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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-08
COMMISSIONERS or
MOTOR VEHICLES
lN WEEhLY REspnpn

Commissioner az sl
Baughrnan's report fof
inG February shows
ling 81 .6ss have been KS.
driver and owners III
the week OF this us
have been assessed Ii
$7S4 against Baltimore
The fines are repress
eight violations in BAT
four III the county
Three iieenses hat
twenty-five suspend
woman, was refused
we're committed q
cases is that of all A sla.
Don't forget II
cts at Boessel'
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-08

PlT TO H
Clifford Isinchot Gives More Rea-
sons Why Penrose Should
Not Be Party Leader
SCORES THE DEMOCRATS

Z W
CHORD Pinchos has addressed . sec
ond open Letter TO Senator penrose
which Is even more vitrioIic than that
81 few days ago, II such can be. The
letter III dated III Philadelphia and
saya:
Under date of January % ] wrote
an open letter 10 Senator Penrose,
since widely published. giving reasons
Why. 81 chairman Of the committee on
anance Of the next senate, be would
IS republican liability aud 4 dem
ocratic asset in the presidential cleo
ton Of 1920 did so from no desire
Go pose as d. spokesman for the re-
publican party, but because grave
danger threatens the parry. and must
Dc met
TO this letter Senator Penrose has
not replied except BY characteristic
bathurst Of personal abuse ID news
paper Interview But the issue raised
ia my letter cannot be settled by
abuse. Ii demands serious answer,
Ii not from senator Penrose to me,
then from the republicap leaders to
the republican voters rherefore !
have taken the liberty addressing
this letter 10 each OF the republican
members of the senate, Ia whose
hands the answer necessarily lies
want my position In this matter
70 Be perfectly clear am 4 repubIi-
can. The victory of the republican
party In 1870 II necessary To the vel
fare of our country am doing wha
can TO bring that victory about This
letter may be forgotten long before
election, but the facts II describes will
remain, II Senator Penrose Is allow
cd 10 become master OF the committee
"a finance and virtual republican
leader og the senate. the democrats
will see thai every voter ia the land
knOwssit VIXEN he goes to the polls.
The coming presidential election
Will DO the most important Of our time.
No such war and no such period Of de-
cision following II have ever faced the
world before BY 1890 our politics,
now iiuid after the war, will be ready
10 cFystaIize They must not harden
with theA democrats In power, for the
party which wins the next election
may we'll hold the government for =
generation.
IL any proof were needed, the ar
rOgant. costly. sectional. partisan
biundering Of the democratic party III
is handling Of the problems of the
war. and of preparedness before the
war, has proved Ii unfit to handle the
vast problems Of reconstruction These
problems mus. be pat In the hands Of
republican administration. with the
republican habit 81 getting things
done. What we do with rsconstruc-
zion viii affect every man, woman, and
child In America for generations to
come. III il too vital matter to be
aefa to the mercy of democratic polit-
iCal manipulation Il
AS d most important part Of recop-
sEruction, We must have i republican
tariff which win give fair and ade-
uUase protection to business, labor
Mnd the farmer The bill for this tar
iEF will bear the name OF The chairman
az the finance COMMITTEES II the re-
publican senators turn over to sena-
tor penrose the virtual leadership of
tie party III the senate, together with
the tremendous power now exercised
ny the chairman Of the committee on
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-08
ii. Anne,s Church

ST. Annes Episcopal church. Rev.
Edward b Johnson, rector Services
tomorrow, fiifth Sunday after the
Epiphany. as follows
y Holy Communion 730 Sunday
school. $50: morning prayer III con
firmation class. $50; evening prayer.
100
There will be special Offering to-
morrow, both morning and evening
for the War Work Fund army and
navy
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-08

II is estimated that there were IT.
900 suicides III the United States IN
1917. against about 10000 fatal indus
trial accidents
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Court Allows St. George
Church ot Sell Property
Gift of Late ]. 2. Morgan To Be
Used as Workshop for
Old Men

