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New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Uncertainty, Not High Prices, Holds Building in Che

sl4 a thousand the cost per brick in
December was Id cents Apply this
to the facade of the building and the
result would be that the amount Of
money was paid for the facade of the
original structure would carry the wall
in the proposed structure not more
than half way. The price comparisons
were made on structure fourteen
stories high, so feet wide and 16O feet
deep. 1t was estimated that the build
ing contained 100000 cubic feet. The
comparison showed the average cost
of each floor in the structure to be
SCOTIA.
The architect showed that it would
cost 900 floor to produce the
building to-day. The number of bar
rels of cement and lime and the tons of
steel and the feet of plumbing and
yards of gravel and sand used II the
structure were obtained by the arehi-
tects, with the prices, and alongside of
these were placed the prices of Decem-
Der las. The difference in the cost
was easily seen. and it is likely that
the structure will be erected now that
the owner has hccn convinced just
how little dollar sill buy in the con-
struction field.
The statement was made yesterday
by an architect, who has specialized in
country house dcs igning and who holds
a place high in his profession, that
suburban dwelling costs were much
higher than urban costs. He estimated
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Buyers to Change Flats
Into Small Suites
Frederick Brown Purchases y
Story Apartment in East
.58th Street

Frederick Brown has bought from
DR.. b. Farquhar Curtis the Fullerton
at 116 East Fifty-eighth Street. nea'
Park Avenue, nine story apartment
house, on plot 57x100. The building
was erected by J. L. r. Carpenter and
S. Fullerton Weaver.
Changes Planned for Houses Bought
Louis Schlechter bought from the
Ormond Realty Company the six story
elevator apartment, on d plot 602xso'
At 52S Riverside Drive.
The Pierce Contracting CompaF!
(Louis Werner. PRESIDENT has pus.
chased the five story apartment house
at 260 West ->inety-ninth Street. on B
plot 25Xl0o. When present lease eS,,
pircs house VIII be altered into small
suites
L. & A. Pincus have purchased fror
the LeXingpark Realty Corporation tne
two iive~story apartment houses at Sos
and 336 West fifty-sixth Street, on 4
plot 50xl00. The buyers viii conyer
the apartments into three and foui
room suites. 1t was a cash tran sactiea
arranged by Goodale, Perry & Dwiga'
and Charles Meyers.
Old Ninety-hrst Street Holding SOLD
The O'Shea estate has sold the hse
story apartment house at 81 Mess
Ninety-lirst Street This is the mrs.
sale of this property in more ths'
twenty years.
Invest in 126th Street Property
Charles kimmelman sold to the OAK
dale Realty Company, through u. ha'.
ris, the six story apartment house, or
plot 50Xl00, al l15 East izo'n
Street
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Dwelling Buyers Help
To Relieve Housing
Purchaser of East 34th Sire It
Premises to Alter Them
Into Apartments

Douglas l.. Gilman & Co., as brokers,
report that contracts have just been
executed in the sale for Frederick J.
Sterncr of the four-story dwelling at
107 East Thirty fourth Street, on a lot
206x100, adjoining the Robert Bacon
residence at the northeast corner Of
Park Avenue. The purchasers are L.
G. A. Pincus. who will probably alter
the house into stores and studio apart
ments
James Kyle & Sons have sold for
Albert Hartog, jr.. the two story dwell
ing at 429 East Fifty-seventh Street.
The Rutland & Whiting Benjamin
Corporation have resold the three story
and basement dwelling at 232 East
Sixty-hrst Street. The house is to
be altered into an American basement
dwelling.
West Side Dwellings, Sold
Peasc & Gilman have resold for NJ.
$. Orth to a physician the four-story
and basement dwelling on lot 20x
100 at "a West Seventy-first Street.
The seller bought the property about
month ago.
George Raymond has sold to former
State Tax Commissioner Joseph s.
Schwab, representing the Schwab
Realty Company, the four-story dwell
ing, 19xl00.6, at 116 West Eighty
seventh Street.
Benjamin Levy has sold 100 East
l0lst Street. threes story house. on
a lot 15.6x75.
Ennis e. Sinnott have bought from
Sarah II. Johnson the three story
dwelling at 1870 West Eighty-eighth
Street, on lot l76xl008. NJ. NJ Hay
ward g. Go. we're the brokers.
Owen Walsh has sold the two-story
dwelling on a lot 25x100 at 2413 Loril-
lard Place through Angelo l.. Fru-
ment6.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
State Government
Costs I28 Per Gent
More Than in 1909
500, 900, 900 Required Next
Year; $35, 900, 600 Total
Ten Years Agos Debt Ser.
vice Alone $I3, 10000

