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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-02
JUDGE WADE ON
Fl KING OF RATES
He EmphaticalIy Declares for Pub
lie Utility Commission In Iowa
to Take Care Of All
such Matters.
AN IMPARTIAL DECISION
That Can Not be Given when City
Council Sit as Judges and are
Themselves Interested
In Outcome.
AN IMPARTIAL DECISION

| In deciding the case Of the Mount
Pleasant gas and electric company
and that city about what is a proper
rate for that particular public utility
to charge its customers. Judge Martin
Wade went deeply into the whole mat
ter of public utility rates.
He is thoroughly convinced that the
whole system in Iowa Of letting the
i city council, really one side to the
controversy, decide what any public
utility shall be allowed to charge for
it's merchandise, is wrong.
The remedy Is in the Iowa 1egfsla-
ture, he intimates, which should es-
blish commission to attend to all
such matters Of controversy between
cities and public utility companies.
Part of the opinion in the Mt Pleas
ant case, filed with the clerk OF the
federal court at Keokuk is as follows:
What Wade Has Learned.
IF the next legislature in Iowa does
nothing else but provide for a public
utilities commission for this state, 1t
will render a positive public service.
The rate problem in this state has
become intollerable.
council should not be compelled to
carry the responsibility Of fixing rates.
No man is so honest that he should be
a Judge in his own case; yet under
the Iowa system, that is in effect tIst
is required. Every member Of city
council is personally and officially
one Of the parties to the controversy,
where dispute arises. He is acting for
himself and for his friends and con-
stituents when he is fixing rate.
Such a system cannot help but lead
to constant controversy. This in no
manner reflects upon the integrity, or
the ability of members of city coun-
ellis. 1t simply expresses an element of
human nature which impels US all to
view things from our own standpoint,
and we are all more or less uncon-
sciously Influenced by our own inter
ests."
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-02

New York City saloonists scent the
drought six months in advance and tie
far seeing are converting their bars
Into soft drink parlors and tagging
soda fountains asslife savers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-02

Wayne Wenner. teamster of AL
lentown. Pa. found gold watch and
chain dangling from the tan of his
horse His explanation is that the
horse caught its tail on the watch Of
ia bystander and whisked it out of
his pocket
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-02

Complaint was made to the fue
committee at Midd.eboro, Ind. thaa
steam had been turned on unnecea
sarily to heat a local building As
matter of fact. no fire had beef
started, and the heat came through
large glass windows from the sun
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-02
The Approaching Heaira.

washington Post: If few govern
nent officials will kindly remain on
ms side of the Atlantic to look after
routine business while the president
: away the public may or may not be
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-02

The tiniest of all republics is ST
Gcust. with an area of barely ons
square mile and population of 13t
persons. 1t is situated in such al
inaccessible part of the Basses
Pyrenees that it has never beef
worth the trouble of the surrounding
powers to interfere with it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-02
Keeping Dynamite Around.
Arkansas Gazette:

Whenever you find
A man treasuring up
Love letters written
In more than one handwriting,
You find g bachelor.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Agreement Marks elimination of Move
ment to Free City's Best Shopping
Section of Expensive Nuisance

as against the rentals of 81 and 50 mos:
Of the manufacturers are paying now.
Mr.. kanne- said: 1T didn't take VI
long to discover that we could buy
property from Seventh Avenue west.
ward for ST00 a foot instead of the
$1,000 foot asked in and around Fifth
Avenue. We are going to put up tou,
sixteen-story buildings. and every mar
who comes in with US will receivs
equal treatment.
I'VE are going to leave Fifth Avenu.
leave it a beautiful shopping center
When | look down Twenty third Stree.
to-day and see what q wreck it is. i
isn't difficult for me to picture vhs,
Fifth Avenue would have been il v.
hadn't arranged to get our fac.oris,
out of there in time. We wrecked
Twenty-third Street. We didn't do i.
Intentionally, but we did it, neverths.
less, and because we were forced 10 By
circumstances we couldn't control.
with a 50-cent rental for the gar.
ment manufacturer the lady Hho buy
his products is going to find that each
garment costs her from 81 to S7.2S lsa
han she has been paying As look h
it, everybody ought to be happy Ow
this coming change
Mr.. Burton, in speaking of the organ'
ization in 1915 of the Save New Yurs
Committee, said that because Of the in,
fiux of manufacturers into Fifth Ave.
nue., property along that street from
Fourteen to Thirty-third street in q
comparatively brief period had d.
creased in value about 100000 900.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

