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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24
HOME BUILDING IN BROOKLYN.
No Letup In Rush to Meet Demnu nd
Ia Planned Last Week.

brooklyn builders anticipate a great
demand for small homes when work ia
completed on subway lines now under
construction. Plans were filed with the
building bureau last week for IA DWELL
''gs or all classes to cost $3.50, 400. OF
these .s5ss.6oo will go into 125 small
dwellings. Five apartments are tanned.
to cost s?25.600. The remainder. s13s.-
soo, is for fourteen miscellaneous struc-
'ur re- including a 100000 public school.
me largest small dwelling operation
Is that OF the Realty associates IN the
Eastern Parkway district. This COM
pany Will invest $6S, 200 In twenty-three
TWO story one family brick dwellings.
eleven TO be situated on the south aide
ana twelve on the north side OF Crown
street. west of Rogers avenue. M New
style Building Company will erect eight
Two story one family brick dwellings on
the north side of Carroll street east OF
Albany avenue. at a cost OF $4,000.
In the hay Ridge section "A row Of
ten two story brick dwellings to cost
s35.ooo is TO be built on the north side
OF Seventy-eighth street east 81 Fifth
avenue by Harry \. Pinover. and on the
south side OF E~lghty-irst street III
feet east of Fifth avenue Edward Ed
CIV WIN ihNtEl sstsNVW III tWplNe Two
story brick two family dwellings.
y row OF eight three story brick
dwellings to cost $4,000. is to be built
by Samuel Brill on the south side OF
Seventy-ninth street eaa of Seven
teenth avenue.
Thu northwest corner OF Ridge Boule-
ward and Bay Ridge avenue Is to be the
site of two four story apartments. to cost
$50 1000 each and accommodate forty
eight families. The Ridge Boulevard
Construction Company IL the owner.
Developments continue In the Flatbush
section. ON the east side of Flatbush
avenue just north of Winthrop street
the .. W +. Realty Company will spend
s2S. 200 for six three story brick stores
and dwellings. on the north side of Mid
wood street, east of F1atbush avenue a
row of seven three story brick dwellings
Is to be built by Fred Il. Norris az a
cost of $4,000. ON the southwest cor
ner of Avenue 7 and East Fourteenth
street the Rangerly Construction Com
p1ny will erect a four story apartment
with accommodations for nineteen fam
lies at a cost of $4,000.
100000 six story brick tenement Is
20 be built by the Gaynor Improvement
Company on the east side of briggs ave-
nue. north Of Division avenue. in the
Williamsburg section. 1t will accomino-
date .hirty-iive families and occupy n
site Is by 81 feet.
Cornelius 4. Lane has had plans fled
for Il two story brick residence to occupy
n site 50 by CO feet on the northeast
corner OF Hampton avenue and Fal-
o street. which will cost $4,000.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24

restricted and is available for the build
ing of private houses, W family
houses or apartment houses. Walkup
apartments In the immediate neighbour
hood rent from $3.50 to So n room
whereas elevator apartments bring from
SO to S12 a room.
The lots range in price from $500
20 $4,000. South Yonkcrs IL rapidly
falling in line with tho development OF
Washington Heights and the Dyckinan
tract and enjoys exceptional transporta-
tion facilities. bringing 1t within thirty
minutes from The central portion of
Manhattan by three routes of rapid
translt-the New York Central main
lire electric trains to Ludlow street.
the Broadway subway TO Van Cortlandt
Park. with an eight minute trolley ride
on broadway to South Ionkers, and
the Putnam division OF the New York
Central from f.owerre station to 1b5th
street. connecting thence with the Sixth
and Ninth avenue elevated trains.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24
uRok ~ .pUCk" LEASE.

l.. T%annebaum strauss & Co. were the
brokers IN the lease OF the sixth floor
In the old Mark Cross Building AT 30
Fifth avenue to Puck. a comic weekly.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24

suburban village.
Surrounding the station plaza are many
attractive buildings. amorg them the
village hall, public library. post office.
fire and police headquarters building.
Gramatan Bank. the Lawrence Hospital
and the three arcade buildings with
stores on the ground floor and apart
ments or offices above. The plaza rs
dominated by the Hotel Gramatan,
which occupies the crest of a high knoll,
Just beyond the limits OF the plaza
several attractive apartment houses
have been built. among them the Gram
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24
SITES FOR YONKERS HOMES.
Valentine Terrace. q New District.
Now RcIng Developed.

