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New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
# orm Association
For the Bettern1ent
OF 42d St. Section
Property Owners and Busi-
ness Men Organize-Will
Seek improvements and
Hasten Acts In Legislation

An association of property owners
and business men on Forty-second
Street and vicinity is being formed,
and will, in the course of the next
few days, be fully organized. The in
tention is that it shall represent and
work for all that will help toward the
development and improvement of this
section Of the city.
A list of those who have already
promised their support and active par
ticipation in the work follows: William
H. Barnum. Paul B. Boden. John NICE.
Bowman, Irving Bush, J. C. Cushman,
Marshall Clark, 0. D. Dixie. A. E. Err
langer, W. F. Fairchild, Joseph Cor
don, j. f. Harrington, Frederick John
son, S. E. Lester, H. j. Luce. w. A.
Michleham, Adolph S. Ochs, Walter c.
Reid, Walter j. Salmon, Louis Stern,
w. V. Swords. Alexander Taylor, A. E.
Thorne, Charles Elliot Warren. Ber-
nard Wakefield, Arthur Williams and
Edward A. Wise.
At meeting held yesterday in the
Astor Trust Building, A. L. Thorne
was elected chairman and Bernard
Wakefield treasurer. Due to legisa-
ton now pending in Albany affecting
Forty-second Street, 1t was decided to
hasten permanent organization and
those present voted to organize on
April g..
A committee on legislation was ap-
pointed by the chairman, comprising
Paul B. Boden, Walter c. Reid and
Kenneth Jeffrey, also committee COM
prising A. f. 1horne, Louis Stern and
j. C. Cushman was appointed to join
with the city officials in a celebration
of the opening OF the viaduct on Park
Avenue. which has been officially an
nounced to take place during the week
beginning April IA. The Thirty fourth
Street Board of Trade will be asked
to join with the Forty-sccond Street
committee, and property owners and
tenants along the route of the viaduct
and on Forty second Street will be
asked to decorate their buildings on
this occasion. The band from the
Borough Presidents department, COM
prising forty pieces, will furnish the
music; there will be an automobile
parade over the viaduct and the cele-
bration will end with dinner to the
city officials at the Hotel Commodore.
The legislation referred to includes,
dHioHS oCuet indlItTS VI great lmpOr
tance, bill presented by the city
through Borough President Bowling,
and which was drafted by Corporation
Counsel Burr, calling for the removal
OF the elevated structure on Forty
second Street between Park and Third
avenues, which will be introduced
in the Senate by State Senator Foley
this week; also two other bills arc
about to be introduced in Albany. one
to allow the city to retain Pershing
Square as park or plaza instead Of
selling this property at public auction,
and the other refers to surface car
transportation on Forty second Street.
the passage Of which will allow the
Public Service Commission to reduee
me surface cars running through
FottS-seeohd Street By nearly 30 per
cent.
Organization headquarters have been
opened through the courtesy Of Mr..
Jhothe N the Astor Trust Building,
Edward W. Forrest is the organizing
secretary OF the assoeiaton
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
East and West Sides
Loft Buildings Sold
One OH Sixth Avenue Corner
and Another in Eaot l7th
ST. Near Fifth Avenue

L. Il. Wakeman has sold for the Land
Map Realty Corporation, Max N. Nat
anson, president. the sir story store and
loft building at the southwest corner of
Sixth Avenue and Eleventh Street. 1t
has frontage of sixty feet on Eleventh
Street and beginning at the immedi-
ate intersection of Sixth Avenue it ex-
tends southwesterly for a distance of
1916 feet. 1t is fifty-one feet wide at
the rear and faces Millgan Place, a
small throughfare with an outlet on
Sixth Avenue. hTc sellers acquired it
through the same broker last Novem-
Der.
For the Franklin Savings Bank. Mr.
Wakcman has sold the eight story fire
proof loft building at 16 East Seven
teenth Street, on lot 25x92, located
between Broadway and Fifth Avenue.
Mr.. Wakeman has also resold for the
Landbro Realty Company the nine
story fireproof elevator apartment
house at 385 to 3s9 Central Park West
known as Elberon Hall. The structure
occupies a site 55.6x100 located 25
feet south of the corner of Ninety
ninth tSreet. 1t was bought by the
sellers last month through the same
broker from the Union Dime Savings
Bank.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

