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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-07-15
GRASS FOR SALE.

GRASS FOR SALE.
For sale: the grass standing on
the William Gregg farm in Andover.
Inquire of
MISS ANNIE GREGG,
Pines Stock Farm, Andover.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-07-15

Standing Grass for Sale.
At The Beeches Farm, Paris Hill.
Inquire of Mr.. Sewell Rowe at near
by farm.
$3.50 G. F. HAMMOND.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-07-15

A household remedy In America for % years
DR.. Thomas Eclectic OIL. For cuts, sprains
burns, scalds, bruises. SOC and 60c. At all drug
etOree
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-07-15

Any skin itching Is q temper tester. The more
you scratch the worse 1t itches. Doan's Oint-
ment Is for piles, eczema-any skin itching. 6Oc
at all drug stores.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-07-15

Doan's Regulets are recommended by many
who say they operate easily, without gripping
and without bad after effects. SOC at all drug
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-07-15


Mrs. Amos Canwsll is In very po0'
health.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Toole are p speur
ing q vacation at Mrs. Carrie 0f'ss'
farm. a.
We are glad to know that Isaac Gan AN
we'll has returned to town ifom fA's'
and Is looking fine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abel HuOt,ri have =, .h .I,
s Ssby boy who met his death BY fa'nne
into q boiler Of water.
Last weeks guests Of Mr.. and MRS Mr.
rsliss Thibodssu and n s.. osns sSd. two two
Mr.. and Mrs. Budd Turner p enu ord
Children a EraId and Lila, Of E 81 Wss
Mr.. and Mrs. william ss .ss,o ~ chill
P.s,s. and Mr. and Mrs. c'assn'' ~
| Of DtxAsld.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1919-07-15


Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G. Blake, Mrs
G. s. Tucker and Miss Carrie Tucker
were members of quite large party
which gathered at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. d. R. Dsnison at Harrison on Sun
day, the 9th, to give welcome home to
the three sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Denison,
who have all been In the service.
Sam Klain has received bis discharge
from the medical department at Fort
Williams, and returned home last Tues
day.
The officers of Oxford Castle, K. G. E.
will be installed Wednesday evening BY
Grand Chief James L. Anderson Of
Portland. The installation will be fol
lowed by q supper.
Percy Y. Fogg has resumed work IL
the Norway National Bank, after year,
absence In the service.
Miss Lillian Powers Of Brunswick
formerly of Norway, has been the CUES
Of Mrs. j. Waldo Nash for few days.
G.. Leon Curtis has been for the pas
ten days taking vacation at Bay Point
where bis family are occupying q cot
tage together with Mr.. and Mrs. George
W. Winslow Of Auburn.
Mrs. Lester Horne and two sons
Ronald and Howard, of Fairhaven, MATS.
are stopping for some months with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard D. Smith
DR.. Horne has sailed for Europe, where
he is to take course in surgery, and !
Is expected will be gone about nine
months.
Miss Eunice Fobes of Wakefield
Mass, Is here for the summer, at he
cottage on the lake.
Mrs. Alice Msrston Is visiting he
sister at South Rumford, and will visi
also at Livermore, Topsham and Jeffer
son, being away through July ant
August.
Mrs. William Stanton of Boston II
with her mother, Mrs. George P. Locke
during July and August. Mr.. Stanton
was here for day or two.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Sohenk and twt
children of New York city are guest
of bis parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Car
Schenk, on Pike Hill for two weeks.
Miss Hazel e. Bicknell Is at h0m'
from Pennington, where she was EN-
ployed % milliner during the sprinl
and summer season.
Mrs. Clara q. Bradbury, widow o
Roscoe e. Bradbury, died Thursday at
terDoon at the home of her sister, Mrs
Myra Hebbard, on Tucker Street. Sh'
had been in failing health for som'
months. Mrs. Bradbury was born II
Sumner Oct. II, 1s49, the daughter o
America and Addie (rhompsop) Bonney
The family came to Norway In 1859, ant
lived on farm back Of Pixies Hill. Sh'
married Roscoe e. Bradbury In 1882. an!
they lived on farm back of Pixies Hill
Mr.. Bradbury died In December, 1911
and daughter, Ethel, wife Of Bertrand
Moore, died of pneumonia last winter
After the death Of the daughter Mrs
Bradbury came to the village to live wilt
her sister. Besides the sister, Mrs. Heb
bard, she 10 survived by one brother
Benjamin q. Bonney Of South Paris.
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stysiI months, and saw a larg
III OF hard service. He was onl,
sgsOunded, and was not sick at all
E ue was kept continually at II
r,;. somewhat nerve-shaken by tn
Out otherwise shows no III effects
n. number Of additions to the member
ss " me county association were on
ma Dncrete results OF the banquet o
ma : ~ carriers held at Grange Hal
,.,s evening Of the 9Th. About sixt,
Va. present, and an interesting address
ssSAaue oy Hon. Frank G. Farringtol
hn Saa. A message was receives
\ ,SOogressman Wallace b. White
n, ng that be was In communics
s,,,' .ta 70 the department regarding tb
aSs " adjustment and increase of pa
ssos :, .afrlers, aud giving encourage
'a' Is to the prospects.
d .S Sas was pleasant family party a
Va. us Oh Mr.. and Mrs. Lester A
l.,is. uu saturday, the 5th. 1t included
hlin , ls West family, Fletcher A
OsunI. S Two daughters of Poland
a.urS p saiiin and family of Sumnel
aoIi1, ssriln and Mrs. Annie Small an
va " Lowell, Mass. The occasio
Y, eeleorstion of the birthday {
sO,yss % y and Mrs. Dennis Parlir
as,ssS ~ H.; west and family, who are 9
aiusS 11Slng 10 portion OF the hous,
Vent, ' YEN at dinner, making a party {
atSs h sno ate under the trees In fror
lss.n aSupolss on "The Rhine and II
I'd Ms. - received from Private Ha
I'm, - ns' y at Evacuation Hospital q
layina' !, occupation, A. EFF. Accom-
'OcI,ss" 10 this message, which all {
brad. numerous friends viii be gla
liver ara Tue Rhine Is Q wonderfl
ssp = s.a am sure fortunate to ha,
VII a, much Of il as l have. This boo
sqld 10 you more about IL than ev,
SBIu,.s. have been from Coblent
coIoQns June 10, 1919; Coblence
nd tss S sune II, 1919. The old castl,
I'D . 'ssends dating back to b.
tsrssl ouAns are wonderful. Butt
We ~ scenery give ME the good o.
~ a. niisys Of Oxford Count
never more VIA soan.n
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Childs Gets Fifth Ave.
Site for Restaurant

