New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-14
Here and There on Realty
Paths of the Greater City
in Building and Brokerage
Spheres-EH the Tenement Sua
ton-A for Motion Picture Frojsendencesn Small and
Centres-Big Commissions Earned This Year

Paul Morton and many other people
prominent in business and society.
Dame Runor says that Charles
Wolesphini, real estate editor OF Inc
Evening Post" is delighted with the
Park Slope dwelling which he recently
bought for occupancy. This reminds me
that many of the real estate news writ
ers live in the Borough OF Brooklyn:
Chester Parish, the versatile editor OF
the real estate news department OF
"The Sun" lives on the Park slope;
Michael Casey, the brilliant associate
cf Editor Parish, in Bay Ridge, and
Henry Polhcmus, the dean of us all IN
the real estate fraternity. in the cen
trail section Of the borough.
Among the brokerage houses when
were conspicuous in the renting line IN
tho latter part of the week were Fred
orick Southack and Alwyn Ball, Jr;
Porter & Co., j. b. English, the NJ
Rosenthal Company, John +. Scott, zen
& Tibbits, Slawson & Hobbs and tina
Houghton company.
j The Quaker City Rubber Company
OF Philadelphia, will have its New. YORK
branch at 80 Murray st. Commission
for leasing the premises goes to Cam
mann, Voorhees, e. Floyd.
The Aalders Garage and Repair
Company, a newly formed corporation
has rented through S. Osgood Pell 6.
Co, the garage 70 be built at 225 and
DOT West Goth st. The site is in one
Of the few locations near Broadway
left open for garage purposes by the
new coming restrictions.
The Turner Construction Company is
TO be congratulated on having j. P. IL.
Perry as the manager Of its contract
department. The company has OBTAINED
some very big contracts since Ne"
Years Day.
Quite large number of the new
tenants in the midtown business zones
obtained their space through George
r. Read & Co. The officers Of the great
brokerage house are George X. Read,
president; W. J. Van Pelt, vice-presi-
dent. and ". J. Kudes, secretary. Many
efficient workers IN various lines or
realty got their first training IN this
house.
February is the principal moving
day In the business and office centres
Of this town. Van men ought 70 send
a letter of thanks to Spear & Co. Tor
much business which they Will do In
the old mercantile section on the day
in question. This business results from
the many leases recently negotiated by
Spear & Co.
c.. l.. c. Ditmars says: "The old say
ING that there is money in real estate
was literally proven at Baldwin Har-
Dor, Southern Nassau County, in the
last few days, when large bed OF
Indian wampum was unearthed there.
If this, the first money in America,
were to-day eXchangeable into the
present coin of the realm. this Bald
win Harbor wampum bed would be the
largest cash deposit in the land. His
torically known as Hicks Neck, Bald
win Harbor was in aboriginal times an
Indian camp, adjacent 70 the bay and
sea: it was a centre for Indians with
canoes to bring in fish and clans. Be
ing made Of clam shells, wampum was
made in tons at Baldwin Harbor. The
blue-tinted shells formed more valua-
bic wampum than plain white shells
The delicate blue shells appealed TO
the aboriginal Imagination and sense
Of value. Consequently the first Amer
lean hnancier was an Indian"