder. owners. Lowinnick g Chatznon.
1lth St. 10. a East. otto G Lase ast. charles 81
MsyersOn. owner Morris Geek, eontrsotOr; 100 o
l'y Wa n s. % II. S Of HS S4 AVE- S2SG
and contractor 80. '.. -; 1890
samuel Greonwald Max Miller. owner and
i58th st.. n g. 300 n e Of Broaiway 275xss IL
owner; Ferdinand stsger j. oon;Taotor Sso7
Bowler owner and contractor. ..,.......-.. I4s
' sg John ] Reilly % owner ana , oas
co@Pahy "a sst NJ MdRa. Bryant owner and
Mott ST. Nos 1873 ana los same agt. same 49,. SIS
n Cohen owner and contractor" "a. 72s
llsth St No. 292 East; Globe Fire Proof Door
Iyaoh owners and ooStraciors -. 600
61th st. s s. 100 IT. .. Of Sd ave- I20x1OO same
Factors 2ss
MscIa. owner and coStraciof. 100
224th St 1883 II. OF Barnes avs. b01
.utty owner and contraotor. 525
I36th st. n. s.. So II OF 5th ave- l50xlO0
8 Co. sGt. Hsyman Goldreyer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
REALTY NOTES.

The Long Island Real Estate Exchange will
formally open It's Fifth avenue home on Wednes-
day, February 20. A number Of well known
persons Will speak
Mrs. Edward Spencer is the buyer of No. IS
West 18th street sold recently through George
r. Read & Co. She owns the abutting property,
No. II West 10th street.
The Lewis II. May Company has sold for Os-
valid Rohe the Kimble cottage. at No i South
Wavecrest avenue, Arverne, Long Island, to an
investor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
MANY DOWNTOWN LEASES REPORTED

The Rutland & Whiting Company has leased
the building No. 242 Water street to the Mcr-
chant Evans Company, the entire building
No. l92 Water street 10 Nussbaum & Bower; the
five story building No. 43 John street 10 Benja-
min D BansOn & Co; store and first loft No. IS
Nassau street, TO Barnatt /. Aaron; store at No
20 Beekman street 10 Rapp Brothers. store and
basement, No. III Nassau street, the Au-
gustus Degen Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
FIVE BRONX SALES.

VI. F. Kerby has sold for Mrs Ellen Hardy 10
John T. Meehan the house at 10th street and
Grand Boulevard and Concourse, on lot
136xs6: for Edward NJ. Plat 10 a client. plot
Of over five lots in Briggs avenue. south of 10Th
street: for John II. Henshaw To William r.
Hicks, The southwest corner OF 1SHth street and
Valentine avenue; for Mrs. Virginia Sampler 10
client. the southwest corner OF Briggs avenue
and 18TH street and for J. Z. Lane 10 J. F.
Turk lot on the north side OF 191th street
west Of Briggs avenue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
THE BRONX BUILDING PLANS.

Catherine st. e. s, $50 IT. s. OF 24Oth street one
three story AMI basement brick school, 16OxS7;
owner. City OF New York: c. b ]. Snyder
Cromwell ave, G. SIS 20 n. g. OF roth st
hve two story brick dwelling houses. 2Oxb5
August KGmpfuer. owner; John c. w. RuhI
. 9. 81 o..
West Farms Road W. E.. $50 IT, &. Of 174th St.
ono one story frame she'd 22XlB: Joseph Taylor
owner; Henry Northern. architect ............
Green Lane. ". g.. 1874 IT. $. OF Castle Hill ave
ore three story frame store and dwelling house
23N6O; Giuseppe n. An Napolitano. owner;
Henry Nordheim, architect ...................
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
METROPOLITAN LIFE LENDS $4,000.

