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New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

ing, and judging by the inquiries which
have been received, it will be known
from here to China, because of the i'm
portance of the concerns which are
seeking space in it.
Mallinson & Co., silk manufacturers,
have taken an option on the north
store, 100x200 for twenty-one years
lease at rental of 100000.
The block was bought from the B.
Altman estate through George R. Read
G. Co. The late Mr.. Altman bought it
from the Field estate some years ago
as an investment. Marshall Field as
sembled the block for the purpose OF
erecting fine store building. At least
that was the story, and he never con-
tradicted it. The Chicago merchant
changed his mind, and the property
was carried along until Mr. Altman
took it. Improved with three and four
story buildings the realty has just
about carried itself for the Altman es-
tate.
Lower Fifth Avenue Is Coming Back
Mr.. Backer said that he would have
the Textile Building ready next fall.
The change in the status of conditions
on Fifth Avenue, south of Thirty fourth
Street, due to the decision of the
needle workers to move west, Mr.. Back
cl SdIu, leu W tIlS OpcTGtlOu. NIX
Backer said that he would not have
attempted such a gigantic project there
while needle trade workers remained in
the section. He said that Fifth Avenue
will come into its own, and that it will
be once again a valuable and highly re-
garded retail section.
SO sure is Mr.. Backer of the future
of lower Fifth Avenue that he is plan
ming a particularly attractive structure.
1t will be of Italian renaissance archi-
lecture, similar to the structure which
he erected several years ago at the
northwest corner of Madison Avenue
and Thirty second Street.
Mr. Backer will personally supervise
the construction of the buildings. He
has erected about seven large CONNER
cial buildings in Fifth Avenue, south of
Thi~ty-fourth Street in the ten years
previous to the war They are the
Backer Building, at 1876 Madison Ave
nue.; northeast corner of Madison Ave
nue. and Twenty ninth Street; the
southwest corner of Madison Avenue
and Twenty-eighth Street; 81 East
Thirty-frst Street and 33 East Thir-
ty-third Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Big Sectional Building
Period H. Predicted
Statistics Ineiicaie Thai 1919
Will Be largest Building Sear
III. IL Il 4,
Big Concerns in Field for Space
in This E'ass Of iha Country


Facts in the possession OF The z.
W. Dodge Company warrant the pre-
diction that tAis year Will be the great
est in the building history of the see
ton north of the Ohio and east OF the
Missouri rivers. Up TO December
the figures show that contracts tota!ing
S2.332 .902 900 had been awarded, which
is S70G913 coo more than IN the cor
responding period last ye;.r. the preyi-
ous high record.
November contracts aggregated d
S22l $50 .oo0. which was ls per ceEl less
lhan The October record but some
what in excess off, average month y
figures for the first ten months of ehe
year. OF the-total amount for Octo-
ber, 32 per cent was for residential
buildings, ;}2 per cent for industrial
buildings, Is per cent for business
structures. 10 per cent for public util-
tiles and the remainder for miscella-
neous items.
The Central West led all other dis
trcts for November with contracts
valued at $71,3S6,o0o. The figures for
othee districts werl New York ard
Northern New jersey 500 ,636 900;
Pittsburgh district, A227o 600: Phila-
delph.a. Baltimore and WASHINGTON
district, S3l 1923 coo; New England dis
trict, $i9179,0O0, and the Northwest,
S6.63e ,OO0
IN the Central West and Pittsburgh
districts indnstria! buildings formed
10 and A per cent. respectively. of the
total awards, but in ali other districts
Presidential buildings were in the ma
lOritv
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Space Shortage Forces Old
Firm From Downtown Section

Spear & Co. have leased to
the Roessler & Hasslacher Co.
the seventh and eighth floors, contain
ing $4,000 square feet, IN the Buckley
Newhall Building at Forty-hrst
Street and Sixth Avenue. for the an
ecutive and sales Offices.
For over twenty yeary. the Roessler
& Hasslacher Co. hcs been TO-
Gated at 100 William Street but In
ability to find adequate space for ex-
pansion in the downtown district
forced it to seek quarters further
north.
The lease, which is for a long term
OF years, is at an aggregate rental
of 100000.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
&7,100,00$) rice
L or sAa1aaa&sraassaa
Hospital Block
Court Approves Sale Of Park
Avenue Site Under Con-
tract; Title VIII Pass in
July, 1927