men began to Shift our trade into the
Fifth Avenue district, between Twenty
third and Forty second streets. Hav-
seen fit to raise rentals from 81 a
square foot to 50 and So a square foot.
1t was time for us to do some real con-
structive work. The first thing l did
was to get an able lieutenant, Mack
Kanner, Of the dress trade. We worked
out the idea of cooperatvely- owned d
buildings for the trade and then called
together fifteen representative manu-
facturers. Mr.. Hammer sold them the
idea in five minutes. To-day we have
sixty of the largest manufacturers
signed up to go from Fifth Avenue into
four buildings soon to be erected, and
with q total floor space Of 100000
square feet.
THE concentrating center Of Amer
lea is to be erected in seventh Avenue
There is room to expand there. We
can grow westward. We are going
to relieve the retailers of New
York City of great congestion. We
ters for our workers. More sani-
tary, better equipment in buildings
comfortable restrooms. The garment
manufacturers appreciate New York
City and they have grapsed. in a most
liberal way, this opportunity to aid
New York"
Mack Kanner, who is a big man in
more ways than one, explained that
| rentals in the Seventh Avenue buildings
would be about SO cents a square foot
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
FIFTH AVENUE Will LORE noon *
O 7z5 AVENUE RevELo7MEW7~ E@A

would be able to buy for 81 that which
she pays S6.75 for now. Mr.. Singer
said the overhead, rents and the loss
due to congested workshops must be
carried by the person who wears the
garments manufactured.
viii Reach to Eleventh Ave. Eventually
The prophecy is made that the
needle colony will eventually extend
west from Seventh Avenue to Eleventh
Venue. covering a belt several blocks
wide north and south of the Penn
sylvania Station. 1t is one of the
great industries Of the city.
The colony will serve as a model to
other trades and other cities. The
removal of factories from the rear of
the immediate Fifth Avenue will break
down the barrier which has held the
retailers strictly to Fifth Avenue.
j. II. Burton, chairman Of the Save
New York Committee, was host at a
dinner at Delmonico's last week at
which he, Mr.. Singer. and Mack Kenner
dress manufacturer and Mr. Singers
lieutenant, explained the cause. the ef-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Folks May as Well Prepare for Higher Rentals Since
Present Income Is Not Commensurate Will, 1nxes,,o+

above all. agree to deliver a davis work
3or days pay, it will be some time
oe1orc the so-called "housing problem"
OF New York can. or will be solved.
Small Group Blocks Construction
The housing situation in New York
Is IN very. much the same position
as the soft coal situation promised
TO develop into-where small group
was endeavoring to determine for this
nation whether the wheels of industry
should continue to revolve. and wheth
many people should keep warm or
freeze during the winter of 1920.
80, IN the building trades, approxi-
lhateiy ioo,o00 workers-colnpar paratively
a small part of the population Of
New York-are practically determining
whether the people of greater New
York shall have sufficient housing
1acllltlcs, and how we'll they shall be
housed W
The plumber. carpenter, plasterer,
GAMER, fe DI,cKlayer, etc, must decide
I0r himself whether he is part of
tnls community, or whether he is part
OF state within a state. and who
from unknown sources, can ALWAYS
oraw wages in excess of the value of
their work and In return, therefore.
render services of limited efficiency
A determined effort on the part of
the government to bring about a
change Of attitude on the part of labor
IN the building trades, and to en-
able a building to be finished without
strikes, at cost known to the CON
tractor before he begins his work. will
40 more for the housing situation than
any state aid or any effort which can
be made by any single individual or
group OF persons, having at heart the
welfare of the resident Of greater Now
York. -'o"
Car Fares Bearing on Construction
AT the present time, with 10-cent
1ares enforced in many parts of the
suDuros and no transit facilities in
otner sections, the tendency towar I'd
concentration in the already thickly
populated districts promises to become
more and more intense until it shall
develop INTO source Of actual peril
to the city at large.
A uniform fare, at q rate which will
enable the transit companies to serve
and develop all parts of the city is
most Important to the realty interests
ana to the population at large.
Another item of the utmost impor.
tance is the prevailing rate of in
terest on Brooklyn mortgages, This
now approximates per cent and the
supply of money is not fficient
This condition can only be relieved by
the passage of the bill now pending in
Congress, by which mortgages up tc
$4,000, and held by an individual. shall
be exempt from all income taxes
! Mortgages at per cent cannot com.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Rockaway Sportsmen to
Build Home COLONY
Hunt Club Members Buy Burton
Tract, Valued at $l,OOO,GOO,
for Residential Park Site

