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EXTENDING C0UNTRY'S SHOPS.
Increasing Munition Plants Fea-
ture Of Construction.

The two elements most conspicuous in
current building operations are factory
additions, necess!tated by war work, and
housing needs for war workers. These
are considerable, for there has been a
great displacement OF population. due to
the intensive governmental activities.
Incidental to the above there has been
some work Of a miscellaneous character,
including schools. places of amusement,
SC, for II has been learned that various
other structures besides dwellings are
essential to, insure the greatest efficiency
OF workmen. The present policy OF the
Government, to shift to the. greatest de-
gree possible factory work to centres
where acute housing congestion does not
exist. Is widening the area where build
Ing operations may be regarded IS ac-
tive. A conspicuous example Of this Is
furnished by the building permits issued
during July at Chicago. There was n
gain Of l6 per cent. In estimated cost
over July, last year. and It was due to
Government work.
The building permits issued in 141 cit
les during July. rs officially reported
to tee American Contractor, Chicago,
totalled s42,0sl.409. compared with $751;
4l2,sls for July, 1917. decrease of
So per cent. The total number OF per-
mits issued in these 141 cities. however,
was practically the same. 20.52l. against
20.s06. showing that the present tenden-
cies are toward the construction OF
smaller buildings, many of the permits
relating to repairs, extensions and re-
modellings of old buildings. This trend
toward the lighter work Is greater than
appears from the figures themselves. in
asmuch as costs are now considerably
higher than a year ago. The permits
last month averaged in estimated costs
S2.o50 each and for July. last year.
$2.759 each.
OF the 141 cities included. fifty show
gains. The cities where the increase Is
shown are widely distributed. but the
greater activity was due usually to war
work, direct or Indirect
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MANY COMING TO MASPETH.
Locating of spearmint Co. Will
Tax Sections AccOmm cd q lions.

Great importance is placed In the
coming of the Spearmint gum makers
to the Maspeth section Of Queens, The
William Wrigley Company, manurac-
turers Of the Spearmint gum, Is per-
haps one of the largest in the country
and the locating Of tho company in
Maspeth is expected by real estate men
to be followed by a substantial demand
for home accommod ,ions in the
neighborhood. Some builders there are
already preparing for this and have
purchased sites for development with
small houses and apartments.
The Wrigley comparX mas secured
he Hardy. Voorhees, Company prop
erty of twenty-one acres. Stories are
also current that large airplane
plant is to be established in the Mas
peth section of the rapidly develop
ing industrial Queens
The coming ii the Spearmint gum
manufacturers TO Maspe,h should be a
boon to the sale at auction Of lS2
lots in that section on Labor Day by
the Jere Johnson, Jr., Company. Mr..
johnson said yesterday tnat every lot
nc will offer Is on a trolley line pbn-
Meeting with routes to Manhattan and
Long Island City. Til, lots are on
Flushing avenue, Maspeth avenue. Grand
street, Fresh Pond road and Clermont
avenue Gold Fresh Pond road). The
Grand street trolley from Delaney
street. the Flushing avenue trolley from
Park Row and the Fresh Pond road ex-
tension of the Myrtle avenue 81" pass
these lots, while the Borden avenue troll
ley to Long Island City Is three blocks
away.
Mr.. johnson said that If folks would
notice the scarcity u living accom-
modations in their section and the high
rentals which prevail reason would
force them to agree with real estate
experts that the city Is sadly IN need
of homeA and that they will be built
where land is cheap so as to counteract
the high cost of material just as soon
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canvas. This canvas Is stretched on
frames measuring 72x4O feet. Even
these, although they occupy all the
available space in the studio, do not
equal in size the back drops OF the
theatre, and the remaining forty feet
of canvas must be turned on rollers
until the first part of the picture is
completed
In addition to his own immediate
staff Mr.. Lawson acquisitions the SER
wees of the army of mechanics. car
pcnters, electricians, upholsterers and
costumers OF the Hippodrome in car
ryirs out his conceptions.
He has had varied training for
his career as master painter for the
biggest playhouse in the world. Born
in Sweden, he came to this country
as q baby and consequently must be
regarded as one Of our own artists
His excellent working knowledge OF
design and proportion he owes to a
course in architecture, for as a young
man he studied three years with one
of the leading architects of Minneapo-
lis But the call of the theatre was
in the blood, and, having an oppor-
t;Vllty at one time to finish painting
a scene for little stock theatre in
St. Paui-the scene painter having
disappeared on periodical spree
Mr.. Lawson at once felt that he had
found his life work.
Lack of opportunity in this direction
in the West brought him to New York.
where he was associated for a time
with Hugh Logan Reid. with whom he
later worked in Boston. He also
worked with such well known scenic
artists as Ernest Gros and Homer
Evans Of the Metropolitan Opera
House.
He was in charge Of the studio of
Arthur Noegtlin when the latter Sc
cured the contract to paint the scenes
for the new Hippodrome thirteen years
ago, and in the big playhouse Mr..
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Records of Civil War Days Tell In
teresting Story-Manhattan Beach
Auction an Unusual Opportunity