The St. George Protestant Episconsl
Church obtained permission from Jus
tice Delehanty yesterday to sell prop
erty at sos East Sixtee nth Street.
which was given to the church in 1905
by the late J. Pierpont Morgan and
his wife and which has been main
tanned by the church SIS a trade school
for boys living in the neighborhood.
The proposed sale price, $4,000, has
been offered by the Association for I'M
proving the Condition Of the Poor. 1t
will be turned into a workshop for
the employment of old men, who will
make toys, and for other phlanthropic
purposes.
The church explained that the rea-
son for giving up the place was that
since the property was donated by Mr..
and Mrs. Morgan the popu alton of the
neighborhood has undegone great
change and the number of boys apply
ing for instruction has decreased.
Accompanying the petition was g
financial statement of St George Church
showing the ownership of real estate
va ued at SS00,000 and personal prop
erty Of $500 900 without any debts of
liability except current expenses.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Recorded Leases
Manhattan

2Aru ST, 14a-4s ". "a loft; 142 y e4th
- Corpn TO Jos II Samuels. Mount Yer
non. n !; yrs from Feb !. 1920. attys.
Hirsch q t. zoo 9TH av. ,.........s3. SEQ
SAME PROPERTY. rear "a of I'd /oor:
los II Saniuels TO JOS Rothenberg 1875
ll4th st. and ano; yrs from Feb l..
1920, atty, Jacob NJ Zinsinan, Beck
i"a" ~ -.-.----...-. 81. 300
lo0TH ST, s. i25 W Broadway. all: For.
Washington Circle Realty Holding Co
70 David Picker. 1851 Hoe av. Bronx
- yrs from Feb !, 1920; attys Randeil
" Herzoe, f2e t5way $500 to s55. 600
5TH Av, ss-lo0 s;h aoor: Rothschnd
Realty Co to Norwin II Rieser (Reiser
Coz 81 hamilton pl; ) yrs from FEB /.
Is-l atty, Jos h Greenberg. 2s9 Broad
CONVENT Av. 2s5. ali; Frank J DaIv 70
samuel Otto. on the premises: lo-l2
yrs from Dec /. 1919, yr extension
NASSAU ST. 12o-24. upper lofts. I Fam
stem to Schultz Novelty & S Goods Co
8" yrs from Nov I. 1919; attys White
d Case. II Wall .Sa.400
Z9D ST. 80 e. and b; Glantx TO ~
,naaFtnofsky on the PREMISES from Nov
~. 1912; Sept 40. l92s: attys M & 8
Meyers. Madison ay. So, e9e and So 600
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Buying in Downtown
Brings Speedy Profit
Iwelve-Story Anderson Build.
ing, in John Ss.. Sold Hwicc
Within Few Davs

The twelve-story Anderson Building
at u to 16 John Street, on plot 53x5o,
taken under contract last Wednesday
has been resold by Harris and Maurice
Mendelbaum and Fisher and Irving l.
Levine. to S. Borman, formerly an
active hniider, who is making his first
speculative purchase in the busy down
town section. 1t was acquired by the
Mande lbaum syndicate from the Ket-
chum estate of PHILADELPHIA. Two
thirds Of the lease in the buildings
expire next May. NJ. l. Strunsky & c..
negotiated tn resale.
Buy for Future Protection
Charles 7. Noyes Company has sold
2Sb and 2SS Church Street and 80 and
81 White Street, the northwest corner
OF Church and White streets. for the
Equitable Life Assurance Company to
John McCann Co. The plot is ap-
proN. .nately 5oxS0, on which is four
story bui diving which was completelv
remodcled several years ago. John Nc
Cam & Co. are linen manufacturers,
who have been established for years
at "a to oS White Street and have
bought the property at 80 to 80 White
street tor future use. inasmuch as
possession of that building is not OBJ
talnable at the present time.
Water St. Warehouse Sold
James II. Cruikshank has purchased d
from Flora N. Williamson, Marema
Lenk and Lottie Allen 245 Water Street
a five story warehouse on plot 37x76
on which the present lease expires
April 30. 1920. James L. Styles was
the broker
The c. T. Noyes Company has also
sold All Washington, Street for Flor
ence Spear Il two-story .lding, on
iot 2oX65. Rosa Tringalli is purchaser
and expects 70 OCCUPY the premises.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Well known Marble Front
Building at 34,h Street
Corner Bought by Max
N. Natanson
Institution Will Remain
Secures Long Lease From
New Owner, Who Will
Add 9 Stories to Structure