No time is being wasted by the syn
dictate. headed by George Howe, which
purchased several weeks ago "A large
tract of land In South Ionkers. bounded
Ivy Riyerdalc avenue, Valentine lane,
Radford street, st. Andrews place, Rad
ford place and Hettner place. known as
the Schieffelin-Lawrence property. For
years this property had been living dor
mant. and in the meanwhile attractive
developments a sprung up arourd IL.
notably Van Cortlandt terrace. the
Lawrence property and other equally
attractive districts. The syndicate has
cleared or the land and put it in shape
for the market. II is called Valentine
terrace. as II borders principally on
Valentine lane. and is In one NJ the most
attractive sections in loukerS. II Is
one block from South Broadway. whore
elevate apartments are now In process
of construction. The property Is uu-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24
BrYs ATOP PALISADES.

Payson Mel. Merrill Company and :.
Osgood pell 4 co. have sold for Mrs.
James r. Reynolds and Miss Alice VI.
bike TO August /. Dinklage fifteen
acres at Alpine. Bergen county. y. j.. on
the Palisades. directly opposite Yon-
kers The land has a frontage Of 800
feet on the Hudson Boulevard. with "A
frontage ~ ovcr 1000 feet on the Pal
igados.
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BronXville Wins New Railroad .
Station and Grade Elimination

atan Court, Alger Court and Pondheld
Court.
ON the east side OF tho plaza Is the
entrance to Lawrence Park, one Of tho
most attractive residential communities
in the section. In the meadows just
below Lawrence Park are the courts OF
the Bronxville Tennis Club.
Plans are now being completed for an
all-year-round country club house to he
erected in his vicinity. This building
will contain indoor tennis courts, swim
ming pool. n ballroom and many other
features.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24

Agitation against the grade crossing
a. B~rouNvillc's station square. started
several years ago, has brought results
greater than were anticipated. Not only
"a tho grade crossing 20 b. eliminated,
hut a new station is TO b" erected. The
money has been appropriated. and In a
-cw weeks the work of making the
change will he started.
The Improvement viii bring about
many changes ia adjacent properties.
and when an is completed B~ronNville
viii have an ideal civic centre for "A
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24

WEsrCmE~TER RISL I>rllE FOR
al
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24
NEW JERSEY REAL ESTATE O SALE

ATTRACTIVE BARGAINS IN MODERN
one family houses and choice building
lots at private sale. "a large number from
which to select
Al BANKING DEPARTMENT. STATE
OF NEW YORK, to quickly close the bust
ness Of two corporations offers these prop
ert'.s at about hOTo OF former prices
They are located at Grant wood. PaIisade,
Mors. mere and Leonla, New Jersey top-
posite Grants Tomb. within twenty hve
minutes Of Manhattan.
An inspection OF these properties will
convince you that they are unusual bar
gains. Liberal torms. Title Guarantee POL
ley free,
For further details and t"rms, address
REM. ID, HAIGHT. Special Deputy Supt
Of BankA care OF Banking Department,
u 8roadwNy. New York Cty.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24

o opening on to such yard or court.
IL is also provided that no additional
rooms shall he placed in any buildings
mat may hereafter he enlarged or al
ere" unless such rooms comply with
inge. ~
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24
FURNISHED APARTMENTS WANTED.

WanteI-Nci furnished apartments of
from . To . r,,pin-, bl localities. for i->ir-
able and thoroushlN responsible" clients.
Ircd'k l.. Hurt, 80 !. iid ~. Mar. mn. SEQ.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
NO CIVIL RIGHTS
It it Held Have Negroes inSun-
day School in the State
of Minnesota.


