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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-01

With the meager facts in their pos
session they consider and discuss the
trend of events back home. A few
OF us were talking recently about
the praiseworthy get-together cam
paign of the churches, and the con-
certed movement to raise all their
benevolent funds as one national
budget. Said one who is wise in
the things of the spirit as we'll as in
the ways of the world: Americas
real need is not for more money
FOR religion, or for better ways of
securing money for religion. In our
mission work we understand as per-
haps the home folks cannot, the
need of money. But there is some
thing more important. 1t seems to
me that the churches are magnify
ing organization and appliances and
wealth, whereas, it is n spiritual re-
plenishing, spiritual rebirth, a
spiritual passion, that this hour re-
quires above all else. One great
voice, calling the people back to Il
sense of God, would be worth more
than any new organization.
What was that mans opinion.
spoken quietly amid the clamor of
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-01

fight, at Easter. between rival
Christians in the Church of the Holy
Sepulcher.
Nevertheless, there are nobler and
wider influences at work. There is
abroad in Europe and the Near East
Just now commission of American
churchmen. extending invitations to
Il world conference on Christian
unity. They report the rise of Il
new spirit of eagerness for oneness
and cessation of strife and for n re-
turn to the worship of God himself.
There are tokens on the horizon
that churchianity and sectarianism
and narrowness are on the wane,
and that the world will turn in SIM
plicity and reverence to the wor-
ship of God and his SON. who are IN
all churches and beyond all church.
es. When we come to the hour for
scrapping our ecclesiastical machin-.
cry it will be to the text, God is a
Spirit: and they that worship him
must worship him IN spirit and in
truta
From Sinai TO Zion
Recently l have been at Mount
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-01

on oriental cafe, except a modern
version of the words of Jesus con-
corning living water?" Our days
thirst cannot be satisfied at any of
our modern wells. We pant for the
living waters of God. All lesser
wants are included within our need
of God. Not his works will satisfy:
but he himself. Until we find God
as living, bright reality, more per-
sonal to our souls than the dear
ones by our side, we shall miss the
spirit of true worship. AS said
David-perhaps when looking out
upon the very hills to which ! turn
my eyes at the moment.
And now, Lord, what wait I
for? My hope is in thee"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-01
MUSINGS IN OLD JERUSALEM
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
Worshipi-John I:1-24.

here. While God has relation to
everything human, he is first of all
and above all else. the Eternal
Deity, the uncreated Creator. the
Ruler of the universe, the King of
kings and Lord of lords. He is so
exalted in his character and rights
that he is entitled to worship from
all his creatures. Man can have
no other relationship with Jehovah
until he bows down before him in
alteration.
With all its defects, Moham-
mechanism has done one thing for
two hundred million members of the
human race: il has taught them the
greatness of God. The Moslem i,
reverent, whatever else he may not
be. The majesty and supremacy or
the one God breathes through ali
the thought of Islam. No Moslem
ever cheapeps God. He cannot con-
ceive of the ineffable. One whose
name is holy and reverend, as being
mere accessory TO any scheme OF
plan of mortal. They understand
that our God is not a little God.
but One whose ways, though past
finding out, are always right
Mems attitude toward the League
of Nations. and upon the Peace
Treaty, matters less, infinitely less.
than their views upon God. Society
Is shaped by its sense of the Su-
preme. Everything we are or do is
affected by our ideas of God. When
we lift up the popular attitude to-
ward the eNaltedness and holiness
and justice of God we are adopting
the most direct means of serving our
time. That is why the Church is q
more important present factor in
our troubled life than any political
party or organization, or any eco
romic movement "Oh, come; let us
llneel before the Lord our maker"
\ few miles from where ! am
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-01

Writing, as 1 am, in an upper
room in Jerusalem, this seems pc
culiarly a place lesson, although II
is a seasonable word for all the
world. The story of the woman at
the we'll, and her interview with
Jesus, is local on its setting and in
its spirit; for this is the center OF
religious antagonism and bigotry. 1t
is general, because this is the day
wherein the world is glimpsing q
new and larger conception of the
God who is Spirit, and who must
be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
When this befuddled time of ours
gets its ideas about God straighten-
ed out it will find that many other
matters have likewise been cleared
up. Although they do not realize
the fact many liberal" persons
nowadays have conceptions of the
supreme Deity that are as narrow
and inadequate as those of the ear
lest Hebrews who worshipped their
tribal God on these hills.
The modern misconception con-
sisted in regarding God as a Social
Program, or Economic Higher Law.
or a vague Spiritual Urge. or a
supreme Necessity for keeping the
lower classes in order. It is no ex-
aggeration to declare that multi
tudes of educated men and women
have no thought of God except as a
factor in social reconstruction. He
Is that, but he is infinitely more.
n Highbrow Blundcr
God is not Social program. God
is not Special Partner with the
American Eagle. or the British Lion.
any more than with the Prussian
Eagle. He is not a citadel for
capitalism nor banner for Bolshe-
Vism. To regard. him as a mere adj
!unct or political and social reform
is impiety.
There is need for clear thinking
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-01
LUTHER LEAGUE MEETING

