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New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Business Home Buying New
Development i'm Central Zone
$23 OOO, 900 Invested in Four Months in Lofts and
Mercantile Buildings by Tenants in Central Ier.
camille District; New Business Locating There

Home buying by business concerns
current for months in the financial and
other centres of the lower end of the
city, is developing in uptown trade Sec
tlons. 1t is estimated that in the last
four months twenty-three loft and
mercantile buildings in the central
mercantile district have been purchased
by business concerns and other buyers
Central Mercantile Association esti-
mates the investment in realty IN this
section in four months at 30 600. coo.
Among the largest investments made
are:
The National Biscuit Company pur-
chase from the Bradish johnson Estate
or ITS chelsea plant, occupying two
blocks, bounded by Fifteenth and Six
teenth streets, Ninth and Eleventh ave
nues, and assessed by the city for taxa
ton purposes at 3,30SOO0 The Bedell
Company purchase of the eleven-story
building formerly owned by the Sus-
quehanna Silk Mills, at 1922 West
Eighteenth Street, extending to Seven
teenth Street, for 1,25O,O0O Frederick
Brown purchase of the eleven-storv
Cluett Building at % West Nineteenth
Street, for 100000. The Greenwich
Savings Bank sold So Fifth Avenue. a
thirteen story building, northeast cor
ner of Sixteenth Street, for 5000 600.
DR.. Parkhurst's Church, Madison
Square, bought by the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company for $500 900.
The Albermarle Building, northwe st
corner of Broadway and Twenty fourth
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
bronr Residents to Commemorate VaIor and
Patriotism Of Boys With $500, 600 Clubhoust

To commemorate the valor, sacrifices
and patriotism of the men of The
Bronx who served i'll the war against
Germany and her allies a great ganite
building IS to be erected Oh a site OF,
Grand Concourse and Boulevard at a
cost OF 100000, including the land. II
VIII be club building. the rendezvous
OIL the men who carried the fear of the
might of America into the hearts of
Europe, friends as we'll as enemies. 1t
Will be the sanctuary of TIE fighting
men of the northern borough, and ac-
coiding to the plans prepared by Major
w Wlillam r. Deegan, associated with
Htarret q Van Week, it Will be one of
the tnest and most appropriate monu
ments planned to-. commemorate the
late war. ''0
Parks. fountains and squares have
oeen built and laid out in honor of the
men OF the American expedi5ionarv
,orce, put the Bronx memorial. mem
ncrs OF the Bronx Chapter of the
american Legion say, is much more in.
'lnate ana means more 70 The soldiers
and sailors and marines who were in
service.
Inc idea for monument IN the form
OF club building was suggested 10 the
leeloh py MAJOR w. I. Wright, chair
man ma OF the county committee, and
MAJOR Deegan. The suggestion was
puC 70 vote, and it proved the most
popular of the memorial schemes.
me accompanying perspective is
1il 1nat OF the memorial building designed.
ne exterior is to be entirely of gran
,te and limestone. The names Of the
oattles in which the various units
atugHs ~ VIII be inscribed on the pylons
at elther side OF the doorway, and the
insignia of the divisions modelled in
lfieze- Ihe building is to be 100 feet
~lae and $50 feet in depth, and is to be
located on selected site
h. me ,,t:,i first floor of the building is to
be utli'zed by the various post rooms.
,oorse room, ana reading room and trophy
aoom' On the second floor will be an
a9gdtltorium, occupying the entire area ca
~ 'ne building. The basement will be
used as billiard and game room.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
$2,000,000 Loan
For Apartment
In Fifth Avenue
Construction Work to Begin
Next Month on Twelve
Story Building To Be
Erected at 72d Street

