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The Washington times., 1919-07-30
Dor RANprTs soKRY Now.

NEW YORK, July 3O.-Equipped
with reYolvers, masks and other
movie hiEhwaymen paraphernalia-
two negro boys tried TO hold up a
Waterman. There was a closeup in
police headquarters
The Washington times., 1919-07-30

ASK Scent FARE IN NEWARK.
NEWARK. N. J.. July 30.-The Pub
lie Service Railway Company Is seek
ing 9-cent fare as means OF wealth
ering the financial burdens that have
been placed upon them. the board q
public utilities % informed today.
The Washington times., 1919-07-30

Swift & Company's sales OF Beef In
washington, D. c., for the week ending
saturday. July 20. 1919. averaged as fol-
lows: Domestic Beef, le.4s centa--Advt.
The Washington times., 1919-07-30
U. $. WIDOW WEEDS BRITIsHER.

LONDON. July s0-At St. Peters
Church, Cranley Gardens, London,
says a copyright dispatch to the
Philadelphia Public Ledger. Henry
Arthur Bence Tower, youngest son Of
the late Percy Bence Tower. of IL
Bolton Gardens, was married. yester-
day to Dorothie Selby Smith, widow
of James selby Smith. Of Long Beach,
Cal.
The Washington times., 1919-07-30

rette is more popular than cigar or pipe
and as highly respected as either.
One cigarette In particular seems, as
the following facts show, to have won
position as Americas first choice In smok,
ing, East and West, North and South
nationwide. ~ - "a
The Washington times., 1919-07-30
and one cigarette in particular:

Each day the Nations capitol sees Q new
throng of big professional and business men
from every state In the Union.
But each day, at the Capitol Building and
at Washington's leading hotels, including the
Shoreham and the Willard, these changing
hundreds of men buy more Fatimas than amy
other cigarette.
At the big army training camps during the
war were thousands of soldiers from each
State and Territory. At every one of these
camps, Fatima was leader
In fact, at many of them Fatima was steadily
the one largest seller. And over 740 million
Fatimas were sent to our troops abroad.
The officers in our Navy come, of course,
from every part of America.
But, regardless of where they come from,
Fatima suits most of them best. Of all tho
cigarettes sold in Officers Mess throughout
the whole Navy, over BOZ are Fatimas.
The Is American men who few on the NC-1,
NC,3 and NC4 hailed perhaps from Is differ
ent states.
But of the Is men, twelve chose Fatimas
to keep them company on that long, lonely,
daring flight.
The Washington times., 1919-07-30

3OS7s1s BRIToNs DEMOBILIZED.
LONDON, July 3O.-Up to noon yes
terday, according TO copyright dis
patch to the Philadelphia Public
Ledger. 124,016 British officers and
1888, 7e6 OF other ranks had been
discharged or demobiliZed.
The Washington times., 1919-07-30

MOT only because they proved such a
IN necessity with our fighting men on
land and sea, but also perhaps because
they are the mildest form of smoking,
cigarettes have at last come into their own.
Today among young men as well as old,
plain men and prominent citizens, the ciga-
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
John Murray Properties
10 Go i'm Auction Room
Dwellings and Tenements of
Former Investor To Be Par.
titiOned bv His Heirs

Included in the next special sales day
to be held by Joseph P. Day. on Tues
day, December 2. in the Vesey Street
salesroom are the properties acquired
during his lifetime by the late John
Murray. The executors have author
lied Mr.. Day to sell these properties at
public auction to liquidate the realty
ho oldings Of the estate
They are located as follows: At 1874
East Thirty-eighth Street. three-st
brick dwelling; 1928 East Fifty-hfth
Street, fve-story brick tenement; 1O5
East Eighty eighth Street, fve-story
and basement brick tenement; south
west corner Fourteenth Street and Ave-
nue. A. two hve-story brick tenements,
with stores; 225 and 227 East Thirty
fifth Street, six-story and basement
brick tenement; 65 to Go East Eighty
seventh Street, three fve-story brick
tcnements; Ill to lis East Eighty
ninth Street, three five-story brown
stone front tenements.
Other parcels included in the sale
are 265 Lexington Avenue, northeast
corner 144th Street and College Avenue
and six adjoining parcels, 80 and Al
West Thirty-second Street, sixteen
story freproof Office building; 1929 and
1881, 1888, 1896 and 1898 Webster Ave-
nue., The Bronx, and vacant plots in
The Bronx and Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Community Houses Opportunity for Renters
To Control Rentals and Occupuncv