1t is only logical to assume that this
property will benefit somewhat from
this service.
The wealth OF lot of families in
this country Is based on Investments
made In real estate during the great
struggle of 1861. Look back In the real
estate records OF the city and Il will
De found that during the civil war lots
at Fifth avenue and l25th street were
not worth more than $1,000 each. Prices
prevailing at the time through this bar
rem country. now the site of many part
ment houses. were from S325 to 1855
a lot.
"On Fifth avenue at Fifty-ninth
street lots could be had for 5000 each.
more interesting comparison Of before
and after war pricesNs served by the
block between Fifth and Madison ave-
nues, Seventy eighth and Seventy ninth
streets, containing thirty -four lots Back
In 1852 this property was sold for
$4,000. which is at the rate Of SIS a lot.
In 1883 the same block sold at the rate
OF s135 lot. and In 1854 at the rate
or s29o lot. George Douglas paid
$4,000 for 1t In 1857. which Is at the
rate of VI $50 a lot The war came be-
fore Mr.. Douglas had chance to sell,
and not being forced to do SO held on
to the property. knowing that values
would return. Four years after the
close OF the war Mr.. Douglas refused
to sell the block to Mr.. Vanderbilt for
S1.2SO.0 900. which is at the rate Of S36,-
500 a lot.
IN the meantime lots in the wilds Of
Harlem had jumped in value under the
impetus resulting from the restraint
placed on the1city's development by the
war. For instance. lots on Fifth ave-
nue. between 10th and 1llth streets
which were selling for $3s5 each before
the war, were now valued In the thou
sands. Lots on the south side of 1l1th
street just of Fifth avenue brought
$1,000 each in 1870. Five lots on the
south side OF 115th street. go feet west
of Third avenue. brought $4,000 and
$4,000 was paid for two lots on 135th
street, west of Fifth avenue. in that
year
The site Of the Astor dwelling at the
southeast corner OF Fifth avenue and
Sixty-ffth street brought $S7.500 in
1870, while five years previous less than
$4,000 would have bought this corner.
ut seemed that the greater demand
was for vacant property. since II was
in the unimproved sections OF the city
where the greatest advances in values
were recorded. For instance. the prop
erty at 153 Broadway, which Is now
part of the site of the Singer Building.
sold for $4,000 in 1858. II was COW
cred with business building and In the
centre OF the best trading section of
the city, yet II was of less value than
the far away unimproved Fifth avenue
and Sixty-fifth street corner. The de-
mand after this war will be for sites
for Improvement. and II Is there where
the money will be made"
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Lawson has found the fulflment OF his
ambitions.
The greatest secrecy must be main
tanned in the work, for rival managers
are ever on the lookout for new ideas
With the opening of one years show
the scenes of the next great produc-
ton are already being planned and
modelled. and during the whole nine
months the work IL done under. lock
and key, and no one but the artists
themselves and the producers see the
models or sketches.
This year Mr.. Lawson faces the
grave problem of scarcity of canvas
and paints. Skies must he blue and
grass green at the Hippodrome, which
remains to that extent conservative
and loyal to nature and traditions.
And chrome green and Prussian blue
are fast disappearing from the market.
one can buy small jars of these rare
colors but 1t takes barrels to paint a
Hippodrome production. Canvas, too,
Is becoming scarcer and scarcer but
early in the season Mr. Lawson pur-
chased all he could procure in the
market-some 5000 yards-at an ad-
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In recognition of the .philanthropic In
clinations of Mrs Neustadter II is the
intention OF the trustees TO offer tie
building when completed and fully
equipped to the War Department for
use as a hospital for officers. Although
the plans provide for the accommodation
of rs patients, the size of the building
would permit the home being turned
into a hospital Of much greater capac-
ity.
The building is ts>be two stories high.
zoo feet wide and 100 feet deep, built
in the Colonial style of architecture from
plans prepared by York Sawyer
The facade will be of brick and lime
stone and the entire structure will be
fireproof. The building plan permits OF
tte extension OF the structure by the
building Of wings. which will be done
Just as soon as the needs for more. space
develop. The furnishings and the facil-
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tiles OF the home will be the finest that
money can buy. II is memorial build
ing and tire trustees plan TO make 1t
a fitting testimonial to a philanthropy
Of the donor. who gave several millions
OF dollars for similar enterprises in
other parts of the country and for the
continuance of humane work
The Yonkers home will be non-sec-
tartan and will be for the use OF folks
In poor health. Mrs Neustadter was the
widow OF Henry Neustadter of Neustad-
ter Bros. Of San Francisco, Cal. who
after retiring from business In the West
came to New York to live He died here
in 1908. leaving a large fortune to his
widow. Mrs. Neustadter died in the Hotel
Netherland In 1919. According to a
codicil to her original will Mrs Neu-
stadter provided 100000 for a fund
which was TO build either a home for
working girls of little salary and with
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out folks, or for a convalescent home.
During the transfer tax hearing on the
estate Ex-Judge Cohalan ruled that the
building OF working girls home could
not be considered strictly philanthroplc
since the h2me would produce some in
come even though It was little As the
trustees wanted the use of the entire
money for charitable purposes 1t was de-
cided to accept the alternative and build
home for persons In delicate health.
William l.. Crow, who has the contract
has promised the trustees that the build
Ing will be ready next February. The
trustees of the fund are William I. Wal
ter. brother-in-law OF Mrs Caroline
Neustadter; w. f. Beers and William r
Rose. The building committee which the
trustees selected to attend TO the details
pertaining to the building OF the home
Includes besides Mr.. Rose. Sidney Borg
and DR.. S. S. Goldwater.
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Ready to Build $2500Q0 Neustadter
Convalescents' Home at South Yonkers

