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The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1917-01-04

James Hoye OF Russellville and
capitalists OF Memphis are TO operate
a coal mine near Scranton. They have
secured 400-acre lease from the Ar.
kansas Anthracite Coal Company.
The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1917-01-04

What is believed TO be the Oldest
mule In active service IN Sharp county
is the steed OF Uncle Frank Roe. The
mule was IS years old last spring.
The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1917-01-04

II hdllSftSs \ PlllpduN l. Is the CIT
Smith company The transfer of Lieut..
F. b Smith was made at his own re-
quest
AN ARKANSAS EPITOME.
{ \ Dalton Of YellYlle. Who Is
past so years of age, has sold his saw
mill. but tells the Yellviue Mountain
Echo that he has no intention OF re-
firing from business and will be in
harness again before spring Mr. Dal-
ton is hale and hearty and feels well
able 10 work.
Guy Coleman. student in the F.
Paso High School. working under the
homo project plan OF teaching agricul-
ture and attending school practically
every day until June cultivated seven
paving rent and all expenses cleared
500
F Durand de Huerta and Miss Eta
L tAlil t3Ati III iAsiN iN Nl8Hi Wiz ilAtti
ried AZ Dewitt Mr.. Huerta. Who says
he is 4 cousin of the late General
Iluerta of Mexico, came to Bayou Me
Ia from Mexico about 10 da;s ago to
visit his sister. who lives there
Fifty-nne and onenalf pounds OF
ore from the kruce gold mine ut Roc.
ers has produced seven ounces and
five and oneseYenth penuywetght Of
24-earat gold worth sl47. The assay
WAS made in Minneapolis The mine
will be developed further.
\ new light and power company
composed Of citizens OF FL Dorado has
applied to the CITY Council of that
town for a franchise The rates pro-
1ded in tho franchise sought are low
or than those charged by the present
FL Dorado company
" Risinger of the Nashville cleo
trio plant is considering tho plan OF
extending his lines to Mineral Springs.
and furnish this city with lights This
light service IS already within a few
miles of Mineral Springs.
Terribly burned when n lamp ex.
ploded while she was filing II. Ira
PEBBLES. l6year-old daughter OF JOS
PEBBLES. of Grant County, died at her
home near Grapeyille.
Daniel will erect a Touring mill. an ice
factory and laundry on property in
Ionoke which he purchased recently
from Max Frolich.
Thieves broke into tho Rock Island
railway station at Des Arc and stole
- quarts OF whiskey, and less egg nog
will be brewed as a result.
What is believed to be the Oldest
mule In active service In Sharp county
is the steed OF Uncle Frank Roe The
mule was IS years old last spring.
James Hoye OF Russellville and
capitalists OF Memphis are 10 operate
a coal mine near Scranton. They have
secured a 40O-acre lease from the Ar.
kansas Anthracite Coal Company.
Farmers OF Little River county have
organized a National Farm Loan As.
soeiation under the proyisions of tho
Rural Credits Bill
The population of Harrison Is 1872.
according to the figures compiled in 4
cepsus lust CON teted.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Greenwich Trust
Opens Its New
Granite Building
Great Vaults for Keeping Of
Valuable Papers and Other
Things a Feature

Greenwich has lately been enriched
by granite and marble home for the
Greenwich Trust Company. The build
ing, which was formally opened yester-
day, was erected from plans by Alfred
c. Bosom, architect of this city.
The building is at Greenwich av. and
West Elm st.
The exterior of this building is built
entirely of pink Milford granite. The
dome is granite terra Gotta.
The large banking room, including
the two balconies, has been treated in
q very complete manner. The orna-
mental ceiling and decorations of the
banking room have been taken from
the Villa Madame, which is situated
just outside of Rome. on the northern
slope of Monte Mario, and which was
designed and painted by Giulio Ro-
mano and Giovanni ds Udine. about
1920. The Villa Madame was built by
Architect Giulio Romano from designs
originally prepared by Raphael for the
Cardinal Ciulio de Medici, who after
ward became Pope Clement VII.
Great vaults for the keeping OF
stocks and valuables have been erected
in the structure. 1t is said that the
value of the papers and jewels to be
placed in these vaults will represent
investments of many millions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Opposed to Any
Curtailment of
Building Activity
Master Employers Protest
Against Attitude of West
chester Commission

