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New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
To Sell Brooklyn Realty
Of Diamond Jim Brady
Proceeds To Be Turned Over
to Hospitals to Comply With
Conditions Of His VIII

The Columbia Trust Company, Rob-
ert L. Gordon and Richard Crowley,
executors of the estate of James Blu
chanan Brady, more Familiarity known
as Diamond Jim" Brady, have in
structed Joseph P. Day to sell at pub
tic auction on Tuesday at the Brook
lyn Real Estate Exchange seventy-two
lots in the Flatbush section Of Brook
lyn.
Under the terms of the will of the
late Mr. Brady his residuary estate, in
Guiding these lots, was left to the New
York Hospital and legacy to the
Johns-Hopkins Hospital
Sixty three of the lots are on ALBANY
Avenue, Farragut Road, Glenwood
Road and Troy Avenue. Stations of
the new subway which is in course Of
construction on Nostrand Avenue are
to be a short distance from the prom
erty.
The property at 1888 Avenue @ at
the northeast corner of East Tenth
street, two-story attic frame resi-
dence containing sixteen rooms and
bath, Is also included in the sale as
are nine lots in the rear on East Tenth
Street, besides two-story frame
stable adjoining, covering a plot 55x
100.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Women to Show
Kitchen Designing
Not Mans Job
Housewives in Every Section
of Country Interested i'm
Contest; Nj amy Novel
Plans Submitted

Present methods Of designing kitch-
ems in the modern apartment houses
as we'll as the less pretentious subur-
ban bungalow homes are open for con-
siderable Improvement This is the
impression gained through the opin-
IONS recorded by a number of house
wives from all sections of the coun-
try who have submitted ideas in the
kitchen designing contest of the Gown
Your Home" Exposition.
This contest, which closes to-day,
has created considerable interest.
Women never have been satisfied with
the arrangement Of kitchens, for thew
say that men have done all the design
ing and fitting up of these important
sections of homes and that men know
little or nothing about kitchen eff
cheney and convenience.
All of the designs received will be
submitted to committee composed Of
women who have made a special study
OF the requirements of a modern
housewife. Mrs. A. Louise Andrea is
chairman of this committee, and the
other members include Mrs. Nancy
Ashton, of House and Garden Maga-
zlne"; Miss Leonardo Goss, of "The
Dellneator"; Mrs. Oliver Hartman.
Mrs. William Laimbeer, Miss Frances
Mckee, of "McCal's Magazine; Miss
Anna Lewis Pierce, Mrs. Rose Sachs,
Miss Marie Sellers, of pictorial Re-
view and late of the United States
Department of Agriculture; Mrs. NJ.
Sutton, Miss Helen Vassar and Mrs.
Arthur NJ. Wight.
In addition to awarding prizes for
the best ideas submitted the eXposi-
ton management also has arranged
to have the first prize winning idea
reproduced, fully fitted and equipped
IN accordance with we plan, as feat
ure of the exposition, which opens in
the list Regiment Armory on June 25.
The model kitchen display will be
but feature of the exposition, which
is being promoted with The idea of pre-
sentlng to the public some possible
solutions of the present acute hous-
ing situation. The main object of the
display will be to encourage the de-
velopment of suburban property with
the erection of homes
Several houses of the bungalow tyne
Will be constructed within the arm
ory, and the details of all cost items
Will be explained.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Explains the Cooperative
Plan Of Home Owning
Edward McDougall Says Jackson Heights Property
Makes Il Possible for Thrifty Folks to Acquire
Apartments Of Their Own

The Greensboro Corporation has de-
cided to sell its old as we'll as it's new
houses at Jackson Heights, in Queens,
to tenants under a collective owner
ship and rent insurance plan.
THE Greensboro Corporation" said
I'd. A. McDougall, yesterday, decided
upon the adoption Of the cooperative,
or collective ownership, plan, for the
sale OF its apartment houses, making it
possible for a desirable and thrifty
class of persons to own their own
apartment houses, largely in order to
further stabilize the jackson Heights
community and maintain its present
high character.
The plan, which will be extended to
all OF our new garden type apartments,
is IN accord with the governments
Own Your Own Home policy, and is
thoroughly sound from an economic
standpoint, doing away with unneces-
sary and unearned profits and bringing
the economic necessities of the people
direct from producer to consumer.
THE plan is our contribution to the
organization of business along co0per-
atlve lines, which is what has made
this country what it is, commercially.
to-day, the richest, most powerful ma
ton on earth, the country where pco-
pie are better clothed, better fed and
better housed than anywhere else in
the world"
The houses to be offered under this
plan are the colonial apartments on
Iwenty-ifth Street, near the Twenty
fifth Street and Roosevelt Avenue Sta
ton OF the Corona division OF the Dual
Transit System. Under plan "A" the
rent for siX-room apartment is imre-
diately reduced to $26 to $35 a month,
and ownership vested in the tenant i'm
mediately the initial payment is made.
Then there are two instalment plans,
involving the payment, monthly. for
six years, of the present apartment
rental, plus the monthly instalment.
and, quarterly, the interest on balance
wing less the net earnings.
Under plan "B" there is to be added
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
William St. Building To
BE Carried Up l8 Floors
Stunted Structure at John Street
to Build Up as Orig
inaiiv P|arued