The provision in the will OF the late
MIS- Caroline Neustadter that a fine
'onValescents home be erected for
inc use OF people in this sec
uon' for which she left 100000. is
+" De fulfilled. William r. Rose of Rose
faskus. attorneys. one Of the three
trustees of the Neustadter Fund and a
member of the building committee. has
announced that the construction of the
nome will be started within few weeks
ahd that the building will be completed
he M February. 1t will cost $250,000 to
oui'o and will be erected on the tract of
sA acres at the corner Of Mclean avenue
s"d Central road, Just over the New
.9tN city line. and in South Yonkers,
mncn the trustees bought several
months ago for the purpose.
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ROMANCE OF STAGE
STILL BINDS THEM
John Hyams and Leila McIn-
tyre Arc Happy Couple at
New Brighton.

The absence of home and family
life among the people OF the stage
and the general incongruitles OF their
married life traceable to 1t are quite
familiar. But there are married pairs
who because OF life talents are en-
abled to be together, and perhaps the
best known and happ!est of such
favored ones are John Hyams and
Leila Mcintyre, who are at the New
Brighton this week.
They were boy and girl chums In
their own home town and they have
never been separated since their mar
riage. Their counting was an ac-
compartment to their acting. When
they were not making mimic love on
the stage they were manufacturing
the real article In their waiting hours.
They were both engaged in the Chi
cago production of Beauty and the
Beast" and had adjoining dressing
rooms, happily with partitions that
didn't run to the ceiling, so they could
talk over the wall instead OF through
It. Then. of course. Hyams had to
see Mss Mcintyre to her hotel, and
he proved over and over again, espe-
eially on romantic moonlight nights,
that the longest way round was GER
tainly the nearest way home.
Before long they were married and
the very first thing they did seemed a
/ suicidal one. They gave up their sure
positions with a production and re-
solved to work for themselves. That
meant vaudeville, OF course, but they
were a long time In getting the vaude-
willie managers to entertain the same
idea of their talents that they them
selves held. In fact the waiting time
was so long that Baby Leila came to
complieate the financial end of the
| programme. But she seemed the
blessing in disguise. IA messenger of
good fortune at hand. for almost i'm
mediately there came a contract for
an Engagement Of year. Then they
started out as Hyams and Mcintyre
and the team has never been idle or
separated. She went along too, and
she has been going right along ever
since. She is big girl now. IL years
old, and she has travelled all over the
United States and Canada several
times. She enjoys her vacation at
home, but even on the road the mother
and father and grille play they're
home and have just as good time.
Tomorrow. night Gregory Kelly
will resume the part of William Sul-
ranas Barter in Seventeen" Mr..
Kelly has be y in Indianapolis for
several weeks appearing in the plays
produced by Stuart Walker during
his repertory season there. Last week
Gregory Kelly played the principal
part in Stuart Walkers new play
with the engaging title. Jonathan
Makes Wish"
Others who will continue in their
original parts are Ruth Gordon. Lillian
Ross. as the ten-year-old sister of
WHlic: Neil Martin as johnny Wat
son. Agnes Horton as the fat girl. Lew
Medbury as the father. Eugene Stock
dale as Mr.. Parcher.
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BUYS NEWARK WAREHOUSE.

