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STEINWAY TUNNEL
READY FOR PUBLIC
After ~ Years Of Waiting
First Train Will Be Sent
Through Tube Tuesday.

ARRANGEMENTS nave been completed for
celebrating the opening Of the Queens
Borough subway. formerly called the
Steinway tunnel and Belmont tunnel.
Tho tunnel. which connects Forty-sec-
ond street and Long Island city. will be
opened TO the public at ~ o'clock noon
next Tuesday. At II o'clock an onicial
train will convey the officers and direc-
tors OF the marlborough Rapid Transit
Company. members and engineers OF the
Public Service Commission. the Mayor
and other city officials. members OF the
Chamber OF Commerce Of the Borough OF
Queens and other local civic organiza-
lions of that borough. The train will
leave the Jackson avenue station. Long
Island City. and run through the tunnel
q the terminal in Manhattan.
During the past week tho company has
been operating experimental trains and
drilling crews for them. Twelve steel
cars will he placed In operation and
three trains OF four cars each Will run
IN a Roadway OF about four minutes.
While the operation OF the tunnel will
- a shuttle service bel " Long Island
City and New York transfers will he
given at the Manhattan end to the pres
ent subway. enabling passengers to ride
Tor five cents from Long Island CITY to
any part OF the present subway.
The greatest immediate beneht will be
TO the industrial section of Long Island
City adjacent to the stations. as II will
make available the entire labor supply
Of Manhattan for this growing factory
section.
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A. q. spaiding 4 Co. have leased
through Clark T. Chambers for twenty
one years from Esther Reinheimer. rep
resented by William r. Rose a. attor-
ney, the six story building at SIS Fifth
avenue. which With the Temple pmanu-
FL and the Hartman National Bank
occupies the block front between Forty
third M Forty-fourth streets. The
lease calls for q rental during the term
approximating 100000, and the lessee
has arranged TO make extensive altera-
tions. including a new front. upon taxi
ing possession on February 1. 1918. The
building was built about ten years ago
by Boehm 4 Coon and sold upon COM
pletion TO the present owners. The
property at $40 Fifth avenue was leased
in March, 1912, by the Spalding Arm
for the unexpired term Of Henri Bendel,
for whom Michael Dreicer built n seven
story structure on Fff~ty-seventh street
Just west OF Fifth avenue. Bendel was
paying $4,000 per annun for $50 when
Spaldins took his lease over at a rem
tai OF t22,600.
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BRONZE
KIOSK VENTlCATOR ANO
SIGN.
tn. 1t was said. to the satisfac

It's worth. Il was said. to the satisfac-
ton of the most exacting expert.
At the hearing before the commissior
several plans for ventilating the new
subways besides wide sidewalk grating
were presented. One OF the most inter.
estinE was 4 system Of kiosk ventilatorr
similar to those OF Berlin. Dresden.
Munich. Paris. Buenos Ayro. Rho Jan
GIRO and other foreign cities. Beauty.
efficiency. economy and a public con-
venience IL claimed for the kiosks BY
those who want them built.
Another attraction. and ono which will
catch the eye Of the taxpayer. 10 that
the kiosk will be given to tho city and
a yearly rental of 10000 paid to the
municipal government. This rental
would in time amount TO 800 900. and
II the ideas Of the kiosk interests were
to be carried out. Henry w. Newman.
chairman OF the company. said that a
new source OF revenue amounting to
more than 81, 900. 900 a year would come
into the pockets OF Father Kntcker-
booker. II was even estimated that the
revenue would amount TO S2.0o0.0oo.
To the city the only obligation for
the kiosk system would be the subsur-
face construction and the granting or q
franchise to the company to use the
panels OF the kiosks for advertising pur-
poses. The kiosk company 10 a new one.
II has q capital Of $4,000. 900 and On rs
hoard OF directors are said to be some
of the best known men in the city. The
company Is ready to spend $500, 900 n
erecting kiosks along broadway. They
will he Of statuary bronze twelve feet
high and Ave wide. They will sit over
n duct built to the subway's level. Be-
ing two feet wider than the lateral tun-
nels OF foreign cities II Ia planned to
put a spiral stairway In the interior f,r
use in case Of subway accidents such a.
that OF last February In the tube under
Broadway at Fiftieth street.
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boxes could be kept in tho kiosk. The
plan OF the company Is TO put one
on each block. On Broadway north
OF F%ifty-ninth street the kiosks would
he placed in the parked area In the
centre Of the roadway. In these a
runged stairway wide enough for two
TO ascend at one time would he built
instead OF a spiral stairway. The COM
pany would do all this for the city In
return for the advertising privileges.
They estimate that the problem Of out
Goor Advertising. one OF the troubles OF
the city, would he partly solved BY II.
In foreign cities the kiosks are the
only instruments Of outdoor advertise
ments permitted. From kiosks the city
Of Berlin derives an annual revenue OF
t95. 200.
Another plan suggested for ventilating
the tubes was offered by James 81.
Dudley. ventilation engineer and student
OF subways for many years His scheme,
he says. has the support OF many ven
tilating experts who were consulted by
his %hnanciers before they had agreed
through their representative. Campbell
Darlington. Il back his scheme. For II
Is claimed many advantages.
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BUILDERS BUY IN BRONX.

