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New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

HEX; J. Monroe Dyer, whose stock farm
Is said to be the finest in this part
of the country. There are about 1000
acres in the Dyer farm 1t does not
come to the edge Of the cliffs, however.
beng chiefly west of the Boulevard
just back OF the precipitous trout.
Bought Fifty Years Ago
Part of the realty included in the
Rionda estate was purchased recently
from the heirs of Mr. Mcneil, of Smith
Mcneil. who operated d downtown
restaurant for many years. Mr. Nc
years ago, and lived there right up to
his death.
Mrs. Timken and Mrs. Crockroft
have bought at Clinton Point the high
est elevation along the cliffs. 1t is so
named because General Clinton, one Of
the British leaders in this part of the
country during the revolutionary War,
used this point as an observation place
during the fighting that followed the
battle of Fort Washington II is fully
800 feet above this hiver at this point
Fine homes are TO be erected on the
properties by TIE two women, who hail
from the West. Each has bought o
number of acres, so that the develop
ment will be rye and perhaps inter
esting. Mrs. Nmken is chief owner OF
the Rodin Studios, the large apartment
building at the southwest corner Of
Seventh Avenue and Fifty-seventh
Street.
The first house on the cliffs north
Of Dyckman Street ferry landing is
the home of MIR. Taylor, former pro
prictor OF the Martinique. Mr.. Taylor
bought this house from Mr.. Eames.
He is not spending much time there
for that reason he has placed the house
on the market for sale.
From the drawing room n view OF the
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Chance to Own BROOKLYN
Home at Your Own Price
Dwellings and Flats in Well
Located Sections To Be Sold
10 Highest Bidders

The Jere Johnson Jr. Company will
hold an auction sale Of dwellings, flats
and vacant plots in Brooklyn NJ the
Montague Street salesroom on Tuesday.
December .. The sale will be held at
8 O'Clock iii the evening, to allow the
small investor and homosceker a bet
ter chance to attend
The single family dwellings, to be
sold are at 56s Washington Avenue and
A5o Hpdson Avenue. Two ard three
family houses to be disposed OF are at
f8 Schermerhorn Street. 60 Cranberry
Street and 7S Powers Street
Flats with and without stores to be
sold are 667 and 677 Bedford Avenue,
2l3 and PIT Fiftieth Street. II Myrtle
Avenue, 514 Broadway, SO 35 Hopkins
Street, 70 Box Street and 03 Broad
way. t
Vacant lot offerings consist OF the
plot, 50Xlo0, on Gates Avenue, between
StuyvesAnt and Reid avenue, four lots
st the corner Of Fulton Street ana Yer
mont Avenue. a plot on Third Avenue,
between Ninety seventh Street and
Morine Avenue, two lots on Fourth
Avenue near Ninty-niuth Street, FIVE
lots on West Fourth Street near Ave
nue. 5, adjacent TO the Sea Beach sub
way. nine lots. including two corners.
on East Fifty-ninth Street, en- route of
the Flatbush Avenue trolley line, lot
on South Fifth Street near Hooper
BsnHnuSa
Street; lot, near subway stations, in
d2nd Street, near 18th Avenue; seven
teen Canarsie lots, 6 on Avenue l.. in
cuding corner OF East seth Street,
and eleven on East e2d Street, between
Avenue n and Sea View Avenue.
Most of the houses are rented 10
monthly tenants, and a number Of the
lots may be paid for in monthly in
stallments.
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to have large holdings there. The
Phelps and Hayes families still re-
tam goodly part Of the property
purchased by ancestors This is true
with number of other families.
Old Owners Scattered
Owners of these many acres on the
cliffs are scattered al over the world
Business requirements and sentiments
rave presented the present holders OF
much OF this property taking possess
sion or being more than passively in
tcrested in it. They own it and would
Ike to got the inhabitants out of the
land. This explains why Sc much of
this property IS in the hands OF Mr..
oung for sale.
Mr.. Young said that he could sell a
mile of cliff frontage or as much more
as one would desire Western folks
seem ohavc discovered the cliffs and
are paying the heirs OF the old owners
their price
Mrs. Cora Timken. whose family
makes the Timken automobile axle, and
Susan CrockrofC have bought large
properties on the cliffs in the last few
months. Previous to their coming John
Ringing, OF Ringing Brothers, great
est circus men in the world, came TO
the cliffs and bought She old Opdike and
Jacquet properties. totailine about l4O
acres, close up toward the Alpine Bor-
ough boundary line. Mr.. Rionda. a
Cuban sugar Importer, has secured
about 500 acres north of the Ringing
place, most of it in the last year or
two. His place is one of the most ex-
tensive devc !opmcnts on the cliffs, and
is accepted by those who are close to
The real tate situatio nthere as an ex-
ample of the improvements which will
be made at many points on the Pal
isades by those who are buying there.
Among Mr.. Rionda's neighbors are
Mr. Zabriski. flour exporter; L. l..
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HOFE ar COMMANDER GEZANo D4Ws ISM.
at ENGZ EWOOD CZLeEs. -

