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Evening star., 1919-04-29
ORGANIZATION ACTIVITIES.
TONIGHT.

TONIGHT.
Maj. Oliver P. Newman will address
a mass meeting Of citizens at the
Park View School at s o'clock
Washington Philadelphia district
assembly of the Pentecostal Church
OF the Nazarine will begin it's annual
session at 4th and East Capitol
streets.
The community and civic center de-
partment of the public schools in CO.
operation with the Y. NJ c. A. will
hold IAN evening of Indian art at The
New Central High School at 3.l5
O'Clock.
Polymnia Society and the Euterpe
chorus will hold a joint rehearsal at
I:4e CLOCK in the evening in the
parish haii OF the Church of Epiphany
on G. street
George Washington Unfversity's
prize speaking contest will he ut s!,s
o'clock in the evening in the assem-
ply hall of the Arts and Science
building.
DR., w Z. Burghardt Du Bois. editor
o. The Crisis. will speak before the
Eethel Literary in the Metropolitan
~ NJ. T. Church at o'clock.
Maple sugar party will be held by
the Vermont State Association at 5
o'clock at the University Club.
Phi Beta Fraternity will hold a
smoker at the chapter house, 325 T
street northwest. at O'clock
Alpha Sigma Lambda Fraternity
will hold its spring dance at Dyer's
1517 X street.
Business Women's Council of the Y.
w. &. A. will entertain the nurses of
Z Walter Reed Hospital at I o'clock
Proctor Bible class OF HamIfne NJ
u. Church will install officers at the
church.
Charles w. Homan will speak to
members of the Mission Club of the
- FIRST congregational Church at 8
O'Clock.
Washington Council knights of
Columbus. will celebrate its 22d anni-
versary at the Dewey Hotel.
Emory NJ. f. Church South will hold
A. entertainment at 6100 Georgia
avenue.
George W. A. Atkinson will speak
before the Get Together Club Of In
gram Church at 10th and Massachu-
setts avenue northeast at o'clock
Supt Herbert w Kline will speak
at O'Clock at the Gospel Mission.
:ii216 John Marshall place. on stories
The Rainbow Boys Told Me"
Dance under the auspices of sew
":aI divisions of the Ancient Order of
1iibe:Hians and Ladies' Auxiliary at
immaculate Conception Hall, Sth and
y streets.
TOMORROW
Dr George :. Duncan, Assyriolo-
Eist and Egyptiologist. will speak at
the home of Mrs. John Lowe 1922
Noodley place.
Director John Barrett of the PAN
American Union will address the Dis
I"t"t Commandery of the Loyal Leg
ion at $50 in the afternoon
opening in series of lectures on the
art of good dressing. at O'Clock in
the afternoon at the Wilson Norma
Community Center.
Evening star., 1919-04-29
A." E. APPOINTMENTS.
Selections Made for Washington by
Bishop Williams.

Bishop r. S. Williams, at the clos
ing SESSION. Sunday of the Washing
ton Philadelphia A. NJ. Z. conference,
which met in Baltimore. made the fol-
lowing appointments for Washington
Rev. G. T. Long. appointed for his
twelfth term as presiding elder: Rev.
Sam B. Wallace, reappointed to Israel
Metropolitan; Rev. NJ. L. Breeding, to
Miles Memorial, and Rev. A. w. Wo-
mack, to Lane. Rev. }. A. Handy was
elected secretary in charge of the cen
tenary and interchurch world move
ment for the conference.
Evening star., 1919-04-29
STAG HOTEL

BU4-tW-US .fh street
Best ROOMS in city. Parquet
floor; steel ceilings; shower
bath, toilet and iavutory; tele-
phones; French windows;
writing tables; metal lockers:
Ahoex shincd while you sleep.
etc. Everything sanitary. Sl.Oo
to S:.5c per day. Special
weekly rates k00k EN- over.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

