New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-30
ROCKEFELLER PAYS TOP
PRICES TO NE|CHBORS
Beats Catholic Missionary &c.
ciety in Bid for Property at
P0CantiC0 Hills.
PURCHASES RIVALS FARM
Man Who Defeated His Candi-
date for School Board Finally
Sells After Holding Out
for Fifteen Years.

John D. Rockefeller beat the Catholic
Foreign Missionary Society of America at
Pocantlco Hills on Saturday when il came
to the purchase of Joseph Oussani's place,
home, and yesterday he bought Irving l..
Bryants place OF twenty-six acres Bry-
ant was the farmer who beat Mrs. ID. Nj.
Milton, Mr.. Rockefeler's candidate for
school trustee. Mr.. Rockefeller protested
the election and recently succeeded In
having the State Department order an
other one.
Now that Bryant has sold out and In
tends to move away. Mr.. Rockefeller will
have the field to himself. also the Bryant
place. for which he has been bidding for
fifteen years.
The quick action on Mr.. Rockefeller's
part. came when he learned that his
neighbor Joseph Oussani, who owns more
than fifty acres adjoining the Rockefeller
estate on the north. had given an option
to Father Walsh. Of the Catholic Foreign
Missionary Society. Of Hawthorne, for
$3.50 OF which $4,000 was to remain
on mortgage. The society obtained the
option on July IL. and it ran for one
week.
According to Oussani. they let the OPP
ton expire, and the next day Nichols
& HobDie made him an offer of $4,000,
He signed the papers, the purchaser being
J. Alva jenkins. Mr.. Rockefeller never
buying In his own name. The Lowrie es-
tate OF more than fifty acres was also
lying idle. and Mr.. Rockefeller, 10 shut
of any further encroachments, ordered
that bought, and the deed was soon I'm
his hands.
When the Brothers learned that Oussani
had sold his property tn Mr.. Rockefeller
they went to Bryant. and the two Broth
ers who inspected ii said IL was all right
and that two more Brothers would come
tomorrow TO finish the transaction.
John Reedy, another Rockefeller agent,
heard of the proposed deal, went to Bry-
ant and offered him his price, $4,000
Heretofore Mr.. Rockefeller would never
go above $4,000. Bryant will live in
Rhinebeck
John X. Ewing, OF cobb Lane, counsel
for the catholic Foreign Missionary So
Clflb. Drought tAlt dSdlllSl OuoSaHi Nv
White Plains yesterday 10 compel him to
deliver the deed to the society and not to
Mr.. jenkins. when seen at his home he
said:
we had an option from Oussani for
81. 90, but when Mr.. Rockefelier's agent
onered him $4,000 II looked good 10 him
and he accepted. He will find that he is
In bad. for We exercised our option, and
We will get the property or heavy dam
ages. Mr. Rockefeller was unnecessarily
excited about the brothers home. They
didn't want to interfere with him. and
had they bought the property they would
have been the best OF neighbors.'
Mr.. Oussani. when seen at Pocantico
HIS. laughed and said.
"Oh, they can't frightcn me. The
brothers let the option expire and MI.
Rockefeller bought my property
Mr. Rockefeller's agents say Oussani
was protected and the sale was absolutely
good The Christian Brothers have d
large home AT Pocantico HIS and a large
estate. It adjoins Mr.. Rockefeller's es-
tate. and he did not want TO be hcmmed
in bv another one. Every one admits that
while he outwitted the brothers he paid
top notch prices, something lac seldom
does