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has
loaned to the Gotham Building and Construction
Company $4,000 on the property at tho north
corner of Central Park West and S5th
street, plot 1J0X1022. The construction COM
pany is 10 build twelve story apartment house
on he ita
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
KILLS GIRL IN PANAMA,
New Orleans Man Had Lavished Fortune on
Woman Who Tilted Him
IEy Teiagra1h to Tie tribune, J

New Orleans, Feb. 14.-Wiliam J. Graves.
twenty-five years old. well known in New Or
Jeans society, shot and killed Miss Eurugueta
.Talajar, Costa Ricsn girl, nineteen years old,
IN her apartments st Colon. Panama, where
Graves has been for several months. Graves
who had Iavished d fortune on Miss Jalajar,
was Tilted while he lay 81 IN a hospital. He
learned that a native Pananan had supplanted
him. and lay in wait for the couple Graves
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
MAKES OVER $4,000 IN CLUBHOUSE DEAL

William A Martin has sold tho Harlem Club
property, four-story brick and stone building
on a plot 9o.l0x40 feet at the southeast corner
Of 123d street and Lenox avenue, to the East
man Business College Of Poughkeepsie. The
seller bought the parcel at foreclosure last month
for $lS.962. and now resells at profit OF more
than 81 600
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
MANHATTAN BUILDING PLANS

Bedford St. n W corner Downing ST.; for a six
story brick hathouse and stores, 45xS5 1; Bus
cent * Cerra. owners: J. g. Cocker. architect
10Th st, II =. lS2.6 n. ". OF ave, for three
six story brick hathousea and stores az Ok
500; Bathgate Realty Company owner Cold
ner & Goldberg. architects. .............
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
FOR OLD PIERREPoNr HOUSE, se1,1oo

Simon F. Rothschild. representing Abraham
& straus, paid S91, 100 at auction yesterday at
the Real Estate Exchange Salesrooms, Brooklyn.
for the old Pierrepont house, 1t occupies a plot
2OoxlS feet in Hicks street. between Montague
and Remsen streets.
The purchase Is for Investment
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
GETS SITE FOR BUSINESS STRUCTURE

The American Brass and Copper Company has
bought through Albert H. Mathews the old
buildings on plot 1OO5xS7 feet at the south
west corner OF Lafayette and Howard streets
The buyer viii erect eight-story building for
its the site.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
LIS PENpENS.

Broome st. No 2O6: Charles Fox ast Frank reia-
man ct al (specc performanesl J. wikenfeld attorney
1881 St r. =. $50 IT. OF Courtandt ave ana
Westehester ave- n u. 8. 162 n n Of Prospect ave
lOoxe2Xlo6x5S6 Joseph Buelesbach sgt Charles Zim-
Norman IT, ct OIL faction 70 forscloss nschanos LEM
r a. McDEfi. attorney. '
Webster ave. n. v. corner lsoth At. a7asxse liz
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.

At u Nessy st-By Joseph Day: Cypress ave =
cor ICON ST. lpXl2o. ant. simon Uhfelder ct al az
Rubin e. al Max Silverstsin. atty. c r Freeman
ref. amount due. S7.27l IS. taxes etc $3.50
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
PLANS FOB NEGRO DEPARTMENT STORE:

T. r Williams an architect has filed WIN
Building superintendent Murphy plans for re
I modelling the grocery warehouse at the north
east corner of Eighth ave and 46th st. into a
department store. TO he operated especially Tor
coored persons by the Metropolitan Mercantile
Company. of which =. Sheridan Ball is presl-
dent. Mr. Ball is Negro.
The building is four stories. fronting % feet IN
the avenue and 10 feet in the street, with a
25-foot 81" running north. II stands on land
owned by the Astor estate. Architect Wi!lamS
has planned to add two stories to the structure
fit it with an elevator and make over the IN
terror in its entirety, at an estimated cost or
$50 900. 1t Is to have two stories OF large snow
windows
The Metropolitan Realty Company bought the
building last year and leased the land for
term of years. The company is a business or
ganization composed entirely of Negroes. II al
ready operates a Negro department store in
Savannah, Ca, and apartment house IN
Orange, \. J. 1t also owns row of houses ana
building lots in Plaiufed y. J., and a savings
bank IN Savannah. President Ball SAYS his
company has planned to eXpend $2UO,OOO in
stocking and equipping the building, and 70
have il opened by May !.
Plans have also been filed for a six story fat
house for thirty-six families. and with stores on
the ground floor, to be built for the Besconi
Construction Company at a cost Of S1IOOo, at
the northwest corner of Bedford and Downing
SITS, replacing one Of the old fashioned build
ings which were destroyed by the big fire In
March. last year, at which a number Of tiremen
lost their lives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
Brooklyn Property for Sale.
Brooklyn Property for Sale.
A G K T r S Q n
II . u S Z S