Government comes high in this state.
Announcement was made last week ths.
S90.0Oo,0OO is needed to run New
York next year This is SS.O0O,OOO
more than it cost last year and 1913 per
cent higher than ten years ago, when
the cost of the New York State goverH-
ment was $50, 100000. More than
third Of this figure is required this
year for debt service alone, more
than half for proposed constructed
work and about a fourth for building
and maintenance of highways.
Here are some of the items that tnsl
taxpayers of New York City and New
York State must meet next year: $lS,-
100000 for debt service: highway re-
pairs, $5,500,000, and state aid to town
highways, $2,00O.00O; highway con
struction, $2,500.O00; purchase Of tw'
toll bridges at Albany. 81 5oO.0 600; Nes
Jersey vehicular tunnel. Sl,000.oOO
canal terminals. 100000. The toa
amount for new construction is Sla
U0O. coo
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

cost was between $4,000 and sss Kan.
Two wears later there was a comns..
cessation of construction.
Wages and building material H..
value and with them went real es,s.E
values. Dwellings that cost s5oONs
merely to put up in 1878. sold for sss
600 in 1876. and houses which cO.,
$s5,o00 could not be disposed of g.
more than $4,000.
In 1872 the following prices ~.
vailed in the construction field -.
New York:
Brick .-............ Sli to SIS ihou..n.
Lime. ................Si.5o 10 Sl.7S bsrDs br.s
Timber ........-...S2 SO TO San thousans
Georgia pine ...-...- 500 20 $50 thousanS
Mechanics wages for day Of eight S-'SH'
Laborers' wages for day Of eight =" -
hours .-................- s.. to ss.@
Two years later these were the price,
quoted for building material;
prick. ........-.....-.... ......S6 thousand
lime ..-.-.....-.-.......4 4oc. so S barrs
Jumper. .--.-........ NlH a THOUSAND
Seorgla plnC .................S1 S 16 IN s,e
Hechanics' WAGES ................ 4
baoorers wages ....... ,oc. 10 s
Mechanics and laborcrs worked te,
hours for these wages instead of eirh,
hours. as they did two years preyiou,
AT that time building labor was ma.
mighty organized, SO that one would no,
be likely to-day to find such a wide
fiuctuation in the labor market.
Comparison of the prices which re.
vailed during 1872 and 1873 in tbo
/ building field and those which hell IN
last weeks market is interes ing. Las
weeks prices are:
Brick. per .000 sls sM
Cement, per barrel 32a
Rcck. per yard Observation-Disclosures. III
Gravel, per yard .........-...... 9s
Lime. per barrel ..........., 3n
Lirseed oil. per Gallon. on............ lid
Flooring. per NJ t............... T5M
Lath spruce, per ten bundles... Ga
Sand. per yard .....-.-.-... lss
Lumber. per NJ eet.......... sea-
Fabricated steel. per cwi........... 9g
Many builders suffered great finarl
cial losses in the sudden fall of prices
Some OF them were forced to the wal
and never succeeded in freeing them
selves from the financial mesh in which
they became cntangled at the time
The boom seemed we'll founded Many
houses had been erected at the higs
prices and sold readily. which cncour.
aged still greater building campaigns
The trouble came when builders had
committed themselves to supplies a.
the high prices.
The story of these days and incident,
which have happened since have com,
down to the builders now in the sad.
4 IL. /
ward slowly, picking their footsteps s,
TO speak, and are thinking of their owl
interests and not tho public's. Nam
of them will wait until prices indicate !
stability which viii make it safe :,
invest in building operations Wha
happened after the panic Of 1907 is ad
ditional reason for cautio., and it car
well be said that the builder is cav
tious.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Major Burgoyne Hamilton
Resumes Former Line of Work