Pease & Gilman and Douglas l.. Eli
man q Co. have sold 377 Fifth Avenue
to Chllds, the restaurateur, who will
erect i new building on premises for
exclusive occupancy. This propertv was
sold for the Norris estate and has been
IN the possession Of that family since
1853. 1t Is the last house on the block
to give way to business and was sold
for $3.50 OOO
The Nehring Company, Jules Nehr-
ing president, sold to a client $50
Port Washington Avenue, detached
private residence, on plot, ,22x10O
Moore, Schultz & Co. have sold for
the Norbert Wolff Compay the four
story dwelling at 462 West 14isr
Street, on lot 1ex99.11, to Philip Peter
Muller.
simon S. Friedbcrg has sold to
private dwelling at 1855 West 1ooth
Street, the a. Kane Company repre-
senting the sellers.
Horace S. Ely has sold for Warner
B. Mattison, trustee. o34 West Fiitieth
Street. an old wooden building on lot
25x1005, to client of j. B. English
J. B. English has sold for Hugh
Reilly the three story dwelling at 243
West Forty-eighth Street, on lot COX
100.
Adam A. Schopp has sold for Lettie
I. Sparks the property at 129 East
l14tn Street, a three story and base
Christian j. Williams has sold to "a
MIR. Vincent PSI West 127 Street.
three story dwelling on lot 17.2x99 H.
Clara Porvolk has sold 80 East
Eighty-fourth Street, two-story
dwelling, on lot 16.Sx102.2.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
WOOAW0Q7H 1LlX DING
Is WoRzH $500 400 M01
THIN Il XEHR AG0

increase in property value in Manhat-
tan is S7l166 J75,
The question naturally arises, "W here
was the gain found ~ The answer is
that every section contributed to the
increase but that four of the eight dis
tricts in Manhattan accounted for S4S,-
759, 700 of the gain in the borough.
These sections comprise the business,
amusement, hotel and fine residential
districts. The central sections, those
between Fortioth and Ninty- sixth
Streets, in which are located most of
the best hotels, theatres. clubs, apart
ment houses and esidences, provide d
s32 100000 of the increase. Between
the Battery ard Grand Street, the tax
deputy had no trouble in finding an
increase Of S10,456 800.
Thirty-six buildings south Of Cham
bers Street were found TO be worth
from 5000 to 81 900 600 more than a
year ago. Increases of less magnitude
are innumerable, it being. the impress
sion that almost every one of the 8,665
buildings, with the exception of the
cheapest tenement property, recorded a
higher valuation this year than last
Sl,0Oo,oO0 Boost for Equitable Building
The Enuitahle Ruildin~ which covers
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