the modern Crusaders and to help in
sure their homecoming to tell of their
wonderful adventures.
used by the government for the gas
defense branch Of the army, the build
ing no longer is needed, so its owners
have decided to offer it for sale at
once in the hope that it NAV render
further patriotic service by furnishing
places of employment for some of the
thousands of men who are coming back
to useful pursuits. One of the great
needs of manufacturers of today is
modern, we'll located buildings. Many
industries would be more active to-
day if they. could find the space in
which and the men with which to do
business: Perhaps this is just the
place; 80 feet wide, 5-story and base
ment, fully sprinkled, absolutely fire.
proof, with Long Island Railroad
siding and plenty of space adjoining
in which to expand.
The building itself is model of fac
tory construction. being one of the best
works of the architectural firm Of Ball
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Begin Mo,emen to Convert
DWeIlings Into Apartmcnis

Harris & Maurice Mandelbaum have
purenased r,lrenaa az, from the New York Life In
snranee Company the. I've story Ameri-
can basement dwelling, 20xl0O.II, at
ZIG West i07th Street, containing
eighteen rooms and four baths, which
they intend to convert into small,
suites. Such conversion will be thx,
first break in the block, which contains
high class American basement homes
The sale was negotiated for the New
York Life Insurance Company bv
Thomas j. O'Rcilly.
Maurice Mandelbaum said that it was
the beginning Of movement to pur-
chase private houses for such purposes
he having formed new corporation to
specialize in such operations.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Government Seeks Aid
From the Roads

The $220,0O0,0O0 of railroad matur-
tiles this year can probably be largely
financed through the usual renewals.
The remaining s1,Oo0,000,o00 will be
the governments investment in rail-
road property equipment, additions
and betterments-and will be u debt
the companies will owe the government
for some years until they can finance
it by the sale of their securities to the
public in the open market The rail
road administration hopes that a part
of this $1,O00,000,OO0 can be financed
by the railroad companies this year
by the sale of railroad securities.
1t is understood in Washington that
the railroad administration in January
wanted to return the roads to their
owners, but when tho expert account
ants went over the 1918 accounts they
we're convinced that the railroads un-
der government operation, with the
enormously increased labor cost, had
ceased to be self-supporting, and that
the government had no right to turn
the roads back to the owners in such
broken down fiancal condition.
The financial failure of government
operation has been very largely due to
the extravagant handling of the wage
problem. When the government wage
board made it's report last May it asked
the public not to be staggered" by an
increase in wages Of $2S8,OOO,OOO. The
members of the board thought that
they had solved the railroad labor
problem by this generous increase, and
that there would be no further ad-
varces of any consequence during the
period Of government control. 1t soon
appeared that this first award amount
ed to nearly s400,000,00O, and almost
Immediately Afterward there opened q
new cycle OF wage advance. The shop
men got s20o,DD0,O0O more; then the
maintenance Of way men and clerks Fe=
Fsivsd about S200,000,000 more; fellow.
Ing this telegfsphsfs and other classes
Of employees received another st6D,000,s
000 This brought the wage advances
for the year UP to sD00,000,0G0.
But the railroad unions, seeing how
easy 1t Is to get fat awards from the
railroad administration, have started q
third cycle of wage advances, The
railroad trainmen, comprising the four
train organizations-som 400, 1000 men
out of the 100000 railroad employees
the same brotherhoods who got S70,-
100000 out of Congress in 1915 and
who received $l6O,OO0,OO0 from Mr..
McAdoo in 1918, are now in Washing
ton waiting for a third advance. They
have been promised $G0,000,O00 more
and are holding out for $120,000,000.
In the last few days 100000 shopmen,
who received $20O,OO0,000 last summer,
have gone to Washington complaining
of the increased cost of living and
asked for $170,0O0,00O more.
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High Labor Cost
Responsible for
Shortage ofFunds
Continued from page 8

account of deferred upkeep last year;
10000, 600 to finance this years
railroad bonds and notes coming due;
and
500, 900 estimated deficit on
this years operation.
Total, $1,7co, ,000, 900.
AS the Director General has pointed
out to Congress, this does not mean
that the government is going to lose
all this money. 1t has lost $200,000,0O0
on account of the deficit in the 1918
rental; it owes the companies $780,
600, 900 on neglected upkeep; and at the
end of this year there will easily be a
deficit of $2O0,00O,000 on the 1919 rem
tai. This s5oooo0,ooo, which may
easily be larger if wage increases con-
tinue, will be the cost of the govern
ment's two-year experiment in rail-
roads.
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BUYS Linn Estate at Ossining