The intensive development of the
northeast corner of William. and John
streets, planned before the building
height restrictions became operative.
but prevented from being COM
pleted by the restraint placed on
private enterprise during the war, is
now to be carried through. The plans
called for a twenty ystory building.
Foundations were laid and the build
ing carried up two tiers, when the re-
stralnt came, halting further progress.
1t will be the last building in down
town New York to be carried twenty
stories without setback. The 10
William Street Corporation, controlled
by Crum & Foster, are the owners.
Charles V. Van Valen, who will have
charge of the building, announced
yesterday that the lower six floors
would be occupied by Crum & Foster
interests.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Madison a Centre of
Real Estate Activity
Many Persons Flocking There
From New Jersey Cities in
Search of Homes

Madison On. j. is an attractive New
Jersey suburban place which has ex-
perienced considerable real estate ac-
tivity in the last year, with the result
that there are comparatively few places
now to be had there either for sale or
to rent.
This activity which has steadily been
increasing from week to week may be
better understood from reports of
Joseph P. Keating, who announces the
following recent sales:
The Leroy McGuirk property on
Prospect Place, to Edward Doonan; for
the Oraton Investment Company the
Lapp property on Stanley Road, Chat
ham, to Edward f. Collins, of Summit,
consisting of a residence and several
outbuildings; the j. NJ. Clark estate
property at "a Central Avenue, to
Margaret Denman; the Jeremiah NJ.
Clark estate property at Sc Central
Avenue, to John Eckhart; the farm of
Lindsey Cook at Hanover, to Eugene
L. ONeill, of Newark, and the prop
erty of Joseph Wigger, on Central
Avenue, to Richard Parkhurst
Despite the shortage of homes, Mr..
Keating is keeping outsiders inter
crested in the attractions of Madison.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Antiquity Clings to the
Real Estate Business
Despite Great Progress Brokers Are Bound to
the Ancient English Verbiage and Forms;
''lndenture'' Is Meaningless Word in Leases

The modern real estate broker is q
keen, wide awake, active business man,
ever on his toes, thinking ways and
means of making money for clients as
we'll as himself, and, incidentally, do
ing big service for the city, because,
after all, he is booster He is a big
business man. Cities have been made
through his untiring efforts. He swings
entire industries from section to sec
tion, yet, with all his progressiveness,
he conducts business as the ancients
did
Lease Verbiage Two Centuries Old
There is hardly any change in the
form of the lease which he prepares
to-day and the lease of 200 years ago.
The verbiage in many places is about
the same and has no place in modern
times. For instance, every lease starts,
This indenture"
Years and years ago such an opening
was perfectly correct because the
declaration was truthful. Leases were
not made out in duplicate as to-day.
One document was prepared, and af-
ter it had been signed by the princi-
pals the instrument was cut in an ir-
regular manner and each principal if
there were two, would be given a part.
If there were three the document would
be divided into three parts. A part of
the document indicated the holders
legal right of interest in the agree
ment.
lessee could not trade his lease in
those days without the knowledge of
the owners of the property, because the
buyer demanded look at the document
IN it's entirety that he might be sure
of the right Of the leaseholder. This
would necessitate the owner being
called to bring along his piece of the
document His indenture and the lease
holders indenture would be pieced TO-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Dunning Family Sells
Brooklyn Heights DWELLING

