New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-02
PART OF AUCTION
MONEY TO MISSIONS
Local Institutions, Also
Morris Estate, Bene-
fciaries.
HOLDINGS TO BE
SOLD NEXT WEEK
One Offering Is Sixty.three Lots
Opposite Franz Siegel
Park.

Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn and
Queenstown Of the five boroughs Of
the city-are represented in the an
nouncement OF an absolute sale ell
auction Ito the highest bidder, without
reserve or protection). TO be conducted
by J. Clarence Davies and Joseph p.
Day. agents and auctioneers, for the
estate Of Arthur r. NJ. Morris and 9th.
ers. By order Of Henry Lewis Morris,
executor, at the Exchange Saleuoon,
ID yesey Street, at noon on Tuesday,
Nav II. The attorney for the estate
is Lewis Spencer Morris, OF Manhat-
tan.
Roth because of the wide area over
which the holdings Of the Morris e.
tate spread and the variety OF their de-
scription this sale IS unusual. The Of
ferin1 includes business buildings. sad
APARTMENT houses in Manhattan, oil
novel subway station corner at tran.
sit centre in The Bronx, and also ~
entire square block of sixty-three lots
opposite Franz Siegel Park and IN .
new rapid transit zone in the same
borough. A block Of corner business
buildings located near the heart OF the
MYRTLE Avenue retail shopping district
in Brooklyn; a group Of eighteen at
tractive private dwellings located 10
the same borough, and only fourteen
minutes from the City Hall, Msnhst-
tan, to be sold separately. Also, two
frame houses in Long Island City, inl
an improving neighborhood, only SIX
blocks distant from greensboro Plan
and within one block of a new dual
system rapid transit station. Had MI:
Morris been granted the privilege OK
studying the city's rapid transit maps
for the future, long before the new
lines had ever been projected, ne could
scarcely have made his investments
with better eye TO future betterments:
And now these properties, each and
all, are TO be offered at absolute aue-
ton to carry out the terms OF his VIII,
and each is to go to the highest bidder
without reserve.
In addition 10 the investment oppof-.
tunities contained in this offering az
the present time, when seven OF the
great nations of Europe are at war and
a force of countless millions OF the IN
habitants of the Old World Is trem-
bling in the balance, while America Is
making gigantic commercial strides,
degree of interest is aroused by the
announcement that the proceeds OF the
sale will be divided among large
number of the domestic and foreign
missionary and charitable institutions
in the activities of which Mr.. Morns
was directly interested during his life
time. -
The worldwide activities Of Mr.. Nor
ris were worthy of a true American
who was a descendant of that Robert
Morris who, as a Pennsylvania ner-
chant. signed the Declaration OF lnde-
pendence on July 4, 1875. Robert Nor
ris was born in England, at Lancashire,
on January 20, 1884, and died, at the
age of seventy-three, on May 8, 1905.
Arthur R. Morris, his descendant
was born in the City Of New York and
became deeply interested in religious
matters. His income was derived IN
part from the properties now to be dis.
posed of at absolute sale.
In 1871 Mr.. Morris went as Mis-
sionary to Japan. where he lived up to
the time of his death.
By his will Mr.. Morris directed that
the properties scheduled TO be offered
by Messrs. Day and Davies on May II
be sold and the proceeds be given,
among others, to Christ Church, Yoke
hama, Japan; the Domestic and For
eign Missionary Society, the Eyangeli'
cal Educational Society, the Society for
Protection of Cruelty TO Animals. ths
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Children. the New York Associstien
for Improving the Condition Of the
Poor. the trustees of the Fund for the
Relief of Widows and Orphans OF De-
ceased Clergymen, the American
Church Building Fund and others.
II is in order 10 pay these requests
that the property is TO be sold at abb
solute auction sale, without reserve or
protection, with the privilege OF lssv-
ing 20 per cent of the purchase price
on bond and mortgage for one, two or
three years at per cent and titles IN
sured free to purchasers.