The price agreed to for the purchase
Of the Hahnmapn Hospi1al property on
the east side Of payiS Avanuc. frssn
slxty-sevcn- 10 si..tv-ei<ith street. j.
Sl,l0o000. The property was taken un-
der contract last September py syn
dicaie OF we'll known men. it was said
represented by Harold c. Fonda. law
yer, OF 40 Wall Street payment Of
$4,000 was made to bind the contract.
which specified that five days after the
court signed The order sancsionine the
sale of the property Sa5 900 additional
shoud be paid.
Supreme Court Justice Delahantv
signed the authorization order l4r
week.
The hospital site is to be sold of in
plots OF large dimension for improve
ment with fne homes. Douglas l.. Elii-
man whose firm negotiated the deal.
SAID last September that the syndicate
was not composed of real estate men
tie conveyed the impression that the
buyers were house owners in the sec
tlon who bought the property to con-
troi ITS development that the fine homes
fronting the hospital and in the gen
eral section might not suffer. by an in
provement of the block front with q
tall apartment house
This section CT Park Avenue is frce
OF anartment buildings. and for that
reascn wealthy families have spent
.aVlahly on dwellings, which are said to
be among the finest in the country
Commodore Arthur Curtiss James,
Henry r. Dawson, of the Morgan firm;
Percy Pyne, George Blumenthal and
the Redmonds are among those who
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Home Projects Nov
Lead Construction
S6O.OOO,O00 Week Being Put
Into New Building: More Al
teniion to Residential Plans

New construction work throughou
the United states during the first fort
night of the current month has been
going forward at the rate of approx
matcly S60,000,OO0 week as against
$4,000, 900 a week during Novembar an
increase of 20 per cent The voium. Of
contemplated building operations for
the carly part OF December is approx
mately $50 900 600 a week, according to
the best reports obtalnable.
at is interesting 20 note said S. "
Straus. OF S. W. Straus & Co.. in this
connection, that during the last two
weeks more contracts have been let Cor
residential buildings than FOR any
other class of structures. with business
buildings coming Second.
Labor conditions are more gene rally
stabilized than they have been for sev-
eral months, but there is still Il great
shortage of materials, and this is re-
tarding building operations. Manufac-
turers of materials that enter into
building construction are unanimous in
stating that the present shortage will
not be overcome for an indefinite
period. While present prices OF ma-
terials have been responsible in some
measure for the restriction OF build
ing operations. it is the consensus of
opinion among the manufacturers OF
these materials that as soon as general
labor conditions become Favorable
building operations will go forward at
q greater rate than they have during
the last four years.
There is still a marked shortage of
both homes and commercial buildings
and this condition is not being relieved
desplto the strong pressure for more
structures"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
National Conduit Co.
Wins Big Tax Contest
CONF At,a,ss Claim for ~ Per
Cent Reduriion on Has
sines Plant

Under the terms of an order signed
by Supreme Court Justice Tompkins
at White Plains the National Conduit
and Gable Company has won its legal
battle for q reduction of the 1918 as
sessment from s2,12o,o 900 to sl.272,4So
on its: big plant at Hastings s-on-the-
Hudson. This is a reduction of ss4s,-
800, or 40 per cent lower than the as
seSsment fixed by the Hastings
assessors.
The corporation claimed that the as,
sessmont was unjust and excessive ana
sued or writ Of certlorarf for court
review. The company is also granted
judgment of s9,9lS.37 against the VII
lage, which was the amount Of over
payment of taxes for 1918, with inter
est from July 10, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

daticn of the demand which has been
borne to members Of the combine on
the voice of brokers and business
Frends
Big Concerns in Field for Space
1t will accommodate only part Of ahe
demand Big business concerns which
are tcemng WIN trade and which are
showing every indication Of UeveloD-
ing to unmcasured proportions, are
securing the field for additional bust
when it viii be needed and when it
win be much harder 10 secure. The
competition is against the real estate
operator and investor who are capital
ling conditions: the operator for a
quick and large profit, and he IN
Vestor for long years Of high rental.
in the Fine Street boc'z betwecn
Nassau and William Streets several
transfors of nropertE interests have
boea maoc in Inc last three wecks.
Other viii be announced before many
more days have elapsed. The back
yard OF y all stree, oenl.ing spec
therc Is held u clors 'i-aN Sl5 :: alVsre
loot, AN incentive suti!cient when COM
pa1cd With cid rental rates. to c4dse
the most conservative real estate maN
10 hasten investing in Zee N thc
lover end of tho cry
Reasons similar to tnose which
Nroin pied the purchase h. the Guar
anty Trust Company Of the Pine Street
building may be attributed to the ac-
qusition of the American Cotton aad
Grain Exchange building At the juno
tion OF Wall, Pearl and Beaver Streets
and the building adjoining, by the
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
story apartments. on plot 1o5x1OO,
through b. Harris