Inc Columbia Trust Company has
sold its marble front building at the
northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and
Thirty fourth Street to Max N. Natan-
son, who will erect nine additional
stories on thepresent structure, as was
originally contemplated at the time the
building was erected. This will in no
way effect theoccupancy of the Colum-
bia Trust Company, rs it has taken
back long term lease on the banking
floor, which it will continue to occupy
as its Fifth Avenue Office. The plo. has
Il frontage on Fifth hvenus of 619 feet
and on Thirty fourth Street of 100 feet
and is conceded to be one of the finest
real estate holdings in the city.
Inc present building. which was de-
signed by the late Stanford White, has
long been one of th. architectural
features of Fifth Avenue, and it's trans
formation into modern office building
is an indication of the trend of the
commercial development of the neigh
borhood.
The property was formerly part Of
the site Of the famous old Stewart
mansion, built by thelate AA. T. Stew
art. 1t was purchased by CCharles T.
Barney for the Knickerbocker Trust
Company in 1902 and acquired by the
Columbia Trust Company in 1912,
through the merger with the Knicker-
booker Trust Company.
When Mr. Barney bought the prop
erty the Stewart mansion was still
standing on it; ct that time the plot
included an additional frontage of
about 40 feet on Fifth Avenue, an
additional frontage of about SO feet
On Thirty fourth Street and ran
through to Thirty fifth Street. Mr..
Barney had tbs Stewart building torn
down. The contractor agreed u wreck
and remove it for the salvage value Of
the building
The Trust Company has agreed to
make Mr. Natanson a building and per
manent loan of So 900 600, which loan
Is to run for twenty years, with proper
amortization.
The entire transaction, including the
sale OF the property, the building and
permanent loan and the lease involves
several million do lars, and was nego-
tiated by George T. Walker, of Ewing,
Bacon 6; Henry.
The legal erd Of the matter was
handled by Davies. Auerbach & Cornell
for the Trust Company, and Walter NJ
Wechsler and Alexander S. Natanson
for the purchaser.
MMr. Natanscn bought a few DAYS
ago the Langan Apartments, compris-
ing the block front on Central Park
West, between Seventy-third and
f Seventv-tourth streets, valued at
$500, ,o0l.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Pennsy Building in
32d ST. Sold by Brown
Operator Bought 1t Last Week ;
IL Floors Now Bring $84, 500;
Old Leases EXPIRING

Frederick Brown has sold the seven
teen-story Pennsy Building at and
West Thirty-second Street, near Fifth
Avenue. The buyer, a client of A. N.
Gltterman, will hold the property for
investment. Mr.. Brown acuired it two
weeks ag.
The Pennsy Building occupies q plot
5oS9s.9. 1t is fully tenented on short
term leases. Under the existing
renals it yields yearly total of
SS450o. The building was erected in
1912 by the Braadkim Realty Company
!Brody, Adler & KOCH, replacing two
four-story. dwellings then owned and
occupied by Charles Z. Rhinelander
and Mrs. Alice NJ. Cravath. The same
interests also erected the sixteen
story Arena Building at 38 and 30 West
Ihirty-second Street, purchased re-
Gently by Mr.: Brown, together with
the Hendrix Hudson apartments and
annex.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Structure ON the Historic
Ground at Broad and
Beaver SITS. Enters Down.
town Speculative Boom
Center of Active Section
Another Sale Reported in
Pearl Street, Where Ship
ping Interests Are Active