TAKE BELL-ANS BEFORE MEALS
and see how fine good digestion makes you feel.
advertisement
Evening star., 1919-04-29

committee on war activities will
speak on the work of the X. of c.
during the war and the attitude of
the organization toward after-the-
war problems, At Monte Maria Acad
emy' Richmond, Va. on May l.
pOItc officials arc trying to estab-
lish the identity of a colored man
who was killed by a railroad train
near Ivy City Sc ,cral days ago.
among his effects was found Il brass
ta.5 marked IT. p. c. Co.-No. 667."
When Shaffer ArranEes the. Flowers
weddings are always beautiful. SEQ 14th
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

For All Social Functions
weddings - dinner parties - order
Guides fresh-cut flowers. 1914 F.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

The Young Mems Protective League,
of which w. Stephen Fuller is presi-
dent has drawn up resolutions ap-
proving the efforts of President j.
Stanley Durkee of Howard Univer-
sity. in reoreanizing the work of the
institution and extending the curriculum.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

The Mary Baldwin Alumnae AsnO-
citation will meet Friday afternoon at
O'Clock. with Mrs. Charles Happier,
1901 Connecticut avenue. Mary Bald
win girls will be" welcomed.
Denis A. Mccarthy of the Washing
ton Office of the knights of Columbus
Evening star., 1919-04-29

DIR. w. +. Burghardt Du Rois. editor
OF The Crisis. will speak before the
Eethel Literary in the Metropolitan
y. NJ r. Church at O'Clock.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

The audubon Society held its Sec
ond spring outing last Saturday at
Dyke, Va. Fifty-seven species of
birds were observed. The third walk
of the season will be next Saturday
and members will meet at the Mount
Vernon railway station, 18th street
and Pennsylvania avenue, before $40
am Persons interested are invited
by the society to become members.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

Phi Beta Fraternity will hold a
smoker at the chapter house, 325 T
street northwest, at s O'clock
Evening star., 1919-04-29
TEACHERS UNION
MEETING SUCCESS
Few Chapter to National
Body Every Other Day,
Miss E. Smith Says.

The campaign recently launched by
the National Womens Trade Union
League and the American Federation
OF Tea achers, both of which are af-
filiated with the American Federation
of Labor. seeking to bring about
compact organization of all teachers
in the public schools of the country. is
meeting with success far beyond the
hopes of the promoters. Miss Ethel
Smith of the union league says.
Seventy Chapters Now.
A new charter every other day has
been the result since the campaign
was started. giving assurance that
within a short time all of the public
school teachers of at least the big
centers of population and industry
will have a local of the teachers
union established. To date. it is
stated. there have been seventy char
tcrs issued for new unions from coast
to coast.
Miss Smith. discussing the aims and
objects of the organization. said
The aims of this vigorous young
national trade union organization OF
educators are characterization of the
schools and fair working conditions
for teachers. Various school boards
have lately exhibited their autocratlc,
iliiberal attitude on public questions
TO the extent of actual persecution OF
teachers and the attempted suppress
sion of free discussion in the schools
Evening star., 1919-04-29

Dance under the auspices of sew
s-al divisions of the Ancient Order of
Hioe-uians and Ladies Auxiliary at
Immaculate Conception Hall, Sth and
y streets.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

George Washington Unfversity's
prize speaking contest will be at 81 :
CLOCK IN the evening in the Assem-. .
bly, hall of the Arts and Sc;enna
building
Evening star., 1919-04-29

George W. A. Atkinson will speak
before the Get Together Club Of In
gram Church at 10th and Massachu-
SettS avenue northeast at S o'clock
Evening star., 1919-04-29

Washington Council. knights of
columbus. will celebrate its 22d ami
versary at the Dewey Hotel
Evening star., 1919-04-29

Emory NJ. f.. Church South will hold
A. entertainment at 6100 Georgia
avenue.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

Supt. Herbert w Kline will speak
at O'Clock at the Gospel Mission
:ii-2l6 John Marshall place. on Stories
The Rainbow Boys Told Me"
Evening star., 1919-04-29