ments. Inc, and through this corpora
ton will be controlled and operated by
the tenants.
The apartment house cooperative
scheme is not new to this city. 1t has
already been tried out with marked
success in apartments in Gramercy
Park, in Madison Avenue and in West
End Avenue.
$4,000 the Top Price
With respect to the Concourse Apart
ments, the price will range from $4,000
to $4,000 for individual apartments,
such price being fixed with reference
to size and location. The expense Of
operating the building. including heat.
janitor and agent hire, will be borne
by the tenants in proportion to the
number Of rooms each occupies.
Each cooperator will receive a per-
petual lease running twenty-one years,
with the privilege Of renewal. and in
addition will receive stock in the Con-
course Apartments, Inc, which will in
sure his part ownership of and voice
in the control of the property. Ten
ants have the alternative OF occupy
ing the apartments under TIE rental
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
New Workers Find Homes
In South Yonkers
Wellesley Avenue Section Made
Into an Attractive Neighbor
by Small Home Builders

Wellesley Avenue has been the scene
OF considerable building activity. At
any rate, it has been the most active
section of South Yonkers. The Land
scape Realty Company, Joseph Gilbert
president. laid out the section, a tract
Of several hundred lots. The corner
of Landscape Avenue and Wellesley
Avenue, the last parcel on the market,
was taken recently by the John Nelson
Construction Company, which will erect
q dwelling there.
Mr.. Nelson. has been one Of the most
active and successful builders In the
development Of this property
Herbert W. Heath, we'll known as a
builder Of small houses, also has
bought plot, 100 feet front, on Land
scape Avenue, on which he is building
seven-room dwelling, with a garage.
S: Gray, local resident, has bought a
plot on Landscape Avenue for bun
galow.
Lanzner & Kahn, New York apart
ment house builders, have erected two
dwellings at 21-25 Wellesley Avenue,
which have been sold to August Schon-
hard and Simon Gutner.
In each Of these cases the sales of
the land to the builders and the build
ings to permanent owners were effected
through the office Of Thomas S. Burke.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

conditions or may sell the stock and
assign the lease to others.
Under cooperative ownership an op-
portunity Is given the tenant to pro-
tect himself against future rent in
creases, notices to vacate, and against
arbitrary and profteering landlords" j"
said Mr.. Brown yesterday.
:. .*a 1.-The steady increase in wages, TO-
cost Of material, indicates still fur
ther increase in rents. Cooperative
apartment houses will doubtless prove
strong barrier against this vicious
cycle of rent advances now rampant
in our city.
"Ths is our first venture In COM
munity house building. AS conditions
with respect to labor and materials
grow better we expect to put up other
apartments on the same large scale
in the same neighborhood, which is
one Of the finest and most accessible
in the city.
"Cooperative ownership in these
apartments is expressed to the fullest
extent. being similar to club owner
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Y. M. c. A. Joins Campaign
For Gown Your Own Home''

Gown Your Own Home Day" of the
National Thrift Week campaign Of the
Y. M. c. A.. next January has met with
the approval of the construction in
dustries of this country. The follow
ing is an extract from the news let
ter of the National Federation of Con-
struction Industries:
Thursday, January 20, 1920, has
been tentatively set aside as the day
on which countrywide attempt will
ge made to perpetuate the own Your
Own Home campaign as one of our
national institutions. 1t is gratifying
that the Importance of the Own Your
Own Home" campaign, in the origin
of which the National Federation of
Construction Industries played 80 prom
inent a part, should be recognized by
Chambers Of Commerce, building and
loan associations, local real estate
boards, philanthropic and other organi-
cations, many of which have no other
interest than that of the public good
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Fine Record Made
BY B. l.. Kennedy
I'm Auction Room