The Linn estate. on the Somerstown
Road, Ossining, adjoining the estates
of Peter Donald, w. w. Fuller and Dr.
Gruelich, has been sold by George
Howe to James Clarke, paper pulp
manufacturer, of this city. Mr.. Clarke
Ridge district to Mr.. Borden and will
make the Ossining property his sum
mer home. The property consists of
twenty-five acres of land, large peach
orchards, modern farm buildings and a
masters house containing twelve
rooms and three baths. 1t has been
held at $45,000.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Big Surplus Of
Cars NO,u

The shortage of cars and equipment
began to manifest itself stronglyin May,
1917, just after the United States had
entered the war. Through the efforts
of the Railroad War Board, which had
been created in April, 1917, the short
age was reduced by the fall of that
year to $4,000 cars. The railroads
themselves ordered $109,OOO,0OO worth
of equipment in the following months,
and late in December the government
took control of the roads. In April and
May. 1913, the railroad administration
placed its orders for standardized
equipment, involving 1870 locomotives
and 100000 freight cars.
At present there is no shortage of
freight cars, on account of the stopping
of war business and the lightened de-
mands of industry. 1t has been esti-
mated in particularly we'll informed
circles that there is at this time a
idle.
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Efforts
TO Put Roads
On Common Basis
@ontinued from page 3

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad for the
carrying Of coal, but the road ex-
r2ained that there were no coal mines
on any part OF the line. The officials
were willing to compromise on 200 cars
as contribution to the unified sys-
tenn. The road also found fault with
the allotment of 500 single sheathed
box cars Of fifty tons capacity, saying
they were unsuited to it's needs be-
cause there were few commodities
produced along its line which would
load in box in excess Of $4,000
pounds.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Home of John Carsiensen
At Scarsdalc Sold

Fish g. Marvin have sold for John
Christensen his colonial house on
Orchard Lane at Scarsdaic, known as
the Cottage, to David B. Dearborn, of
this city. The property was held at
$35 900.
The same brokers have rented for
Mrs. John C. Gazlay her property at
Lawrence Park West, Bronxvile, un-
furnished, for term, to Edward j
Baird, of this city, and for Mrs Arthur
Hebard her large residence on Rectory
Lane at Scarsdale, furnished, to a New
York client.
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Railroad Wages
absorb Higher Fare

When the brotherhoods get their
in wages under government operation
will just about equal the increased
charges paid by the public for freight
and passenger transport. But the in
creased cost of coal, steel and other
materials will be unprovided for.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Housing Conditions In NeiU York
Lead to Sale of Great Neck Homes

sold last week two fine dwellings at
Great Neck to buyers who now live in
New York City.
Alexander. Bailwitz has purchased
the George B. Warner property, on Ce-
dar Drive, near the Great Neck golf
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

links and Little Neck Bay. The l..
contains ten rooms and thre h'Nss hSvSss
There is garage for two mach;nSs.lsAs S.sAs
the property. ''ass O
NJ. c. Rorty has acquired the ro..
bein property, on the top of Sr;sssas'
Hill, for his new home. Sp'aasy
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

The housing situation in Manhattan
is forcing New Workers to look into
the suburbs, with the result that many
have been agreeably surprised and are
asking why they had not thought of
the suburbs before. Baker Crowell
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, ron. sAl.E.-Bcautifu orange grove and asn-
ilemans estate in llori,ia's lake icwellcd high
winter resort. one block from shipping station.
gss 1Wo IRON lAr, nlSa 1lishway Health conditions
noo teet, surrounding country rolling Improve
mons consist large and profitable orange am!
grapefruit grove % room villa with modern con
venienacs. overlooking beautiful lake italian
iookery, greenhouse. garages. barns. servants
Quarters. deep wells nshing purcst water tanks
gasoihe engine. w1ndins. etc. Grounds beau
uiuliy landscaped. planted With rare varieties
Fuit and flowers. and semi circle wtching lake
an Ideal hone winter and summer producing
good revenue, one appealing lovers OF the
beautiful and 10 the highest type of investors
drlhers ners please do not answer. Price. s35 .0o0
tate, Write J q: Lloyd, 295 Clark Street. Fruit
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Duncan Harris Wins
ID. S. C.. HOnors
Well known Broker, Major in
77th Division, Leads Battalion
With Broken Collar Bone

Duncan G. Harris, of the real estate
firm of Harris e. Vaughan, in the Wind
sor Arcade Building, on Fifth Avenue,
now major in the 305th Infantry, one
of the units of the 77th Division, has
been awarded the Distinguished Service
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Rents Mount Vernon Cottage