Maple sugar party will be held by
the Vermont State Association at
O'Clock at the University Club.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

Alpha Sigma Lambda Fraternity
VIII hold its spring dance at Dyer's.
1jI7 X street "
Evening star., 1919-04-29

Business Women's Council of the Y
W Z. A. VIII entertain the nurses of
Walter Reed Hospital at I O'Clock.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

Polymnia Society and the Euterpe
Chorus will hold a joint rehearsal at
E4e o'clock in the evening in the
on G. street
Evening star., 1919-04-29

Charles w Homan will sneak to
members of the Mission Club of the
First Congregational Church at 8
O'Clock.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

Proctor Bible class OF Hamline NJ
j. Church will install officers at the
church.
Evening star., 1919-04-29
TOMORROW

Dr. George :. Duncan, Assyriolo-
Eist and Egyptiologist. will speak at
the home of Mrs. John Lowe 1922
Noodiey place.
Evening star., 1919-04-29
Wash. Dancing Academy
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121S New York Ave.
Only up-tordate dancing academy south Of
New York: teaches all the latest steps. Pri
vate lessons any hour. 75c. Phone Frank. I5'i
for appointment. Open am. TO IL pm.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

The community and civic center de-
partment of the public schools in CO.
operation with the Y NJ c. A. will
bold ''an evening of Indian art" at The
New Central High School at 3:l5
O'Clock.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

ington will meet at the Wilson Nor
NAL Community Center. 11th and Har-
ward streets northw est Saturday
evening at $50 o'clock. A perman-
ent society is being organized and all
Kansans are urged TO attend the
meeting. Meetings are the first and
third Saturdays of each month.
Evening star., 1919-04-29

TONIGHT
Maj. oliver P. Newman will addre IS
a mass meeting Of citizens at the
Park View School at o'clock.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09
BRONX HOUSES CHANGE HANDS.
Grimm Sells Them to Operator
who Turns Quick Profit.

Daniel G.. Griffin made qulckNresalc
yesterday of fourteen of the sixteen
apartment houses erected in the Hunts
Point section by the American Real Is
tate Company. and purchased about three
weeks ago by Mr. Griffin from the Usona
Construction Company, Immediately
upon the completion of the transaction
the new owner. Max Mindlin, rcsold
seven OF the properties. The properties
cold by Mr.. Griffin to Mr., Mindlin are
known as 1884, 1898 1042, 1916, 1850
and 1854 Lowell street: also 114l, ISL,
1859 and 1863 East 165th street and
1914, 1918 and 1852 Longfellow avenue.
Mr., Mindlin resold to Aaron Miller n
builder, fve OF the houses comprising
the block front on the east side of Long
fellow avenue. between Lowell and l65th
streets, occupying aARite 200xSO. He re-
sold to Harry Rosen the two inside
houses at 1851 and 1855 East 1G5th
street. I>eitner Brener and Starr were
the brokers in all the transactions.
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WOULD LIFT HEAVY
BURDEN FROM REALTY
Legislative Tax Committee
Ready With Relief Bills.

Following a conference in Albany yes
to-day between the executive committee
OF ;hc Real Estate Association OF the
state of New York. and Senator Daven-
port, chairman of the Joint Legislative
Committee on Taxation, senator Daven-
port announced that the members OF his
committee had constantly in mind the
TACT that rear estate was bearing the
burden OF taxation and that they were
codeavorinE to find ways and means
which would result in some relief to real
estate owners
The report of the Legislative commit
tee, which will appear during the COM
.ng week. is expected to include bills for
a personal income tax. business cor
poration tax and u low rate on person.
atty.
Sepator Davenport said he realized
that there should be some flexible check
upon the states expenditures and that
an exhaustive study OF budget systems
and plans adopted by other States would
be provided for. lie was convinced
that check on expenditures was an
essential part OF any plan of relief from
tn" burdens Of excessive taxation.
Speaking for the Real Estate Associa-
ton Of the state of New York the ex-
ecutive Committee advised Senator Dav-
export that the association was on
record in favor OF an income tax that
would Ice repetition, as far as possible,
of the Federal law, with a low exemp-
ton and n low rate. the State to levy a
percentage tax on the basis Of the re-
turns made to the Federal Government.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09