Feist G. Feist have sod for the estate
Of Amos II. Van Horn % T.. A. Klrch
& Co. the Ave story storage warehouse.
on a plot 2sxe0 feet. at II Bank street.
Newark The building which is OF
heavy mill construction. was erected in
1895 expressly for the storage Of fur
niture.
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IOWA MAN SELLS At YONkERs.

Milo u. Heron of Waterloo. Ia. has
sold his house on Hollywood avenue,
Crestwood Yonkers. to New York
buyer Benjamin Lewis and Burke
Stone were the brokers.
Burke Stone also has sold foS Oliver
NJ. Oake a house on Pondfield road West
to Charles +. Lester OF New York city.
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BUYER FOR HATHAWAY HALL.

The Scarsdale Estates, Robert E. Far
ley. president. have sold Hathaway Hall
in the Greenacres section o. Scarsdafe.
TO william II. Airing.
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TARRYTOwN HOUSE LEASED,

The Robert Il. Farley Organization
has leased for the Philipse Manor Com
pany house in Philipse Manor, larry
town. n. Y. to Ralph r. Lounsbury.
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SELLS RIDGEwOOD COTTAGE.

6. S. Walstrum-Gordon & Forman
have sold for Mrs, Blanche VI. COIN the
cottage Mt IL East Franklin avenue.
Ridgewood, y. j.. to John Rugge, Jr.
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WAR TIME INVESTMENTS
IN REALTY PROFITABLE

as the Government releases builders and
material manufacturers from Govern
ment work.
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Pauline FretleriCk's newest picture.
Paid In Full" based on the Eugene
Walter drama. has just been finished
and Director Chautard is now cutting
the film. This production WIFI be re-
leased after Miss F'redericks next film.
THE Shadow of the Rope" Perhaps in
October.
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the Purtmanteau repertory and five
have been new three act dramas
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vance OF $50 per cent. over previous
prices. So the Hippodrome will have
scenery for another year at least
The Daily Missoulian., 1918-04-25
Bret Bits OF
MisSOuLQ NelUS

Mrs. Gilbert McCune was a visitor
in the city yesterday from her home at
Victor.
Dr. Anna James, osteopath. :0t w.
ADV.
DR. w. +. Mills motored 10 ia milton
Yesterday TO perform a surgical opcr-
alton at that city.
DIR. Willard. osteopath. First Ma
tionsl Bank.-Adv.
Miss Helen Robson is recovering aft
er being several days Ill at her home
on East Front street
Seven per cent money to loan. II.
ID. Flsber.--Adv.
\ daughter was born Tuesday at St.
Patrick's hospital TO Mr.. and Mrs. John
Miller Of ABS Plymouth street.
DR.. Louise Smith. osteopath. sis w.
Adv.
Ashley Dixon. Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. \. c. Dixon Of SteyensviIIe, was
operated upon in M.ssoula yesterday.
DR.. Harrison, practice limited to eye
ear. nose and throat and the fitting O!
glasses. Office. Higgins block.-Ady
| Among the visitors in Missoula yes
terday from the Bitter Root valle.
we're Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Stevens
Hard NJ. Sackett. Hamilton Thatcher
lG. Q. Thatcher. George 7. Baggs. W. I
The Daily Missoulian., 1918-04-25
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
Sayings of Mrs. Solomon.
By Helen Rowland

