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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-01-03

Paris, Jan. 2.-President Wilson has
started for Rome, where he will be
King Victor Emmanueps guest.
During his stay in the Italian CAPT
tai he will visit the Pope and also the
Methodist college and will continue
his conference with the King, Premier
Orlando and Baron Sonnino, the for
eign minister. Important results are
expected from this visit, which Will be
the last to the Allied countries before
the beginning of the peace conference.
Quiet New Years Dinner.
There was q quiet family New
Years dinner at the Murat mansion.
dent His only departure from the
Injunction of Admiral Grayson to de-
,yote the day to complete relaxation
and repose came when he received
New Years call from President and
Madame Poincare and later visited
Col. Z. NJ. House, with whom he had
a conference. Beyond this lie had no
appointments.
The conferences in Rome with the
Italian statesmen will, in o sense, be
q continuation of those held here when
King Victor Emmanuel visited Paris
and the President also talked with
Premier Orlando and Foreign Minister
Sonning. The results Of President
Wilson's conference with the British
premier, David Lloyd George, and For
eign Minister Balfour, which have not
yet been fully disclosed. probably will
have an important relation to the con-
tinuation of the conferences with the
Italian leaders.
Machinery Is Organized.
The working machinery of the
American commission has been thor
ouxhiy organized during the Presi-
q. r<s- <l5ss T. ,<..se ...s.a 4za every
thing is practically ready to begin
business when he returns from Italy
There appears no reason for altering
the forecast made four weeks ago,
that President Wilson intends to be
back in Washington before the closing
of the American Congress on March
4,>or that, if necessary, he viii return
to France early in the spring to con-
tinue his work There are, however,
some indications that the Presidents
hope that his return will not be neces-
sary may be realized.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-01-03
ATTACHES OF EMBASSY GO
70 ITALIAN FRONTIER
MEET The WILSON PARTY
Executive Will Spend Few Days
In Rome, Confering With
Officials

Rome, January 2.-The American
ambassador, Thomas Nelson Page, in
company with military and naval at
taches of the American embassy, left
today to meet President Wilson at the
Italian frontier.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-01-03

Fire island, January 2.-Twelve SOL
diers were thrown into the surf to-
sether with five coast guards when
life beat capsiZed 500 feet from shore
here today. The party we're returning
from the hospital ship Northern Pa
cific. Al IT, men were rescued. Eut
coo of the 2,25a OH board the North
ern Pacific had been rescued late this
afternoon.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-01-03
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POLES move On Berlin
SIX HUN CITIES, TAKEN BY
THE ENRAGED INVADERS
.TEUTS MUCH ALARMED
Frankfort Taken and German
Officials Order Out Soldiers
To Fight

Copenhagen, January 2-That the
allies intend to break on aifspeace me-
aotlations with Germany n &he bo,-.
shevIki element gains contrpf ~ the
government was the report cGrreef
In Berlin today. ~. IS
Lesson, January z.-The demo-
b;I;zation OF tire German army i pros
ceedIns more rapidly than u .fIrst ~.
'leved possible, fsustaws Nosies, mem
Der. Of the Ebest cabiae< II caasgs of
military affairs. reports ~ II not ~
ileved there is much danger from
boIshevIsm. IS q 8. & ~ 5 =
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-01-03
BiWHohenzolLern
4 Very I'LL; He Hasl
ColdandaFever
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch. ]

lsSSocLileu freSS DlSpatcn'I
Amsterdam, January 2.-Nilliam
HohenzoIIern is seriously sick. He
has severe cold and high fever. a
specialist is In constant attendance.
Only Williams wife and the doctors
are permitted to crter his roam.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-01-03

New York, NJ. y, January 2.-con-
slant pounding OF the sea against the
transport Northern Pacific drove the
vessel higher onto the beach swinging
the bow 80 she only is go yards from
shore. There is 4 heavy wind and
SEA. So Iorg az these conditions pre-
vail, no attempt can be made to trans
fer to ether vessels the 5000 soldiers,
crew and civilians aboard.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-01-03
SEAS POUND The ship
NORTHERN PACIFIC IS DRIVEN
HIGHER ON BEACH
HEAVY WIND PREVAILS
These Conditions Prevent TAX
ing Many Wounded From
The Vessel
UNITED Press DIspatch.l