story apartments, ON plot 155x10O,
through B. Harris.
Society Sells in l3ith Street
Horace S. Ely q Co. have sold for
the American Baptist Home Mission
Society lS5 West l34th Street a five
story tenement on lot 25Xl00, to a
client of Samuel Cowen.
l22d Street House Sold
Albert Oliver has sold to Joseph G.
Abramson 50S West 122d Street, SIX
story elevator apartment, on plot son
l00 through Nehring Brothers.
East Ninety y-ninth Street Tenement Sold
Harry Sugarman has sold for l.. Hey
man 63 East Ninety y~ninth Street. a
iVe story apartment, with accommodate
tons for fifteen families.
Sells Fortytrst Street Property
Joseph t. Feist & Co. have sold the
five story ilat at the southeast corner
of Ninth Avenue and Forty-iirs, Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
john >. Phipps Gets Suite
In Fifth Ayeune Apartment

Douglas l.. Gilman & Co.. Inc. have
leased the twelfth floor apartment in
1861 Fifth Avenue, consisting of eleven
rooms and four baths, to John S.
Phipps; also apartments at 63 West
Fifty fifth Street to Miss K McHugh
and Miss Abby S. Riley, and large
furnished apartment in the Montana. at
575 Park Avenue. for Miss E. b. John
son to Augustus c. Beckstein.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Commodore Tolson Buvs Estate

Commodore 7. Elliott Tolson has
bought the Hillcrest property at Lake
Hopatcong, N. j., from Mrs Ada Frances
Neel. 1t consists of a large house, with
boat house, and eight acres of land.
George W. Campbell and W. Alanson
AleXander We're the brokers'
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Syndicate MAY Take Over Hotel
Aberdeen for Loft PURPOSES

A syndicate has been formed which
expects to take over the twelve sto.y
Hotel Aberdeen, at IT West Thirty
second Street, between Broadway and
FIFTH Avenue, and convert it into de-
slrable loft building. The sale has not
yet been consummated.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
ST. Catherine, al
Madison Az. Corner.
Among Flat Sales
Nine-s,ory Apartment, at
SD Street Passes 10 New
Ownership: Physician In.
vests in ls2tll St. House

William Goldstone has bought from
Udo Fleischmann the st. Catherine. a
nine-storN apartment at 5o7 TO 5ll Mad
ison Avenue, at the southeast corner Of
Fifty third Street. on plot l0Ox4s.
through Leo Hess and Simon Myers.
Leases expire next October.
Physician Buys in l12th Street
Charles Galewsk has resold to DR..
George {. Mcbride the five story apart
ment, on p,ot 32xl00, at 259 West 1l2th
Street. George A. Bowman was the
broker
Old 47th Street Holding Sold
The Realty Supervision Company has
purchased from c. j. Tagliabuc through
G. W. Bishop and James a. Sheeran
Ats West Fortyseventh Street, a five
story double apartment on plot 30x10O.
This is the first transfer of the prop
erty in over thirty-tive years
r Heights Apartment Deal
j. G. Bassman. Of the S II. Raph-
ael Company has rcsold for Colonel
Augustus Smith. the southwest corner
Of Audubon Avenue and lS4th Street TO
a client of s. Douglas Wetmore, a six
story apartment with stores on plot
40x100; also the adjoining five story
apartment house, on plot 40NlG0
The same company has sold for Her
man Sassc, 10 Il client who Will occupy
the store the tive-story flat at 70 East
125th Street adjoining the northwest
corner OF Park Avenue, on plot 2SX100
Sale In l65d Street
From the 'Procraus Realty Company
Joseph G. Abramson has purchased
535-541 West 163d Street, two five
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Charles III. Cullen Buys

l.. p. & II. Y. c. Fish and John r.
Rcss have sod TIC William S. Maoes
property to Charles H. Cullen. 1t is
situated on the White Plains Post
Road in Scarsdale and comprises three
acres with large house and outbuild-
inxs.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Baylis Sells 73d Street Garage

John J. and Theodore A. Kavanach
and Douglas L. Gilman Company have
sold for William Baylis, TO client for
occupancy, l6S East Seventy-third
street, a shree- story modern private
garage, on lot 25x1022
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
BUYS Flushing Dwelling

