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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29

still has its opportunities 10 retrieve
what the city has for all time lost in
such assets in Manhattan.
But how about observation-disclosures II
some day be the old time story Of our an-
cestors never dreamed of such d growth
or land values now make such course
impossbleg What is the present gen
Grafton doing for our future citizens or
more pointedly LET us inquire what pro-
visions are being made by our wise Off
cials for the children of tomorrow?
Those OF to-day will have room for
playing. But their children what OF
them? Will there be parks and play
grounds in each centre so that those
citizens Of the future county viii have
the valuable aids of recreation and OUT
door sports with room 10 swing bat
or = tennis racquet? Shall the Parkway
ne the only monument 10 stand forever
a bulwark to business and It's dollars
or shall other GASES offer succor to the
Young and the weary"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29
A FUR FARM.

The value OF common skunk is dou-
bic. and that Of black skunk fourfod.
what II once was, so that II Is possible
tn grow skunks for profit to-day.
Because my interest In the matter was
chiefly to show that IL was prohtaple
national industry. ! must prove II so by
making II commercial success. Ihat 10.
I mist have an exact account OF every
cent spent
First. / made large cage feet square
and z feet nigh, at cost Of sl5-unneces-
sarily high and unnecessarily expensive,
now see. although l DIVIDED IL IN three,
families, Tile only object in making the
dens so high is for convenience in clean
Ing. but IS inches is really enough AN
OTHER time / should make the dens smaller
ia in aropus four or five stories high.
and SO get a dozen or mere for about $oo
Ernest Thompson Seton In Country Life
I'm America.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29
ERASING OLD AGE MARKS .
Architect and Broker Tell How
10 Improve Structures.
ALTERATIONS HELP INCOME
Opportunities for Spectators
and Investors Near the
New Civic Centre.

Elecus ID. Litchdeld. Of the architect
ural finn of Tracy. Swartwout < Itch
field is the author Of ar article in The
Real Estate Magazine" which describes
how 20 r,iu,crate OLD buildings. lie says:
I'll is not the actual age which counts
iu "a building any more than 10 rs win
man. and old buildings may hoid their
place in the community as DO our elderly.
DISTINGUISHED citizens. Indeed. II rightly
handled. their age may well he an 9ssc'
rather than the reverse. Brick and c'-
mcnt 90 not grow Old and seasoned TIM
bcrS are of more value than new ones.
These two elements comprise the largest
percentage of our old buildings. ana with
the more impcrishable steel cast iron ana
terra Gotta the greater part OF the more
modern ones.
Not every property owner can put up a
WoolWorth Building or singer Tower
and many others would be- content TO re-
cefvc th. same net income from then
prOperty that they did when their build
iugs were Gr~t erected. tut trade follows
imurov. mcuts. and the best tenants VIII
eventually leave a district or building
which does not keep pace with the times
n is worth while for the owner of the
old building % stop and consider what IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29
FAVOR BIG PARK CENTRES 4 BUSY CITY OFFICE
Activities of Brooklyn Topo-
graphical Bureau.

Alfred T.. Steers President o. Oh" Bor-
.o,.,t .r pr,ot.,, describes u inf. last
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undo. nus ''' '.''' ~ ''''
TopoeIapmeal Bureau
ne saws tho work of the bureau consists
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....
.'' OBJ
monts ana ""ih performer "F 'H' ONCE
division II fU" preparation OF necessary
mann. ,..i..... r.r,,,s
Inc ''u''.'.s 'I ''''7 .'"' arc ''''"
in d. scoop. peri ming considerable
amount NJ work and compiling data for
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government "- "''I "s TOT ''' '"'e"u9
under thc jurisdiction OF tho Borough
President
Communicative. .-..... 49,. 1870
si"phi'.u bureau may Dc ue"h'' as .p'-
lows.
4 ~. mako t1u1sraphi,sI surveys and
communication, and 10 prcpare mans. plans
and p,ofIas sketches etc. for altering
,,.. ,',..,. ,,, ,.l.,,. az tho CITY az Nov, York
and far .couirioo title 10 streets ave-
,,,.. ,.,,il,e marks pla.as etc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29

needs, says The Real Estate Record OF
Westminster County.
It also says on this important subject
in part as follows
"The unexpected and strange view oi
the surrounding buildings now attracts
more attention i'm New York than the
former ruins of the Equitable. for thou
sands are just learning what the neigh
boring streets really look like when seen
from ,he vantage point Of block away.
Since the fine architectural proportions
thus displayed have been appreciated
ly the man in the street IT Is a sig
nifcant fact that there has been talk
in the neighborhood OF the dcsirability
OF preserving this temporary air space
as a public park. The prohibitive valu-
alton of the site, Sl2.0oo0po does nothing
to lessen the strength Of the argument
for proper planning ~ advance for parks
and Fairgrounds. Upper New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29

