New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-24

and telling you all about it. And l.,
us quote from a booklet which NJ
Linton told a reporter for The Tribuns
as he handed 1t to him (no he did M,
know he was a reporter) that it cost
him 81 400 for 10000 of them. "Yesp
went on Mr.. Linton, who is a fne
talker, they cost me If cents each.p
Also Mr. Linton confded to the re-
porter that he saw the man who sold
the Brooklyn Bridge for $500 to a Door
Dutchman.
do you know him." he was asked.
"Oh. no. just had him pointed on,
to me in the Criminal Courts Building
He was a slick looking person."
Then Linton turned to man who
was with him and said: II think III
sell some one the Singer Building or
the Woolworth Building"
Linton laughed at his little joke and
his little audience laughed with him.
"Provsion FOR the Future"
The primary design OF this COM
pany and please remember all this IS
from the Manhattan Mutual Realty
Company's own booklet and one Of
greatest importance is TO lend aid TO
men who desire to use their incomes
to provide definitely for the future.
The Manhattan Mutual Realty Com
pany is incorporated under the laws Of
the state OF New York. The organiza-
ton is presided over by men who ara
willing and anxious to deal Justly
and fairly with their clients, seeking 10
unfair advantage, but preserving tho
equities Of all.
THE company is amply able to carry
out all it's contracts TO the letter. and
its responsibility is unquestioned.
I'VE invite your most serious atten-
ton to the free deed feature OF our
contract. After you have paid In your
initial home instalment we will give
you q free deed to the home in tho
event Of death, provided the payments
have not been at any time more than
thirty days I'm arrears, and provided
you are not over fifty years Of age and
in good health OF the time Of taking
possession Of your home
Now, how do some who have dealt
with Linton regard his home contracts?
Here are a couple of opinions:
ANY one could see through a." said
Mrs. William G. Aymar OF No. 35J
Chauncey street. Brooklyn, and I
made my husband give it up after he
paid In SO. Linton stu has the
money"
II didn't see through II until I had
paid in Si3," said Mrs. Minnie Scholzs,
OF No. 1l32 Lafayette avenue, Brook
Ign. land can't get cent Of II back
But Linton hides behind all such
claims on the ground that the contract
provides that the purchaser Of II must
pay in 500 before the contract be-
comes binding.
In a typewriter statement. written
in Linton's office, the profits Of The
Manhattan Mutual Realty Company
are given as $4,000 in three years.
But where II went TO. if Linton ever
made this sum, no one knows, for three
times has he been served with dispos-
sess notices by his landlord, and IL was
only three weeks ago that the house Dc
lived in at Glen Morris. Long Island
was bought in by William y. Ridge
who held a mortgage on the property,
under foreclosure proceedings.
This house and many others pictured
in the l4-cent booklet as having been
built by the Manhattan Mutual Realty
Company were never built by that com
pany. according to information given
to a reporter for Tho Tribune by those
who are In a position to know.
Naturally, the question arises. Who
is Linton?
The business world OF this city did
not know OF him until a dozen years
ago. when he breeZed I'm after touring
the country with a moving picture ma
chine. He also gave lectures on the
beauties of Cuba. and sold Cuban plan
tations. Then he found work with
real estate company. and after work.
ing for a time as salesman 10
branched out on his own hook