We have but twenty vacant plots 20 offer at
FIsks Terrace, FIstbush.
The ideal location. perfected and beautifisd by
enoineerina skill and LANDSCAPES gardening OF the
hlohest type gives this carefully restricted resi-
dentIaI park superior advantages that cannot be
DUPLICATED anywhere in Kings County
Fiske Terrace is not a speculative proposition
The value Ia established. The houses are oeou-
pied by the owners. Il is exclusively home
community, enjoying all the eonVenenoes Of the
elty with the health and freedom OF country
living.
Aokerson Houses. designed for oonVsnenes
and beauty represent The best examples or
building construction.
$50 out Of 40 plots have already been sold.
Only twenty remain. The spring demand will
quickly take this limited number.
FIsko Terrace Is reached In 80 minutes from
Manhattan City Hall by Brighton Beach Rail-
road Office on the property, at Fiske Terrace
Station, or full information from our New York
Office. Reservations may be made BY tslephens,
446o Beekmsn.
S from $4,000 Up.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15

The State Realty and Mortgage Company has
sold to John ]. Geraty No. 100 to 115 West 10Th
street, plot 5Ox9S.9 feet. Mr.. Geraty will erect
an eleven story loft structure on the site.
Herbert a. Sherman has sold for Stuyvesant
wainwright to Mrs ". Brenton yelling Nos.
157 and 100 East 51st St. two three-story and
basement brick apartment houses. on plot ak
1908
Pocher & Co. have sold No. 42S 9Th ave. for
Mary J. Mcdonald TO IT, & p Addison 1t IS
four story building. on lot 20x10. just north OF
the Pennsylvania tunnel terminal station.
Robert E. Bowling paid $330000 yesterday at
auction for the old Church street station house
property A complete report Of the purchase
will be found in another column.
Harry B. Cutner has sold for Janet Van Cott
and Elizabeth Reid No. 135 West I'D street,
three story dwelling house 2lX9S9 feet TO san
tiago p. Cahill. W.
Iden, to a client for occupancy. the three story
high stoop dwelling house No. 244 West list ST
2OxGOxlOO5 feet. Also sold for Cora kessIer 10
a client for occupancy, the four story American
basement dwelling house No. 2o9 West Ioth ST.
1611 x60x1005 feet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
Real Estate For Sale.
Unfurnished Apartments to Let

DUPLEX APARTMENTS your own houas: build
H ing below Circle; last vacancies o1eTe5: Z
story, areproot- For plans sss CHARLES E FORCE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-15
Mortgage Loans.

I WANT $1,000 first mortgage on my houss On two q
Il lots. in Westcaester County; interest. Sc
DIR. H Y HALEY,
lO@ East 125th City
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-02

upon the barren hills. The trees that
spring from the seeds of appendaged
fruits will tend to produce this kind of
seed-vessels themselves. Thus, i'm
time, first a samaroid and later a fully
winged fruit will be evolved. TO
quote further:
Easy conditions Of life cannot have
impelled the ashes and naples to de.
velop key-fruits. Great difficulties
have in the past been encountered.
and the trees that were enabled TO es-
tablish means Of dissemination sur
vived in the struggle for existence.
But the barriers to be passed over
may not have been in all. or even most
cases hills. Sir John Lubbock finds
that the only trees that bear winged
fruits are forest trees, which fact
would seem to indicate that such
fruits in many instances have been
evolved in order to be carried over
vast tracts of dense woodland. But
the theory here set forth remains un.
shaken, and is really thus supported
for the principle is the same.
ITO sum up: 1t is certain that key.
fruits were developed in a country
where they became of far greater
service to the trees which bore them
than they appear to be to the ash
trees and naples in many regions Of
.our eastern United States and else
where. But L do not wish TO insist
that the barriers to be surmounted
have been broad dry plains, or forest
growths of other kinds of trees, or
even bodies of water-lt all depends
upon the nature of the region where
the changing form first grew"
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-02
Big Battle with Ocean.