Shircmnnstown. Aug 1.-On We'd
nesday evening the last meeting of
the Luther League of St. Johns
Lutheran Church was held before the
vacation period. Mrs. H. X. Lantz
was appointed delegate to the State
Convention at Lehighton.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Religious Conference To
Be Established at S awhile
Cedarshore Club Property of
9 Acres on Great South Bay
Taken by the Churchmen

SAYVILLE, L. l., Aug. 3o.-One of
the largest real estate transactions
here in recent years was consum-
mated yesterday when transfer was
made to the South Bay summer con-
ference of the land and development
at the foot Of Handsome Avenue, known
as Cedarshore. The property has been
owned for number of years and de-
veloped as q bungalow colony and sum
per club by former Alderman George
A Morrison, of Brooklyn and Sayville.
The conference has been conducted for
several years by the Eev. Cornelius
Miller, pastor of the yirst Reformed
Church of West SayvNIe. 1t is the
intention to pattern the project after
Ocean Grove. Z
The property consists Of about nine
acres of lawns, sloping to the bay,
with a bathing beach. Included in
the property are a large bathing
pavilion, casino and auditorium com
bined, overlooking the bay, and eight
new furnished cottages, which are to
be arranged as sleeping quarters for
about two hundred guests, who will eat
in the dining hall of the casino.
The Cedarshore Club, a pleasure or
ganzation which has centred its
activities at the casino for several sum-
mers, Will be continued, and the bath
ing will be public. as heretofore.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
24RH A1NOlVzno> 1eo1ER7>
10 So AUC7loNED.

The announcement that the big Gut
tnberg racetrack is to be sold at
public auction sale in lots, thousand
Of them, to the highest bidder By 10
seph P. Day, auctioneer. on the prem
ses, on Saturday. September s, has at
tracted much attention to the rapidly
growing section on the Palisades d.
rectly opposite Rivers Drive in Man
haitian.
The sale is to close out the holding;
of the Colonial Land and improvement.
Company, and is in part due to the
death Of the late Richard Stevens.
senior member Of the well-known fam
lily that founded Stevens Institute in
Hoboken.
After an existence OF ten years of
active horse racing, from 1889 to 1893,
the antl-betting laws of the State OF
New Jersey ended the career of the
Gutenberg track. and now the final
chapter is to be written of this famous
property.
The property has large frontage
on Bergenline Avenue and on the Hud
son County Boulevard, while right op-
posite is the well-known Hudson Coun-
ty Park. The property is in the town
ship OF North Bergen, Hudson County,
New Jersey. Real estate experts regard
this property as the cream of North
bergen real estate, where it is located,
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31

erty are Sedgwick, University, Jerome,
pavldson, Grand and Webb avenues.
Sedgwick Avenue, which bounds the
property on the west, and Jerome
Avenue, on the east, one block distant,
are the only two of these prominent
and we'll improved arteries of travel
that have mot till now been stopped
by the old estate, which for many
Years has restricted the growth of The
Bronx north to the Jerome Park Reser-
Volr.elghty- one acres of land now under
'"enty-seven feet of water extending
to beyond Mosholu Parkway.
Inc Importance of the forthcoming
sale" said Joseph P. Day yesterday,
"will be better appreciated when it is
understood that its subdivision and
Improvement with multifamily houses
and private dwellings will mean that
the most northerly property in the
West Bronx this side of Mosholu
Parkway and lying between Sedgwick
and jerome avenues has been disposed
OF and is no longer available as whole
tor institutional use. In other words,
this great and commanding area is to
be turned over to the resident popu
lation of New York and is no longer
to stand as a barrier to the develop
ment of The Bronx.
With splendid transit facilities the
Clatlin ,ate is in the enviable posi-
ton { commanding the services Of all
the East and West Side subway and
elevated lines and of the New York
Central Railroad.
1T is property that should arouse
the deepest interest of every real es-
tate investor, speculator and builder
IN New York, especially as it is to be
sold for whatever it may bring, and it
seems a pity that its sale could not
have been postponed until the build
ing loan outlook is trifle more
propltlous than it is today
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Want Work Pushed
On FlatbusEl Ave.
Subway Extension
More Than 1000 Store
keepers Sign Petition Tell
ing of Its Importance, and
Urge Speed in Building