Douglas l.. Gilman G. Co. announce
that Burgoyne Hamilton, specialist
IN country property, has Joined their
organization as manager of the coun-
try department.
For the last two years Mr.. Hamilton
has been in the army, and from July
to January last served in France as
commanding officer OF Headquarters
Company, 10th Artillery. c. A. G. On
his return 20 this country he received
his commission Of major. The country
department Of Douglas L. Gilman e.
Co has recently been greatly en-
larged for the handling of estates in
Westchcstcr, Connecticut and the
north shore of Long Island.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Tall Loft Improvement
Reported for 9Th Avenue

A deal is under way. according to
reports, for the sale OF POS to OF West
lhlrty-siXth Street and 400 Seventh
avenue to printing concern, which
ians to erect seventeen story COM
mercial loft.
The property, which is owned by
the Whitnoyl Corporation, Whitney
lyon president, has a frontage Of 1877
ieet on Ihirty-siXth Street, adjoining,
'r, me Hotel York, and depth Of 124 feet.
The Seventh Avenue parcel which
forms an a." has frontage Of PAS
1eet and depth of about 2S0 feet.
mere are several old buildings on the
plot and a garage. The property has
been held at S4O0 600
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Prices Advanced 40 Per Cent n
the City and Is Per Cent in the
Country in Four Years

year leases Of tenants who rent in
houses which they are preparing to
erect.
Builders wariness OF the situation
may be attributed to the bitter les
son which they learned after the Civil
War. Material prices scared high
and it might interest folks to know
that they reached levels above those
prevailing to-day. Brick was selling
the period of wild speculation in real
estate and house building from 1868
to 1872 brick sold for SIS thousand.
Under such prices the Fashionable
residential section of the town, which
was from Fortysecond to Fifty-ninth
Street and from Sixth to Madison
Avenue, was developed In 1872
there were 200 houses under construc-
tion in this section at one time. Their
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
$500, 900 Hotel Planned
For Newark Site

A new hotel, to be called the "Mili-
tary Plaza" and to cost s5OO,o0o, is
projected for Newark. 1t will contain
200 rooms and the same number of
baths, and will be erected at 1926 East
Park Street. The building will be
ready for occupancy by October.
The building will be seven stories
high. 6S feet wide and 100 feet deep.
Edward Y. Warren is the architect.
It will be built for Harry and Joseph
hruvant, who will lease it to an oper-
ating company.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Investors Again Interested
I'm Broadway Lofts
ArOnsOn Resells Tall Structure
Near Broome Street to Buyer
for Investment

Harry Aronson has sold to an in
vestor 491493 Broadway with a. to
Broome Street, twelve story loft
building in the cotton converting dis
trict. Walter H. Warren, of Warren &
Skillion, was the broker. Mr.. Aronson
took in part payment 552-55S West
l49th Street. four private dwellings
on plot 66.Sx100. Mr.. Aronson pur-
chased the Broadway property from the
Adams Express Company recently. He
sold at an advance.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

lease seems to indicate that the les
secs believed that it is there the ia
nous pirate had "his money hid" for
1t calls for rental Just double that
of the present value of the property
The property has been taken over by
the Cable Cafe and Restaurant Com
pany for a term Of twcnty-one years
at an aggregate rental of $500 900, in
cludlng taxes.
The building, which is four stories
on plot 40x65, is to be extensively
altered for office and restaurant use
by the leasing company, consisting of
Charles Riemenschnsider and Richard
Schur. Schur was formerly steward Of
the Lakewood Club.
While many statements have been
made regarding the residence of Can
tain Kidd, it is generally believed that
this location just leased by the restau-
rant company is the original
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Many Plots Purchased
In Long Island CITY

Increasing activity in Long Island
City was evidenced by a number of
lot sales made by the Cross e. Brown
Company yesterday.
They have sold to S. Jacobs ten lots
extending from Sixth to Seventh ave
nue., north of Pierce Avenue, for Abra
ham Altman; to the same buyer. two
lots Immediately adjoining for Rudolph
bruer; to Harry Harris a plot at the
southwest corner of Graham and Sew
enth avenues FOR Annie Black. and To
r. Fingeroth plot of eight lots on
the east side of Sixth Avenue, forty
feet south of Graham Avenue through
to Seventh Avenue. for ]. J. Buckle
and Edward Cominsky.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
VIII Tell of Development
OF Grand Central Zone