tho ends of the sticks" wire cables
led to two great derricks. one on either
pier
When everything was in readiness
the derncks were started, and slowly
the caisson was raised until Il Is now
i'm the position shown It has been
found that the weights have lost their
effectiveness and Abe caisson, hanging
at an angle of about As degrees. Will
come over no farther, although the
derricks prevent II Shipping back.
The contractors have rigged a pow
erful suction pump. and there is now
in Baltimore a barge being fitted out
with boilers and compressors, and the
contractors are preparing to dredge
away the mud from under the under
lip and cause It TO settle, keeping 1t in
position by cables from the piers, and
thus gradually bring 1t to an upright
position The caisson will then be
sunk according TO the original plans.
Il is estimated that the completed
lighthouse structure will be a con-
crete monolith weighing nearly 1O,-
600 tons, and to withstand this strain
and great weight it was necessary to
have the caisson Of great size and
strength. and it ranks as the largest
Of It's kind ever built.
The caisson was built in the harbor
Of Baltimore, and It is As feet square
and % feet high. The first seven feet
rs entirely of wood, the smallest tim
Der being u feet long and u inches
square, while the largest is AS feet
long and ~ inches by "a inches. There
was considerable difficulty experienced
I'm procuring the large tmbors. and
when they arrived i'm Baltimore 1hey
were the largest single sticks that had
ever been seen I'm that port. The tim.
bers in the caisson were laid I'm alter
nate layers, lengthwlse and crosswise,
each course he,ag laid IN pitch and tho
seams firmly calked The structure Is
bottomless box II contains LOO,
900 feet OF lumber and 1t Is bolted
together with 10000 spikes, ranging
IN length from 21 inches to 90 inches.
on the lower lip Of the caisson was
placed cutting edge of halflnch IRON
to assist it in biting lis way through the
bottom.
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-02
s5yUUN,'v.yrr yrIUSON
SS(I.IIE:NI'(,EE;x5 SI.I: (,EE;x55sRS1IoE. ~ ion
WINGED SEEDS.
How They Came to Be and the Reason
for II.

We all know that seeds with
wings such as those Of the maple,
are borne far by the wind and may
thus take root In distant soil. In an
article in The Plant World, we are
told by Mr. II. Tullsen that this form
of seed.vessel is of no special advan-
tage TO the trees at present but was
doubtless developed in some long-dis-
tant age when it was necessary for
the propagation of the species that the
seed should be carried over wide in
fertile spaces of some kind. He says:
There are about 100 species of
naples (Acer) and 40 species of ash
(Fraxinus). All have winged fruits.
We may be certain that this peculiar
form of fruit was not developed inde-
pendently in each of these numerous
species.
"The direct action Of the environ
ment can have done nothing toward
the development of the foliaceous
fruits of the trees under consideration.
It would be hard to conceive of any
other factor than natural selection as
| having wrought 20 produce them.
| Natural selection, we know. can oper-
ate only where there prevails a fierce
and keen struggle for existence SO,
| I'm some great struggle of the past, we
may conclude that the production Of
winged seed-vessels. by msuring the
wider territorial distribution of the
| trees that bore them saved the ances-
tors of the naples. and those of the
ash, from extinction.
"That this is true, It may at first be
somewhat difficult to apprehend The
ashes and naples, It may be said,
grow peacefully, and in their tranquil
shade there is nothing that smacks of
struggle. But he who argues
thus is thinking of present and local
conditions only. Now let us look at
one of these trees under another and a
different environment. Upon the great
Pine Ridge Indian Indian reservation
in South Dakota, for example, are nu
merous streams and draws or coulees
(Which are nothing more or less than
ravines or gullies free of water except
in time of food and rain) which, as a
rule, are far below the general surface
of the adjacent country, and often
miles from one another Upon the
flood-plains of such streams, and in
the draws grow ash trees and box
elders in company with trees of a few
other species. Nowhere on the high
dry hills do they or any other trees
except pines, grow; although l have
often found their wind-tossed samaras
there; and if termination takes place
the seedlings are doomed to perish
Along the draws and other watel
courses all the various kinds of trees
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-02