A $2,o00.0OO first mortgage has beer
made by S. w. Straus & Co. on the
twelve-s story apartment house to be
erected at the north. corner of Fifth
Avenue and Seventy-second Street by
$40 Fifth Avenue, Inc, Fred F. French
president, which will represent an ex-
penditure of $3,000,00O. William A.
White G. Sons negotiated the mortgage
loan
1t was announced yesterday that finaI
drawings for the structure will be COM
pleted within a few weeks and that
actual construction will start in
August. The contract for it's construc-
ton has been awarded to the Fred f
French Company. Orders have already
been placed for steel, limestone and
other materials.
The building will be Italian Renais-
sance IN design. 1t is planned to make
this building one of the finest and most
exclusive apartment dwellings, on the
avenue. The rents, which will be in
keeping with the neighborhood and
character of the house, will be the
highest per square foot in the world
according to Mr.. French.
Douglas l.. Gilman G. Co. will have
the management of the building.
The plot contains five city lots. meas
,uring G2 feet on Fifth Avenue
by 172 feet on Seventy second Street
running back 1912 feet in the rear. An
interior driveway will provide a shell
tered approach to the entrance foyer
at the central part Of the building, and
pedestrian entrances are planned i'm
mediately off the sidewalk.
The French company, having made
exhaustive studies of the probable re.
qulrements for the neighborhood, is
drawing plans which will provide ten
simplex apartments and seven duplex
apartments, ranging from fourteen tc
nineteen rooms. A typical apartment
provides private elevator lobby lead.
ing to the reception foyer, off which is
living room 2Ox38 feet, the library
and the dining room.
on private gallery arc four maste,
bedrooms, ranging from 14x1S feet tc
17X23 feet, with two baths and one
combination bath and dressing room
There are five open tireplaces, a huge
linen closet and cedar closet in each
apartment.
Service elevators and service halls
lead to the service section, consisting
OF kitchen, rantry, srvants' hall and
SIN servants sleeping rooms. Additiona
servants rooms and private laundries
are planned for the roof.
The French company estimates that
the building will cost $1,75O,OOO.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

present site of St. Georges Protestant
Episcopal Church and Seventeenth
Street, now the site of four DWELLINGS,,
and zoo feet of frontage on Seventeenth
Street was sold for $2O,4OO by Gerard
Stuyvesant to James Foster.
Gerard Stuyvesant, Hamilton Fish
ana Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, who was
Daptised "Stuyvesant Rutherfurd." re-
celved the farm from Peter Gerard
Stuyvesant.
before Peter Gerard Stuyvesant died.
however, he decided to the city. Sen
TEMPER ~, 1886, for $5, the plot now
known as Stuyvesant Park, on con
dltlon that the city should fence in.
pant improve and maintain the park;
ana also to create Rutherfurd and
Livingston places.
He suggested that the area of thc
park be called "Holland" SQUARE, The
city finally compromised on "Stuvye-
SAINT Square. The park will revert
10 the Stuyvesant heirs if the area is
ever used for any other purpose.
IN 1904 James Fosters widow sold
TO Thomas. Morton and David C. Moore
head, for $25,75O, plot SOx17O. at the
southwest corner of Rutherfurd Place
and Seventeenth Street.
The first transfer of the corner with
a dwelling was in 1856, when Camilla
D. Gerard of Montgomery, Ala, paid
$ls,5o0 for it. Two years later, in
1905, the corner was sold to William f.
Brooks for $4,000
The Civil War had no good effect ON
real estate. particularly residential
property. because III 1862 Thomas Mor
ton bought it for $4,000 from Sheriff
John Kelly Prices went up with the
coming of peace, and in 1866 Mr.. Nor.
ton received s22,70O for the corner
from Frances c. Dudley In 1868 Mrs.
dudley sold to Katherine c. yelling
for $4,000. In 1874 Mrs. Welline
sold to Lucius Horatio Biglow for
$27.500. Lucius Horatio Bielow sold
to Susan Ann Biglow, in 1876, for $40
900, including all personal household
effects. ~
In February. 1894 Anna E. Lvon be
came owner at $4,000; in April, 1894,
Frank Raub took it subject to mort '
gage, of $4,000, and in April, 1902, the
Raub Estate turned the property to
DR.: David D. Jennings. at $4,000.
In 1913 the first mortgage of $50 600
was foreclosed and the property bid in
by the mortgages for $4,000. The
mortgages were Howard WiIlets Of
!MaisYsa,cShusetts, s. &C R. G.. Hoyt and Frank
L. Hall as trustees of J, Macy Willets,
who sell the property to DR.. Appel
John n. Scheier is designing tn,
alterations. WV
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
TO Locate Business Near
Homes of Employees
Book Concern to Move to
Brooklyn Where Most of
Its Help Live

That some New York City business
men are finding it better to locate their
plants where their employees live .
reflected in the purchase by The Ameri-
can Law Book Company of large plot
in Flatbush Avenue, Willoughby and
Gold Streets, Brooklyn, from the
Realty Associates, and J. w. McManus.
Plans for three story Office building
to be erected on the sites are now be-
ing prepared by r. H. Quinby, archi-
tect.
G. W. Dumont, president of The
American Law Book Company, said.
"Our principal reason for abandoning
our location in Manhattan was because
we found upon investigation, that three
out of every four OF our employees
lived in Brooklyn. We also found it
possible to buy site having three
frontages and a large amount of
ground for far less money than we
could have purchased a similar site in
Manhattan, not nearly so centrally
located. These are the considerations
that led us to purchase the BROOKLYN
site, and resolve upon improving it
with the plant for our sole occupancy.
The ground floor will be divided into
stores"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