The Building Trades Employers As
ISOLATION of Yonkers has passed reso-
luton opposing a standstill policy as
regards public improvements. The
resolution reads:
Resolved, that we, the Master Build
ers Employers Association Of the City
of Yonkers protest against the execu-
tive committee of the Westchester
County Commission of Public Safety, in
Recommending to the cities, villages and
towns of this county against any pub
lie improvements during the present
war crisis of the United States gov
ernment as being i'll advised and un-
American in its action.
chose engaged in the building bust
ness and the construction OF other pub
lie improvements arc equally as i'm
portant to the community as those who
may be engaged in other pursuits of
similar nature"
The Mount Vernon Chamber of Com
merce at a recent meeting discussed a
plan for financing small houses in that
city. NJ. Morgenthau, Jr., an eX-presi-
dent of the New York State Real Es
tate Association, outlined the plans.
The Mount Vernon Chamber of Com
merce intends TO make an effort to pro-
vide homes for the industrial workers
of the city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
More Buyers at
Mountain Lakes
Residential Park
Since This Country Entered
the War Sales of Homes
There Have Increased

Since the United States entered the
war there has been big increase Of
sales at Mountain Lakes Residential
Park, Mountain Lakes, N. j. The thou
sand-acre home park was recently en-
larged by the purchase Of between ESQ
TO 800 acres. and the new addition is
already being changed into small coun-
try estates of from two to ten acres,
with homes costing from $4,000 TO
$4,000
Seven sites have already been fully
improved in the country estate section
with seven fine country villas, ranging
in price from $4,000 to 100000, ana
containing from fifteen to twenty
rooms and four to seven baths. The
grounds have been beautifully laid out
in formal gardens, and every improve
ment of fine country estate installed;
Four of these houses have been SOLD
within the last two months, and plans
are already drawn for five additional
villas for the country estate section.
They vary in size and architecture
being specially designed for the sites
which they occupy.
The selling at Mountain Lakes is at
this time in no way confined to the
country estate section. The sales de.
partment reports having made sales OF
eight homes in April, at prices from
$500 to $4,000. The building depart
ment, which is conducted by the park
management, is again extending its
building plans by five additional homes,
varying in sizes and prices.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27

should be 100000 persons living in
the United States; sc per cent of that
large population will live and do bust
ness east of the Mississippi River. New
York City's growth will be wonderfully
rapid in the next twenty years. By
1910 this company expects to be serv-
ing more than II 100000 telephone sub
scribers.
That The Bronx will more than
double it's population by or before
1880 Its population should be at least
$4,000 by 1920, about 100000 in 1880
and approximately 100000 by 1910.
Assuming that these figures are
substantiated," says Joseph p. Day, at
is apparent that The Bronx is rich in
opportunities for buyers of real estate
in sections having rapid transit facili-
ties, and which, therefore, are quail
fed, logically enough, 10 derive the
benefits that must follow any such ire
mendous increase in population"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Looking Backward
To Gauge Future
Bronx Values
Coming Lorillard Sale Has
Caused Many Persons
to Study Subject

Whenever big lot sale is scheduled
to take place the students of realty
statistics take down from the shelves
the books they have collected on old
values. II is from past performances
that they try TO determine the future
market worth Of the property to be
sold AS expected. the sale Of 1,445
lots in The Bronx, to be sold on the
premises next Saturday by Joseph P.
Day and J. Clarence Davies, has proved
no exception 20 this order of affairs.
The property will be sold for the
heirs Of the Lorilard Spencer estate
and the New York Public Library. 1t
has frontages on the Pelham Parkway,
Boston and williamsburg roads. AS
tor av., and the ten blocks lying be-
the ten blocks between White Plains
Road and Hone av.
In discussing the coming sale J. Clar-
ence Davies said yesterday: an 1866,
at the close of the Civil War, the city's
ments was at about 42d ST. In 1865,
DtiON SOtH slss INC cry NOHIaIhtu .-Os-Ol
vacant lots. From AID ST. to seth ST.,
atop the rocks and down the marshy
depressions, stood a multitude of squat
ters' shanties, with here and there a
home Of some proportions. All else
was barren and apparently hopeless.
In 1879 the Ninth Avenue Elevated
road stood quaint and bare in what is
to-day Columbus av., and the city,
north and south, from Goth ST., was
bare Of improvements.
"Rapid transit of sort that to-day
is comparable only to activity of the
tortoise was the key to the real estate
situation in 1867, the first year in
which the market felt the beginning Of
the activity that manifested itself after
the close of the Civil War, when specu-
lation in land was the sensation Of the
day. In 1869 the boom was at its
height. There was lull in 1870, but q
fresh start was made in 1871, and this
carried the movement on until the fall
of 1878.
"The growth of New York beyond the
limits of the colonial city to-day as in
the past ever has been controlled by
the nature of the rapid transit facili-
ties. The extent of the one has ever
marked the boundary of the other
Experts of the New York Telephone
Company estimate that in 1910 there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Rent Auto Building