WEEKS AVENUE.-Thc sherman Com
pany has sold 20 Adelstein & Avru-
tine the plot. s&x95. at the southwest
corner OF Weeks avenue and 1894
street. 4. II. Levy was the broker
The buyers will improve the site
with a Ave story apartment house
similar TO the structure at Garrison
and Hunts Point avenues recently
built by them. II will contain accom-
modations for seven families on each
floor, arranged with three. four and
Ave room suites. As part OF the
deal the Sherman Company will fur
nish the building loan.
OL1NVILLE AVENUE-Alphonsc Dom
court. IA guardian OF Waiter Dom
court, sold the lot. 25Ni0o. or the west
side or Olinville avenue, Is feet south
Of Magenta street, to Serima Mascia.
for $500.
CHISHOLM STRFET-Kurz 4 Cren
have sold FOR Mrs. Henrietta c. Green
A plot 40xl20 on the west side OF
Chisholm street. 40 feet north OF
Freeman street. TO the Nosam Corpor-
alton. The seller took the dwelling ass
East 1924 street in trade. The lat
ter was reported sold yesterday.
ST. LAWRENCE AVENUE Scharo a
Co, have sold for Y Gilbert the dwell
ing 1926 st. Lawrence avenue, and for
Mrs. Levy the acant lot at 25s
Bronxview Park.
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OPERATORS BUYING
NEAR NEW SUBWAY
Many Flats Planned for Sites
Along Brooklyn Tran
sit Lines.

Building operations in Brooklyn last
week amounted to 3i.os%.3ab. Included
among the projected buildings are seven
teen tsnemsnts. cost 8sss,5oo: seventy
seven small dwellings. cost $500. ITS. and
twenty-five miscellaneous structures.
cost s425.o5o. The figures were carried
above the million dolla mark through
the Ming OF plans for a ten story brick
factory at the southeast corner OF Broad
way and Wythe avenue, 77x2bs. to cost
$4,000. The owner 10 the 0rstsch
Building Company.
Among the small dwelling operations
a half dozen call for rows Of six or more
In tho Brownsville East New York SEC
lions. Tho H. J. Wolf Construction
Company will build . row Of eleven two
story brick dwellings on the south sid
OF Seventy-irst street., east OF Eighth
avenue. at a cost OF SIS, 500. and Her
man Brandstein will build ten similar
dwellings on the east side OF West
Twonty-fourth street. north OF Mermaid
avenue. cost $4,000. A ROY Of six three
story dwellings with stores are 10 be
built by the Brooklyn Heights Lam and
iostkiBc company OH " cas- bluo VI
Grayescnd avenue north Of Avenue C at
4 cost OF So. 200.
Tenement operations are numerous In
the Eastern Parkway section. The
northeast corner Of the Eastern Parkway
and Ralph avsnu will be improved with
a $4,000 four story tenement by Israel
Halperin on the south side Of the Park
way. east Of Troy avenue. a similar
building TO cost ss6 900 will he built ny
'ts SfavATiv PAa1fv TNnnnanv m thu
.outhwest corner OF Eas, New York and
Ralph avenues Slutsky 4 Brunberg, Inc,
Will build WI four story brick tenements
Al a total cost Of s65 200.
The Iancsstershirc Realty Company
will spend s35 ,000 for a four story brick
dwelling. with stores. at the southeast
corner Of Avenue H and East Thirtsentt
strsst and On the west side OF East Thir,
tenth street, north Of Church avenue
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KIOSK IN STREET CENTRE
SHOWING LADDER 10 STREET
LEVEL.