Police Commissioner to
Relieve 9th Ave. Traffic
Factory Workers and Vehicles
Will Be Kept Moving; Plaza
at North End Considered

Traffic conditions on Sixth Avenue,
for many years intolerable, are to be
improved. Police Commissioner En-
right promised this to the Sixth Ave
nue. Association last week. The asso-
citation has been agitating this for
many months, in addition to a num-
Der of other betterments along the
avenue. Commissioner Enright told
the Sixth Avenue owners and store
keepers that he was in sympathy with
their fight and would do everything
within his power to improve condi-
tions.
Crowding Of sidewalks by operatives
at noontime and vehicles in the road
way will be stopped. Groups of men
and women, workers from the factories
in the cross streets, will not be per-
mitted to stand as now and block the
sidewalks. Instructions will be given
to the police to see that gatherings be
broken up and every one kept moving
Traffic policemen will give more con-
sideration to Sixth Avenue and will
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

ity as clearly as if the two homes were
physically separate and miles apart.
Each owner has his strip of lawn
to attend to and his garage to care for
and his walk to sweep and keep in re-
pair.
OF course, an agreeable neighbor is
essential in a duplex house, because
Mr.. Neighbor may decide to paint his
side a color that would DESTROY the
appearance of the entire house. That
seems to be the one defect in the ia.
cobs house, since it is q frame house.
The plans show a substantial physi-
cal division, sufficient to keep out the
noises Of the family in the house next
door. The rooms are large. There are
seven in each house. On the first floor
are the living room, dining room,
kitchen and pantry, and on the second
floor three bedrooms and bath and
linen closets. Then there is an ample
porch on the first floor of each house.
The entire structure covers a site
81 feet wide and a. feet deep, and cost
$4,000 when built, in the spring of
1917. Scopes & Feustmann designed
the house, or houses.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

Street. sold at reported price Of s..
325,00O. The Downey Building, at 10
East Fourteenth Street, has been sold
for s250,000. Gimbel Brothers have
ingpurchased their department stor.
building for a reported price OF $780,
900.
Schrafts' Confectionery Company
purchase OF 47-49 West Twenty second
Street. The premises will be used to
enlarge their present plant at West
Twenty-third Street. and the twelve
story Townsend Building, northwest
corner of Broadway and Twenty-ffth
Street, has been sold. The building is
assessed at S1,120.000.
The Hat Trade Coming 10 Section
The New ENGLAND Panama Hat Com.
pany has purchaserd the twelve-story
Braender loft building at 26 West
Seventeenth Street, between Fifth ard
Sixth avenues 1t was held at s5OO0O0
The firm is now located at % West
Fourth Street. and was unable 10 OBJ
tain additional required space.
The removal Of this firm vii prob
ably result in a general exodus from
the Fourth Street neighborhood Of
large number OF the hat manufactures
located in that territory who require
more space, which Is not available.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Long Island Loses Its
Historic Summit Hotel
Building Where Washington
Stayed Said To Have Been
Built 277 Years Ago

The historic Summit Hotel, at Hemp
stead, which is said to have stood for
277 years, can be looked at in the future
only in pictures, for last week the
razing of the famous Long Island land
mark, which was one of the chief at
fractions of the village, was started.
The building is known probably from
one end of the country to the other
and is one of the hotels where George
Washington really stayed during the
Revolutionary War. 1t was occupied
as headquarters by both Continental
troops and the British.
When the old walls were torn down
the butt end of an old Revolutionary
musket and an old cannonball were
found.
The building was used in its early
history for town meetings and later
was the post hotel for changing horses
on the stage coach running between
New York and Southampton. The
Meadow Brook Hunt Club, when it first
came into being, held its meets in
front of the old hotel
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
James A. StilIman Adds
~ Acres to Estate
Said to Have Paid S92. .0OO e.
Property, Known as Wilson
Farm on Bedford Rood