Fire island, January 2.-Three
wounded officers and one soIdieT were
landed from the transport Northern
Pacific.
New York, January 2.-Wounded
soldiers were being transferred from
the grounded hospital ship Northern
Pacific to the transport Mallory this
afternoon. The sea had Gained down
sufficiently so that this work was pos
sihle. Only a few rrcn had previous
~ reached shore in Ifeboats.
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SUBURBAN SPECIALIST
REOPENS HIS OFFICES
II. w. CraU Returns to Realty
Field From War Work.

Harvey w. Craw has opened a suite
Of offices at 10 East Forty-third street
with a stan of suburban specialists as
assistants. Mr.. Craw began his SUBJ
urban real estate activities as a sales
man with the Robert z. Farley Organi.
zation in January, 1914. He became as
sstant sales manager the next year,
then first vice. president and sales man.
ager in February. 1916. He was electd
governor and secretary of the Gedney
Farms Country Club January, 1916.
Mr.. Craw resigned from the Robert
E. Farley Organization in January. 1917,
to enter the field under his own name.
In August, 1917. he temporarily closed
his business to enter war work as town
manager OF the United States Housing
Corporation in Hle New England dis
trict, and was given charge OF the hous.
ing projects for the Government at
Quincy, Mass, Bath. Me-. Newport, r.
l., and Portsmouth. n. H. He has just
resigned from the housing corporation to
reenter the suburban and country estate
field, specializing in Long Island coun.
try estates and homes.
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handsome park which was laid out for
the people OF the northern part OF Hud-
son county by the Hudson County Park
Commission. These park lands In them
selves comprise 100 acres and were pur-
chased at a cost of S397.3O1.
The old half mile track was laid out
Ia the SOS by the North Hudson Driving
Park Association and was conducted by
the Hudson County Jockey Club. con-
trolled by what was then popularity
known as the Big Four" The chief
member OF the big Four" was tho
late Dennis Mclaughlin, then County
Clerk OF Hudson and the big boss" OF
the Democratic county organization.
His associates were Johnnie Carr. Fred
Walbaum and Nick Crusius.
Horses were raced throughout the
year-rain, shine. snow, or sleet The
track was the mecca OF most OF the
sporting element in New York and the
northern part of New Jersey. 1t staged
some mighty good races and, rumor had
1t. many questionable ones. 1.-THE Quit"
as II was popularity known, was a veri-
table money maker for a time. but when
popular opposition to Jersey race tracks
in general, and THE Quit" In particular,
resulted In the passage Of the anti-race
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tiveness will be attained" states the
American Architect editorially. THE
shortage of labor we are now facing de-
mands immediate application Of all
methods that will increase efficiency Of
manufacture and distribution.
Enlarged output must now be the
slogan. Authorities offer no encourage
ment that there is to be a lowering OF
costs in any other way on account of in
fiuences beyond control. the shortage ~
labor and materials, political complica-
tons and tax burdens. Price recession
through the curtailment of exports or the
increase OF imports is at this time im-
possible. Increased and steady rroduc-
ton can alone reduce the cost OF living.
England is taking the long expected
turn toward enlarged output This is n
decided evidence of growing confidence
as well as a factor in reducing prices
David Lloyd George in n recent address
before the House of Commons made an
appeal to the nation to increase produc-
ton. He pointed out The fact that the
country is consuming more than it Is
producing and that this state of affairs
could not long continue. He struck the
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track betting laws the track was closed.
The Hudson County Driving Park AS
ISOLATION experienced financial difficult
ties after the closing of the racetrack,
and on August IS, 1898, James L. HUI
shizer. a Jersey City banker, was ap-
pointed receiver TO wind up its affairs,
The racetraclS property was sold by
the receiver in November of the same
year TO Dennis Mclaughlin for $l25,-
coo. Mr.. Mclaughlin subsequently or
ganized the Colonial Land Company,
composed of ex-Mayor Lawrence Pagan
OF Hoboken, the late John Mullins, a
Jersey City furniture dealer. and Cor
nelius ]. Cronan, ex-Sheriff of Hudson
county.
The track site subsequently was taken
over by the Colonial Land and Develop
ment Company, organized by the late
Archibald Alexander, son of Mrs. II.
Otto Wittpenn OF Jersey City, Richard
Stevens of the famous Stevens family
Of Hoboken, who died recently. ex-Judge
w. Rufus Besson and John S. Mabon
OF Hoboken.
Mr.. Alexander, who was a nephew Of
Mr.. Stevens, passed away soon after
the purchase was consummated and the
plan to close out the holdings of the
Colonial Land and Improvement Com
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keynote when he declared that economic
matters could never be improved until
there came an increase in production
There is no other alternative, he said.
except quitting the country for which
we fought for four years
III Great Britain must work with
might and main to avert disaster. 50