&C. that rho modern skyscrapcr, 10Y OF
nffco building offers which ne peIIaiapt
docs not give to his tenant, IN tne III IL
pIace. cleanliness ana ItNpCO ldolll.N, Oh
v,ith IFS attendant good elevator St.No,'
In Tho third place. modern SANITARY az
rapgcments I'm the iourlh ldagtS', o,d
0uatc fire protection. ana Hl IN III go
last and as important as any. OF H"T M
'3.ost .ai5 more important than an OF
In" ,,9ers. adequate lighting, both naturai
les in tbo light Clear out unnecessary
,te+,rctlous paint the dark and d'nsN
v,glie and your buildings viii nave taken
the first step toward rejuvenauon.
There Is another item ~ adNahtsaEs
that the large modern buildlng can on
which its older and more modest neisn-
Dor cannot. and that is me housing ,,GGd wa
Gor ono roof Of many similar or allied
industries. But business IS uone IN -. 49,
are few industries thar are accoiiii'o
dated I'm any one bulldlnE' , ., LII
n would be a valuable thing II indl
vidual owners Of buildings IN New 1oIh
CITY would occasionally nave a SurNtN
made of their properties by coihpe-
tent architect to determine whether ana
ia what ways their buildings nave come
TO be out Of date. An ounce OF, pr
ventinn is worth a pound or cure: anu
a roufepted tenant is the landlord pest
friend. WHY is IL that whole sections
Of Now York property change so RAPID
IL in their business complexion? Is II
not because the property owners through
Ilindnrce or some other cause DO not
keep their property in an up TO date con-
dition9 Of course. there Is the change
due 10 the uptown movement or DCSl-y
moss hut this other cause STANDS Slue
bv side with IL as factor IN the chahSe
in the real estate map
Charles +. Noyes. Of the Charles +.
Moves Company. says in the same maya
zine ON this subject OF remodelling Old
buildings:
To one who thoroughly understands real
estate conditions in any active business
neighborhood a splendid opportunity eN-
lists for making profits by PURCHASING
old buildings Of 8utiquated appointments
and rcmodenng them so that they meet
the spcciiic demands Of those dong DGsl-
ness IN that particular district me
same opportunity exists FOR the owner
who through purchase. inheritance or
otherwise owns a building that Is obsO-
Ietc and from which the income is not
large
Tho most successful transactions for
the. clients of the office ] represent IN pro-
nortion 10 the amount Of money invested
nave been those involving the acquire
n.nt of old buildings (Which 10y reason
of their dilapidateC condition produced
little on no incomef and their alteration
and rental under advantageous conditions.
This work has become with me almost
a science and Il Is q branch OF the Ousl.
ness 10 which / have given great zeal
Of thought
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29
ADVANTAGEOUS LEASEHOLD
The Popular 99-Year Term
Safeguards All Interests,