The New York Building managers
Association will hold its monthly din
ner meeting at the Republican Club. at
81 West Fortieth Street, on Thursday
at G:30 p. m.
William Marshall Ellis. of Chicago,
president Of the National Association
of Building Owners and Managers, will
speak on the convention to be held
in Philadelphia, June 10 TO ~. Leonard
Schultze, OF Warren e. Wetmore, ar
chitects. will speak on THE Develop
zmcnt of the Grand Central Zone"
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

Builders are now engaged in max
ing an exhaustive study of construc-
tion prices. They are endeavorng TO
ascertain exactly what is the increase
in the cost of building this type and
that type. They are trying to learn
what are the factors in the lift in
prices; what are the factors that make
it possible to build less in one section
than in another. The information will
be applied in an effort to stabilize
prices, to eradicate sectional factors
which make for unequal levels and to
restore confidence in the ranks of the
builders, who just now arc very much
undecided as to the course they should
pursue.
The needs of the city are great
Builders appreciate the fact that their
houses would be filled and that no con-
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

be built the builder would soon dis
cover that he would have to spend at
least twenty cents more on each cubic
loot. In 1915 he would have erected
such building at about forty cents
a cubic foot. He could buy two bricks
Tor cent in 1915, but to-day he must
pay about cent and half for each
brick.
Take the common product lime,
whose market value was S115 for a
barrel of 300 pounds before the war.
II IS $3.50 to-day. Many hundred bar
rcIs OF the material are used in build
ing house. Say 200 barrels are re-
CURED in the construction of a certain
type of house. The lime bill under the
prevailing rates would be $500, or $3.50
more than under the old rate the rate
which builders arc waiting to return
or rather building loan interests think
may come back. The power of a dol
lar in the building field has shrunk
from third to three fourths.
One of the best known architects in
the country was asked about the first
OF the year to design hotel building
similar IN many respects to one built
under 1918 prices. When the hotel
man received the figures he was
startled at the amount he would have
expressing automatically his belief
that the architect made a mistake in
his figuring and that he wished he
would check them up. The architect
expected something like this and set
out to get the cost of the various ma
terials which went into the hotel his
client had in mind. The comparison
was great surprise even to the ar
chitect himself. He had no idea that
prices at the first of the year, when
ne made the comparison, would tell
such a tale.
The comparisons showed that ma
terlal had jumped 10 per cent and
that labor had moved up 25 per cent.
The figures ;how:
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
$500, 900 Broadway Lease

The st. Regis Restaurant Company
has leased from the Silk Realty Com
pany, for term Of nineteen years, at
en- aggregate rental OF $500 ,000. the
store and basement 1887 Broadway, at
the southwegt corner OF Forty-cighth
Street. Tt Charles Z. Noycs Company
were the .okcrs,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Captain Kidd's Old Home
Taken for Restaurant
Reputation May Have Had In
huence i'll High Rental
for Property

The building at the southwest cor
ner of Pearl and Hanover streets, on
which site, it is said, once stood the
home of "Captain Kidd" has been
leased for restaurant purposes. The
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

Average Increase Is 40 Per Cent
1t was estimated that the building
could not be produced much under
$l,106,000. The building to be dupl-
Gated actually cost $850000 The $685.
coo difference is chiefly taken up in
the eleven materials mentioned above.
1t was figured out that it would cost
$4,950 a room to build under current
price, while the original structure was
put up at a cost of $3,09O75. The
analysis was brought down to the cost
Of the very brick that the prospective
builder might get true proportion of
the cost of construction day and in
the days of old.
1t was possible to buy 1000 brick
four years ago for 1913, which is at
the rate of .0575 for each brick At
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Comes 10 Newark From Nonker'

The oncfamily frame stucco dwell
ms al 29 Whittier Place, between RE.
hnghuysen and Dayton Avenres, ~
the Waverly section, Newark. has beesnn
sold to Otto kcmnitz. OF Yonkers, NJ
T., for the Aetna Realty Company
Louis Schlesinger was the brokes ~
the transaction.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
BUYER for East Side Flat