too must the United States demand that
every one get into the game for all it's
worth to insure greater production and
the turning out of more of the goods
the world so sorely needs. Then and
only then can the present distress be
eliminated. Europe's unprecedented I'M
Reproduction after FIVE years of war
should be a lesson to this country. for
this condition is attributed by experts
to be one OF the primary factors in the
high cost OF living over here.
I'VE should not let ourselves take as
pessimistic a view Of our problem as
does Lloyd George OF conditions in Eng
land. In time we shall emerge from the
present postwar depression greater.
stronger. richer than ever. Our vast re-
sources are still intact. TIE country's
finances, despite large loans made to
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the firepiaces into closet and drawer
space. There will also be several built in
cedar chests in these two apartments.
The kitchens will be tiled. and the finish
will be as modern as that to be found in
most high class apartment houses OF
great SIZE. On the top floor of the upper
duplex will be four master bedrooms and
bath, with private stairway leading to
the roof garden.
The lower duplex will have trade SER
vice direct to the kitchen by a recessed
door. Service to the other floors will be
by means of a dumbwaiter operated from
the cellar. which will be reached by a
short flight of stairs under the main
street entrance.
The lower duplex will have laundry
tubs in the kitchen, with drying space II.
a part Of the back yard reserved for that
purpose. For the studio apartment the
laundry tubs and drying room will be in
the cellar. The top duplex will have
kitchen tubs and drying space on the
roof
This method of charging the habita
Bile space of a private residence is a safe
one," says Mr.. Delehanty. because OF
the fact that the house was splendidly
built. Much of the inside material il
useful. too: for instance, the great mir
rors which can be cut over for use in
closets and doors The fireplaces are i'm.
practical and in rather bad taste. as is
also much of the trimming. These can
be ripped out without much expense
and in the cases OF the fireplaces the
space can be put to good use. In the
present housing situation conversion OF
private residences should be an attrac.
tive proposition IL followed out along
! these lines"
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The site of the famous old Gutenberg
racetrack. where fortunes were made
and lost on the ponies before New Jer-
sey's anti-gambling laws put the quietus
on horse racing in 1898, is to be sold at
public auction in lots II the highest
bidder by Joseph p. Day. auctioneer. on
the premises on Saturday, September G,
at p. NJ. There will be 1000 OF these
lots, and the announcement that they
are to be disposed of TO close out the
holdings of the Colonial Land and I'm
provement Company has excited very
lively interest among men with their
eyes on land that is desirable for build
ing purposes, because of its wonderful
location in a rapidly growing section OF
the Palisades and its accessibility to
New York.
To the old time patron of the Gutten-
burg racetrack the proposed sale will
awaken many pleasant or perhaps I'M
pleasant memory. depending on whether
the majority of the bets were on the
right or on the wrong horse. The track
isn't located in Gutenberg at all but
In the adjoining town Of North Bergen,
on Bergenline avenue. extending from
Robinson street to the Hudson Boule-
ward loop. 1t Is directly OPPOSITE a
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ton is most comprehensive and is con-
tained almost entirely in the L." except
for intermediate passageways connecting
the dining room and the buffers pantry,
and a rear corridor from which one can
pass through the living room into the
service section.
A door from the living room also
opens into a small area from which the
stairway rises to the bedroom floor and
the stairs descend to the basement. In
cluded in this section are coat closets,
a lavatory and cupboards for house
hold utilities. The kitchen is 12x14
feet, with many modern conveniences,
such as a storeroom. ice box so ar
ranged as to be filed from the outside,
built in cupboards, moulding boards,
china closets and shelves for kitchen
utensils.
II the first floor plan is comprehen-
sive the sleeping floor is equally SO,
providing as It does two guest rooms
16x14 feet and an owners room OF the
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foreign Governments, are stronger than
ever before. Prosperity should increase
a soon as labor and material prices
become more stabilized. America S
building boom will be greater than Eng
lands as the great majority OF builders
here have not been affected as they have
In Europe. Our builders have been in
a position to get materials more read
lily.
The only disturbing factor at present
comes from the condition OF labor I'M
rest which is now sweeping the country.
1t requires no unusual power Of percep-
ton to realize that the cost OF construc-
ton always advances in corresponding
ratio to the cost of labor. Many owners
enormously figure the cost Of material
apart from the cost Of labor and thus
arrive at what in their judgment is, or
will be. the labor cost of the building.
However, II they will carefully consider