The four-story and basement dwell
ing on lot 25x10O at 27 Monroe Place.
has been sold by Burning and Swan bv
Hubert Dunning and Mabel Dunninp
Winfield to j. Sarsfeld Kennedy. 1t is
one of the largest houses on BROOKLYN
Heights, and has been in the possession
of the Dunning family for fifty wears,
Inc bulkley & Horton Company has
sold 2Sl Twenty fourth Street, between
Fourth and Fifth Avenues a two story
and basement dwelling, on lot 2Ox1Oo.
lot the Estate of James Ochteroney to
client for occupancy. The same brokers
sold the two houses adjoining last
week.
Holster Builders have sold 1859
ihirty-fourth Street, Brooklyn, a one
family brick house.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
x7EEH7A Block ERoY7 AUI0E0

Circumstances. uncomfortable, COM
ing as they did during the period of
war and extreme financial conserva-
ton, have provided an opportunity for
investors and spectators in real estate
that would not have been under differ
ent conditions. Beechhurst, at White
stone, fronting on Long Island Sound
and within the precincts of New York
City, with all its municipal advantages
and protection, is to be the scene of an
auction sale. About $50 building sites
of various sizes and fronting on the
waterfront and the broad avenues
which have been built through this
community will be offered to the public
on Saturday, June %, by the Jere
johnson Jr. Company, auctioneers,
who have been commissioned to sell
the property to those who will bid the
highest for the plots.
The character and the location Of the
property warrant the statement that it
is one Of the finest suburban properties
that has been offered for disposition
at public sale in many years.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Queens Demands
vi lore Links to
Other Boroughs
Delegate Well Known Men
to Fight for Better Tran
sit; Wants To Be Closer
to Kings

Better transit facilities and more
connections with other parts of the city
are being urged and agitated by the
Chamber of Commerce of the Borough
of Queens. To further the interests
of this rapidly growing commercial and
residential district, several committees
and b-committees have been ap-
pointed to urge on the Public Service
Commission the necessity of coupling
Queens by additional lines with the
neighboring borough.
The transit committee is cooperating
with Brooklyn business men to secure
the construction of the "Ashland
Place Link" in Brooklyn, which
will give through train service to
Manhattan for the B. r. T. trains,
which now operate over the Jamaica
Avenue and Liberty Avenue elevated
extensions to Woodhaven, Richmond
Hill and Jamaica.
A Subcommittee composed of Ed
ward A. MacDougall, E. J. Rickert,
Stuard Hirschman, Bernard Suydam,
}. j. Conway, NJ. j. Degnon and E.
LEcluse, has been appointed to take
up with the Public Service Commission
the construction of the extension of
the Greensboro subway from its pres
ent terminus at Grand Central Sta
tion to Times Square, in order to do
away with the present necessity of
passengers changing to shuttle trains
to reach the West Side subway. This
committee also is working to secure
the early operation Of the Broadway
Fifty-ninth Street line Of the B. r. T.
from Times Square through the new
SiXtieth Street tunnel under the East
River to the Bridge Plaza station in
Long Island City, and over the extern
siors to Astoria and Corona.
A Subcommittee, composed of Will
lam t. Yale, Arni Bjornson, NJ. j. Deg
non, j. W. Paris, j. W. Rapp, E. ].
Rickert and Clinton T. Roe, has taken
up with the Interborough Rapid Tran
sit Company, the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit Company, the Public Service Com
mission, the Long Island Railroad and
the Board Of Estimate, the subject of
either extending the Corona 81" from
its present terminus at Alburtis Avenue
to Main Street, Flushing, or else the
leasing Of the tracks Of the Long ISL
and Railroad, not only to Flushing, but
to Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck,
College Point and Whitestone for the
operation of rapid transit trains.
A subcommittee composed of R. W.
Higbie, j. w. Paris, J. W. Rapp, j. M.
Richie ard Z. Oliver Champ, has
brought to the attention of the cor
poration counsel and the Public Ser
vice Commission the alleged discrim-
ination in rates of fare charged for
passengers from the Pennsylvania sta
ton to points in Queens, on the Long
Island Railroad, as compared with the
rates charged to passengers to stations
equally distant in New Jersey on the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