Among the many important papers read
a. th. last convention ~ Tine National As
ISOLATION Of Real Estate Exchange. held
at Louisville. was on, OF "Ninoty-nine-
Year LaaschuldS." lv AlcNaudc" :. Tay-
lor. 81 former president Of the association.
Tie said that the negotiation of ninety.
rine-year lcaseholds is one of the most
Important parts of the real estate bus.-
ness
'It has proven most adv8utaCeous ANA
remunerativo TO the brokers handing the
transaction" added Nj Taylor. 'as well
a, 90 the lessees who have operated under
This plan Its possibilities and benefits
arc 50 farrcachinc and within the grasp
OF every active real estate broker who
; is alive to his opportunities that ! urge
upou YOU a careful study OF the posi-
biHttcs that are presented through this
line Of work.
a rlnoty-uinc-year leasohold is merely
all extended form Of lease Containing
clauses and provisions for the safeguard
ms of the Interests Of both the lessee and
lessor. and providing additional clauses
of agreement which will care for future
conditions beyond the life of the present
parties to- the lease.
The wording II clauses iu q "-year
lease is framed according TO the require
monts 10 be mel I'm almost every lease
there IS some special feature 20 be- en-
bodied. so that it is difficult TO tnd "a
form which will adapt itself to all pur-
poses. often thr parties TO the lease
u some form that is o matter OF recon
sud copy verbatim the provisions with
.he result tuat some important features
arc left out of their lease which have been
omtaped. leaving cause ior misundr.-
standing and legal construction ot fa-
tu.e date. I would strongly recommend
The preparing OF 2 form by competent
Bttorn.y experienced I'm such i'-ai docu-
reuty and mat YOU leave no opportunity
for fYtur. generations to doubt your Wis
dom and business ability.
while the forms Of nineiy-niue-ye"
l.ascholds differ vet the principle IS quite
the same. and the clauses are Identical m
yurnOSe"
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ment of Taxes and Assessments. Depart
ment Of Bridges, Department of Water
Supply, Gas and Electricity, and also for
the public generally.
6. TO connect the traverse lines. monu-
mentcd street lines and monumented lines
holding the triangulatlons stations TO the
several secondary stations on towers N
this borough
T. To make surveys ana To prepare
plans and prohles for all original improve
ments that are undertaken by the Bureau
of Highways. TO determine for all con-
tracts let by the Highways Bureau the
amount Of excavation. amount Of fill,
number of linear feet of curblng. number
OF square feet of sidewalks. number OF
cubic yards OF concrete and the number OF
square yards Of asphalt, and to furnish
the contractors with line stakes, grade
stakes and monthly estimates Of cost
Of preparation of maps in street opening
proceedings, for the use cf the Corpora
ton Counsel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29

twenty-five Offices on each moor, varying
in size from IS BY % to the smaller sizes
Of 10 by u feet
The building will be equipped win
three fast elevators and will, in every re-
spect. be equal TO the best ONCE nuiiu-
ings in Manhattan.
The facade of the building will be OF
white glazed terra Gotta with poIychro-
matte glazed terra Gotta In the paneis'
belt courses, etc. The sides of the buiid-
ing will be treated the same as the front.
The estimated cost Of this building Is
s6i6.Oog.
This building was designed and Is oeins
constructed under the supervision OF
Emery Roth. architect.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29
TO BUILD IN MONTAGUE ST.
Office Structure Will Be Erected
from Designs by Emery Roth.

The new office building which will be
pany on their plot on Montague street,
Brooklyn. will be within a few blocks
Of the Court House and Municipal Build
ings. 1t will adjoin the ten-story build
ing OF the Lawyers Title and Trust Com
pany.
The first floor OF the building will be
occupied by a bank. the other stories be-
ing laid out into Offices. There will be
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To Provide for Future Needs OF
Westminster County.

Now is tho time for tho various towns
and cities of Wcstchestcr County TO pro
vide adequate parks for ta'ir iii.'t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-29
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE ORC LET
CONNECTICUT.

sOUTHFIELD POINT. on THE SOUND.
Stamford. Conn.--Well situated plot, 1s0xitI
Beautiful trees: improved streets Superior SUI
roundngs. Price So 800. Terms 10 satisfactory
purchaser. Fifty minutes TO New York.
BADGLEY. JONES g. GOOD. sos Fifth Ave.
Telephone 40 Murray Hill.
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MILEAGE OF PAVEMENTs. 75s.

Tie Borough eli Brooklyn has over '5G
miles OF payements. TIE various kinds
Of ravements and the mileage are as fol-
lows:
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that the Borough OF The Bronx might re-
ceive it's share OF the appropriations for
the benefit OF its valuable waterways.
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SKETCH FREIGHT TUNNEL
submitted Board Of Ee by
Il Divides cos dua d with
would DC ROADWAY az
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COUNTRY REAL ESTATE wANTer

GOOD FARM WANTED EAST OF BUF-
falo In part payment for ten-acre orange
and lemon ranch in Glendora. California.
most delightful climate and scenery in state.
absolute frostless. very easy terms on bal
ance OF purchase price. Address \. !.
KELLY. 10 May ST. New Rochelle. y. y.
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Is Cherry ST.

lNear Franklin square.
\ > story e basement brick 4 brownsjohe
tenement with store. and , story brick eN-
tension in the rear Size Of lot 2ilO'tN
l31 SIX itreg
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
BY JOHN w. KERN
United States Senator from Indiana