Thomas F. Baker has bought the
dwelling at AZ North Parse Avenue,
Flushing, through J. Albert Johntra
from John w. Crawford. The dwell
inG contains zen rooms on plot COX
100
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Sale OF son' ers Home

The Robert E. Farley organization
has sold for George A. Gorham his
house o. Glover Street, Yonkers, to
F. Badger.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Sale O f4ar'ington House

The Meistcr Builders have sold 6S7
Chestnut Street. Arlington, N. j., one
family brick house.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

daticn of the demand which has been
borne to members Of the combine on
the voice of brokers and business
friends
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-12
A nn0lncenent

HE management and operation of the Shaw Undertaking
 Co., is under the personal direction of A. Ridout and Sons The entire building has been remodeed modern equip ment installed throughout and the personnel of the organization changed to enable to render first class service
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-08

A weeks holiday here at Atlantic
City has taught me some lessons. Per-
laps the most valuable one Is that
! tired body means a sick mind. in
capable of sound reasoning or straight
vfsion. / shall never in my life try
20 make an important decision with
out first getting perspective on my
self and my surroundings, with things
IN their proper proportions.
A few days ago l was distressed
il, and miserable, frightened and un-
nerved. Everything was hopelessly
mixed and wrong Little troubles
seemed huge. Small hurts appeared
sincurable. And was losing my silly
head.
As look back at it, 1t was like
things one dreams of-terrifying
. while darkness lasts, but quiet innoc-
uous by daylight. feel like writing
an essay called Never Lose Your
Head; Just Step Back Out of the Fra
cas- and Wait Till You Get q View of
the Whole" Or I might call it THE
Beneficial Effect of Ocean Air and
Hard Work Upon the Romantic Fem
mime Mind
Even Eric Sands letters do not
disturb me. They have come nearly
SVSAy udy. AACy OAK OC0uIAuA 1CC'
tiers, with such fine literary quality
that hate to destroy them. 1t seems
like tearing up books.
Yet, in my present mood "a work
ing mood. l have written two little
stories which think are as good as
the one Lynch has already accepted.
Eric's words have a cloying sweet
ness. hardly know how to describe
It. for they are not love letters in
the ordiI Try sense. One reads his
love between the lines. Here. for in.
stance. is a passage which fairly
illustrates:
youth. little girl, is the time to
wander and drift. Your youth is be
Ing Quenched by the too solid facts
Of life. Housework encroaches on the
work where your hope lies. where
your talent finds its fullest expression
Petty economies use up the energy
that should be spent in dancing, mu
sic, and the exploration of new paths
"You hardly know how to play
Turn yourself free, child with the sun
frightened hair, the eager eyes. anG
learn to drift. to dream, to let the sor
did world of money-grubbing slip by
you for a while. Let me teach you!'
And SO it goes, always the one not
to drift, to dream, to enjoy the mo
ment, to wander, carefree and afmles
over a rmoantic world.
Now, If Eric wrote to me of work
ing together, each understanding the
others hopes and ambitions. of re
garding life as a thing to be conquer
ed, to be bravely met, hand in hand
with a heart for any fate," achieving
pursuing, laboring, waiting, but Away
understanding and always loving
Well, what's the use? told Ath
ena something of this today and tn
old darling laughed grimly.
Il always tell you, DEAR" said she
that it's idiotic to wait for a man t,
come and mold your lift. Women arr
the molders of life. Pick your man
60 after him, catch him young, an
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-08

Mrs. Emma Williams Is slowly i'm
proving. Her ankle Is much better.
but she has to use crutches.. . An
auto driven by a party Of young folks
collided with a stationary freight train
at the Roberts crossing, east of Glen
Karn. Fortunately none Of the party
were hurt. The machine was wracked.
The accident occurred last Thursday
evening. i. . Leroy James DeCamp Of
Castine, and Miss Nettie Caskey, OF
williamsburg, were married at the
Christian church parsonage, 217 East
Fifth street. Thursday at 1890 a. m
Rev. F. H. Peters OBLIGATED. Misses
Louise Peden and Irma Wolfal called
on Roma Simpson Thursday. Mr.
and Mrs. maynard Wolf spent Wednes,
day afternoon in Richmond. Mrs
Pearl Irelan called on Mrs. r. C.
Downing Friday. The l. w. L. s
Literary society of the high school
gave an interesting program in the
assembly room Wednesday afternoon
-. .Arno Lowenslager, Opal VOLTA
and Ollie Moore. went to Ansonia last
Tuesday. . .Clodius Spencer, Of New
castle. is visiting his parents here
for few days.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-08
GETTING TOO FAT?
TRY THIS-REDUCE