gether. II the indenture was q perfect
fit it assured validity of the document.
This lndenture' in Leases 200 Years
Old
Ihls procedure was followed in all
legal agreements and explains the use
OF the two words, especially in leases.
But it is many years since the old
English practice of cutting up leases
was changed. Demand on time was too
great for continuation of this anti
quated method, so leases and all agree
ments were made in duplicate or tripli-
cate, and each principal was given a
tull copy of the lease. each being an
original. But the phrase "this indent-
ure," placed in leases by English at
been left unchanged and to-day big
leases and small ones having far
reaching effect carry the meaningless
words.
Why Twenty-one Year Leases?
1t is the custom in this city to make
leases for tWenty-one years, with re-
newals. Occasionally a ninety-nine wear
lease is made, but rarely a hundred
year lease is negotiated There is no
reason for this except that it is an old
English custom, followed since the
breakdown of the old feudal land con-
troll, which gave property to a person
for perpetuity.
When feudal customs were discarded d
the English jurists took the attitude
that lease should not be longer than
the life of the grantor, and in some
manner decided this should be twenty
one years. 1t being the dividing point
between minority and majority, the
oplnlon is that the .jurists decided
twenty-one years should be the life of
an uninterrupted lease.
Custom is the only thing against the
making Of long leases 1t is the priv
lege Of an owner to lease his holdings
Tor as long period as he cares to.
Real estate is an old business with
new fangles.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

Beechhurst is on the Whitestone
branch of the Long Island Railroad
and about thirty minutes ride from
the Pennsylvania Station in Manhat-
tan. It's development antedates many
others in the Long Island suburbs
Fifteen years ago it was a going COM
munity, having been originally fine
old estate, one of many which lined
the nearby Sound shore of Long Island
until in the land booms their owners
were induced to part with them at
prices which made them wealthy.
There is little waterfront in nearby
New York available or held for resi-
Dental purposes. This scarcity has
worked toward big values on desirable
home sites on the water edge and con-
venient to the city. The wonderful
development of the North Shore of
Long Island, and, for that matter the
Connecticut shore, indicates the high
value placed on waterfront communi- |
ties, especially by folks who can graf
ify their wants. Fifteen years or more
of developing along the best lines and |
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

dent of the Borough of Queens. win
be the quests Of the Chamber of Com.
merce of the Borough of Queens at it.
second luncheon meeting to be held
Friday noon, June 20, at the Hotel
Commodore.
General Dupont is interested in
Queens Borough not only from an Off
cial" standpoint, as he is a special
Deupty Police Commissioner 10,
Queens, but he is head of the CANDY
manufacturing concern which has as.
quired the Stewart Building on Jack.
son Avenue, Long Island City.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
fine Home Of Old English Type Being
Erected by Architect in Neav Jersey Woods

This house, which conveys strongly
merry old England of years long ago,
Is being erected in the woods at
Maplewood, n. j., by Kenreth W. Dal-
zeil' architect, for his own occupancv,
Il is English in every detail. being fash
lohed after houses erected in the days
ol -, ,Cronwell, when every home was
ouilt TO do double duty-resist an en-
emy as we'll as the weather.
Inc house being built is on a wooded
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

sections. No part of the property is
distant more than $500 feet from the
station, which brings even the "out-
skirts" within easy reach of the tran
sit facilities and the water frontage.
The local village stores are supple
mented by the shopping and business
centres of Whitestone and Flushing
and by deliveries daily from Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn.
Beechhurst is distinctly an all-year
residential colony, having all the dur
able features of a winter place of resi-
dence within the city's limits and of
summer watering place.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Brownville DwelIers Buy
Building Sites There

David Stewart has sold for the Sag
amore Development Company a plan
OF I42 feet frontage on Avon Road,
bronXViIle, to James L. Davis, of Pom
field Court, Bronxville; Sycamore
Park, BronNville, for the Lawrence
Park Realty Company, q plot 00x1O0
IN the Longvale section, Bronxville.
to William D. raft, and a similar size
plot IN the same section to George
H. Ryan, Bronxville
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

of the large number of costly and
moderate-priced houses erected there
IN the last ten years and occupied the
year round by their owners
A group of ffty-eight lots located
between the Long Island Railroad
right -of-way and Fourteenth Avenue,
IN the Village" section, and between
Eighteenth and Twenty~second Streets,
is included in the sale.
Choice offerings consist of the two
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Flushing Dwelling Buver

j. Albert Johntra has sold the prop.
erty at 1873 Madison Avenue, Flushing,
for Mary F. Darlington, of West
Chester, Penn, to Lawrence S. Folger.
OF College Point. The plot is 40 bv
14S feet, improved with one-familv
dwelling containing nine rooms and
bath, with all modern improvements.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Credit for Copyright

me skyline photographs, repro
duced in the page advertisement of
"m' A. White & Sons which ap-
peared in The Tribune on June 3,
showing lower Manhattan in 1879
and IN 1919 are the worl, of Brown
Bros photographers, 1882 Broad
way, and are copyrighted by them.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Buy Large
Apartments ON Heights
The CarroIton at Broadway
and Hamilton Flats in Ter.
race Among the Sales