IRON 1854, when 1 four years old, until 1864
i when was fourteen, l lived with my parents
farm in the State of Iowa. Those enough
pioneer days. for during that ten-year period never
saw railroad train.
We had district school near hCIse, and it
good Up the winter of 1868 and "a we had male
teachers of the oldfashioned type, who "boarded
around among the patrons of the school, and did their
janor work in making fires and caring for the little
school house the prairie But that winter
there was a new departure We to be modernized
A young woman who had attended normal school
somewhere employed and the Oldfashloned system
was revoutionzed She declined to board around and
also required the township trustee to provide Janor
service The question then of interest to the boys of the
neighborhood who would get the job of making
fires each morning and keeping the schoohouse Clean
Bids received informally; and, while my bid may
lived nearest the schoohouse should have the job.
So entered into contract with that official to buld
fire in the schoohouse every morning at least
hour before the opening of school, and to sweep the
floor least day and oener If necessary, and
to receive the splendid of five cents for each
school day. twenty-five cents week. three dollars
for the winters work
Every morning l had my breakfast before daylight,
did my chores at home then trudged to the school
house, often through great snowdrifts, generally
counterng bitter cold weather. and did my work to the
satisfaction of the teacher and the trustee. At the end
of the school term received what seemed to vast
sum,-three dollars.
kept that money for year until returned
to the land where the locomotives whistled; and once
there only few lessons needed to perfect the
science of spending money, science IN which l have
excelled even down to the present day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13
BY JAMES S. SHERMAN
Vice President of the United States