People who don't grow fat are the
fortunate exception. But II you find
the fat accommodating or already cum.
bersome, you will be wise to follow
this suggestion, which is endorsed by
thousands of people who know. Ash
your druggist Tor If you prefer write
to the Marmola Co.. 1854 Woodward
Ave-, Detroit, Mich,) for a large case
Of Marmola Prescription Tablets. 81
is the price the world over. BY doing
this you will be safe from harmful
drugs and be able to reduce two, three
or four pounds week without diet
ing or exercise.-Adv.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-08
She Married An Averaee Man,
BIZ ION BECKLOY

make what you will Of him. The
ready-made ones, no matter Of what
nationality or type. are hard to do
much with. It's q toss-up which to
choose to work on-your husband OF
some wanderer. You'll be able tc
make a choice now when we get home.
You're feeling normal" y.
have decided to 60 back tomor.
row.
ITO be continued.)
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19
Peculiar Articles of Commerce.

Dried lizards are said to be an arti-
Gle of merchandise regularly imported
into this country. They come from
China, to supply a demand by Chinese
residents In the United States. They
are supposed to possess much medi-
cinal virtue when ground to powder
and mixed with certain other curative
substances. The Chinese used dried
toads for a tonic, sailed scorpions for
smallpox and fossil crabs as an anti
dote for poison.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19

hospital and examined by a surgeon.
who. In due course placed him under
m anesthetic and made him a new
lip. The work was so perfectly done
that ever the lieutenant's own mother
would never detect that the present lip
is the second one that her son has
worn. All that remains to show that
he was wounded in the mouth Is a
slight scar. just a badge of honor.
Lieutenant Felt often wondered
where the new flesh came from that
went to his face. Vas 1t taken from
the anatomy of some generous colonel.
or major generai7 Was 1t a contribu-
ton of some pretty young English
maiden? That was what he hoped
most of all. Lieutenant Felt is a BACH
elor. But, alas, 1t wasn't. Only the
other day came the disillusionment.
The bandages of his own left hand,
which he thought had been damaged
by the shell, were unwrapped. Then
he discovered the trick the surgeon had
played upon him while he was under
the influence of the ether. There was
a deep cut 10 the hand. That was
the new lip.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19
Nuts and Strip In Candy.

1t is a fact of common knowledge
that nuts are very high in food value,
those used principally In manufacture
ing confectionery being almonds, FL
berts, pecans, peanuts and walnuts,
averaging approximately 100 calories
per pound. Corn strip, enormously
called glucose, used largely in manu-
featuring gum drops. hard candies and
~tafies, is a pure, wholesome, trans
parent, heavy strip, manufactured, as
the name indicates, from corn.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19
Manaroves Destroying Island.

The island of Aldabra, near NADIA
gascar. is being wiped Off the map by
the action of the mangreves that grow
along the foot of the cliff. They eat
their way into the rock in all direc-
tons, and into the gaps thu- formed
the waves force their way,
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19
LOST LIP IN BATTLE
NOW HAS new ONE
New York Officer the Subject of
an Interesting Operation
in England.

A surgeon has played a trick on
Lieut.. Clement @. Felt of Olean, N. Y.
But the lieutenant is not angry about
1t. In fact, he is one of the happiest
men In London. He was hit by a shell
on September % in the terrible battle
between Cambrai and ST. Quentin,
when the Hindenburg line was broken.
lie lay unconscious In a shell hole,
nobody knows how long. He doesn't.
When he came to himself, he found
that he was wounded In the hip, In the
hand, and also that his lower lip had
been blown away. He was taken to
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19
PUDDING In History.

Pudding In its early form was made
of minced meat of some sort, we'll sea-
soned and stuffed into an intestine,
and then cooked by boiling. There are
words In many early languages mean
ing pudding, but 1t seems originally to
have come from some word meaning q
short body or inflated skin.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19
Coal.

Though wood and turf formed the fuel
of our early ancestors, Investigations
have proved that the Britons, even
prior to the Roman occupation, made
use of coal. But as 1t was possible
to utilize only such coal as lay at or
near the surface, the practice did not
make Roadway for many centuries.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-19
Has Two independence Days.

There is n country on the Ameri-
can continent, Ecuador, which actu-
ally boasts of two national days. These
independence days of the little re-
public are the 9th of August and the
9th OF October, and mark two deter
mined revolutions. the first of which
failed, only to spur the patriots, re-
voting against Spanish domination, to
shake it off, a few months later. for
ever.