Every storekeeper on Flatbush Ave
nue. from Avenue U to the City Hall,
more than 1000 in all, has signed a
petition to the Public Service Com
mission and the Board of Estimate
demanding speed in the Flatbush Ave
nue. extension which is regarded as
one Of the most important public i'm
provements that has come before the
city authorities in long time.
Although the greatest benefit will
come to Brooklv and especially the
territory along Flatbush Avenue, it
is more than a borough improvement
because it dovetails with a system OF
highways that lead to all parts of
Manhattan and, when the vehicular
tunnel is built from Canal Street to
New Jersey, into every section of New
Jersey. 1t is an important link of the
highway from the interior to the sea
1t will connect the great Jamaica Bay
steamship terminals, also the seashorc
of the RocHaway Peninsula. with bust
ness and residential Brooklyn, Mar
haitian and New Jersey.
Henry A. Meyers. Deputy Dock Com
missioner, said yesterday that there
was not thoroughfare in the entire
wy "iiANiA NOuiu OG CNtcUutu Win
greater benefit to New York than Flat
bush Avenue. 1t is an important
section OF an interborough and in
terstate highway system whose ad-
vantages cannot be overestimated
The extension of Flatbush Avenue,
Commi ssoner Meyers said, would re-
duce travel from every part of the
city to the Rockaway coast by auto
mobile. 1t is now thirty-two miles,
the only way being by way of Lyn-
brook, which is far out on Long Island
Mr.. Meyers said that there would
be poned for the building of bridges
across the little streams, as these are
to be filled in under an act of Con-
gress. He spoke of this to indicate
that the cost of the extension would
not be as large as some folks think,
as there would be no need for bridge
construction, except across Rockaway
Inlet. The extension would be close to
the s1,0oO,ooO city park at Rockaway
Mr.. Meyers said the construction of
the road should be urged from a mil
itafy standpoint, as it would give d.
rect connection between Fort Tilden
at Rockaway and the Navy Yard on
the East River and the great railroad
systems which have terminals in New
York
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Chance for Lucky One
To Win a Home
Ready to Hang Up Your Hat
Providing You Possess the
Winning Number

A four-room house fully furnished
and lot will be given away in draw
ing among those who attend the Gown
Your Home" exhibition TO be held in
the list Regiment Armory the week Of
September s 10 13.
The house has been donated by the
Standardized Sectional Construction
Company, the lot by LEcluse, Wash
burn & Co, the heating and pllmbing
by Pierce, Butler & Pierce. the paint
ing by the Devoe G. Reynolds Com pany,
the lighting by the Duplex Lighting
Works, the furniture and decorations
by Bloominedale Brothers ard the
planting by the Hicks Nurseries.
Rules governing the award follow:
Admission cards with the name and
address of the visitor written on en-
title the visitor to a chance in the
drawing. No persons will be allowed
more than one chance, no matter now
frequently he may visit the show. An
identification coupon bearing the same
serial number as the card Will be given
the visitor. The drawing will take
place on the afternoon Of the closing
day at 5 O'Clock. The committee re-
serves the right TO withhold The award
of the house should circumstances war
rant by paying $4,000 m cash 10 the
winner.
The management OF the exhibition
announced last night arrangements
have been made to have new and revo-
lutionary building methods on Snow.
among them the types Of houses of
Milton Dana Morrill,, which were
shown at the international congress on
tuberculosis some years ago. Many
hundreds of these model sanitary
houses have since been built.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Harvey W. Craw Back
From Government Job
Enters Real Estate Field for
Himself, Specializing i'll Long
Island Estates