Pease & Gilman have sold for the
X. l.. Burton Trust a tract of about
12o acres at Woodmere, L. l., living
between the Rockaway Hunting Club
golf grounds and Hewlett Bay Park
and bounded on the north by the
estates of James A. McCrea, Frederick
II. Hatch, James Timpson and Edward
L. Smith, and on the south by Wood
mere Bay.
The property has been subdivided
into plots of from one acre up to about
nine acres by Charles w. Leavitt. land.
scape architect, and will be offered
tor sale subject to certain restriction
which are appropriate for the deyelop.
ment on high class residential prop.
erty. f0f
The purchasers are the Brewers
Point, Inc. and the stockholders OF
this company are we'll known members
OF the Rockaway Hunting Club, includ.
ing Sheppard G. Schermerhorn. Aupu..
tine j. Smith, W. R. K. Taylor, George
F. Hurd and Lawrence B. Gilman.
The property was held at abou,
81 100000.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Construction Work Is
Gathering Speed Rapidly
l17To Increase in Volume of
Work Under Way; 349%o
in Investment

An increase Of $40 per cent is shown
in the value of permits granted for Oc-
tober, 1919, compared with October. 1918.
according to reports received direct from
city buildings departments by Building
Age" New York. Out of 1870 cities re-
porting, 179 show increases. The total
amount of construction for which per-
mits were granted during October, 1919.
totals $l65,525,316; for October. 1918
the total was S36,835,322.
The percentage of increase in the
number of permits granted is 1T per
cent, this giving a more conservative
view of the greater activity this year
owing to the increased cost in building.
The average value of the permits granted
during October, 1919. was $3,653. COM
pared with $1,766 for October. 1918.
when government regulations were in
full force.
Eastern cities show gain Of $50 per
cent, 50 out of 70 cities reporting in
creases; Middle States cities report q
gain of 7l9 per cent, So out of IS cities
reporting increases; Southern cities
show an Increase Of 500 per cent, 81 out
Of 8S cities reporting increases, and
Wsstern cities show an increase Of 121
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Monroe House
ToBe Replaced
By a Factory
Last Home of the Great
American President Is
Bought by Envelope Max
ers for a Building Site

The last home of James Monroe,
fifth President of the United States
and author of the Monroe Doctrine, the
dilapidated building at the northwest
corner of Lafayette and Prince streets,
is not to be preserved for posterity.
The historic but very much neglected
building and the two other buildings
on the block, there as long as the Mon
roe home, are to be removed soon to
make way for a twelve-story factory
building.
The buildings were purchased by
Joseph Cronin, of the Charles +. Noyes
property held by Bryan l.. Kennedy
on November Is to liquidate the estate
which had held these landmarks for
many years. Mr.. Cronn said at the
time that he had made the purchase
for client Of the Noyes Company and
expressed the belief that the land
would be utilized for a commercial
Improvement.
Previous to the sale, and since then,
there have been many rumors to the
effect that the corner building would
be saved and turned into museum by
patriotic citizens and admirers of the
great American President.
According to an announcement made
yCStSAuay ny tHc NOycS company inc
property has been sold by the interests
for which it acted at the auction sale,
and that the c. 4 NJ. Envelope Company
was the new owner OF the property.
The brokers further said that the pur>
chase was made for speedy building
Improvement, as the needs of the COM
pany demand larger space than it now
has in the building at the southeast
corner of Pearl and Elm streets.
President Monroe spent his last days
with his daughter and son-in-law in
the old mansion. 1t was in those
days fine residential section.
Mr.. Monroe had passed the age of
great activity in the political field
when he came to the Prince Street cor
ner to live. His occupancy of the old
house Is commemorated by bronze
tablet on the face Of the building.
In the basement a rag shop is located
and a carpenter has the use of the
upper floors.
When Monroe lived there the house
was not on a corner.
The site taken for improvement con-
tained 10000 square feet fronting on
Lafayette, Prince and Crosby streets.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