ough President Van Name and was out
lined TO the transit committee by LouI-
l.. Tribus, chairman of the subway COM
mittce and president of the Staten Isl
and Char:hAr of Commerce. The pro
po sal Submitted by the delegation read
in part:
"The Staten Island subway commit
tee, representing every locality and
every element of the CitiZenry Of Rich
mond Borough, respectfully urges the
Board OF Estimate and Appointment
70 grant the request made by the prcsl-
dent Of the Borough OF Richmond for
a survey of a route for "A subway to
Richmond borough and to direct that
such survey or surveys include the
direct route from Manhattan To ami
th:1SNh SLatsssK and ..s~
I'm making this application the
Staten Island subway committee cX-
presses the unanimous wish and the I'M
divided judgment OF the people of
Staten Island that such a subway would
be to the greatest advantage Of the
city at large and of the borouGhs Of
Manhattan and Richmond in particu-
lar"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09
BROKERS CLOSE DEAL
ON MADISON AVENUE
Sell Verona Apartment House
Worth SI,5O0,000.

Douglas L. Gilman & Co. have
Just closed series of transactions as
acgatug nearly 100000 in value
They have sold for the Verona Holding
Go poration the Verona apartment house,
32 last SiNty-fourth street. southeast
'story 1uIdIng OF tL.. highest tyne that
arigin1'-H cost in IN neighSornood Of
$780, 900.
The building, which Won prize from.
the Architects League for its beauty Of
design. contains two apartments on each
loor which are all rented, producing an
income Of approximately $4,000 an
nually.
Some of the prominent tenants in this
house include the Hon. Charles r.
Hughes, Gen. Samuel 4. McRoberts Of
the National city Bank, William H.
WoOdiu. Noah &, ROGERS and Charles
a. Dana. The property was sold by the
same brokers to the present owners for
Clarence Payne about a year ago.
Douglas l.. Gilman n GO. have also
sold handsome country place at Lew
ellyn Park, y. j., which has cost the
present owners to date over $500. 600.
Near by is the residence Of Thomas \.
Edison.
The same brokers have also sold for
Mrs. Matthew VI. Looram her handsome
country place on Davenport Neck, West
chester county. n brick mansion stand
ing on "A plot Of five acres fronting on
Long Island Sound. This property cost
in the neighborhood of 1850 900 ana has
been purchased by the seller of the
Llewellyn Park property for occupancy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09
RENTS BLOCK OF FACTORIES.
Motor Company Leases i'm Ave.
buildings to q. }. GUIDE 60.

The Chevrolet Motor Company through
the Cross 4 Brown Company, has leased
to the q, j. Guide Company, at an ag-
aregatc rental of $ioo,o00, the group Of
factory buildings covering the entire
block front, 20OX250 ON the east side Of
Eleventh avenue, between Fifty-siNth
and Fifty-scNcnth streets, for a long
term of years.
The buildings have floor area in cN-
cess of 100000 square feet ANA were
originally erected by the Linen Thread
Company, The Chevrolet company seN-
cral years ago leased these buildings.
and after making extensive alterations
used them for their local assembling
plant.
The attorney for the Chevrolet COM
pany was John -, Smith and for the q.
j. Guide Company Stcfcl 4 Stelnhaus
The Overland Service Building directly
opposite, was sold last week by Cross
X Brown.
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lance from the main house that II could
In no way obstruct the view.
AS we'll might an assessment against
the Woolworth building he reduced on
the testimony OF an expert who would
be willing to state that the tower was
blemish to the skyline of New York, an
yycsore that decreased the property by
ten tines the amount it had cost" argued
Mr.. Moran.
Henry s. Clarke. another of the Ward
experts, he said, had previously during
condemnation proceeding valued the
Wykagyl property, which adjoins the
Ward property. at $4,000 an acre, but in
tcstifyiug in the appealed case had
valued some Of the Ward property at
s1."G0 and some at $1,000, although
both the Wykagyl property and the
Wa~I e tate adjo.n each other and bon
are on the sam" Kind Of land and were
originally part Of the same farm. such
testimony. he asserted was prejudiced
ara worthless.
In its opinion everything the decision
e the roferee IN the Ward case the Az
pellate Division says In part:
There are two undsputed facts an
ptaring I'm the record which do not ap-
pear TO US 10 have been duly considered
by the REALTORS experts, the referee or
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09
CITY OF NEW ROCHELLE SCORES IMPORTANT LEGAL
POINT IN ITS FIGHT AGAINST WEALTHY TAX DIRECTOR
l. ost
Heavily Through
Reductions OBJ
tanned by Big Es-
tates in Past, Of
ficials Say---Will
Appeal All Cases
Now