city realty twenty years ago, which
stood at 50 9lS. .96l ,50A. The tentative
figures Just submitted are not expect
ed to be lessened much, as the Tax De-
partment has adopted the principle cf
not so much a sensational increase as
one that VIII not dwindle under attack,
leaving result that in view of the
tentative figures would not look we'll or
substantial.
The comparison shows that real es-
satc in the five boroughs has increased
in value 200 per cent, the difference
between this years estimate and the
final figures for 1900 being $5,352 1885,
104. These figures explain the impreg
nable financial foundation of the City
of New York and why this city never
will be included among those munich
pa tiles unable to meet their obliga,
ions.
Brooklyn is moving to higher valua-
ions faster than any other borough in
he city. The records show tentative
increase of $11S 276 669. 1t will have
20 gain Il lot of value before it will
ave attained the worth of Manhattan
ropcrty, which this year is placed at
81 924, 4,SO6,52l. Brooklyn, which is sec
md, is valued at 1897 ,76o,621. The
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
america Needs z000 600 Homes TO Meet Immediate
Requirement of Her People, Situation Demands Action

Senator William II. Calder told dele
gates at the Realty Convention yes
terday in the McAlpin Hotel that the
housing problem was condition and
not a theory and that 100000 dwell
ings were needed TO meet the i'm
mediate demands of the population.
Are statistics needed 30 substan.
tiate the claim that there is scarcity
of dwelling construction ?" Senator
Calder asked. "If so, take the figures
showing the amount of money spent
for dwellings in the three largest bor-
oughs of Greater New York. 1t can be
shown that even SO late as the year
1916 the money spent for dwelling
houses in the boroughs OF Manhat-
tan, Brooklyn and The Bronx amounted
TO more than $76,0000O0. AS is we'll
known, even that expenditure failed
at that time to meet fully the in
creasing demand, so it must be evil
dent that the failure was greater dur
ing 1917 and 1918, when the expedi-
ture lor N two years combined was
about $29,000,000 Of this compare
tiveiy smali sum about $4,000, 900 was
spent in 1918, so that when the armis-
ing $40 for new dwelling houses where
in 1916 it was spending SIG.
$4,000, 100000 Year for Building
A momentary consideration of the
figures available shows that it is prob
able that the yearly expenditures
during normal years for real estate i'm
provcments throughout the country
approximate $3,500. 100000 If, as
for last year for new construction were
less than $500 100000. it does not take
much of an accountant to figure the
gross loss and TO show the increasing
pressure upon existing accomm oda- :
tiors
We of this country are in fair way
Or nndlng ourselves in the condition
now said to exist in England, where
peonie, unable to find other shelter. are
living IN caravans, houscboats, tents
and in any kind of structure that can
be erected with odds and ends of waste
m'terisl so serious is the situation
there the government acts as if in
pane, and is promising to make, and is
making, strenuous efforts TO meet the
situation, which is contrary to all the
laws of supply and demand, and is lay
ing the foundation for future trouble
The authorities are erecting dwellings
without regard to their cost, which
they propose TO rent to tenants at any
price the latter will pay, expecting to
make up the ensuing deficiency by lay
ing heavier taxes or the few who will
have any property to be taxed.
"To make the Investment in building
loans end mortgages more attractive Ia
investors and thus produce some Of the
funds which may be used to meet the
housing needs OF the nation is the OBJ
lect OF the proposed amendment to the
income tax law provided by Senate
bill S014, which | have introduccd,s BY
which investments in mortgage loans to
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
BUILDING
ass ESSED WORTH IS
# 900 OVER LIST
\ TEHR.S FIGURES

building. There may be more, and per
haps much less, but for the sake Of
bringing the tax levy down to unit
that will indicate clearly the extent
of the increase it may be assumed that
1,o00,0 900 feet is the area of Office space.
Figured on last years tax rate, everv
foot Of space paid SO cents to the city.
With the taxes at $500 the levy will be
rs cents q foot
Many Downtown Increases
The value of the building at az
broadway, another structural giant, is
$1,000 more than last year. The
Woolworth Building has gained $780,
600 in worth, so has the White
hall Building at the Battery, one or
the first of the forest of skyscraper,
which catches the eye of the incoming
voyager.
An increase of $345.000 has been
chalked against the building at 8 and
II Hanover Square. Even the block on
which the Federal Reserve Bank is to
be built has greater value this year
than last, the increase being as much
IS $365,000. This increase indicates
that the attitude of the Tax Depart
ment is that property in the active
business section has enhanced in value
since last year, as the buildings on
the Federal Reserve block have not
been affected by the rental conditions
downtown, for the greater part of the
space has been occupied by the bank
or the last two years. Old and quaint
nf III Eft ,i1l-o
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