Verify. verify. al in hearts:
NO woman a =
Yet what his 0 hms &
Yea. what Of hima
eton.'
bowed
Behold two o a talking.
And them
he not
And while
cernng his
What a beautiful cleft his chin"
a
But only heard wha he SAYING.
Lisa smile but hath dcciphered
a
Behold, a ALL
his sight And
o
But while damsel
n her heart
Wait until him.
and change the parting of his
Behold there dwet Babylon
for her! - -
Yea the Adonses Hghbrows
posed
And she smiled them
t
BOOB. with a bald forehead and married him.
My
d. and
for mate?
comedy be ones
And
And forever acrward the Boob
And the third is her REAL opinion the
The Daily Missoulian., 1918-04-25
SOCIAL CALENDAR

Thursday afternoon-The Missionary
society of the Presbyterian church will
meet at this time instead of Friday rs
first appointed, the change being made
because of the Liberty day celebration
on Friday. II will be held at the home
OF Mrs. Frank McIiaffic on Gerald ave
nue. with Mrs. Porter Hayes assistant
hostess. The Lend IA Hand society OF
the Methodist church will meet I'm the
following order: Section No. with
Mrs. Charles Likes, 93s Poplar street
No. 2, with Mrs. Orvillc Letter, 600
block, North Fourth street: No: 3, with
Mrs. John II. Inch, 1876 South Fourth
street. east; No. 4, with MrH. NJ. Skoncs
d34 Brooks street: No. 8. with Mrs
Frank Jones. AT her home, 32l East
Front street: No. q, with Mrs. l.. H.
Sargent, for coYercd-dihh dinner at |
o'clock, 1904 South Second street west
The Scripture lesson for the day will
be Psalm 80.
Friday evening-The Orchard Homes
Country Life club will meet In regular
session at the clubhouse. The speaker
of the evening will be Attorney Charles
q. Adams with the subject The Max
ing Of an American Citizen
The Daily Missoulian., 1918-04-25

for $4,000. but the company insisted
that a high lattice fence bc buii9
around it to avert any damage kfonl
wind or carelessness, and It was feared
that it might interfere with the health
OF the valuable producer. and two years
ago the lattice work Was removedj3
causing cancellation Of the insuranc9
policy.
Other alligator pear trees In south I
ern California produce large returns.
but none 30 far has rlvaled the Cantor
tree. the fruits from which sell at from
SO cents to 81 each.
The Daily Missoulian., 1918-04-25
Housewives
Scrapbook

| II you wish to keep food in some re-
| cep,acle that is minus a cover the
| dust can be kept out by slipping a
container into paper bag. This Is
preferable to placing piece of paper
over the top. as it cannot blow off.
| II you find the shoe polish too dry
| for use Il few drops of turpentine will
| restore it's moisture.
Frequently father must discard n
shirt otherwise perfectly good but for
| the worn cuffs and rubbed places be-
peath the collar. "A little dressmak ing
| genius might readily camouflage the
cast -off shirt into a serviceable dress
fer baby sister.
To insure the keeping of poultry
place a peeled onion inside the cleaned
| fowl and it will keep few days.
When making apple sauce for any Of
the various apple sauce cake recipes "a
seggy cake will be avoided if the apples
arc cooked without water.
| To clean copper or brass dip a cut
lemon into fine salt and rub it over the
| article to be cleaned.
When washing Il Dover egg beater
aT old wetting the cogs. as this causes
the grease to come off in the towel and
| II also makes the beater harder TO turn.
| In case the boiled custard curdles Just
pour II into u cool dish and beat with
| an egg bcater 1t will soon become as
| smooth as desired
If you are troubled with ants in the
| sugar box make a heavy chalk mark
| around the edge of the box. No ant
l II ~
! If the blanket Is worn too thin for
service, why not cover it with silkoline
or cheese cloth and tuft 1t like IA COM
| forter? It Will make an excellent bed
| cover for spring or cool summer nights.
! If your oven Is SO hot that YOU fear
! the cake will burn place "A pic dish
filled with water in the lower part OF
the oven and your cake will not burn.
To prevent chamois leather from be-
coming hard in washing make suds of
warm water and soap and squeeze the
| chamois in this until II is clean. IL
very much soiled use several lots of
sGds, and ammonia may be added.
Rinse in clean. sospy water squeeze
and hang out to dry.
| To get rid Of the moths in the
carpet spread a damp cloth over the
spots and iron with hot iron. You
viii find that the steam will kill the
| Etoths.