Norwich bulletin., 1915-12-14
IMPORTANT INFLUENCE ON
 INSURANCE DISTRICT,
Charles F. Moves Go. Has Played Big
 Part in New York.

In its current issue The Insurance
 Advocate of New York gives a sketch
 of the Charles F. Moves Company of
 New York along with cuts of Presi-
 dent Charles F. Moves, formerly of
 this city. Secretary Fisher P Weaver
 and Insurance Renting Specialist
 Francis w. Gridley.
 Of the important part the com
 pany has played in changing and
 greatly improving the insurance dis
 trict in New York The Advocate says:
 The Charles r. Moves company, than
 which no real estate firm in New York
 has grown more rapidly during the
 past five years, is so closely associat-
 ed with the insurance business and fn-
 surance interests that it seems emin- ently fitting and proper to furnish our
 readers with further details of the ex-
 change negotiated by the company for the Postal Life Insurance company. The largest real estate brokerage transaction ever closed in New York city, involves the exchange of the 15- story Postal Life Insurance Building at Liberty and Nassau streets, valued at S3,235, 900, for the new 16-storv Guar anty Trust Company building. at Fifth avenue and 4Srd street, valued at more than S3,000,000. The values involved aggregate nearly $S,000, 900.
 In the same exchange. the Postal Life Insurance company disposed of the 10-story mercantile building at No. East 1Ith street, the S-stOry loft building at No. S0-S2 Wooster street very large apartment house at Am sterdam avenue and 106th street, and the Germania Bank building, at Sa-
 vannah, Ga, which is one of the fin- est bank buildings in the south This exchange is proof of the pro-
 gressive spirit back of the manage ment of the Postal Life Insurance Company and the selection of 4Srd street and Fifth avenue is conceded by real estate men to be a master stroke | in the securing of a location second to none in the e of New York At the same time, the company diso<s of l scattered real estate interests and | brings together in one excellent hold l ing with a tremendous future substan- | New York.
 Charles Moves founded the com pany which bears his name in 1898 and since then has devoted a majority of his time and effort to insurance inter- ests, as they relate to real estate and to the formation of the new insurance district on William street from Maiden lane to Fulton street
 Through his efforts were erected the | 12-story Grankel building. at No. 45 | John street, the 16-story Hilliard building at No. 5 John street a1d the 6-story Golden Hill building at No. 59 John street. To the Liverpool & Lon- f don & Globe Insurance company he | sold it's present home at No. S0-S2 William street and only recently he
 sold the 11,00o-foot plot at the north | east corner of John and William
 streets to Harry F. Blanchard. who | no doubt represents large and powerful | insurance interests.
 Several years ago he sold to Julius | Kayser for the North River interests | the 16-story building at No. 95-97 | William street and about a month ago
 sold the building at No. 1OS-1O5 Will | fam street.
 Numerous other sales all having a | direct bearing on the new insurance | district have been made by him during | the past eight years, one of the largest | plottages being the sale of Nos. 130-13A | 5000 square feet.
 The large leases made by him and | his office are almost too numerous to mention, but they include the lease of
 two floors at No. 59 William street | to the Ocean, single floors in the same
 the Williamsburg City; the lease of | entire floors at No. 100 William street | to the Aetna of Hartford and the | Phoenix of London; the lease of entire | floors at No. 55 John street to the | Northern of London, the London
 Great Eastern Casualty, Kelly & Full
 Ter, J. c. Hilliard, John A. Eckert & Company and the General Accident l Fire & Life Assurance corporation;
 and the lease of the entire building al | No. AS Dutch street to the Connecticut | Union assurance.
 The transactions above mentioned
 are but the largest of many closed by | MT. Moves and his office and clearly show the txamandnus haaring his af-