ing to the value OF the estate the court
rejected the theory propounded by one
Of the Wperts for the Ward heirs, that
improvements do not as a rule add their
cost TO the value OF the property"
THE contrary" says the court. "ts
clearly the general rulo. namely, that i'm
provements do add to the value at least
their structural cost. although there may
be instances where they do not. as where
some rich man, Jones, for instance,
builds a mansion in an entirely inappro-
pirate locality and It comes to be known
throughout the neighborhood as Jones's
Folly
No Evidence of Poor Judgment.
I'VE had case OF that exceptional
sort before us q few years ago where in
q poor part of the city of Middletown a
man constructed at great expense fine
mansion utterly inappropriate to its sur
roundings. There is, however. in this
record no evidence to warrant the in
ference that this is any such instance"
The court stated in its opinion that 1t
could not doubt that the REALTORS could
have proved the cost of the improve
ments II they desired to
although these expenses had been go
recently incurred" the court continues.
mo exact proof OF them was made. Tho
executor as their own witness and at
tempted to prove by him the facts. but
he evaded the matter. processing igno-
rance, which does not appear likely. We
think the estimate OF 100000 is con-
servative.
ut is inconceivablo that n business
man like the late Mr.. Ward did not leave
data from which the cost OF the inn
provements so recently made and which
IL III 1saaN hrfn
or four years. could not have been ascor-
tained by his executors"
Ward Lawyers Look for Victory.
| Frederick H. Seacord OF the law firm
| of Young. Seacord & Richie. attorneys
for the Ward estate and for many OF
| the other tax objectors, when asked II
he had any comment to make on the de-
cison OF the court, stated that ne felt
confident that his clients would win
when the case was retired.
'In our opinion" he said, "the assess
rent was excessive. and / feel confident
that when the case has rehearins II
will he proved that we were right.
you TO doubt realize" he continued,
! that when a man makes expensive i'm
provements TO handsome estate Hike
those made by Mr.. Ward they are made
! to suit his own ideas and they would
! nov have the came value to another man
as they would to the man who conceived
, and executed them.
In regard to the death transfer mat
ter, as l recollect It. the figures men
! toned were in the nature of n compro-
mise. made al the time the value OF the
real and personal property was being
| APPRAISED. and the figures do not repre-
sent the real value OF the property, but
ere III excess. feel sure that when the
case ~ retired any apparent inconsistent
Cies in the testimony will DO explained"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09