Burke Stone has rented for Mrs. T..
y. Custer her hSnse In Lawrence Park
for . term os years TO r.. w. Kirch,
0f Mount Vernon,
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WANTED. FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES

sropT WASTED on rItrH AVENUE atTtI Ta
SD STREET HIGHEST GRADE TENANT
rtAHMAH WAKEFIELD. ING. % EAST lsl
STREET
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FURNISHED APARTMENTS TO LET

sURI.EAsE four room apartment, fur.
r!shed private hail; southern oxpoaurc
all rooms facing Mrcet; can he seen Sun.
day, to 4, West lg7th et apartment J.
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uNFURNlsHED HOUSES TO LET
BOROlGH OF BKOOKLYN

ALA STERLING PLACE 10 room private resi-
icnce near Eastern Parkway and Prospect Park
Rent 81 200. or would sell at bargain on easy
terms ELLIOTT laf Nassau ST. New York
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AT SACRIFICE To close estate. beauthw
suburban home in Dunellen \. j. uns
smart amount OF cash needed. All iinpa,us1', ~,
meMf garage. barn. plot 70xsoe. ApPR
MULLER. A Broadway. n. i.
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CITY REAL ESTATE
HESS Business PROPERTY
FARMS FOR SALE
NEW YORK STATE

as ACRE FARM MILE FROM DEPOT. LEVEL.
goou soil near Kingston :ow price, easy terms
also 20 acre farm. hour out on Long Island.
SPENCER ia Nassau St, New York.
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wEsTCHEsTER COUNTY
Geo. Cascoigne
NEW JERSEY

SOUTH SIDE. up-to-da,e home: s els,sh y
- rooms. ,arge grounds. garage. lsovo.v.
Terms BlRNEY - Livingston Az. Yonke's
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ing stock. current make, Nc. l, 45h@
46c; No. 2, 441s@45c; lower grades,
40044c.
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pounds.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-01
DIDN'T KNOW OF DROWNING
Ship Worker Who Plunged Into
Water Thought 1t Joke

Unconscious of the tragedy that fol-
lowed collapse of the scaffolding at the
Merchant shipyard, Ray Kock. nineteen
years old, of 410s North Fifth street,
went to his work still feeling that ''the
duclting' he received yesterday was a
huge joke.
The young mans mother expressed
both astonishment and sorrow when told
that four men had lost their lives
why. Ray didn't think anything of
it," said Mrs. Kocli. He came home
last night at the usual time and laughed
over the ducking he had. He said the
plank on which he stood turned around
and started to fall. He dove into the
water and swan out toward the channel
because, he said. there was too much
lumber and snoring floating around the
shipway. He swan to a boat and was
brought into a hospital and they gave
him a suit of clothes and he came right
home.
"He was wondering how the other fell
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EVENING PUBLIC OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TUESDAY, APR

He never had been under water, but he
once had worked for diver, and he vol
unteered to get into the suit and go down
into the river.
Caylor went down four times Though
dizzy and faint, like all persons on
their first experience in diving suits, he
managed to fasten cables to the coll
lapsed structure under water. cone"
or water crane, was brought nearby. and
thirty or forty powerful lights turned
on, making the spot almost as light as
day. When the rattle of timbers and
bent iron came to the surface he went
down to look for bodies which might
have been pinned underneath.
At twenty minutes after 0 o'clock he
brought the body of Michoris to the
surface in his arms, and when, with
the 100-pound weights of an old-fash-
iioned diving suit fastened to his feet,
he was hauled on to the dock. he col
lapsed. AS soon as physicians revived
him he insisted on going down again.
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torial claims aginst Germany, may be
won to the support of the peace terms
by the high reparations flxed by Pre-
mier Lloyd George and Premier. Glenn
enceau.
President Wilson has not committed
himself on the amount Of reparations
and is free, when Germany comes to
the point Of refusing to sign the peace
treaty on account of the large dam
ages, to. take sides with Germany ana
to assist in cutting down the claims
of the Allies. d,
In no other way does an agreement
seem likely. resident Wilson and Pre-
mier Lloyd George are agreed gen.
orally, except on the question OF
reparations to the extent that the sum
total must be large, although they
are quarreling about the division,
Lloyd George insisting on having half
as much as France, which seems to
everyone here to be out Of all proper
ton to the relative damage suffered
by the two countries.
May Not Produce Peace
On the subject OF reparations, Will
sons own advisers are seriously di-
vided. The Presidents personal views
are unknown, but he is supposed to
be in favor of a low sum. Ses
Even this proposition is far from
assuring an early agreement, for the
French, who are dreadfully afraid they
will get nothing out Of the peace,
while England is getting a large part
of the earth's surface, are likely to
be highly suspicious Of this proposal
unless President Wilson commits him
self absolutely to support to the bitter
end the total of indemnity decided or
by Clemenceau and Lloyd George,
France is burdened with deb
charge of two billion dollars annually
in excess of the amount she car
reasonably be expected to raise. 1t l:
this burden Of debt .and the socia
problem it creates which paralyze thu
conference. ~. -
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MEN JUMPED INTO RIVER
EYEWITNESS Tells How Workmen
Escaped After Collapse