A. L. Libman has leased for a term of
twenty-one years from January, 1918,
the six story and basement automobile
service building, which the L. L. ID.
Realty Company, Inc, Louis l.. briggs,
president, is erecting at 227-22s East
Seth St. on a plot 80 by 100 feet. The
total rental aggregates approximately
$500. 900. The tenant is the Alma Gar
aye Company, Al Strauss, president.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Plans Filed for Home
For Mortimer L. Schif
House Designed By c. P. II. Gil
bert and !. A. Stenhouse

Application for a permit has been
made to the Department Of Buildings
for a new residence to be erected for
Mortimer L. Schiff at 931 and 932 9th
av.. on property 30 feet front by $50
feet deep, from drawings of c. P. II.
Gilbert, architect, collaborating with
j. A. Stenhouse.
The exterior is designed in the
French style Of architecture, and the
material will be limestone. The build
ing will be four stories and mansard,
and the construction will be fireproof.
The old buildings on the property
have been RACED, the contract has been
awarded 70 John |. Downey, Inc, and
the work of excavating is now under
way
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
More 18th St. Rentals

Duross Company has leased for the
estate of Ernest G.. W. Woerz the fve
story building 30 West Fourteenth
Street to the Terhune Catering Com.
pany, Inc, for term OF flve years AZ
an aggregate rental OF $4,000, and Tor
the Bernheimer estate the hye story
house ISL West Fourteenth Street 10
Alfred Soutar for q term OF three years
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
William J. Burns Buys
A $4,000 Country Home

William ]. Burns, the detective, who
has resided in Bronxvlle for several
years. has purchased the property OF
DR.. b. Farquhar Curtis, at BriarcliH
Manor, adjoining the estate of James
Speyer. The property consists of nj
teen acres and fine residence. 1t was
held at $4,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Official Building Record

The official Manhattan building rec
ord for the week ended May 10 was as
follows: Plans filed for new buildings
estimated cost of new buildings,
s4s7 900; plans filed for alterations, 80;
estimated cost Of alterations, s2s2.s4O;
buildings reported as unsafe, 80; other
violations OF law reported, 256, and exit
orders
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27

John B. Lunger. first vice-president
Of the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety, and William n. Csrdors, vice.
president Of the Farmer Loan and
Trust Company. have been elected
members of the Advisory Council.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
New Map of The Bronx

An attractive and useful wall map Of
The Bronx has just been issued by the
New York Title and Mortgage Com
pany, 135 Broadway. This map shows
the zones as created by the Board OF
Estimate. 1t may be had for the asking.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Burke Foundation Sells

The Burke Relief Foundation OF New
York has sold through +. 7. Newman
the three story and basement dweIiing
at 6s6 Fifth Street, near Prospect farh'
Rrooklyn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
NEW JERSEY

FARM AT AUCTION. DECORATION DAY. v.
Nsstow ixxn Farm. fruit. gain and pooiv1. IN
s.rrer,,t Co north u Bound Brook T<elsc room
1870 vt,h Hne vexs. water and shade. 100 ares.
70. ~ ,h- 10, IN ths co1nio. Pine COUNTRY hcaas.
Mo,as on, tlIrtJ I've mln
y.E VAN NEST.
Phone 20. III Msrtinsviiie, New Jessey.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
N. ]. Farm Changes Hands

Calm & Pittman have sold to
Matthias s. Torgersen and Petra Tor
gersen nine and one-half acre farm In
The township OF Crawford, Union Coun-
~. y. j
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Operations Not Profitable