N~A L. SAaS 10 lAsts tIttfn 10 tpgt,tl
.,S.. ,a ~" ~ 49,, s,,hnr.v.
ann,h.r IA ,,o, 4, ,,,I AZ mor. ,han
- 81. 80. .na,L a,a.na. So,
Iii an,,si,v ,or,na, ~. snhrav go
r. -. $500 =, atr ,ha, 90 20 no
found on the streets. when Is as inucn
las n human being can promise. The
scheme is A simple one, similar in pr'n-
ciple 10 the draw in the tall factory
chimney or the action OF a piston in
its case.
=, J.. A. D,u.,,. ala, o, can, 81
-. o. -. ~.
$50. - TO-. In 20 nu.,
.rna,tna
'a..o' -. oe 80.
s'A''oh.. u s,a,to"' = Ve eoa.eu
o y ar..smt Ieso'.;ns uoo's .un' s,nr
:" pa.''.y" ~ 20 .nn
.".,o'n ~
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N'osss' o.er u ooois WI oe ian'
w" WI uIaM II Il" i'o" Nv 'u'c u
'"' s'ee' Wv
The plan OF placing the doors at the
street entrances OF kiosks Is considered
the best. When so placed the fan will
be placed In the cupola OF the kiosk.
the foul air being driven out through
apertures in the cupola. The air sucked
out Will permit a greater inflow or fresh
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year. Another amendment adopted pro-
vides for compulsory arbitration between
all classes OF membership, Before the
adoption Of this amendment one party
to a controversy might ask for arbitra-
ton and the other might decline to ar
bitrate. Under the amendment failure
to agree to arbitrate subjects a member
to expulsion.
An amendment also was adopted pro-
viding for a new class OF members TO
be known as Registered members"
Under the present system and with 90
large q membership As the board has
1t is difficult to control the use OF the
board rooms by commission statesmen
and various employees of the 200 active
members. Registered members are TO
include any salesman employed in the
ONCE Of an active member OF the board
and In good standing In such ONCE, and
only such employees as are Registered
members" shall have the use OF the
board rooms. Cards OF identification
are to be issued. For such registered
members there 10 to be no initiation fee
but an annual fee OF IS.
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SUGGESTION -
FOR GUTTER NeNT1lATORS