feet and the remedy for the daily con-
gestion in Fifth Avenue and the diff
culties surrounding the development of
the needle trade factory district idea
to representatives of the press. In in
Producing Mr.. Singer, Mr.. Burton said !:
"Fhe cooperative movement Of the
leaders of the cloak and suit manufac-
turers to erect buildings for their own
use in the vast unoccupied area west
of Seventh Avenue so that they may
have permanent homes for the further
development of their industry and re-
duce their cost of operation enables
the Save New York Committee to an
nounce that practically all these manu.
facturers,, now located in their present
center. between Twenty third Street
and Thirty. third Street, will remove
their factories.
"They have been influenced by a de-
sire to dc everything in their power
for the city Of New York. They did not
consider that it was proper for their
crowd of workers to obstruct the thor
oughfares of Madison Avenue, Fifth
Avenue and the adjacent side streets.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Pay or Freeze, Terms
Of Western Landlord

The Northwestern Bank Building,
Portland, Oregon, Is making changes
in it's lease forms. Paragraphs 15
and 16 Of the covenants will read as
follows:
(15) 1t is further understood and
agreed that should the lessee be in
arrears in rent, the lessor in that
event and during such delinquency
shall not be required to furnish the
lessee any Of the facilities of the
building which rre ordinarily fur
nished by the lessor.
(l6) 1t is also mutually agreed,
in the event any action or suit is
started for the collection Of any
rental or any part of the rental Of
said premises as provided by this
lease, the lessee shall nay in addi-
tion to such rental such attorney
fees as the court may adjudge rea-
sonable to be allowed in such suit
or action.-Bulletin Building Man
ayers and Owners Association of
New York.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Buyer for Costly
Dwelling at Fifth
Ave. and 18th S.
Property Taken Over b!l
Sellers in an EXCHANGE
for Hotel Leonori; Big!
Demand for City HomesI

John J. and Thee eodore A. kavanss'
have sold for the Park Realty Company
Macmillan Morgenthau president 10
client Of Harrington, Bigham & Englsf.
$50 Fifth Avenue, southeast corner ''
Seventy-eighth Street. a six-st0H
dwelling, on lot 25.Sx1oo After e., =.
tenslve improvements the buyer WEI
occupy the premises. The sellers . s',
CURED the property in exchange w
the Hotel Leonori, southeast corner %
Sixty third Street and Madison AYR
nue., about year ago.
Tenant Buys Corner House
William A. White & Sons have ss's
Tor the estate Of James Russell to tas
tenant $50 st. Nicholas Avenue, 70,
northeast corner OF 129th Street. ans
3o3 West 129th Street, a dwelling ana y
garage, on lot 19x12J. Peter Gilsey I
60. represented the sellers.
Part With Madison Avenue House
Goodwin g. Goodwin and Kurs
Uren have sold for Lucy Webber J0e
dan to Nathan Himovich the tnfss
story private dwelling at 1871 Madls0
Avenue, on lot 1Sxl00. This is the nf'
sale of the house since 1887.
Dwelling in Seventy-third Street so'
yelling & Koelble have sold for b.
mis- & Sinnott ia West Seventy-tna,ss
Street, four-story dwelling, on lot-'
1922, to f. Stella.
New Owner for Fifty-seventh St. Hos'
John l. Downey has sold his res
dence at 43 East Fitty-seventh Street.
four-story house, on lot 25xl00.
Lexington Avenue Dwelling SOLD
Horace S. Ely & Co. have sold y y
the estate of James Lawrence ~ y,
keever l64 Lexington Avenue, on
19.9xS0.
Operator Buys in Ninety-fifth Sire
James II. Cruikshank has purchass::
from John F. Makley, as executor. !.
West Ninety-fifth Street, three.sto'
dwelling, on plot 208x100. o. u. MAUI
was the broker.
Upper Fifth Avenue Sales
Kutz & Watkins have sold fer !, y
Morris estate the two five-stcry OUR
ings at 2205 and 2207 Fifth Avenas y
This is the first sale in twenty.s.
years. The buyer. the Feinstsin sss' ~
Company, will make extensive ai''''
! tions. -
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
"This cooperation will not only in
ure the future Of the entire district