found until one has passed below City
Hall park.
Lofts and hotels in the section Of
Broadway from Twenty-third street
north to Fortieth street are held in
higher value than ev.r before in many
cases. There is one building which a
ew years ago was reported to be
rapidly slipping away from its old
,wners AID into the Lands Of the mort
gage holders. But the records of the
Tax Department show that the condi-
ton of the property warrants a biz
increase over those dark days of fee
years ago. vno Flatron building
value has been moved 100000 ana
the Fifth avenoe buldng directly
across from It has been boosted
S425, 600
Some of~the big Variations recorded
in that district by the Tax Dep ~tment
this year are as toilo'pS:
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Bo'0mon Plans to Pla Big, Modern Hotel
AT Centre of arge Jvestchestef Estate

Plans by Warren g. Wctmorc, archi-
posed country hotel tc be known rs
tho Wcstchester- Biltmore, to be built
in the picturesque hills between the
villages Of Harrison and Rye. This
John Nee. Bowman, president of the
Pershing Square group of hotels, who
heads the buidlng syndicate.
The hotel will be built on the Ho-
bart Park estate of 500 acres, recently
acquired. The chief purpose of the de-
signers is to erect building in place
that will have an the attractiveness of
& country club and at the same time
offer the conveniences of modern city
hotel. There has bGen keen demand
for hotel near New York affordng
who live elsewhere and whose business
calls them to spend week end or holi-
day in New York
On the grounds it is planned to have
two eighteen-hole golf courses con-
s'rnctcd under the direction of Walter
Travis. Besides this there will be ten
ms courts, polo field and swim
ming pool. Walks and bride paths
leading into the country lanes and
roads Of the surrounding hills are
nearing completion as part of the
Improvement
All-Year Resort
The hotel will be operated in winter
the same ms IN summer and it has been
provided to have winter outdoor rccro-
alton. Two toboggan slides will be
constructed. The pond. which will
serve RS water hazard for golfers
will, IN the winter be used for ice
skating, hockey and other sports
The main hotel structure will have
400 rooms ard win be located upon
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

increased homes whose value will more
than offset their cost.
Or the government may, on the other
hand, wait for the situation to become
worse and eventually be obliged to fol-
low the example of England and pro
vide housing at normal rentals, with
the corresponding Generalization and
pauperization of its people The best
way to he p d man is to help him to
help himself. This is the sentiment Of
the man who will make the best citi-
zen, and in providing such help the
government can depend on the support
and applause Of the best element of
American citizenship.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

the extent of $4,000 are exempted from
the provisions Of the Law.
Disaster Ahead for U. S.
"Thc main object of this proposed
legislation is to enable the workingman
to secure home of his own. The
most pessimistic thinker foresces po-
Gtical disaster for Great Britain, Ger
many, Italy the United States, and. in
fact, the whole world except France; and
the one thing that gives the pessimjst
as well as the fair-minded observer
assurance as to the future of france
is the fact that nearly eighty per cent.
OF it's population is interested in the
land as owners thereof. There are
four families out Of 1--WE living in their
own homes, from which nothing, even
the raYages of war, car separate them
permanently. We're the United States
in d similar condition we might smile
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

an entire block on lower Broadway,
and, despite the fact that it is the most
spacious Office building in the world
has no space for rent, will be taxed on
Il valuation of $26,OOO,OO0 this year,
as against $25 100000 last year. The
tax last year, which was $3.50 on every
Sl00 of estimated valuation, amounted
TO S590,000 The budget for the COM
ing year will be larger than that Of
last year, which Will necessarily mean
an increase in the tax rate Some say
that the increAse Will be GO points.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