The Morris Building at the north
west corner of BROAD and Beaver
Streets has passed into the hands OF
aH operator. The price paid is said
% be about 100000. The buyer is
one OF the group of professionals who
have been very active in the downtown
district. He has given his entire at
fention to lower New York business
property and has made considerable
money out of his operations. Elias A.
cohen, who WIS mentioned as the
buyer, could not be seen so the re-
pert could not be veried
The Norris Building is ten stories
lgh fronting $50 feet on Broad
Street and 69.1 feet on Beaver Street.
The land is sacred to the cause Of
American freedom, because it was at
that corner that a band of daring
Colonials held up a British ammuni-
tlon cart after disbursing the guard
and made off with the contents, which
were badly needed at the time by the
American troops.
Tie building Is one of the first
modern office buildings to be erected
~ AdI cOuNH VI the SIOCk EXCnaNge,
It's tentantry for many years was iden-
led with commercial and international
trade. The property was owned by the
Valentine Building Company, which is
controlled by the Norris family. This
company took over the building in
1919. The property adjoining st G2
Droad Street was purchased and uick-
Y resold by Frederick Brown within
the last two weeks.
I
o. the most active spots in the down
town market. On Beaver Street direct
y opposite is the Stock Quotation
Building which Norton Lilly & Co.
bought for $3.50 GOO. Directly across
Broad Street at the northeast corner
a. Beaver Street is the site selected by
me Seaboard National Bank for its new
banking building. On Beaver Street
Just east Of the Consolidated Exchange
.s tie site which is being improved by
the Kerr Steamship Company, with a
tall building for its own use.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Pearl st. Building Extending
Through Block Sold

Another downtown property which
changed hands yesterday was the
seven-story building at 1870 and 1872
Pearl Street. extending through the
block TO Water Street
The Berkfeld Realty Company is the
seller. The building has q frontage
Of thirty-six feet on Pearl Street and
thirty-nine feet on Water Street and
s. l05 feet deep. 1t is about opposite
me Hoffman Building at the junction
Of Pearl and Beaver streets, bought
several weeks ago by the Munson
Steamship Company.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Business Leases Mostly
OF Stores and Lofts

Henry Shapiro & Co. have leased TO
the Paramount Shirt Shops the store
in the building at the northwest cor
ner Of Forty-sccond Street and Third
Avenue. The same brokers have also
leased to the Paramount Shirt Shops
store in Getty's Square Yonkers.
Both leases are for q term OF years at
an aggregate rental of 100000.
j. Clarence Davies leased to George
3. Lester for five years an Office IN the
Hecksher building, at SO East Forty
second Street.
Spear & Co. have leased the store
to Max Abrahams, jobbers in ladies'
ton Place, to Reuben Levine; tho sec
ond loft at 35 and 81 West Third
Street to the Bilt-Rite Clothing Com
pany; the fourth oft at 81 Fifth Ave
nue. to Mitchell Bros; the tenth loft
at 703 Broadway. to Emanuel Lifshitz;
the seventh Aoor at 1875 Broadway, TO
the American Ready Made Canvass
Company, manufacturers Of coats;
space at 13 Wcst Twenty Street,
to the Ellanay Knitting Mills the par
lor floor at % Bond Street. to George
Burros, Wholesale mlliner, and rooms
at 6S4 Broadway to Milberg Bros, JOB
bers in ladies' waists.
Gross & Brown Company have leased
the eastern half OF the iftA floor at
52l TO 53l West Fifty-seveuth Sect
to R. & r. Motor Corporation fer &
term of years; rooms st 8 East Fifty
ninth Street to the Barbara Costume
Company, and the entire eleventh floor
term of years, to Jacob Gordon.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Operators
Figure in Big
Flat Deal S
Langham on Central Park
West and Two IO-Story
Apartments OH Broadway
Among Structures Sold