Splendid results OF the Ziegier PROD.
erties' consisting Of forty-one lots and
elght houses IN the ne igh borhood 81
Fourteenth Avenue and Fortieth Street.
Brooklyn: 235 lots in Flushing: sev-
enty-one lots. four houses in Babylor:
seventy-three lots at South Elizabeth:
70 lots. four houses at Linden. and 2o1
lots at Tottenviile. comprising nearly
ioVo parcels OF property in scattered
locations, l, which were all sold at the
Keai Estate Exchange Salcsroom. 1s
Vesey Street, illustrate the good dc
mand for this class of property and
the buying power when properly adver-
tised and placed before the public. and
also demonstrate the advis stability OF
holding sales in the legal saiesroon
rather than going from place TO place
and selling on the properties.
These properties were disposed Of
on three different days. from if,so
IN the morning 10 o'clock In
the evening and sold at the rate
OF 100 lots an hour. Tho total
amount for the entire sale was a1fS,..
BOO. and IN some of the locations the
prices far exceeded the most .anguine
expectations % the owners. And after
the sale Mr.. Kennedy Was heartily con-
graduated by Mr.. Ziegler and his real
estate manager. Mr.. Watson, on the
wonderful success of the sale.
Again last week at the sa'esrocfr
Mr.. Kennedy had scheduled for the
James Rufus Smith Estate q number
OF interesting sales. The corner OF
Broome and Greene streets. a six-storv
building on plot 6O.4xloo. was sold
through the auction advert sing at pri-
vate sale for 1928 0oO A plot on Prince.
Crosby and Lafayette Streets. on which
stands the old residence Of ex-Presi-
dent James Monroe. went for $4,000
An apartment house at ss-s6 Grove
Street, running through TO Sheridan
Square. was sold at private sac through
advertising for S5l.25O
On the same day thirty Ave lots II,
fonkers were sod 20 single purchasers
at $3.50. and thirty-Av acres az
Nh'tNstone landing Borough Of
Queens. brought s124.500, making thu
to.a OF ss33 500 for the day, or ST.
1874 300 for the week
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Noyes Company to Have
Building of Its Own
Buys lib William Street for Exclusive Home: VIII
Mean S25O,OOO Investment; Business Increased
From 100000 to S5O,OOO,OOO in 22 Years

The Charles F. Noyes Company 10 70
have building Of its own. In less than
quarter Of q century the business Of
this concern has grown from one of
the smallest to one of the largest in
the city. The last report Of the COM
pany showed transactions totalinv
s5o'ooo,ooo. When Mr.. Noyes started
out for himself back in April, 1898, his
prospects were very limited. There
was no market such as the current one
TO encourage him. He entered the
neio because real estate was something
mat folks had to have. and he decided
tnat time would establish him in the
district. In measure Mr.. Moves was
not wrong in his reasoning, because
time has established him as an expert
IN the downtown field.
First Office in Beelman Street
His first Office was a small one at 81
Beekman Street. Small as il was II
was too large for the immediate needs
OF his concern, as the firm did only
100000 worth of business the first
year.
few years later the business moved
to 81 Cedar Street, where it remained
until the property was purchased by
the Mutual Life Insurance Company
for the Harvey Fiske Building. The
Noyes Company was the first tenant to
move into the Wyllis Building, at 80
William Street, in April. 1903. where
the business has steadily grown until
it now occupies an entire office floor.
The company has specialized in man
aging, renting and selling downtown
real estate, and has been actively iden-
tilted with many Of the important
transactions in the fire insurance and
financial districts.
Means $25o.000 Investment
Mr.. Noyes has bought for the use Of
his company the six-story building at
118 William Street. His investment in
this building will be $4,000. His
company will occupy two or three of
the floors of the building and lease the
remainder of the space for insurance
purposes.
Other prominent real estate firms
which own their own buildings include
Joseph P. Day, Horace s. Ely & Co.,
Pease & Gilman, Douglas L. Gilman
& Co, Slawson & Hobbs. Earle & Cal
houn and L. j. Phillips & Co.
Men Who Make the Noyes Company
Associated in the active management
Of the Charles F. Noyes Company are
Fisher P Weaver, Frederick B. Lewis,
William B. Falconer, Joseph d. Cronan,
Francis W. Gridley, Edwin c. Benedict,
Stanley K. Green, Walter J. Cashel,
Charles F. Heller, William ]. O'Connor,
Thomas Christie, A. B. Himmelmann
and Thomas D. Mcbride. The agency
department of the com pany Is under
the control of F. S. Wllert. NJ. E.;
N. NJ. Kerr, NJ. E., and II. s. Ford.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Yonkers Market Reflects
Demand for Houses
Broker Reports Many Transfers
in Dwelling Ownership in
Neighboring CITY