OF course the decline in home owner
ship in Manhattan is primarily due to
the fact that the higher cost Of land
and construction has made II unproilt-
able to build small dwelling houses
on Manhattan, except in few widely
scattered sections. Moreover, those
sections are not particularly enticing
70 the establishment and spread OF
such small home centres. The drift
there rs toward the towering fathouse
with accommodations for forty or more
families. Manhattan has become
veritable Mecca Of realty corporations;
the power Of the individual in realty
being on tho wane. As the buildings
have become larger the number of sites
under an individual ownership have be
come fewer There are individuals rich
enough 10 erect the costliest office or
hotel structure In this city. Some very
wealthy men are operating on their
own account; their success IS based on
their own reckOnings and efforts. But
the greater financial strength needed 20
carry TO satisfactory completion stu
pendous building operations has welded
a dozen or more individuals into cor
rorations, and II is these corporations
that are doing most Of the big building
tasks to-day.
In Brooklyn there arc more home
owners to-day than there were forty
years ago: in fact there are many
thousands more. Nevertheless. IN pro
portion 10 its size Brooklyn is FAR be
hind ITS home owning record OF the
seventies The transition Of the build
ing interests Of Queens Borough on
d. I.asa h.g 20 4h nttPpn
years ago. Queens should now be the
premier place in the entire city for the
home owner and for the launching OF
vast home building operations, yet we
find there increasing pressure in the
building line for the breaking Of
ground and the construction of great
colonies Of multi-famiiy flats. It's in
dustrial centres arc hampered by lack
Of such colonies. Up 20 the opening OF
the Broadway West Farms subway in
1904 The Bronx was composed mostly
Of little brick and frame dwelling
houses: here and there were little
groups Of modern hathouses. The great
Hunts Point apartment house area
was vast undeveloped tract OF rolling
lard. with the exception OF a rev
streets on which operators were putting
Up small dwellings. Before the last OF
the row Of small dwellings was ready
for occupancy, groups OF workmen were
busy constructing apartment houses.
The Bronx has very pretty and superbly
located private dwelling house colonies,
but the supremacy Of the individual
house owner is being rapidly eclipsed
by the growing greatness Of its apart.
ment house areas. The Borough OF
Richmond is still IN the infancy Of its
building development. IL has many
more private dwellings than fiathouses,
and Il is likely 20 continue for some
years in this state. But il has front
axe on the waters OF New York BAY
that has never been appreciated at its
true worth; its value will be duly
recognized after the war. and then rou
VIII behold wonderful building trahsi-
ton on Staten Island
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Occupant Becomes Landlord

The Office of w. S. L. Hall, at st.
George. Staten Island, has sold for
Mrs. Clemence c. Van Romondt
dwelling on Manor Road and Kingsley
Avenue, Westerleigh, 10 William D.
Quinlin. jr., tenant of the premises.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
The Decline in
Home Ownership
In This Borough
Great Increase in Cost of
Sites and Construction
Two Big Factors
Fewer Opportunities
Most Couples Who Start
Housekeeping in Modern
Flats Remain Rentpayers
By ARTHUR r. NICHOLSON

While 7 was discussing realty affairs
r.eer.lv with one of the best known
,unerirterdents OF city building bu-
,esu nc exclaimed in a sad tone that
rost persons nowadays seemed to pre-
fer to remain rcntpayers, whereas when
10 was q Young man nearly everybody
N thrifty habits wanted 10 become the
owner Of the roof over his own head;
Statistics show that vast numbers did
succeed in owning the houses in which
they lived.
show hard many young husbands and
wives. friends Of mine. wor ked 70 get
fac necessary money TO pay for a home
and what a Joyous time IL was when
.hcy moved into the place which they
lad selected TO be their home for the
remainder of their lives and TO which
rroporty they had received q deed OF
ownership by the payment Of few
hundred dollars down. Their plans and
their happiness in accomplishing what
they set their hands 20 do reminds me
Of that ungrammatical expression,
Them were the happy days
- am certain that the desire to own
IS Just rs strong among the young
couples to-day as 1t was among the
thrifty newly-weds in the reconstruc-
ion period soon after the Civil War,
the only difference being that the pres
ent day desire gets snuffed out quickly
Il the young couples start housekeep-
ing in an up-to-date apartment house
with the numerous conveniences Tor
tightening household drudgery. The
Young couple who begin Housekeeping
Is the tenants Of the upper or lower
section of two family house stand a
better chance TO be included among the
home owners of New York. Such cen
tres buoy up and on TO the objective
goal the spirit of home owning"
Talk Of that kind is like hitting the
nail squarely on the head. I'M
doubtedly, the decline in home owning
in recent years is due to the rising
popularity Of the modern apartment
where the modern household con-
veniences Offset the annoyances re-
sulting from multi-family living.
There are, however, persons who can
live years in a big apartment house
without ever getting acquainted with
a single person on the premises not an
employe Of the house. Most Of them
are Of an unfriendly temperament; TO
speak to them upsets their mental
poise. Maybe some of them have q
CHEEKY word for everybody in their
Offices, where they are known as kindly
brilliant souls. But when they put on
their hats and start for home they cloak
themselves with silence and mystery
Far stranger character than they exist.
The normal apartment house dweller
however, is neighborly, and owing TO
this friendliness the privacy of his
home is often merely byword.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
Tenants for Midtown Space