every one Of the many items OF material
that goes into the building they will
readily see that in every case the labor
OF production of that material Is largely
In excess OF the cost of the raw material
used in its manufacture.
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fication of the gambrel roof is best seen.
Although the dormers are set low II
will be noticed that there Is plenty of
head room in the upper bed chambers
and that the depth of the house. with
the rear extension or IL" for the service
quarters, Is considerably greater than is
to be found in the original Dutch type
Single dormers in the extension carry
out the idea of the main facade and a
pergola and a broad porch have been
added as modern concessions to comfort.
The roof of the main portion is suffl-
GENTLY high to admit of two extra bed
rooms and an attic space on the third
floor.
The harmony of building materials
goes far to add interest to this unusual
little home, and the first story, like Its
original Dutch prototype, is Of stucco,
painted white. The ends are covered
with old fashioned siding and the roof
with twenty-four inch shingles stained
brown, which is In itself somewhat OF a
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same size, with two baths, a servants
room and bath separated by a servants
hall. The third floor contains two more
rooms which may be used for servants
or for storerooms as the need may be.
All the walls throughout the house are
finished in gray plaster. and the wood
work is painted a Colonial white. There
Is an interesting beamed ceiling treat
ment in the living room and a hospi-
table fireplace of brick sufficiently large
to take in three foot logs, which Is
about as large as 1t is possible TO get
them in these days of wood scarcity.
1t Is seldom that so much of simple
beauty without and solid comfort within
is concentrated in one house, and the
architects have very ad:oitly made the
most OF the problem that was set be-
fore them.
In addition to designing the house the
planning Of the grounds was also devel-
oped by the designers, and the plot, Book
125 feet in size, has been Interestingly
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departure from the usual method Of leav-
ing them to weather or staining them
green. Instead of the Colonial blue
green, the shutters are painted dark
green, which provides a pleasing con-
trast to the rest of the color scheme and
the planting.
Although the Cox home appears small
from the outside, 1t really is exceedingly
spacious within, having a wonderful liv-
ing room extending across the entire
end of the house measuring 31x24 feet.
Besides the triple Dutch window in front,
there are two windows at the back and
two French doors opening onto the porch,
which is the exact counterpart in width
Of the room itself.
The living room opens from the front
entrance through a small vestibule and
connects with the dining room, which Is
16x16 feet in size, with charming light
ing and French doors that open into the
pergola, which In summer is used for an
outdoor dining room. The service Sec
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rGny is in part due to the death OF
Mr.. Stevens.
The race track site lies directly OPP
posite Riverside Drive in Manhattan.
ara the property is considered by North
Hudson real estate experts to be the
cream OF North Bergen lands, Some
real estate folks have been arguing that
It will be hard to ind buyers for a
thousand lots at this time, and there
fore. they say, the prices probably will
fall far below prices on adjoining
properties even though the location it.
self would ordinarily command a much
higher price.
The property is TO be reached by three
lines OF trolleys; the so-called west
New York cars" run from Weehawken
(Forty-second street ferry) direct to
the old racetrack. Another line from
the Fourteenth street ferry, Hoboken,
runs past the property. The Palisades
cars, which go TO Coytesvlle, run with
In three blocks Of the northern end OF
the park, passengers alighting at Thirty
fifth street. This line can be reached
via the Fort Lee Ferry. the 13Oth street
ferry in New York. The property is
situated about midway between the
Forty-second street and the lSOth street
ferries.
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developed so that it has the appearance
of vast estate. By far the most pleas
ing effect has been gained by the box
hedges that border the walk UP to the
front door, ending with thick round
bushes close to the two white settles
that flank the entrance Great bushes
OF rhododendrons are set to hide the foun-
dalton and thick privet hedge encloses
the grounds.
Privet also surrounds the kitchen gar
den laid out in a plot 50x60 and divided
into oblong plots by pathways for the
greater convenience of gardening It Is
seldom that modern house OF this type
incorporates 50 many Of the livable fea-
lures of the original Dutch home, but
there seems to be little lacking to make
it quite perfect both as a model and an
up to date dwelling. with all the features
demanded in modern homes. Best of
all. 1t is a composite picture OF every
thing that a home ought to be and the
sort of thing we all wish It were.
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100000 LEASE
ON BROADWAY LOFT
Boston Co. Closes Deal for
Lowell Building Through
Cross & Brown.