no remember how earned my first dollar? Yes
- and have vivid recollection of the manner in
which spent it, too. That experience stands out like
a milestone in my boyhoods memory because of the
fact that dollar in those days big cart
wheel l only ten years old at the time, and the
feeling of proud achievement that possessed me when
had finished that three weeks arduOus work has
been equaled through the intervening years
| was raised on farm, and this by means my
first work Everyone knows who has lived farm
that the work of choreboy is finished. But the
period of three weeks wherein held my first paying job
made distinct impression upon me. 1t increased my
self respect, and made me feel that important
factor in the workaday world.
AS look back now, in memory, feel again the exul-
tation that upon me when l realized that my
services at last appreciated that what told
to do would not be looked upon duty | owed in
being member of the family On the contrary, was
to be paid for doing the thing that might have been
as necessary cog in the wheel of agriculture What
matter if the wages small? They sufficient
to awaken in me the desire to earn my way and gave
of personal responsibility that nothing before
that time had done.
| worked for three weeks leading horse from hay
fork, and given the munifcent of one dollar
and fifty cents for my labor They did not do their hay
ing then they do now, with the improved meth
DDS of agriculture They raked the hay into windows
with onchOrse hayrake and after it was loaded on the
wagon hauled to the barn and lifted into the hay
by the horse fork, which fastened to end
OF the rope operated through pueys at the top of the
barn To the other end of this rope the old gray
hched, and would lead her back and forth the
fork-ills hoisted into the haymow.
By beginning at six o'clock in the morning and work
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utterly without thought reason except Jack lml-
nent peril struck the beast again and again directly in
the face. The seeming result would have been to bring
the tiger at single leap into the launch but her hits
fell the most sensitive part Of his anatomy the nose,
and with snarl of pain the beast scrambled back to miss
his insecure foothod and fell with tremendous splash
into the water The limb of the tree thus released from
the tigers weight shot upward and relieved itself also OF
launch.
Followed then confusion in the launch, out of which
Masterson recolects only these facts In response to
frantic shouts from Holmes, he rushed to Miss Cum
noCks assistance to find her beabong the paw OF the
tiger with her broken boahook On recovering from his
sudden immersion, the enraged beast had turned with
the object of boarding the launch, and secured grip
upon the gunwale. The weight OF 1t had drawn the
cleaned over the side. All hands sprang into the fight
with whatever weapons could be snatched up at such
desperate emergency but with result that reached
entirely into the problematcal.
THEN a strange and unexpected thing happened.
Suddenly the tiger lost his hold and sank beneath
the water In another moment he came to the surface,
giving terrific which shook the Businesses
supple body doubled up and engaged in titanic conflict
with another huge form that threshed the water into
muddy foam with its powerful tail
"Great Scott" exclaimed Holmes in awe-lnsplred
accents "He's been grabbed by a crocodle!"
For time there was fear that the fighting beasts
would overwhelm the launch in their death struggle
but the tiger gradually gained footing IN the mud and
drew his enemy after him into the underbrush. From
that of sinister baCkneSS could still be heard the
tigers muled and snars of rage the swapping of
immense Jaws and the rendng of small trees as II they
were saplings In little these sounds grew fainter,
sinking into the gasps of departing breaths
then again fell the silence.
AFASTERSON found immediate occupation in trying
1VA to reassure Mrs. Cumnock; but he thought he
heard crying softly that she hadn't meant"
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etc. and Holmes consolng "he puckest girl on earth.
And when Holmes proposed to climb along that tree
limb for assistance, the would have none OF It,
declaring she going to take care of him forever
Therefore Masterson Judged that Holmes had
mounted his crisis and his climax with flying coors
In the sequence of events the next incident was the
flaming of lamps the bank of the nullah, and
sahibs voice haling the launch.
as that MaSterson? Well, one OF your servants
reached my place and said you sh1pwrecked here
From the look of things there to have been rather
a fght-a tiger and crocodile dead in each others
jaws by Jove!"
kingdom you mean!" retorted Holmes.
"Ah! 1t does And very fine tiger. III"
"Yes but hold on cried Holmes "That is Miss
Cunnocks tiger. claim the skin her prize 1t was
her act that started his end"
ooh, very well" replied the voice from the bank.
"I1l instruct my people to take of it for her
Of how the party were taken from the launch and
spent the of the night at their rescuers house
need not be gone into in detail But few days later at
the Chowrnghee Club, when Masterson and Holmes
discussing the procedure of forthcoming event at
the cathedral, Masterson wanted to know how Holmes
came to face the tiger.
GAS sad," explained Holmes, "I went up there to
try and find way out of predicament. l hadn't
crept along the limb half dozen yards when saw the
tiger coming outward. First it became question Of
trying to prevent alarming the women"
"And after that?" put in Masterson
"Heaven knows! To save them at any risk, guess.
Since the launch stuck fast, and you hadn't any
weapons, that is why wanted torch Fire will gen.
orally any beast. You See he had jumped into
the launch"
at would have been all up with u.s." added Master
u wonder what people will say to my being best
man to the fellow who wins such girl? You ought to
have one of the Viceroy's aide-de-camps"
"Your turn will come next in the leading part
laughed Holmes slapping Masterson the shoulder,
"and mine to help you out with picnic-excepting the
tiger"
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responded with evident high tension But quick, Man,
get me a weapon of some kind!
"But there isn't weapon of any kind in the launch"
protested MaSterSOn.
"Then-then can't you make up torch-some Oil
rags the end of stick?
"What earth in the treetops for persisted the
puzzled Masterson.
"Never mnd-to see something. My Heavens, Man!
don't stop to ask questlOnS! came from Holmes with
suppressed nervous strain.
asterson to search the lockers for cotton waste
under the impression that Holmes must have become
slightly demented. Meanwhile, Miss Curnock had
overheard part of the discussion, and moved to
seek further enlightenment She mounted the seat in
the stern of the launch, having picked up bOathoOk
that she thought might Holmes purpose From
that point of vantage she could gain better view OF
Holmes bending low and otioness the tree limb,
nearly overhead and almost within reach of her hand.
"Jack! Jack!" she called. what you doing up
there? Why you acting so strangely:
At the sound of her voice he slightly turned his
head and thrust out hand with backward motion.
go away-please 60 back under cover, Ohve! he
urged with begging insistence.
"I1 do nothing of the kind" she retorted. u will
"My God" fell from his lips with a groan. "Olive-
for your life do what say! Masterson look out there
We're up against"
SHE startled by a. subdued growl of cavernous
~ DEPTH and the weighing downward of the tree limb
if being traversed by heavy body. Then against
the dark background of foliage bazed out two balls OF
green fire, flashing and changing to yellow tint They
slowly advanced to within couple of feet of Holmes
being separated from him by the insignificant
of a small branch. Then lOomed upon her Mortified
vision the crouching bulk of tiger creeping cautiously
uncertain that the creakng limb would support his
weight further. In another moment he had lowered
his immense head and stretched it around the branch
presumably with the object of Selling Holmes.
A cry of despair from Miss Cumnocks lips and
at the time she lifted the boathook and wildly