and defeat the primitive system On the
greatest street in n OF the greatest
cities Of the world.
The spirit Of the opposition wa
shown several times since last March.
when the commissioners were reminded
that the courts aid would be X II
all other means failed TO carry their
point. On Wednesday the full strength
Of the association and dS determination
to night was displayed. Men Of an ranks
were In attendance At tho hearing.
Merchants controlling monster estab-
lishments, speaking with the knowledge
which Is only theirs, gave many rea-
sons why sratings should not be put
on Broadway or for that matter on any
other subway line.
Comparatively few pedestrians walk
over the gratings OF the old subway. A
feeling Of insecurity takes hold Of them
and they step of. II 10 not the best sort
OF footing at any time, and In winter
the slippery bars are a menace. Then
the odor which 10 pushed up into the
faces OF pedestrians by the passage OF
swift trains Is not forgotten and women
sequence 10 that gratings on Broadway
would reduce the walking space in many
sections by at least 50 per cent. THIS
would result In congestion and a per-
ceivabie loss Of pedestrians In time.
The diverting OF rad from Broadway
would be a mistake on the part Of the
city. one man said. Everything should
be done to foster trade there. not only
for its worldwide reputation as a street
Of shops and sights. but to sustain val
ues there, which means making good
tax bills.
"Trafic IL trade" the speaker con
tinued, and I hope the Public Service
Commission IL not so narrow minded as
not to see what we are nghting for ami
the harmful results that would come
from this primitive grating ventilation.
In London. Berlin and other cities Of
Europe with subways oz!nators are .
he found. These are machines which
suck in the air and after cleaning II bY
driving electric sparks through the vapor
send II out into the tube. II Is not a
costly system. and according TO our In
formant Is far superior TO other methods
OF ventilation"
When asked why Il had not been in
troduced here he remarked that we
were asleep. The estimator has been in
use for some time in Europe and proved
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GIVES MOTHER A HOUSE.
Judge Nolan buys Dwelling Oocu
pied by His Mother.

Judge Thomas Nolan has t-rlEN: 80
dwelling AT . Madison stree a., {
10 his mother. who occupies f." Sre
NNea N mo house for ma years ~, .
j. l"aih 90 cave II. As t-a roper,
was IN the market for sale and :ear.Ys
u might fall into the hands % peor
VINO would disturb his mother, lldg'
Nolan decided to buy the house, vN''-
for many years was his home
The dwelling is three Stories IS
with basement on o lot % sN,o Nc'rst
Pearl n Roosevelt streets ard nel-y
opposite Batavia street. Tae ta - p
Madison street WAS the hone e
Paddy Diver. boss q; thai 4 --'r'
for many years. In fact. thar r0v =
dwellings. the best kept IN the s-""or,
rejecting the former character o. Mad
lson street. WAS often refcrr'! 2.
Politicians Row.
The house Is bought from - 's'a'"
OF George Hudson, which hHs ""-"'
since 1877.
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9TH WARD OWNERS WIN.
Mayor Hats Plan 20 Put Encum.
branoe Yard in Madison D..

4 delegation Of property owner of
tho Fourth and Seventh wards appeared
before the Board Of Estimate last FRI
day 20 halt the corporation yard M
p~roverent work nov being done under
the supervision Of the Borough Presi-
dent, az II would work a great injury
to the neighborhood. causing a deprecia-
ton Of values to property owners.
President Marks has contended That
ne did not want 10 ~abrogate the contract
Tor building a $4,000 wall around the
property. az the city would be compelled
to pay damages. az tho work had been
started.
Tho Rev. James b. Curry. pastor Of st.
James's Church. asked the board to per-
init tho space planned for an sncum-
branoe yard TO be turned into 4 play
ground. Nicholas r, Walsh, a real es-
tate man. called the Mayors attention
TO the few tenements that surround the
block OF the old encumbrance yard at
Rivington, Mangin and Tompkins streets,
which neighhorhood IL not nearly AZ
th!ckly populated and has but one-third
as many tenements as tho site upon
which the city proposes to pit tina en-
cumbrance yard.
The Mayor ordered the work halted
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INTERIOR o.
SIDEWALK
KIOSK
SHOWING
MEANS or
ESCAPE ~
CASE OF
SUBWAY
ACCIDENT.

.

With 4 kiosk at thai spot Il is claimed
that he accident would have been
robbed Of Its horrors, a. the passengers
in the rains In the smoke flled ube
could have got TO Broadway In a COM
p ratively short time. Provided with
powerful suction fan II Is claimed that
each kiosk car draw out 10000 cubic
feet OF warm germ laden air in n minute.
as mv'h as can escape through 100 feet
OF street grating In the same time. The
air IL drawn UP and dispelled over the
heads OF pedestrians and not In their
faces. as 10 the case with the street
gratings, The air exhaust could wen he
sterilized before II passed through the
of the kiosk by means OF q mesh.
The k!osks could rest on granite bases
and would be octagonal In shape with
sides most OF which the kiosk company
would rent 10 advertisers
One panel would bs for the public.
Here would be listed the hotels. the
names OF civic officers, location OF public
buildings. Thermometer. barometer. hy-
drometer. Government weather bulletins,
police alarm and IRE alarm. which would
be connected with a Ore call on the sub
way level.
Waste paper rcceptacles and sand
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BUSINESS PROPERTY LEASED
Decorator cases 47th 50. BuiId,p.
stamp Co. in 2sth ~.