Fl. W. Sullivan, of Yonkers, has sold
for Captain George Russell his resi-
dence on Park Hill to II. B. Land; for
Ely Bernays his estate, Park Hill, to
Alfred c. White; for Harry Maxwell
his modern brick apartment at 12-14-16
Highland Avenue to John Robertson;
for Mrs. Morrow her estate on High
land Place to E. H. Owles, of New York;
for e. Petrucci his two family house
in Glenvale Avenue to Mrs. j. McDav-
lit; for Harold Lockwood his residence
on Lowerre Summit to F. A. Zittman:
for Peoples Savings Bank, house 35S
South Broadway to Vincent Griece; for
James Coogan to William Gully house,
S64 South Broadway; for Frank No.
wicki, residence on Park Hill to j. II.
Ross; for Mrs. Sunderland, two family
house, 1868 Palmer Avenue, to j. Par
tow; for DR.. Mccormick, three family
apartment to DR.. Longworth, $40 South
Broadway; for Mrs Novel. 76 Living
ston Avenue, residence to DR.. McCor-
mick; for Mrs. Small, three family and
store apartment, 223 South Broadway,
to r. Iseman; for E. Becker, residence
to Dr.. Belcher, 10 Radford Street; for
Howard Capp, two-family house, SO
Post Street, to L. Loring; for J. F. Cur
ran, business property on South Broad
way to Al Fauser; for Harry Wood
house, residence, s Halcvon Place, to
Robert McKenna; for Mrs. Barker, resi-
dence on Pinecrest Terrace to u.
Dean; for Mrs. Meyers, residence on
Park Hill to H. Grey, and for Mrs. Car
men, residence on Park Hill to J. n
Rose.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

Community-planneda apartment houses
are fast gaining prestige in New York
City as we'll az elsewhere in the United
States. The opening Of the Concourse
apartments on January /, under the CO.
operative scheme, will, 1t is stated by
It's builders, contribute in a substantial
manner toward the solution Of the
much discussed housing problem In this
city.
These apartments, which embrace the
atest in apartment house design and
appointments, cover the block on the
south side Of 1881 Street, between
Grand Concourse and Creston Ave-
nrs, in The Bronx. The building fronts
on three streets: 1t Is of stone and
nrick construction and when com
pleted will contain sixty apartments
f three, four and fve rooms each.
tenants Will Operate House Indirectly
Tho Coneourse Apartments are being
crected for the Sterling Realty Com
,epy by the Bethlehem Engineering
Corporation, Floyd Brown president
With its completion the building will
De transferred to the Concourse Apart
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Fron'iscuous Construction To Be Curbed in Ne,rark
AS Safeguard to Health and Wealth of City

tory to health for folks TO locats IN
factory districts. Since it Ia the motive
Of the coming and building restrictions
to preserve the health as we'll as tho
wealth OF the city, preferential rights
give rise to reciprocal responsible
ties, no class Of building being free to
pc constructed tn any and every Sec
tion Of the city.
Four Use Districts
Four classes Of use districts ara pro-
posed for Newark, namely. resident.
business, industrial and heavy indus
trial districts.
Buildings In residential districts may
DO used as dwellings and teneme nts,
lodging and boarding houses. hotels.
churches, schools, Libraries and public
museums, hospitals and sanitariuma.
private clubs, philanthropic and elee,
mosynary institutions, railroad pas
senger stations and nurseries and green.
houses. Garages for more than five
motor vehicles are not permitted ma an
accessory use.
In business districts garages. except
after q public hearing by the board Of
appeals; blacksmith shops, horseshoe-
Ing establishments, milk bottling and
distributing stations, carpet and bag
cleaning establishments, coal Yards.
lumber yards. car barns, junk yards
and those trades and industries that
are prohibited in an industrial district
are excluded.
The business districts in a general
way embrace the principal thorough
fares traversing the different residence
sections Of the city and those
tenement house districts which have
been so badly invaded by business as
to make it impracticable to maintain
them exclusively for residence pur-
poses. Due to the large number of
factories already there, the downtown
business section could not be treated as
business district. The only exception
to this rule is found in the case Of
Broad and Market streets, which it
was deemed feasible to include IS a
business district.
In an industrial district buildings
may, as in q business district, be erect
ed for any use that is not categorically
excluded. The trades and industrie 3
banned are all Of a noxious or Of
fensive character by reason of the
emission of noise, odor, dust or gas,
embracing, among others. boiler works.
acid plants, garbage incinerators,
foundries ,smelters, slaughter houses,
stone crushers and tanneries.
The industrial districts include large
| areas outside of the meadows and are
found chiefly along the railroads, the
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16
Brooklyn Apartments
Bought by Investors
Four-Story House in Bergen St.
Changes Ownership, Dean
Street Flat Sold