Harvey ". Craw, having recently re-
signed from government service in
connection with housing, has again en-
tered the real estate field, with Offices
at 10 East Forty-third Street, where
he will specialize in Long Island coun-
try estates and homes.
Mr.. Craw began his real estate ac
tivities with the Robert E. Farley or
ganization in January, 1914, as sales
man. He soon proved his ability in
this capacity and became assistant
sales manager. In two years he rose
to the position of sales manager and
was elected secretary of the Gedney
Farms Country Club.
In January, 1917, he resigned from
the Farley organization to enter bust
ness for himself, but in August of the
same year entered the government
service being assigned town manager
of the United States Housing Corpora
tion. He later became town manager
of the New England distric.., having
charge of housing projects FOR the
government at Quincy, Mass. Bath,
Maine, Newport, R. l., and Portsmouth,
N. H.
He has engaged a staff of suburban
specialists as assistants to carry on
the work he has in mind
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31

Customs for Pennsylvania and the Jer-
seys. He left "a large estate" at his
death in 1888
Major Dyre's mother, Mary Dyre, a
convert to the religion of the Quakers,
was hanged in Boston June /, 1860, on
account Of her insistent advocacy of
the Quaker doctrine. She was the only
woman who ever suffered death in all
the cruel oppression Of the Friends.
Dyre sold part or his lands here to
Thomas Lloyd, Of Philadelphia. Lloyd,
too, vas Quaker, and had suffered
ostracism in England. A physician and
a man Of means, he accompanied Will
lam Penn to America in 1882. He was
made Chief Councillor and Lieutenant
Governor of Pennsylvania, where he
died in 1894. Before his death he
parted with all his New York lands, but
the deed to Richard Kip is missing.
Wilson's drug store will be remem-
bered by many New Workers as being
in the building.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Will Sell Bronx Property
Held for Twenty Years
Ben jamin Stern, Drygoods Merchant, to Dispose Of
Acres the Bronx and Pelham Parkway and
Will Help Purchasers to Erect Their Homes

Twenty-three acres in The Bronx
which Benjamin Stern, the drygoods
merchant, bought more than tyenty
years ago are to be divided into 2S4
building lots and sold at auction in
the Vesey Street salesroom on Sep
tcmber 1e The sale will be conducted
by ]. Clarence Davies and Henry
Brady. The property to be disposed
of is on the Bronx and Pelham Park
way, Eastchester Road and adjacent
avenues and streets.
To help those desiring TO erect
homes Mr.. Stern has announced his
willingness to arrange for the tinanc-
ing of building them on easy terms
providing buyers decide TO build in
the near future. The property has
frontage of 1900 feet on the parkway
1t is a level tract which runs westerly
along the parkway from Eastchester
Road diagonally opposite Pelham
Heath Inn. 1t is surrounded on the
west and north by the Astor estate
and on the east by the Gould prop
erty.
The Brink and Pelham Parkway. an
avenue 4uV icel WlQe, connects LNe
Bronx with Pelham Bay Park. 1t is
one of the most delightful thorough
fares of the Greater City 1t is the
logical eastern extension of the Grand
Boulevard and Concourse, through
Fordham Road
This Parkway is about two and one
half miles long and is the main ar
terry of travel to what is known as
the Shore Drive through Pelham Bay
Park, Pelham and New Rochelle In
the northerly part of New Rochelle it
connects with the Boston Post Road.
The territory lying between Bronx
Park and Pelham Bay Park has only
recently been opened to the public by
the running Of trains on the White
Plains Road branch of the subway.
Both east and west side trains trans
fer at 177th Street to the White Plains
Road extension. There is a station at
Pelham Parkway. At 1S0th Street sta
tion connection is also made with
the New York, Westchester & Boston
Railroad. This road has station at
Pelham Parkway near Willamsbridge
Road About 1900 feet east of this
station is the Stern property.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31

reached by the Fort Lee (l30th Street)
ferry in New York, the property being
situated about midway between the
Forty-second and 130th Street ferries.
VI the two streets surrounding near.
~ al the property, the famous Hudson
boulevard starts at Bergen Point.
bayonne, and. skirting the boundary
line OF Bergen County. runs back to
willow Avenue, in Hoboken. 1t strikes
Bergenline Avenue at its northern end.
This great thoroughfare runs INTO
Spring Street. West Hoboken. and
forms the direct continuation of this
we'll known boulevard.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31

although the name would indicate
closer relation to Guttenburg, right at
the edge of the Palisades.
Three of the trolley lines to the
property run along Bergenline Avenue.
The West New York trolley runs from
Weehawken (Forty-second Street, to
the property. The West New York
trolley from Fourteenth Street, Hobo
ken Twenty third Street ferry. New
York City,, runs direct to the prop
erty The Palisades car runs to
Coytesville, and it is only three blocks
to the northern end Of the park and
the property. This same line can be
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Offer Big Mortgage
On West Side Flat
Certificates Made Up of Issues
of 500 and Upward at 514
Per Cent Semi-Annually