D. Scott sold for Henry Dryer to the
Union Chemical Glassware Compsnv
the northwest corner of Broadway and
16Sth Street, known as the CarroIton,
six story elevator apartment having
seven apartments on q floor with five
stores, fronting 80 feet on Broadway
and $50 feet on 168th Street.
Morgenstern Brothers Syndicate has
resoId to client OF Henry /. Cooper
and Michael Cohen Richill and Hamil-
ton Courts two six story elevator
apartment houses, on plot 276x96, at
% and - Hamilton Terrace.
Re,ale of Diva Court
The Denwood Realty Company, B.
benenson president, has resold to the
Motion Realty Company 1913 to 1903 West
41st Street, known as Diva Court, a
SIX story elevator apartment. on plot
l00xl00.
st. Nicholas Ave. Corner Sale
Irving Judis has bought from Will
lam j. Daniel the Palmerston. six
story elevator apartment on plot
lc0z100, at the northwest corner Of St.
Nicholas Avenue and 184th Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

square blocks fronting on the Boule-
ward, Harbor Road, Spring Lawn Ter
race, Sylvan Place and Sixteenth Ave
nue., between the Boulevard and the
water frontage and opposite the sew
eral large estates that bound Beech
hurst on the east and that occupy the
promontory known since revolutionary
days as "Cryder's Point"
Others of the lots to be sold are
Varously located, but none in isolated
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

plot of slightly rising ground in the
Walton Road section of this attractive
suburban community. Many of its
houses have been designed and built
by Mr.. Da!zell. The house he is build
ing for has own use viii have two
stores, built on an L shaped plan.
Inc first floor is to be finished in the
Jacobian period The hall of red tile
viii lead to the living room and dining
room. In the former room will be a
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

Of the ISL plots and lots to be sold
seventy-eight are extra large plots,
most all of which have a frontage of
80 to 100 feet and many of which are
OF extra depth. The remaining
seventythree lots are of the ordinary
size and distributed over all sections
of Beechhurst. Practically every one
Of the plots and lots to be disposed
Of to the highest bidders, regardless of
price, has as neighbors one or more
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

fireplace fashioned after one in Tatten-
hall Castle, the ancient home of Oliver
Cromwell. On this floor also will be the
kitchen, the pantry and the garage.
The second floor will have four bed
rooms ard three baths, the maids bed.
room and bath being in the wing over
the garage. The plan of the house
permits of cross ventilation, the living
room and the BEDROOM above this room
being opened on three sides.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

by discriminating folks, whose interest
has been the protection and perpetual
tion of their home community, have
made Beechhurst one of the attractive
residential places of New York's sub
urbs. There is nothing new or chilly
or formal about the place, because if it
ever possessed such things the years
that have passed have melowed it,
taking away the angles and the raw
ness of new development.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Investors Buy on Bryant Ave.

Nicholas Leopard has resold for Mrs.
Catherine Boeglen the four-story de-
tached flat on lot 25x100, located at 1441
Bryant Avenue, near jennings Street,
to Samuel Amdul who has purchased
it as an investment. Also sold for Will
lam Heisterger the twofamiy brick
house on lot 25x100 at 1902 Bryant
Avenue, near 172d Street, to Simon
Handel.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Queens Business Men to Dine
New p. s, Commissioner

Lewis Nixon, chairman of the Public
Service Commission; John H. Delaney,
Rapid Tansit Construction Commits
sioner; General T. Coleman Dupont,
Deputy Police Commissioner, New York
City, and Maurice E. Connolly. Presi-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Plans Home at O'Co'Nee

Badgley e. Brewster have sold at
O'co'nee, Bay Shore, L. l., for the
Charles L. Lawrence Corporation three
acres to c. NJ. Hart, who will build
there an all-year-round residence.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Operator Sells Harlem Lot

James H. Cruikshank has resold to
Lyman Bornstin the lot, 25x100, at 81
East 112th Street S. Jaffe was the
broker.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
o. A Hendrie, of fAnaerican C,unanaic Co.,
Joins Business Ass0cia iates at Great Neck

George A. Hendrie, of thu American
Cyanamic Company, of 511 Fifth Ave-
nue., is the third member of this COM
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

to the regular rental $I4 a month for
seventy-two months, with 6 per cent
interest on unpaid balances added to
the rental less the net earnings pro
rata.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

rtt, on Magnolia Drive, through Baker
Crowell, who sold Mr.. Hendrie's CO.
partners the houses which they occupy
at Great Neck.