BRAINERD, Mimi, Jan. 2S.-In
the matter of their treatment in Sun.
day school negroes have no civil
rights. This was the ruling here OF
Judge w. 8. McClenahan in the dis.
trict court here. Mary c. Marsha, a
negress. sixteen years old, had
brought suit against the officers of a
Sunday school at Aitkin, MINI, alleg-
ing she had been Disseminated
against while attending religious SER
wees being forced to sit apart from
the white members.
mo Legislative body Judge Nc
Clanahan said "ever has specifically
included churches or religious socie-
ties in the so-called civil rights acts.
For courts to undertake TO dictate
how they shall conduct their affairs
would meet with just resentment and
would be Of doubtful Legality on con-
stitutional grounds"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28

/ / ~ d 81 a As
to the system, is receiving consider
alton and "that at least q tentative
solution Of the problems at issue may
be arrived at in the near future
The report shows that ninety-three
state banks and trust companies with
aggregate capital and surplus of So
151 ,S06 have been. converted into ma
tianal banks and entered the system
since the passage of the act. Nine
state banks and four trust companies
with capital and surplus of; $17, 1884, Dob
have been admitted under their own
charters, with the understanding that
they will accept regulations for the
conduct of business made by the
board. Applications from fifty-one
other such institutions which prefer
to wait for the issuance of regula-
lions governing their admission are
pending before the board.
The report reviews the steps which
led up to the decision to put the
banks in operation November 16, de-
claring that after getting opinions
from great variety of sources, 1t
found such diversity that it was
guided by its own estimate OF the
proper moment.
events have since shown 1T says,
that the opening of the institution
was wisely timed to synchronize with
the restoration of activity in our ex-
port trade. When the financial arx-
iety which prevailed during the latter
part OF the last summer and the diff
Guilty which was then experienced in
getting banking accommod ations at
reasonable rates, even upon security
OF undoubted solidity, are recalled
the substantial improvement which
has taken place since becomes evident,
and is remarkable tribute not only
to the recuperative power OF Amer
lean commerce and industry, but also
and largely to the beneficial operation
OF the new banking system"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
Sd K " 4lLllENlllIIE
PASSED BY SENATE
With only Three Votes offered
and Two Speeches Made
against Them.


CHARLESTON, Jan. 2S.-The pas
sage of ten bills in the House and
the discussion OF the Blue amend
ments to the present prohibition law
in the Senate, featured the forenoon
sessions OF the Senate and House.
While three votes were against the
prohibition amendments, but two
speeches were made against them.
They We're by Senators Greg
Dry, OF Wood. and Rosen-
bloom. Of Ohio. The former
spoke nearly an hour. but Rosen-
bloom was much briefer. He de-
clared the amendment permitting the
selection OF jury outside the coun-
ty In which the accused person lived
to try the accused person was reyo.
lutionary.
This feature applies to counties
where juries have not been convict
ing and grand juries indicting liquor
selling yiolators because such COM
munities are not in favor OF prohibi-
ton.
Lowe. of Marion, voted for it, but
said he doubted whether the meas
ures would accomplish what was in
tended.
: r a
Eighteen bills were reported out
by Senate committees with RECON-
mendation that each pass, while the
drugless therapeutics was unfavor-
ably reported. The mines and mining
bill creating six assistant inspectors
and charging the powers of the head
OF the department of mines, which
was sent back to the committee two
days ago, came back today and will
go through without opposition OF a
serious nature. 35e
The woman suffrage amendment
which passed the House yesterday
when the Senate resolution was sub
stituted for the House resolution on
second reading, will not go to the
governor until the House meets the
constitutional provisions Of reading
the bill on three separate days. The
Senate resolution, therefore, will not
be legally passed by the House until
Thursday at the earliest. The reso-
luton being treated as bill, the err
ror was not discovered until after
the House had acted yesterday.
The important measures Of the
long list passed by the House this
Emorning were the free text book bill.
and bill providing for the election
of United States senators to meet
the constitutional provisions.
The stir created by the issuance OF
a warrant for Speaker Johnson OF the
House because a boy under the age
of fourteen years had been employed
as page. did not amount to much. A
Socialist. ignorant of the law, antici-
pated excitement and embarrassment
for the speaker, which did not ma
terialize.
Fourteen new bills were offered
in the Senate. while the Follansbee.
Elkins, Williamson and Warrington
charters were reported out with ia
vorable recommendations.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
Are You Ruptured