Abraham Crosney and Joseph Freed
man have purchased from Max. Natan-
son, through Jacob Rosnthal, the
twelve-story Langham apartments, on
the west side of Central Park, cover
ing the block front from Seventy third
Street to Seventy-fourth Street. The
seller recently purchased the premises
from the Greenhut estate; also from
Rosa Il. Stratton the Claremont, on
plot 120xS6. at $50 Riverside Drive. n
slX-story elevator building. The broker
was A. II. W oods. Also from 1857 Broad
way Corporation 547 Riverside Drive.
on plot loSxS6, siX-story elevator
house; also from Moses Silverman the
kenllsworth, at 45 Pinehurst Avenue.
on plot lO0x10O. The seller recently
purchased said property from the
Clarehurst Realty Company, Louis
Schlecter, president, and from the As
sets Liquidation Company, through F.
e. Sturgls, broker, the Sout erland, at
6l1 Test 168th Street, nine-story
apartment, on plot 75x100 and have
sold the same to Mendel Pressberger,
through H. & J. Albert and f. T.
Sturgis.
Broadway Block Front Deal
The two ten-story apartments at 364l
to $500 Broadway have been sold by
bernard London for the Dencnson
healty Company: The houses comprise
the block front between 150th and
l5lst streets, and are known as the
Southold and Northold. They occupy a
plot 2o0x150 and contain twelve stores.
In part payment the buyers gave the
ilve-story apartment at 1857 Carter
Avenue, on plot 376xS5.
j. S. Maxwell has sold for the Deed
Realty Company to the Benenson
Realty Company the six-story elevator
apartment at 6l0-618 West list Street,
on plot 135x100, erected five years ago.
Sale of Ten Story Picken Court
The Nehring Company, Jules Neh-
ring, PRESIDENT has sold for the Me-
chanicville Associates Picken Court
ten-story apartment at the southeast
corner of 1iSth Street and Riverside
Drive, on plot 10rx104. The buyer is
the Union Chemical Glassware Com
pany, Isaac Portman, president.
Another Broadway Sale
J. c. d NJ G. Mayer have pur-
chased from the Wooisey Realty Com.
pany 252 West Eighty-ffth Street, q
nlne story elevator apartment. on plot
| sOxl00, between Broadway and West
End Avenue. Jerome Monheimer was
| CIS DlOkeE.
Paul Jones in New Hands
Irving Judis has sold the Paul Jones
six-story elevator apartment on tie
west side OF Wadsworth Avenue, be-
tween 1S4th ard lS5th streets, on plot
lSOx79. The buyers are Isidor Zim.
mor and Samuel Renick.
Tenement Properties Sold
| Duff Brown Company have SOLD
for estate of Elizabeth Lycett 415 Wcs,
/ Fifty-fourth Street, a five-story front
and rear tencmerts. or lot 25x12O
George \. Brun &, Co. have sold for
kugglero Long to Louis d'AlessandrC
2lzo second Avenue, a four-story tene-
ment with store. on lot 25x75.
Nineteenth Street Flats Sold
Horace S. Ely & Co. have sole
for Mrs. Helen I. z. Hvae. ar~r ~.
ties at 214 to 218 East Nineteenth
; rect, on plot 45xioo, uron Nalc,
there are three fve-story single tene
ments.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Frank Munson Purchases
Home i'm 7lst Street
Steamship Man Will Likely
Alier Premises or Erect New
House on Site