The Douglas Robinson, Charles S.
Brown Company has sold for the trus-
tees OF Henry {. DYayton TO Thomas J.
OConnor the five story tenement, on a
lot 25x9Q, at 525 East Sixth Street,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06

speculative builder could have done the
job for even less money The figures
which may be accepted as representa-
tive Of construction costs in the metro
p0litan district at this time. arc:
New-York tribune., 1919-04-06
Named Agents for Cambria

Mark Rafalsky e. Co. has been ap
pointed agent for the Cambria, an
eight story apartment house at BAT to
355 West Fifty-fifth Street.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-07-15
CAN'T TAKE KAISER'S BLAME
cIemenceau Tells Germans "The Mas
ter Is Responsible for His
Hireiing's Acts"

Paris, July 9-"The master is re-
spOnsible for his hireling's acts"
That will be the burden of Premier
Clemenceau's reply to DIR. Won Beth
mann-Hollweg, former imperial Ger
man chancellor, it was learned semi
officially here.
The "Tiger," with the approval of
the big Five" will convey the same
information to Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg through the ex-chancellor, it
is understood. Both begged to be al
lowed to take the blame for the ex-
kaiser's acts and stand trial in his
stead They will be told that the full
fillment of their request is impossible.
Both HOllweg and Hindenburg will
be invited. however, to testify at the
ex-kaiser's trial. But it will be made
clear by the French premier that no
immunity can be granted them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-07-15

Stevens Point-Pawing over an en-
tire wardrobe, thieves who broke into
the residence of Michael Arbush Sc
lected a number of articles of wom-
ems apparel for their loot. A dress,
two georgette waists, MILDLY, and
crocheted corset cover were taken.
Members of the Arbush family, includ-
ing two daughters to whom the stolen
articles belonged, were sleeping in an
other part of the home when the theft
was committed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-07-15
TAKING SHINE OFF GARMENTS
Simple Recipe Is Given to Save APP
pareI That Otherwise Might
Be Discarded.

Many a wooden garment has been
cast into the discard because it was
so shiny it was no longer presentable.
Yet many times it is possible to re-
move the shine so that considerably
more service can be had from the
garment. These are some methods
suggested by the home economics
workers at the New York State Col
lege of Agriculture
Press the wool material on the right
side through a wet wooden cloth. The
nap of the pressing cloth viii pull
up the nap Of the material being
pressed if the nap had not been en-
tirely worn of.
Some persons substitute a piece Of
crinoline for the wooden pressing cloth.
Others use a cotton pressing cloth
md iron until the pressing cloth is
Try. They then wet the cloth again
nd rub the iron quickly over il. This
4ast operation removes the shine By
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-07-15
BIG RIOT AT ARGO
TWO KILLED AND NINE WOUND
ED IN BATTLE.
Guards and Strikers Clash at Corn
Products PIant-2,000 Men
Engage in Fight.

Chicago, July "a strike at the
Argo plant of the Corn Products Re
finieg company turned into riot last
night, in which two men were shot to
death and seven others and two chill
dren shot and seriously wounded.
Nearly 1000 men took part in the
rioting, which continued throughout
the night. Rifle fire, from the guards
of the plant behind it's barricaded
entrances, swept the streets clear, but
this was returned from the outside
ranks hidden behind telephone and
telegraph poles and buildings.
Versions of the trouble varied.
Members of the union said the guards,
marshaled into the plant to protect
strikebreakers at work there, began
the shooting. They said they were
fired upon without provocation while
peaceably picketing the entrances.
Two men dropped MORALLY wound
ed at the main entrance. This melted
the crowd, and q shower of stones and
clubs was the answer to the bullets.
Then the guards inside opened fire
with Nolley after volley, it was said.
The children were struck down by
stray bullets several blocks from the
scene. Two men were standing in the
ArgOn Pharmacy an equal distance
away when other bullets pierced the
plate glass window and struck them.
On the contrary, officials of the
company charge that the strikers
sought to storm the building; that
they dragged men willing to work
away from the entrance and threat
ened the guards who went to their
rescue with clubs and revOlvers.