"This cooperation will not only in
sure the future Of the entire district
from Twenty third Street to Fifty
ninth Street, but it will make the Sew
enth Avenue section, which is now
practically vacant, the greatest whole
sale commercial district in New York
and will place these manufacturing in
nent plane. This will guarantee that
New York will remain for all time the
manufacturing center of the needle
trades for the United States.
"All those who have any pride in
New York City owe debt to this
group of farsighted manufacturers
whose enterprise has made this great
shifting of the factory centers possi-
Bile and without whose aid the Save
New York movement never could have
succeeded"
The Save New York Committee has
an associate membership that includes
large majority of the department
stores and ready to-wear merchants
throughout the United States These
out of town merchants have a definite
interest in the removal of the garment
manufacturers from their high priced
lofts to comparatively owned buildings
in Seventh Avenue. 1t means that
every garment they buy from the man
u1acturers will cost from 81 to 81 less.
Blames Real Estate Men
Saul Singer in his talk said:
For long time the cloak and suit
industry has been a football Its good
name has suffered greatly and it has
been hurt in the eyes of retailers and
consumers. But during the last two
years it has made great strides toward
eradicating old evils, and much is due
to cOOpe ration.
"Originally the trade was located in
lofts in Grand Street, and gradually it
began to move up from Canal to Twen.
ty-third and Twenty-fourth streets.
Then some irresponsible real estate
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07

pete with municipal bonds at approxi-
mately the same rate, as all municipal
bonds have the advantage of being
exempt from income taxes, and ali
other taxes.
This condition, having been created
by the legislative powers, should be
relieved before realty is imperiled.
This can only be brought about by al
lowing the exemption of certain
amount of mortgages from income and
surtaxes: Such legislation would tend
to popularize mortgages, and to re-
duce the rate of interest on the en-
tire outstanding mortgage indebted
ness.
The housing situation needs sensible
reconstruction ideas. 1t does not re-
quire any entrance into the building
business on the part Of the state.
Money must be drawn into the
mortgage market by the reasonable
exemption of interest from income
taxes. This is the first step.
Houses cannot be built without
money, and labor, to do its part, must
amend its rules and it's ways SO that
it shall be safe to build after the
necessary building funds have been
obtained
New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
225 New Homes Planned
For Broadway-Flus
Work Will Be Started Soon:
S3,375,OOO Is Estimated
Cost of Undertaking

broadway-Flushing will be- one Of
the most active home building sections
IN the greater city in the near future.
Contracts 90 were signed yesterday by
the Reickert- Brown Realty COMPANY.
Louis Gold and William sugarman'
through Desmond McDonough, for the
sale Of 675 lots in Broadway Flushing
for q total of approximately s675 ooo
and the erection thereon Of FPS houses
at an estimated cost of S2,70O 900,
making the total amount involved in
the operation approximately s3.375 900,
The contract provides for the be-
ginning Immediately Of twenty-five
houses to cost s25o,ooo and the erec-
ton Of 200 houses at stated periods
during the coming year. The houses uses
Will be practically of the same type as
those now being erected by Mr.. Gold
in the Wildwood section Of BROOKLYN.
and will contain from eight to ten n
rooms with from two to three baths
49, Proposed construction will go a long
lem in Queens.