Island real estate men are enthusiastic
over the islands future as the home of
high class residential apartments. They
declare that Staten Island offers the
logical solution to the problem now con-
fronting thousands of New Workers of
finding place to live.
TT is bound to come" said Louis w.
Kaufman of the Staten Island Chamber
of Commerce yesterday. Never have
real estate prospects in the borough
looked better than they do at present.
The building shortage and the lack of
sufficient dwelling spaces In Manhattan
IL causing hundreds of men and women
to come here in search OF homes. Every
day we have more applications for
rentals than we can take care Of Many
finding II impossible to rent homes 10
their liking have purchased property
here"
Mr. Kaufman declared that in his
opinion no part Of the greater city Of
fered better opportunities for homes or
apartment buildings than Staten Island
When che proPass' subway helSx II
Manhattan and Staten leland Is com
pleted." he continued, IA man living in
St. George for instance. could go from
his home to the heart Of downtown New
York in ten minutes or less Then, in
deed, the island win have come into its
own.
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the Special Term. The first of these two
imrortant. undisputed facts is that on
October 1916. the REALTORS took the
usual proceedings to have the State
death transfer tax on the estate de-
teiin!npd, and therein presented TO the
TEX TraI sfcr Appraiser of Westchester
COUNT the affidavit of an expert Sc
lected by them, which gave the value
Of the property al $4,000
Did Not object to Transfer Tax.
Their application based thereon for
| the fixing of the tax was filed in the
| office Of the clerk of the Surrogate's
Court on May 3. 1877, and the tax was
fixed accordingly and no appeal was
taken. Indeed the leading relator here
made IN that proceeding his own lfti-
davi. to that valuation as of October
| Is, 1915, the date of death.
| THE original papers in that proceed
! Ing were produced from that Office and
were offered In evidence by the de-
| PENDANTS counsel and appear to have
| been excluded by the referee. mistakenly.
as we think. Evidently there is
! something wrong somewhere. We th!nH
| that the transfer tax proceedings, being
the voluntary action of the REALTORS,
should nave been received in evidence
| against them.
| The second important undisputed
fact referred to above is that il Is plain
from the proofs that during the four
years 1911 to 1915 the testator spent
not less than 100000 in improving the
property, which, with the initial cost
OF the farm in 1911, made the cost Of
the property, all incurred within a com
paratively short time before the assc 81
ment. exceed $4,000, zoe.
There is nothing in the evidence OF
I in our common knowledge 10 indiCa t.
, that in the years between the death of
the tcstatOr and the assessment there
had been any general depreciation in
the value of such property in that 10.
cality. Indeed. we have In many In
stances in other cases, sustained a lind
ing that the new railroad through that
locality has tended to a general enhance.
ment of wealth"
In speaking of the improvements add.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09
HOME Of the LATE
ROBERT 3. WARD on QUAKER
RIDGE, NEW ROCHELLE.

ceedinrlv beautiful in a section noted
for Handsome homes The land IS on
Quaker Ridge road on the outskirts of
New Rochelle and commands a won
derful view OF Iory Island Sound to
tho south and cast and of a very At
tractive rural territorv in other direc.
tions Tbo ,ronert, cops.sts Of aftv-
s,ght acras which has heen innrnved
With shrnhbsrv sunkep GARDENS and
o,har add;,ions
Tha bo,,sa i,sa,f oo,.,rs oo,si,Io-,b1o
--a,,oa "a nta,,,s tu.o,t,-sioht ,on,,s,
So,,.ii,e- LII. - Lt,i,arI 80, . -
~, hns,,, -, a. ,,,.o,.a",;o, -,.s,
-. p.u'' " - ,,,-,'o'',,,.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-09
BOARDS PLEDGE SUPPORT.
Rack Labor Department in Gown
Your Home" CAMPAIGN.

Ten thousand members of the va
tloual Association of Real Estate Boards
are pledged To- cooperate with the own
NOur own home branch of the build
ing campaign now being carried ON by
the Federal Department OF Labor
Assurance of this aid has been given
by Tom :. lugeTsolL secretary Of the
association. which has lent raul q.
Nlrphy. the chairman OF its own your
own home committee. TO IN. depart
Urut's Information and education SER
Nicr for work with the public works and
yurslructisn-e'", division
Nj Murphy, who is president Of the
Realty Board of Portland, ore, has been
carrying on an own your own home
campaign iu the West and before lcuV-
ing Portland made plans for the build
ing of nifty homes