John Canning, of 21o5 Bridge street.
F'rankford, was working on the Waukau u
before the launching and witnessed the
tragedy.
II saw the scaffolding go" he said.
Some of the men were carried down IN
the tangled mass of lumber and piiings.
Two or three leaped out and INTO the
water,
with several companions / went
over and got a rowboat and we started
to try to reach some of the men, one
fellow was frantically. clinging to a
piling. He was numb and exhausted
with the cold water.
I'VE pulled him out, and when we got
him ashore he said that he would have
made land all right but five persons
struggled with him in the water and
pulled him down. One after another he
fought them off and was totally ex-
hausted and ready to give up hlmself
when he came in contact with the pile.
He grasped it and held on, and we were
lucky enough to reach him."
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FORGOT TO TELL WIFE
Workman Rescued at Bristol Did
Not Mention Disaster at Home

A telephone message today asking
about the welfare of her husband. Rob-
ert Weir. 4O35 North Ninth street, was
tho frst word Mrs. Tessie Weir received
+ the tragedy at the Merchant shipyard
Weir was one of the men hurled into
tho water when the scaffold collapsed.
night" said Mrs. Weir today, but he
neyer told me word about the accident.
I recall. however, that he had a different
coat on and that he did the unusual
think OF changing his clothing before
he ate his supper. A cousin called me
nm after he went to work today and
that is how I learned he was in the
accident. suppose he didn't want me
to worry
The Wers have baby about a year
old Weir has been employed at the
yard for more than a year.
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Wilson and Lloyd
George Join Forces
Contiucd from Pare One

CODtiued from PAGE Ono
recognize the value of league of ma.
tions as bringing the United States
into European affairs and lending her
strength to the stability of nations
like Poland, Czecho- -Slovakia and
ugo.Slavia--newly set up and tend.
ing to affect the balance against Ger
many.
The French recognize that without
the United States in world affairs
these nations would disappear as
quickly as they came into being. They
recognize, also, that without. the
league Of nations America would re.
turn to her former isolation.
Who will strike the blow that will
bring to a head the present state of
nerves and bad temper is uncertain
France doubtless could tell stories in
flnitely disagreeable to the Wilson
Lloyd George combination. On the
other hand, France is fearful of any
threat from Mr.. Wilson, even more
fearful than it was of bluff like that
| to take the Peace Conference from
! Paris.
| If the explosion comes it may be
sudden and unprecedented. 1t may
do infinite damage to the peace Of the
| world. ."
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WIFE ASKS RELEASE
FROM FAKE "HERO"
''Captain Crimwood" Fooled
Charitable Americans and
Chevy Chase Society Girl

New York, April 1.-The story OF how
a fugitive from British justice, with
stolen passports and a winning address.
was able to personate British officer,
to swindle by fake charities New York.
ers whose confidence he gained and
eventually TO marry a young woman
who had no idea he had left wife and
two children in England, is told in
papers examined by Justice Cohalan in
the Supreme Court yesterday.
The American wife, Florence Brain
erd Grimwood, of Chevy Chase, WASH
ington, d. c., got from the Justice an
order permitting service by publication
of a copy Of the summons and complaint
in an annulment suit she has started
against william Robert Archer, also
known as William F. G. Grimwood, now
believed to be in England.
She says that Archer. posing as Cap
tain Grimwood, of the British army, ar
rived in New York on French liner
in the spring Of 1916. .. D..
According to the complaint Miss
Brainerd came to New York to be the
guest of young matron In whose home
Archer, then interested in the Allied
Bazaar, was a guest. She was twenty
two years old. She became much in
terested in the young officer and his war
record. He proposed marriage. They