The Bulkley & Horton Company has
sold 1O42. 104s, 1850 and 1854 Bergen
Street, four-story eight-family apart
ments, on plot t52x125. for Adaline
NJ. Snedeker to client for investment.
Lloyd Winthrop Company have sold
for w. T. Whitman $50 and 1872 Dean
Street, a fivestory, modern apartment
house, on plot 50x100 feet.
The Realty Trust has sold for Artec
Realty Corporation the apartment store
building at 1866 Gravesend Avenue to
Frank Guerra, the present tenant.
E. T. Newman has sold the two
family dwelling at 240 Windsor Place
for Carl ]. Osterlind
The Meister Builders have sold 1872
Tenth Street, two and onehalf story
brick one-family house.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

A curb is to be placed on the height
and use Of future Newark buildings.
Tho committee which was appointed to
study zoning and building heights for
Newark has made tentative report
which will be taken up soon by the
city fathers, as Newark Is fully aware
York has been an object lesson for
other cities. It was not the flrst to put
into effect segregation Of construction
and occupation Of premises, but It was
the first great city to give the plan the
test which proved to all the inestima-
BILE value Of the scheme.
Segregation in New York 10 about
two years old. Damned at the outset.
It has come to be regarded as one OF
the most constructive measures given
by any municipal administration in this
city for many years.
Soon after the operation Of tho plan
here Newark decided that haphazard
construction would be the ruination of
the aesthetic and economical develop
ment of the city Of 1t were not stopped.
Investment could not be expected or
invited in city wMere the economic
life OF a building was in constant
jeopardy because builders could build
what they wished and anywhere they
wished and the manufacturer could
locate his plant anywhere he cared to.
Similar to New York's Plan
The suggestions Of the Newark COM
mittee are based on the zoning plan in
operation in New York, with variations
that will suit conditions of topograp ply
and economy peculiar to Newark. Four
height limits are suggested by the
committee, the highest being $50 feet.
1t also recommends that entire dis
tricts be restricted to certain height
limits irrespective of the width of
some of it's streets, the only exception
to this provision being the downtown
business districts.
Wide streets are traffic arteries and
feed the narrow streets leading into
sections, and for that reason should
not be permitted to be lined with
buildings that top others, except in thu
downtown business district of the city.
While man can establish his home
in any section of New York he pleases
under the New York building heights
and restrictions, the Newark commit
tee would not permit it. If business is
restricted, so are residences. Tene-
ments in factory district are him
drance and interfere with develop
ment. The committee holds that since
it is not good for the health of dwell
ers to have factories in proximity to
their homes, it is equally deroga-
New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

the construction of higher buildings
than this for several reasons. First,
Newark is peculiarly fortunate in
topography. It has abundant space for
the lateral extension Of the retail sec
t,on--it does not need to extend ver-
tically. Secondly, there are az yet
only three buildings in the city that
exceed a height of $50 feet.
OF the 125foot height districts there
Is also but one. This is a district in
the meadows which appears suscep-
tible Of large warehouse terminal de-
velopment, but which does not require
a greater height than ten stories.
The eightyfoot height districts en-
brace the great bulk of the industrial
areas in the city. as we'll as those
available for the erection Of six and
seven-story buildings.
The fifty-foot height districts con-
tain those areas which seem to be
destined for three and four-story
apartments.
The thirty-f1ve-foot height districts
are confined to those ighborho oods s
that should be protected so far as pos
sible for one and two-family houses.
To absolutely prohibit the erection
of towers in Newark, it was felt, would
be a mistake. They lend variety to
the skyline and embellish a city as
few structures do. A single Wool
worth tower instills more civic pride
than hundred giant skyscrapers
occupying the entire lot.
The proposed zoning ordinance
therefore. permits towers Of any
height subject to two conditions: U)
That they occupy no more than rs per
cent of the lot area, and (2) that an
open space be provided above the
height limit fixed for buildings in the
district on each and every lot line that
is not also street line. In other
words, towers are allowed on the street
line, but not on the property line.
Four classes of area districts are
proposed for Newark. In each district
the size of the courts and yards re-
quired is made to vary with the height
Of the building
The A districts are designed espe-
cially for business and factory build
lngs requiring outside light and ven
tllation; B districts are those in which
apartments and tenements are to be
built; G districts are for detached d
houses, and D districts were consti-
tuted to afford the maximum protec-
ton thought possible within constitu-
tlonal limitations to such private house
districts IS Weequahic Park. Clinton
Hill and Forest Hill. Apartments are
not excluded in D districts.