New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-09
|SWINDLERS? NO,
REAL ESTATERS
Made a Company Up on
East Side to Buy
Jersey Farm.
STRAUS PARK NAMED
FOR A GREAT MAN
Cheat the POor2 F0Olishness,
Says Mrs. Glazer-But Letter
Starts Inquiry.

"Pv cloaks and suits, y'understanh
business is mschoolah. rotten, worse'
than worsel"
Gray-haired Mrs. Gussie Glazor. OIL
1903 East Houston Street. said II. MOI
once did she look up from the friIl she
was ironing. She had been told OF the
investigation. started at the reques'
of Jesse I. Straus. by the District Az
torney Yesterday. The East Side was
being swindled by band which IA
usins the name Of the late lsidor
Straus TO exploit an industrial col
ony" in New Jersey. she was told.
"Foolishness," she said; call foolish
n.,s Amt | one of them things
what you call 'em -inc-incorpora-
tors7 By cloaks and suits. y'under-
stand. business WAS bad. so my nus
band saws we should become real es-
taters. So We bought lot for so IN
the Straus Park Colony, when Is "'
New Jersey" 49,
In answer 70 the charge that the
moor of the East Side were beng
swindled BY the "Chatsworth Indus
trial COMPANY" Mrs. Glazer banged
her iron on It's up-turned saucer base.
'Tt's all the fault Of Mandelstein,
she announced, returning from the gas
burner in a corner OF the Ntcher;,
"Mandelstein did II. One day lot OF
US friends all gets together. ana We
say TO each other, We say, Let's nave q
farm In New Jersey.
Sure says my husband, should ne
live forever.
"For why not?' says Mandelstein
Only ! should want =. job there
Made Up a Company.
Eve all laughed, because we think
that even II there was job we
couldn't pay Mandelstein no money
Then Philip Welt, who is paid $4,000
for the land, says he sells US lots
cheap. So We make a company up.
call it George Washington PARK,
some man said.
"Tt's too long said another man
TN cost too much to paint
az tell you what says Welt, me
colony will be all for Jews only, and
Isidor Straus has just got drowned
end is a very great man. Let's 90 MN
honor and call it Straus PARK
"Finel' said my husband.
lois gezechent, said Mandelstein.'
Mrs. Glazer carefully put aside the
ironed waist and began on the damp
arms Of a mans shirt. She explained
that several bungalows had been built
on the farm near Woodlswn, in Bur
lington County, about eighty miles
from New York. A synagogue was also
10 be erected, as well ss factory
where the subscribers IL lots, most OF
them cloak operators, would work com
munistically.
"Then comes Mandolstein," continued
sirs. Gia,er. "He says he wants TO be.
come .ur'r,ntonden. from street clean
ing and that we should pay him Sl5 d
week.
"'Are you meshugah, crazyT l says
to him. We amt got enough money
20 build more bungalows. and you want
a salary. Besides, there ain. no streets
yet
"Don't give me no piece from your
mind he answered me. You can't
spare it,"
Trouble Threatened.
Immediately, said Mrs. Glaner, Man
delstein threatened to start trouble
She intimated that the anonymous let
ter that the District Attorney had re-
ceiyed might have come from tho can
didate for superintendent Of street
cleaning Of Strsus Park Colony, y. j.
Her talth in the residential 20 sibili.
ties OF the colony was so great. she
averred, that she intended moving out
there IA two months despite any .lves-
tigation.
Mrs. Glazer's statement was carried
10 Jesse lsidor Straus, the complainant.
Swinging down Broadway, ne hastily
sketched to the interviewer why he had
sent the anonymous letter he had re-
celved 20 the District Attorney.
81 understood from the letter ths,
Welt and the others were asserting that
my family was behind the movement "a
establish a Jewish colony in New Jer-
sey. 1t was ridiculous. The promoter
said the letter, had been distributing
circulars and pamphlets stating that
the heirs Of the late Tsidor Strau'
would make good eny financial shortage
which might occur In the construction
Of the various civic advantages.
"Of course, 1t was OILY an anonymous
letter and was only 20 be treated as
such decided. however. 20 send Z 70
Assistant District Attorney Conlon
who IS In charge Of the case now.
shall not prosecute or prosecute any OF
the offenders, 4 offenders there are"
Il had been the hope OF Mrs Gussie
Clazor that Mr. Straus would some day
come down 70 their colony and make an
address at dedication services. One
look at the part proprietor % Macy 3
Co, however. served 20 indicate that
the possibility Of his doing so ap-
preached the limit OF nothing doing