James A. Stillman, ne banker =.
bought the Wilson farm, consis.in, -. =.
ninety-two acres, on the Bedford W..
and adjoining his estate. The ss,s 49,.
made by Broker Henry R. LOunsbsrrr
for the Briarclif Realty Comus.r
This tract was held at $4,000
Preston Herbert has added .o,.-
three acres to his farm on Chappsop,
road. He bought the realty from 4.
Briarcliff Realty Company. Il was sbsn
at 1000. The Briarclif company sI.o I.a
sold to Wilbur K. Hitchcock. Of Alsr
dar, Mass, the Colonel Wood plac,
consisting of nine acres and builddins,
This property lies on the BedtorS
road, and was formerly used in con.
nection with the BriarclifF Farm Ds;ry
The sale was made by George How
1t was held at S15.OOG
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Owner
Shows Interesting
Improvement ON
a TwO-F mily
House Plan With
Saving of Expense
on the Materials

Although this Morristown house Gil
not come within the scope of The
Trlbune's Suburban Home Contest, it
suggests an idea that might be capital
lied with wonderful success by builders
at this time of home scarcity. At low
cost Philip P. Jacobs has provided liv-
ing accommodations for two families,
and in Morirstown, one of the prettiest
and finest towns in the metropolitan
district. Instead of dividing the build
ing horizontally, the builder has lat
eral division which seems to be su-
perior to the usual up-and- -down-stairs
plan of homes.
1t gives each family all the privacy,
all the conveniences and all the COM
fort that go with the individual home
and which cannot be had in the home
spread out on one floor, no matter how
spacious it may be.
Lateral division permits the owner
or the tenant to "go upstairs to bed"
and "come downstairs to breakfast"
The neighbor is not met in the hall or
on the porch or in the yard. Nor are
tenants reminded who cut the lawn
last nor who bought the last coal for
the furnace in the cellar.
Like Two Separate Homes
The Morristown house pictured
above permits two families to live un-
der the same roof without coming in
contact, and therefore eliminates the
possibility of disagreements which are
bound to occur between tenants when
one lives above the other and part of
the house is common ground for both.
In the two-family house where the
apartments are arranged one above the
other the family upstairs, for some
reason which is hard to explain, as
sumes a superior air and is inclined
to think that the family downstairs is
responsible for the appearance of the
house and the grounds about it,
The Jacobs plan divides responsible
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

been carried developed lot of discus
sion, at that time, as to the safety of
such construction, and for a long time
many folks, in this city and other
parts Of the country, expected, event
ually, that the building would fall.
The Sun Building was erected by
the American Tract Society, which
owned the corner and considered the
intensive development of the property
as wonderful investment. 1t was a
good investment for number of
years, but competition was keen and
the newer buildings received the call.
Several years ago the New York Life
Insurance Company, which held So
100000 mortgage on the building, as
sumed the management of the prop
erty. Finally, action was brought to
foreclose the mortgage and the fee to
the big structure was then passed
over to the insurance company.
When "The Sun" and "Evening Sun"
became tenants of the building it was
with the understanding that it be
named the Sun Building, the newspapers
being the largest tenant, occupvinp ali
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Mountain Lakes Park
Feels Demand for Homes
Launching Bull d ing Pro.
gramme Calling for 100
New Dwellings

Evidence of the extent of the demand
for homes is to be had on every hand.
This is as true of the suburbs as of the
city The developers. of Mountain
Lakes Park announced that on last
Sunday five dwellings in their develop
ment in the New Jersey mountains
were purchased chiefly by residents of
Manhattan.
Charles H. Chaplin, of the Sun Oil
Company, bought $4,000 dwelling on
Pollard Road, and Ewood B. Smith, en-
gagged in the printing business, signed
contracts for a Groom house on Boule-
ward East, which has been in the
market for $500.
The Mountain Lakes Park Corpora
tlon has come to the conclusion, based
on the demand for homes at Mountain
Lakes and throughout the entire sub
urban section and on the fact that there
will be no Improvement this fall in the
housing situation in the city, to build
many more houses.
The construction of 100 houses will
be under way soon at Mountain Lakes.
central section. They will contain
seven rooms and more, and will cost
from $1,000 to $11, 900
The remaining construction planned
viii be in the main subdivision and
IN the small estate section.
r.. l.. Kilby, sales manager, said
that that company would have no trou-
bic IN. accommodating a demand call
ing Tor a much greater number of
homes because the company has on
hand great quantities of material
bought at a time when prices were
normal.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Sun Building ON Nassau St.
Involved i'm Realty Deal
Syndicate Reported to Have Closed Contracts With
New York Life Insurance Co. for Purchase of
Tall Building Built by American Tract Society