White Goodman have leased space at
40 10 ais 4th sy. 20 S. VI. Hohl: also
leased the store at 400 9Th av. 10 Frank
Csksgni.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN.

E.,;Iv houses. with garage rooms bath
I.r dhny with shower. steam. ga .: o.ss,rs,
,s,th Interest BUILDER. 1880 18th ST.. take West
End subway 10 nth 81.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-27
STATEN ISLAND

TO LET.-Hollow tile stucco s.room corner
house, baths. hot water heat: min
u,es to train. trolley. Fine location; sSo'
Nth garage, SIS. No IS Norwood ave.
clifton. s. l. Tel. Tompkinsvilie 1856
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16

front of the line it's pretty good be-
cause you get full meal and the best
place on the ground to eat it. If you
are near the end of the line and they
run out of something, you go without,
that's all. But you can get all you
want by falling in line again. They
tougher you up, all right. Our in
itiation hasn't come yet, but we will
probably get it tonight. It's dark by
seven, SO you don't get much time to
write or do anything like that. The
feed is good, but beans, beans, beans
at every meal.
Haven't anything more to say this
time, 80 I'll quit. Tell the other boys
it's fine dope.
Yours truly,
HERMAN BERTHEAU.
Naval Training Station, Ct. Lakes, III
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16
WHOLE OF SPAIN IS
UNDER MARTIAL Law

Madrid, Aug. 15.-The whole Of
Spain has been placed under martial
law following disorders resulting
from the general strike, which is
spreading.
This decision was reached at a
meeting OF the cabinet which devoted
Its entire time to consideration Of
the strike. Instructions were sent to
military authorities who have been
given full control. Disturbances which
occurred at various places have been
stopped by the military forces.
The strike begun by railroad en-
ployes has even affected newspapers
here and only those which have non.
unionist STATS are published. They
have received assurances from the
government that they will be protect.
cd
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16

,ervices Of a son are needed in tn
operation of farm the affidavit mus,
show the ages and occupation of al
he other members of the family ant
he physical condition of the father
he size of the farm operated, and tn
exact character and extent of the ag.
.icultural operations being main
tanned thereon, together with tht
prospects of employing another per
son to perform the work now bein:
done by the person called. If tht
!rgent need of the services of the per
son called is prospectively temporar!
only, both the Claim and the affidavit
should indicate the probable expira
sion Of the reriod during which urg
ent need will exist.
L. E. BIRDSELL,
Chairman District Board
j. N. HAGAN,
Secretary
Emmons County record., 1917-08-16
Great Lakes, Ill.
August II, 1917.
Friend Frank:

Friend Frank:
Well, we are here at last. Arrived
yesterday. There were 167 that left
Minnapolis, 126 coming here and the
rest, firemen, going to Norfolk navy
yard. They hauled US to St. Paul
in street cars and there we were ban
quoted with the Commercial Club of
St. Paul. They sure treated US fine.
We marched to the depot and then the
Red Cross gave us comfort bags There
were about a million, it seemed, who
shook hands with us. Went via Chi
cago, Milwaukee Railway and at each
stop we gave the navy yell. 1t sure
was live bunch.
That little boil on my left hand was
rheumatism and we just got our first
shot in the arm, 50 am sort Of laid up.
We have to line up at meal time,
grab plate, cup and ether necessary
tools. and If you happen to be in the