A. B. Wentworth. Specialist and
truss expert will be in Clarksburg at
the Glen Elk Hotel during the week
of January "a from Thursday until
Saturday. where interested parties
can consult him free of charge In re-
gard to their case.
THE WENTWORTH HoLDFAsT
TRUSS has no leg straps to gain sor
chafe. but has patent VACUUM PADS
that will retain any case of rupture
perfectly. affcrding immediate relief.
closing the opening In the average
case In 9 shrot time without recourse
to a surgical operation.
Examination and advice free and
prices reasonable.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
GLASS RATES
At MorgantoWn Are SOUGHT to
Be Placed on Clarksburg
District Basis.

tuf AeDociArGn PRE00t
MORGANTOWN, Jan. 2S.-Freight
hearings on glass rates before Special
Examiner ]. F. Abbott, of Washing
ton, D. c., has begun here and will
continue tomorrow. The interests Of
the glass manufacturers are being
looked after by j. F. Lent, of the Lent
Traffic Company of Pittsburg.,
The manufacturers here ask this
city to be placed on an equal freight
rate basis with the Pittsburg and
Clarksburg disticts. The difference
on the freight rates amounts to fifty
cents ton, more than IS a car. The
manufacturers have asked the Inter-
state Commerce Commission to rem
edy the rate so as to make the rate
from Morgantown the same as from
the Pittsburg and Clarksburg dis
Itricts.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
;HIJAAS
Are "Mother" Jones and John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., Since
They Met at Hearing.

! NEW YORK, Jan. 2s.-During the
midday recess or the Industrial COM
mittee hearings Wednesday John d.
Rockefeller, Jr., and Mother"
Jones had another meeting. They
were photographed shaking hands.
After we have had our conference, y
said Mother" Jones, II want you to
come out to Colorado with me and
see the things which will make you
one of the country's greatest men,
Mr.. Rockefeller smiled and said, Pm
afraid you are inclined to throw
compliments"
"Oh, no." replied Mother. Jones,
II am more inclined to throw
bricks"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
MANY BILLS
Are introduced in the House Of
Representatives of State of
Pennsylvania.
IA. N,


ll5t iuY AotoctATkp pngSO
HARRISBURG Pa, Jan. 2S.-Be-
fore adjourning to February i the
House received a large number OF
bills including one for the election
of boards Of election in Philadelphia
and Pittsburg, appropriating $685.
600 for eradication of the foot-and-
mouth disease, appropriating $780,
000fto state normal schools, giving
appraisers of estates SIS day. for
each day employed, making It mis-
demeanor to issue checks without a
bank account and providing for re-
restitution within twenty days, au-
thorlzlng boroughs owning electric
plants to supply electricity for power
purposes. amending the school code
to establish a retirement fund for
janitors, relieving from payment OF
tax all corporations. Joint
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
Leave THE CITY
Do Two Men Arrested a
Being Fake Magazine
Solicitors.

Upon complaint that they were
fratdulently soliciting subscriptions
and collecting money for farm
magazine. men giving the names OF
James Harris and Samuel Reed were
arrested Wednesday afternoon, in
Fourth street by city policement and
were taken to headquarters.
The two men declared that they
were bona fide representatives Of
Farm and Firesfde, the national farm
magazine published at. Springfield
o.. but when doubts were expressed
by Police Chief Harry L. Brooks they
declared they would leave the city
provided no charge was pressed
against them Upon the condition
that they depart Immediately they
were released, Both men said they
lived in Toledo, O.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
FIRST DEGREE
Murder Verdict is Returned at
Wheeling against William
(, Thomas, a Negro.

! WHEELING, Jan. 2s.-william
Thomas, 4 negro. was toung guilty OF
murder in the first degree here
for the murder of his white wife last
fall at this place. The jury was out
thirty minutes. After shooting his
wife Thomas fled to Unionton, Pa.
where he was captured about a month
ago. Thomas accused his wife OF be-
ing unfaithfui to him. Thomas is the
first man found guilty OF murder in
the first degree in Ohio county in
eighteen years
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
bill IS RECALLED.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 27.-The
Joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the state constitution giving
women, the right to vote passed by
the Pennsylvania legislature in 1918
was reintroduced in the House today.
il IT is again passed the people will
vote on the equal. suffrage question
next November.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
DAVIS APPOINTED.