Royal Scott Gulden has leased n
Irwin Post, decorator. the building -
IL West Forty-seventh street for tina
Hyde Real Estate Corporation Mr.
Post will alter the builoins for MI. own
business. The same broker has leassd
the store at $50 Madison avenue n,
John Blai to I.atimer Speciality Shon
and space In the Keen Building. : to n
West Forty-ifth street, TO 5. LIMA
ladies' tailor.
Ames Il Co. have leased for
term of years for the estate o, G A
Winch to the Sperry n Hutchinson Com.
pany the Ave story building a, 2Ss.
900 West Twenty-eighth street, and with
the Rutland & Whiting Company N,
store at the southwest corner OF Nassau
and Beekman streets to the Emerson
o Company for a term OF years.
A. w. Miller 4 co. have lease
the three story bulldog at Ms
West Thirty-seventh street for L I
Williams to the Central Cornio> Works
third loft In Sl2 West Frrty-.ourth
street to Louis herman for furniture
snow rooms. Mr.. herman now has two
lofts In this building.
The Duross Company has leased On.
stable 1874 Bank street to George Csss,
FOR a term Of years also IA lots on
west street between Bethune and IVES,
I"e!fth streets 10 the Mead Trans..,
Company for a term OF years.
The Bryant Park Realty nv has
leased TO the Repetti Company a lof,
In Sl6-32o West Thirty-sixth street
Bastine & Co. have leased q floor IN
llf-ll6 East Thirteenth strost to N
Pollock.
william A. White A Sons hav ren,e
a floor In 80 West Twenty-seoond stree.
to the Paris Children's Dress Company
the second floor In the same bu.ltinr
TO Sol 5. MossessYn. and tho third noo.
To Silvorstein q Gross.
Pease 4 Elliman have l~Sssd for v
Il. Morgan the store at 20 HAst Twenty.
tlehth street TO B.. Whisky, who VII!
use ii for the sale Of stationary
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DUDLEY PLAN WHICH IS r,
SEAL STATIC
A.HENEWV A0aRS 0NA MI
AA.RENXWN 0ANeSM HoS1
ENTRANCE.
II. wCZIOW rms,