New York Title and Mortgage Com
pany is offering an issue CT s275,o0O
54 per cent guaranteed first mort
gage certificates.
These certificates are issued in de-
nominations of $l00 and upwards, in
terest payable semi-annually. June and
December; secured by first mort
gage on the nine-story and basement
apartment house, and land at 120 West
Seventeen Street. They are legal in
vestment for trustee, executors, ad-
ministrators and guardians, are free
from personal property tax in New
York State. Both principal and in
terest are guaranteed.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Bedford Buys Home
At Br6nxville

H.. E. Bedford, jr.. of the Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey, has pur-
chased the English stone and timber
house of ". W. Elzea. on Governor
Road, Sycamore Park, Bronxville. Ex-
tensive improvements planned will
mean an investment of about $4,000.
Ashforth & Co. were the brokers.
Ashforth & Co. also sold the
Dutch Colonial house on the corner
of Sussex Avenue and Argyle Place,
Bronxville, held at $4,000 to Irving
NJ Obreight, from D. NJ. Hopping, and
the property of Paul VIE on Long
View Avenue, White Plains, to T. S
Bernio, of Mount Kisco. The house
and lot, l00x100, with garage. cost
$500.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Charles Maurice Fitz Gerald Buys Home at
Malta TO Escape High Increase IN Rent

Charles Maurice Fitz Gerald, the
writer, is of the belief that the only
way to escape rent increases or profit
eering is to buy. He determined on
such action last week, when he pur-
chased an attractive home at Mafba,
and according to the brokers in the
deal his chief reason for buying was
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31

that his rent was increased to such an
extent that he finally made up his mind
to become the owner of his own home.
Mr.. Fitz Gerald was desirous of pur-
chasing home within a short distance
Of Manhattan and easy of access He
consulted S. Osgood Pell g. Co. of his
desires, and they informed him that
the house Of Vernon c. Gray, of the
Royal, Baking Powder Company, at
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31

Malba, Long Island, could be bought.
After look at the property Mr.. Fitz
Gerald soon made up his mind that the
property was to his liking, and the deal
for its ownership was quickly closed
The attractive house on the property
commands fine view of the Sound, and
was erected by the seller about two
years ago. 1t is attractively sur
rounded with flowers and shrubs.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Buying Home Sites in Yonkers

Buying Home Sites in YOnkers
The Cooley Realty Company has sold
for Joseph S. Wood a plot, 100 feet
front on Prospect Avenue and 15O feet
deep on Magnolia Avenue, to Herbert
T. Darling, of Mount Vernon. Mr.. Dar-
ling intends to erect a handsome resi-
dence for his own occupancy. The COM
pany has also sold for Mr. Wood a cor
ner lot on Prospect and Magnolia ave.
nues, 6OxlO0 in size, to Robert NJ. Ferns
for q home site
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31

Degnon tract, Long Island City. for q
long term of years. at an aggregate
rental exceeding $3.50 600, 20 Hendy
Waldes
The building, which IS four stories
and of freproof reinforced concrete
ccnstru ction. Viii be used in the manu-
facture Of Koh-I-Noor fasteners ard
paper clips, after suitable machinery
has been installed and alterations have
been made
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
BrookIake Park, at Madison, ". j., Which
Ho1uard Cole viii Share With Others

century of careful development as a
100000 has been spent on it,
E. B. Woolf, of Chicago, has assumed
active management of this property.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31

The accompanying illustration is the
main drive Of Brooklakc Park, the
estate of Howard Cole at Madison,
\. j., part of which has been sub
divided into homesites ranging in cost
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31

from $1,000 to $4,000.
There are 1000 acres in the estate,
also beautiful lake, fed by springs, a
golf course and macadam roads. The
property represents quarter Of a
New-York tribune., 1919-08-31
Buyers for Lots and
Residence at New Rochelle

The Cooley Realty Company has
sold for Richard NJ. Winfield plot Of
three lots on Cliff Avenue, Pelham
Heights to Burton Kline of New Ro-
chelle.
The same company has sold for the
Gramatan Improvement Company with
F. J. Thill, a stucco residence at
Claremont Avenue and Grand Street,
opposite the Mount Vernon Country
Club, to Mrs. Helen Clark of Mount
Vernon.