When it comes TO measuring
strength with the mighty ocean man
has to bring all his ingenuity and
victory. And yet how often he has
been victorious over the elements and
planted his lighthouses in places
where 1t was said that no human pow
er could succeed. And although at
first defeat and failure may be met
with, as was the case in the fall of
1895 with the effort to sink a caisson
In Chesapeake bay for the building of
lighthouse foundation, man generally
persists and finally conquers.
There is a struggle going on At the
present time off the mouth OF the Ma
gothy river in Chesapeake bay, 20
miles from Baltimore, which is at
tracing the attention of the engineer
ing world. AS we have said, in the fall
of 1906 a 972-ton caisson was floated
to the spot, but before It could be
sunk below the power of the waves
it was caught by a northeaster and
capsized, and now the struggle Is on to
right the immense wooden box. Early
last spring, says the Scientific Ameri-
can, in telling of the beginning OF the
herculean task, after the ice had gone,
the new contractors, who had been en-
gagged by the surety company which
was on the bond of the first contractor
began the erection Of pier on either
side of the caisson. Owing to the
formation of the bottom, which was
Of soft mud for a considerable depth,
It was necessary to drive 10Ofoot
piles, and by the first OF August the
piers, 40 feet wide and 120 feet long,
were completed There We're then laid
on the upper side ten 5O-fOot l2inch
square timbers bolted securely. The
ends Of the timbers projected out over
the iron cylinder, and the whole was
firmly bound with wire cables Then,
on the after part of the caisson and
resting on the foundation of the tim
bers, an A frame was erected The
frame is SO feet high, and from the
base there projected ten 70.foot weight
arms, and to each of the latter there
were swung 20 tons of pig lead, max.
ing a total of 200 tons. It was esti-
mated that, by using the lower lip Of
the caisson as fulcrum, the actual
weight to be lifted would not exceed
500 tons, and it was estimated that the
weights could be supplemented by der
ricks.
In order to obtain for the derricks
as much Of a purchace as possible,
there were built two sticks" each 70
feet long and "a inches square, which
the divers put in place through the
central shaft in the caisson. From
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-02
AWAKENING TO WESTERN
IDEAS SURPRISES WORLD.
Is Adopting the Latest Inventions and
Making Strides Toward Complete
Modernization Of Habits and
Methods.

At last western ideas have pene
trated the Chinese intelligence and
the awakening is likely to be swift
and of extraordinary importance TO
the world The sleeping giant is rous.
ing himself and when he shakes the
counterpane of the world the nations
Of Europe will do well to look TO their
supremacy. For behind the exclusive.
ness of the ages there lie forces that
come overwhelming. The China Of
to-day is not that of ten years ago.
Her army is undergoing thorough
reorganization, and NO longer win the
Chinese approve their ancient prov.
orb, "One does not take the best iron
to make hooks, nor brave men for
soldiers Smart uniforms. modern
weapons, and drill are now in use on
every parade ground, and even the
very small boys of the nation are uu-
dor military instruction. The soldiorly
ideal is taking root. and these small
cadets are said TO give every promise
of smartnoss and efficiency
III luhNNIl ldl lllt IT Us the same nc
printing press OF the west has come
o. the land whore the art was known
long before CaXtou. The Celestial
compositor stands at European cases
filling his stick, and I'm the machine
rooms the most perfect presses driven
by electricity are looked after by
clever worltmen who have learned
their business I'm Europe. Thus the
Chinaman Of to-day receives his up.to.
date newspaper.
On the railways Chinese officials
drive the latest patterns Of locomo-
tives, which are sometimes built in
China, or If not are put together there
by native artifcers.
On the roads the motor car has
made its appearance-not the anti.
Quated machines that Europe has cast
aside, bat powerful new vehicles Of
from 20 10 30 horsepower. II is moth
ing uncommon TO see the staid man
DARN rushing along in his motor on
business or pleasure. II is regretta
bic that the picturesque national cos
tune is yielding to the top-hat and
/ frock coat, but this penalty to prog
The daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 190?-1908, 1907-02-02

that grow in such places are crowded
together in dense and tangled masses:
wherefore Il is to the advantage Of a
given species that it's seeds shall be
carried TO draw or creokplain
where the chances of life are more IA
vorable."
To show h6w these conditions might
develop wings on seeding the
writer supposos an ancestor Of the
trees bearing such seeds to be grow
ing in an isolated draw" amid vast
barren hills. It's fruits, while wing
less, may be supposed to produce occa.
sionally a minute winglike appendage
on the end or margin, as do many
plants. The winds carry a few of the
nascent key-fruits far away to the fer.
tile soil of another aood.plain, as yet
unpeopled by trees. Other seed-yes-
sells. unable to fly far -th the winds.
perish IN the tree-crowded coulee or