y ROADWAY merchants. big and
n small. property owners and
hotel residents OF that great
thoroughfare have banded together
in a nght to AVE New York from
. continuation OF primitive methods OF
v%entilating subways. The fight is one
that Will interest not only Broadway
interests but the entire town. In a few
months important links OF the great
$3.50. 00o. 900 subsurface transit will be
In operation. carrying millions Of trav-
oilers through the city every day.
Though these tubes will be up to the
minute in construction. equipment and
arrangement. in ventilation they will be
no better than the present tnbe. a pest
hole at its best. according to men who
claim to have studied the air problem
In the much overtaxed subway. This
subway was built without the aid OF
ventilatlng engineers. II was thought
the exits and entrances to the tube
would serve all the air needed.
When the mistake was discovered and
folks demanded better ventilation graf
ings were built in the sidewalks for 100
feet on each sid Of stations. II was
about the only means possible Of i'm
proving conditions in the tube without
suspending trafic and doing much re-
building, so IL has been claimed.
In no other city with subways will
street grating ventilators be found.
They have been tabooed by engineers
for many reasons. but chiefly because
they are u~nsightiy. dangerous In wet
and snowy weather. tend to street con-
-..,t..N A,I .. fnr frA,,, sAA hAst
Of airing the tubes.
II In the plan OF the Public Service
Commission. however. to install street
gratings for the ventilation OF the new
tubes. That ". the grstings will be
Installed unless held up by a court order
or q change OF mind on the part OF the
engineers OF the commission
The night against this means Of VEN
tilation and street obstruction began
about two years ago when the Broad
way Association. the collective name OF
hundreds of merchants and property
owners arrayed against the plan and
representing property amounting to
$500. 600. 900. announced that Broadway
would not permit gratings on that
street. 80 far In advance Of the con-
struction OF this part OF the tube. the
announcement was not given much at
tention by the subway builders and de-
eigners. A mere kick from a civic
association to impress its members with
the fact that their interests were be-
ing watched over by the officers OF the
association was not TO be considered
seriously may have been the attitude of
tho Public Service Commissioners,
Before the subway would reach that
stage OF construction the dissension
would be dead.
But while the Public Service folks
thought thus. II they thought at all
about the matter. David Robinson. sec
rotary Of the Broadway Association. In
his Office In the Hotel Martinique Jesse
!. Straus of r. n. Macy & Co, J. ID.
Thompson. president OF the Broadway
Association Robert W. Goelet, Warren
Cruikshank, w. S. ellison OF the Hotel
Martinique and q score Of others were
active planning moves to block. halt
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TRADING IN DR. OOKLYN.

Saul c. Lavine has bought the plot,
ioXloo, on the east side OF East Ninth
street, lao feet south Of Avenue NJ. sold
by Andrew Gray also acquired "A plot on
Forty-ffth street. 100 feet north OF
sixteenth avenue. from the Borough Park
Company. n the southeast corner OF
Utica avenue and Park place. 32xl29.
from the estate OF Frederick BALI.
James NJ. Hawley has sold $50
Bleecker street for the estate OF Jacob
II. Gebhard TO Anders Nilsson.
Frank a, Seaver & Co. have sold the
new two family duplex house AZ ~
Seventy-second street for the John Y.
Bradley Company 10 a client for occu-
pancy.
Isaac Salzherg has sold for Alfred
Vogel TO NJ. Frank a two family stucco
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ENTRANCE HEARING.
william 81. Owners Do Not want
Them on street.

Ou osT0es
Through the efforts OF Borough Pres-
dent Marks . public hearing on the
matter Of sidewalk entrances and exits
has been arranged with the Public Ser
vtns Commission for next wednesday
at II A. M. President Marks 10 opposed
to the placing OF entrances m exits
on William and Nassau streets. This
matter was also taken up some time
ago by tho Real Estate Board with
the Public Service Commission and the
boards position placed before the COM
mission.
The William street subway plans show
proposed entrances and exits six feet
six inches on sidewalks which arc only
, nine to ten feet In width. On account
OF the narrow streets only two stations
will be placed on this route, one AZ
Wall street and one at Fulton street.
From 5000 to 1000 persons pass
on these sidewalks In a given hour
morning and night. The Real Estate
Board Has placed !tsels on record against
N" proposed plan IT believes that the
necessary easements should be con.
demned for his pu-pone
The Real Estate Board is urging tina,
it's members and property owners or
and about William and Nassau street,
write 10 tho Public Service Commits.
sion and attend the public hearing o.
Wednesday.
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WATER FRONT FACTORY SOLD,

FRONT STREFT.-The Charles f..
Noyes Company has sold for Will
lam G. Renw,ck 168 Front street, a
i've story loft building. on lot 17x7i
The property was held at $4,000. II
was a cash sale.
EAST 124TH STREET. The Bryan
Park Realty Company has sold for the
Iiepettl Company the factory bulldins
at IA Fast 124th street, on lot e5x
loo.l1. TO the Ludin Realty Com
pany.
WEST l52D STREET.-Freidus 4 Co
have sold for the Breslauer Realty
Company TO Marcus Cohen 52s West
1920 street. a six story apartment;
house on plot 4ox9e11. between Ans
terdam went and Broadway.