An important lease Of a large New
York corporation has just been closed
by the Groton Realty Corporation of
Boston, owners, for the sixteen story
Lowell Building, at 1140 and 1146 Broad
way, northeast corner of Twenty sixth
street. This building fronts los feet on
Broadway. and contains a total area OF
about 100000 square feet. II was con-
structed in 1915 by Frederick Aver of
Boston, and has been fully tenanted by
salesroom concerns. The new lease Just
entered into is for a long term at an
aggregate rental of over $4,000. 900.
The building was one OF the last to be
constructed under the coming system and
is handsome structure. containing every
possible improvement. The building is
at present occupied by various tenants
In the lace and importing trade. and a
number of the tenants will remain in the
building until the expiration of their
leases. having several years to run. At
the time this building was erected II
was freely prophesied that it could not
be leased owing to the glut OF vacant
lofts and salesrooms in that locality.
The Victoria Building, containing $780,
ooV feet OF floor space. and the Alhe-
marie Building, containing about 45O,-
900 feet, together with the Lowell Build
ing, ll40-1l46 Broadway, containing ap-
NroNmately 10000 feet OF floor space
We're all constructed and offered on the
market at about the same time. The Of
| Ierlng or space was so great that ton
ants were afraid TO lease, expecting a
tremendous fall in prices, but by pa-
thence and careful management the en-
tire 100000 feet OF space was marketed
at reasonable rates and district estab.
| llshed which Is regarded as the very
centre Of the fine wholesale trade OF
New York, including Marshall Field
Company, Onyx Hosiery, Einstein q
| Wolf, A. b. KirschbauE, G.. a II. Ful1
A. Stein & Co, Liggett & Myers Tobacco
! Company, &c.
The locality will undoubtedly rema ir
fiAed as the wholesale district of New
York owing to its accessibility OF loca,
| tiCn, near the new Broadway subways
&c, and the fact that no finer building,
can be provided elsewhere In New York
than the Victoria, Albemarle, Lowell
and Martin group at Broadway anC
| Twenty fifth street. The recent sale Of
| the Townsend Building Is an indication
of the great change that has come owe,
this district. and there can no Longer
be any doubt of the wisdom OF The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company:
enormous investment In this locality
through which these improvements have
been made possible.
! The Cross & Brown Company were
the brokers in this transaction and will
remain tho managing agents ~ tho
property.