Ownership Of "The Sun" Building, at
the southeast corner of Nassau and
Spruce streets, formerly the American
Tract Society Building. is soon to be
transferred by the New York Life In
surance Company to new interests. 1t
was said yesterday that the sale had
been consummated but the comptroller
Of the New York Life Insurance Com
pany, who has the matter in hand,
could not be reached.
A syndicate, reputed to be financially
strong, has been formed to buy the
property at price said to be less
than $2,0OOOOO One story said that
The price was Isl 100000 and that $780,
600 had been paid over in money for
the building.
The Sun Building is TWENTY-FIVE
stories high. 1t is one of the first
skyscrapers to be erected in this city
and for many years the ST. Paul Build
ing, at the junction of Park Row with
Broadway and the Nassau Street struc-
ture, were the most interesting sights
to visitors to New York. The great
height to which these buildings had
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
|ZRS]. .HooR 2Z AN

the subsurface space, the first four
floors and the tower section of the
building. The building is now prac-
tically rented from top to bottom. The
space which "The Sun and Evening
Sum- will vacate next month will be
taken up rapidly by small concerns.
The newspapers are moving to the
old Stewart Building, in Chambers
Street, at the north end of City Hall
raIk, which Frank A. Munsey bought
about two years ago.
The Sun Building has frontage of
100 feet. in Nassau Street and 97.2
feet in Spruce Street. 1t is the last
of number ia llof downtown office
buildings taken over by mortgage
holders in the last five or six years
to be returned to strong interests.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Stuyuesant Square Political and Realty
History Recalled BY Old D,veHing Sale

The southwest corner of Rutherfnrd
fiace and Seventeenth Street has been
bought by DR.. Herman N. Appel, who
VIII alter the house, the lower part for
use in his profession and the unper
part into living accommodations. AL
though the property has been out of
the Stuyvesant family for many wears.
the sale of the corner to DR.. Appel. and
his intention to alter the house, which
has stood since 1855, brings back a
chain of "reminiscences which are his
torlcal and interesting to real estate
men, because of the fiuctuation in the
value of that realty.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17

AT the outset it was part of the old
Petersfield Farm, the suburban home of
Peter Stuyvesant. When the British
came in the latter part of the seven
teenth century, Stuyvesant moved to
his farm in the country and gave the
rest of his days to the planting and i'm
provement of his farm. "St. Marks
Church in the Bouwerie" perpetuatcs
the little chapel which the study Gov
ernor erected on his farm.
According to Joseph S. Weinberger,
who searched the title for DR.. Appel,
the corner left the ownership of the
stuyvesants in 1849, when the eighty
feet on Rutherfurd Place, between the
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Joseph P. Grace Rents
Dwelling i'm East 10Th 6,

Pease & Gilman have let, furnished
for J. Woodward Haven, his residence
the five-story English basement dwell.
ing at IS East Seventy-ninth Street,
between Fifth and Madison Avenues,
to Joseph P. Grace, Of the well known
banking firm.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Prudential Life to Helm
Jersey Home Builders
Announces 1t Will Entertain
Mortgages on Property in
Northern Part of State

Being aware of the acute housing
conditions existing in the Metropolitan
District, and having found the demand
for loans on residence properties in
the Northern New Jersey very large,
the Prudential Insurance Company an
nounces its readiness to aid those wish
ing to secure homes by entertaining an
pllcations for mortgage loans in the
northern part of New Jersey, when
presented through its Home Office in
Newark. NV ll
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
John A. Weekes Estate
AT OYSTER Bay Sold

The John A. Weekes estate property
at Oyster Bay, comprising 106 acres,
with large frontage on the Oyster
BayCold Spring Road, adjoining the
estates of Mortimer l.. Schiff and John
A. Blair, has been purchased by John
A. Carver and Acosta Nichols. who
have large estates adjoining. The
property commands fine view of both
Oyster Bay Harbor and Long Island
Sound. Henry T. Dollard was the
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Sells Realty Once owned
By Sir Peter Warren

John c. Barkley of John f. Barklcv
4 Co.. handlers of specie for the United
States government, Mas sold the three.
story and basement dwelling on lot 2,6x
l29.7. at 1870 West Eleventh Street 10
Mrs. d. NJ. Grilis, who viii remodel
and occupy. The abstract of title show :
ownership direct from Sir Peter War.
ren, admiral of the British navy in
New-York tribune., 1919-08-17
Flushing Resident Buys
Home at Whitestone

-. Albert Johntra has sold for
ahomas C G. Bell, of Bayside, the dwell
ing al 80 twelfth Street, Whitestone.
L; Ii, l., to Mary kistner, of Flushing
Inc mouse Is on a plot 50x10O con-
" the rear of the property.