News has Just been received HERB
that L. B. Davis, former resident
of thi city, has been appointed post
master at. Roanoke, Va. This will.
be source OF qualification to his
friends in this city.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
WILL ORGANIZE.

CHARLESTON, Jan. 2s.-The ex-
ecutive board of the Seventeenth dis
trict, United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca, met here today to launch a move
ment to organize the miners of Guy
an valley.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
10 INCREASE OUTPUT.

1T is reported that John NJ. Fitz.
gerald former president OF the West
ern Maryland railway. will be made
president OF the Davis Coal and Coke
Company under a separation plan
Carl NJ. Gray, president OF the rail
road, Is also president Of the coal
company. 1t is known that plans are
being drawn to increase the output
of the Davis Coal and Coke Company
from 100000 tons to 100000 tons
by sinking new shafts.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28

stock associations and limited paist
nerships which pay tax, ON capital
stock. providing for Incorporation OF /
trackless trolley cars, SUBJECTS to
Regulation Of the state highway de-
partment.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
BUSINESS Is q oD,
THANK YOU! OTHERS
ARE BUYING HOMES,
WHY ! NOT your
sTEALEY HEIGHTS

On Stea1ey avenue, near
Baker avenue, we have a A.
room cottage and bath, eel
lar and a fine well Of water.
Nice, level lot 40x120 feet.
with alley in rear. Here is
your chance.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
JBRoADDUs ADDITION

Handy to street cars.
Close to B. and O. station. III
You want a good, seven
room house with bath, base
ment and attic, here you are.
Lot 35xS2 feet, alley at side.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28

Cotton seed meal is gaining popu-
larity as COW feed in Canada.
Andalusia's olive crop Is poor
one, owing to a recent drought
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
PRICE S265O

One-third cash, one and
two years.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28
ONE MARRIAGE LICENSE.

A marriage license has been issued
to William Baton and La Woo Beam
er.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-28

Russia wants automobiles, motor
trucks and motorcycles 4
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1915-08-07
Radium as EGO Producer.

Great and manifold as are the won.
ders OF radium. it might be well to
receive the following information with
some reserve
1t Is reported that an American
farmer named Cyrus Whiffie, who has
been prospecting in Paradox valley,
Colorado came home recently bring.
ing with him small sack of radium.
bearing ore, and dumped some of the
pieces in the drinking fountain used
by the Whif1e hens.
AS result, according to Whif1e,
the water became strongly radioactive.
the hens drank it, and their eggs pro
auction almost doubled. Many of the
hens began laying two eggs daily.
While says that his entire family.
since beginning to eat the radioactive
eggs have gained steadily in strength
and that all their ailments have disan-
peared
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1915-08-07
Repairing Fractured Hearts.

lhlrty-one patients In a Russian
hospital have recovered from stab
wounds of the heart
Doctor Zlidler says the patients were
put under the influence of ether very
soon after the injury, part of the
chest wall was removed, the heart
lifted from it's bed and the stitches
quickly introduced between pulsa-
tons The bony chest wall over the
heart was not put back in place, that
organ being left covered only by skin
and muscle. This was done to give
the heart room to expand and to pre-
vent adhesions from embarrassing the
hearts action Several of the patients
have resumed their usual employment.
The. probable reason for the success
of the experiment was prompt and
yaDid operation.
The Parker post. (Parker, Ariz.) 1910-1918, 1915-08-07
MANY LAKES ARE DRYING UP
Bodies OF Water in Europe, az Well az
Africa, Disappearing From
Face of Earth.

London.-A report just laid before
the senate at Cape Town says definite
ty that South Africa is drying up, not
because of any lessening OF the aver
age rainfall but on account Of the
steady disappearance of the local wa
ter supplies There is no doubt, 1t
adds, that many parts Of the Union
will eventually become uninhab1table.
Long ago Livingstone pointed out
this probability, and within the last
half century quite a number of lakes
in central Africa have disappeared
while Lake Chad is shrinking every
year
Europe Is in no better case. A Ger
man geologist recently made an ex-
haustive inventory of the European
.lakes and found that hundreds had dis
appeared or been reduced to insignifi
cant proportions. In the canton OF
Zurich $50 lakes were catalogued in
1850; now there are barely seventy
No one seems to have looked into the
matter of the lakes of the British
Isles.