Frank Munson. Of the Munson Steam
ship Company has bought the dwelling
a III East Scventy-irst Street from
l. Willis Wood. The house is on a site
2ox1o0 in size. Mr. Munson will either
make over the house or build new
one.
Sale in G2d Street
Irwin Cox has sold the four-story
dwelling at 1874 East Sixty-sccond
Street. 1t is on site nineteen feet
wide and 100 feet deep. The buyer
will not get possession Of the property
unit! next October, as the lease on
the building will not expire unit! then
West Side ID yelling Sold
Pease & Gilman have sold for DR.
rank l.. Marshall the dwelling prop
erty at 730 st. Nicholas Avenue, on
lot 30x1C0.
W. D. Woods has sold 1T East Sew
enty-trst Street, q four story and base
ment dwelling on lot 2Ox1O22.
Pauline Maier has sold 100 East Sew
enty-eighth Street, a three-story and
basement dwelling, on lot 1S.9xl02.2.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Twelve Acres of Offices
For lnter-Church Movement
@''ooV'ooo Will BE Paid for the Use of AIS, 1000
square Feet in the Former Sege-Cooper Build.
lng on Sixth Avenue, Rented for Ten Years

The lntcrChurch World Movement
of America has leased s475 900 square
feet in the former big stores district
Sixth Avenue, for a period OF ten
years for use as executive office. for
which a rental of S3.5CO,000 will be
pS'd.
The churchmen arranged the last de-
tail in the transaction for this bag
space yesterday through the Cross &
Brown Co. and Lcitner, Brener g.
Starr with the Big Store Realty Com
pany, of which B. J. Greenhut is the
PRESIDENT
The space taken is in the Grecnhut.
formerly the Siegel- Cooper Store
building, on the east side of Sixth Ave
nue. from Eighteenth to Nineteenth
Streets, and the Greenhut annex,
which buildings were used as hospital
by the War Department during the war
and until recently.
The lease covers about twelve acres
OF oor space, which is about the area
of the proposed structure to be erected
by the Federal Reserve Bank on the
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25

Maiden Lane, Liberty and Nassau
street block. The area is ono and a
half times as large as City Hall Park % d
The lnterchurch World Movement
Will occupy under the deal closed ves-
terday the third, fourth, fifth. sixth
and seventh oors and the Annex Build
ing. A''"
Coincident with this rather remark
able lease. which, incidentally reflects
the existing dearth of space and the
nigh rentals now demanded in the es-
tablished uptown office building sec
tons, there have been reported re-
Gently several large contracts for space
IN the lower Fifth Avenue district.
principally by the prominent isurance
companies, which are moving their
records bookkeeping and other clerical
departments away from the expensive
financial district and into sections
where the rent is cheaper.
AS result of these leases the manu-
facturer may find it to his advantage
to retire to the section of Fourteenth
Street, from which he came originally,
and where he logically belongs.
The immense Greenhut Building was
erected in 1896 b. Henry iSerel
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Operators Get 27th Stree, Loft

The Morgenstern Brothers Syndicate
has purchased from the Rockton Con-
struction Company the twelve-story
t!reproof loft building known as the
Rockton, at 1872 to 1870 West Twenty
seventh Street, near Seventh Avenue.
The building, which is of recent con-
struction, covers a plot 100x10O The
syndicate also bought from the same
company the Florida, at 4061 st. Nicho-
las Avenue, northwest corner of l63d
street, six-story elevator apartment
house, on 4 plot 12ox112. He'll g. Stern,
agents OF the property, were the
brokers
New-York tribune., 1919-11-25
Apartment Suites Leased

Pease & Gilman have leased apart
mcnts at 865 Park Avenue to r. N.
Rogers and to G. NJ. Hoblitzell: at 7
East Fifty-ffth Street to Miss Louise
Stebbins and to E. V. Giroux; at S5
East Fifty-sixth Street to the Misses
Constance I. Bellamy and He en- A.
Mahn, and at 1856 West Eighty-sixth
Street to J. H. Friedewald.
j. Arthur Fischer has leased to Mil
ton Addison a studio apartment at 104
West Fortieth Street.