Der, is there any effort that promises
greater results than in providing that
It should be withia the power of every
man who is able 10 earn q days wage
and who wants TO own his home. that
he should be able to own his own home,
that he may become al important fac
tor in his community, so that the
growth and development of the com-
munity shall be his aim because its
weil-being Will rebound to his own
profit and benefit?
The United States. like France,
must either develop home owning IN
stlnct or housing movement like Eng
land. This homecoming instinct may
be helped forward through govern
mental aid, through preferential freight
rates, through banking legislation and
bills such as | have described, and en-
couragem mt Of standardization OF
building materials. These govern
mental aids at this time will produce
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

at. or feel contempt for, all the dis
turbing and noisy elements that seem
at the moment to threaten our social
well-being, Bolshevism is a weed that
will not flourish in communities of
home owners. Where most of the
people own their own homes there You
WI nd a re. e.reshing spirit of common
interest in the community and a real,
wholesome, patriotic and Jealous sup.
port OF American traditions and Ideals.
Country of Rent Payers
In 1890 we We're advised that 81 per
cent of the people in America lived
under the rental svstem that in 1910
the percentage had increased to 55,
and that probably the census of 1920
will show that fully SO per cent of the
peoplc will be classed as tenants. If
it is the case to-day that but forty
persons out of a hundred live in thei
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

which would place the tax at 1892 If
this is the case, and no reduction will
be allowed in the valuation placed on
the building, then the owners of the
Equitable structure will have to pay
over to the city the tidy sum of $685.
200 toward the maintenance of the city
government.
This means that every square foot
OF rcntable space will have to pay
about Is cents more than last year.
1t is estimated that there are 100000
square feet Of rentable area in the
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

own houses, and that the increase,
small as it is, will continue, it is fair
to conclude that twenty-five years
hence less than one-third of the popu-
lation of the United States will be
outside of the tenant class. A com
mon interest in the nations wealth and
the widest distribution of real prop
erty are absolutely essential to our ua-
tional well-being, and these essentials
arc not to be looked for among a pop
ulatlon three quarters of whom are at
the mercy of landlords. Tenantry is a
poor substitute for the real home, as
1T leads neither toward Independence
and responsibility, nor toward COM
munity association, which is as neces-
,sary for the poise and development of
the adult as it is for that of the child.
Help the Home Builder
If the object of government is to do
the greatest good to the greatest num-
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

designed in the one style of architect
ure. They are Italian Renaissance in
character. The side walls OF all of the
buildings arc of brick and stucco and
The roofs are of tile. The hotel struct-
ure is rather unusual III plan, consist
ing Of four fan-shaped arms, extending
at right angles from either end of a
main central building. The main floor
VIII have large dining room, grill
room, lounge and Offices
The kitchen is located on the ground
floor, level, where it can serve both
dining room and grill without the use
OF stars. The dining room and lounge
nave terraces overlooking the golf
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

is connected to the hotel structure by a
boulevard, 70 feet in width where it is
contemplated that automobiles of
guests dining in the hotel can be
parked. On the north side of this park
SPACE is a polo field, where polo
matches, horse shows and other sports
can be held
Besides two main thoroughfares
there will be subsidiary roads sur
rounding the entire golf course, and
these roads have been laid out so
can be erected on all that portion of
the property not occupied for golf.
motel purposes or other sports.
The various buildings have all been
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

the highest point of land connected by
interior highways with both Purchase
Street and the White Plains Road.
The entrance of the hotel will be
through fore court On the west
side of this fore court, being golf
house, on the south side the hotel
proper and upon the east side bache-
lers' wing. North of the hotel and
separated from fore court by nine
tennis courts is d group OF service
riding horses, a power plant, laundry.
service building and chautfers' build
ing, and garage with capacity Of
about one hundred and fifty automo-
bilesN This group Of service buildings
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

Although Improvements in property
values were recordegd, =, through .the
territory between Grand and Four
teenth streets the increases were small
with possibly two exceptions, the. big
department store Of John Wanamaker
which was down for S20o,00o increase
and the building at So Fifth Avenue
which the Tax Department is sure has
gained 100000 in value.
AS the Forty-second street zone is
approached the pendulum OF value
swings to higher figures than are to be
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19

booker has found value in them suffi
cient to bring him S136,510 if the tax
rate is $2.92, as many think it will be.
The following list shows valuations
this year and those for last year, and
of. well-knowH business structures
south of Fulton Street:
New-York tribune., 1919-10-19
Formerly UsetAby
Government i'm 10Th St. Sold

Henry Brady has sold for the Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company Of New
York to Nathan Shanpaka 80 TO 80
West Nineteenth Street, on plot 50x100
The buildings were acquired at fore
closure by the seller. and used during
the war by the United States govern
ncnt ia connection with the Greenhut
building hospital. The same broker
also sold to the same buyer 255 Sew