than toy cars and their travel may be
followed for miles. The automobile,
IKE moving glittering colored speck
rs seen gliding over the hills of West
chester, and lifting the eyes lust q
little more they come in range of the
sound, ribbon of pale blue silk, with
me hills of the north shore of Long
island as a forbidden background.
Up to four years ago all this coun-
New Workers, or, for that matter, Jcr-
seyites; The operation of the ferry
from Dyckman Street was the wedge
thet opened this area to the public.
The land at the foot OF the cliffs
from about Fort Lee north to Pier
mont, distance of Is miles, has been
secured by the Interstate Park Commits
sion as park. During the first year
the Dyckman Street ferry was in oper-
alton 100000 passengers and $4,000 au-
tomobiles entered the "a pine" country
across the Hudson.
The charm of the country has spread
quickly, judging by the heavy increase
IN the traffic on the Dyckman Street
Terry. 1t is now carrying twice as
many people as four years ago. Last
year close to 100000 passengers and
100000 autom obiles were ferried across.
Traffic this year will be much larger
0eSplte tnlS great movement the CllffS
are still an unknown country to the
many who come here. Automobiles,
even, know little about the country on
the top Of that majestic rock forma-
tion, said to be the only formation of
It's kind in the world.
Eighteen Elevated Estates
The tableland property is privately
owned. There are about 5000 acres,
most Of which are controlled by the
Palisades Real Estate Company as
selling agent or as owner. These
acres extend from the top edge Of the
cliffs back about a quarter OF a mile TO
the slope to Englewood The face Of
the cliffs and the land at the foot, out
to the water edge. is owned by the
Interstate Park Commission. Eighteen
es.ates or land interests own this great
tract of land on top of the Palisades.
Not more than a dozen houses are to
be found on the property between
Coytesvile north to the town OF Pal
isades. Thousands Of acres are within
the confines of these estates, estab-
slished there many years ago.
1t is perhaps, ten years since the last
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river is to be had for many miles. The
whole Of Westchester lies like q relief
map before ones eyes. II is a house
OF English design with large pro-
portioned rooms throughout. AS in old
English houses, there is a moat around
one side
Earl Davis, an attorney, occupies the
next place to the north. He bought it
short time ago from the Coe estate
Richard Farley, of Englewood. has
bought eXtens sively next 10 the Davis
property Just at present he is build
ing d cabin similar to the one Mr.
Young has built at Palisades Avenue
and the Boulevard for his office.
The Tinken property contains sixteen
acres and about 1900 feet Of cliff
frontage. The Ringing property is the
next development met in the travel
northward. The old Opdike Homestead
IS now being made over for the use of
the Ringlings. Hardly anything has
been left of the old house but the
walls: A pipe organ is being installed
IN balcony in the dining room, which
looks out over the river.
Interesting Vantage Points
An interesting vantage point in this
property is the summer house, which
Is built out on a pinacle of rock reached
by a bridge 500 feet above the Hen
drick Hudson Boulevard. which is to
be built all the way to Albany by the
Interstate Park Commission Near this
rock is another which is termed the
"Pulpit," because of its formation.
On the Rionda place is a church for
the use of the family and the help, and
q water tower of masonry which is the
dominating feature of the Rionda farm.
On the cliffs overlooking Alpine
Landing is an interesting house owned
by a Mrs. Sickles. It is called Corn
wallis's Lookout, because he is sup
posed to have used the house in observ-
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Building Houses on Site
OF Old Ridley Homestead
Fifty Homes i'm Course OF Com
pletion on Large Sou,herly
fiatbush Tract

On the site of the old Ridley home
stead on Kings Highway, between
Ocean Parkway and Coney Island Ave
nu, the Parkway Gardens Corporation
is just completing fifty attractive
homes. They are the asst of many
to be erected on the tract.
The home OF the late Mr.. Ridley and
its outhuildings and attractive sur
roundinA3 with charming lawns and
stately trees, has for years been one
OF the show places in this section of
Brooklyn. Mr.. Ridley was we'll
known Grand Street drygoods merchant
whesn that thorcughfare was one Of
tho principal shopping sections of the
city. The homestead is now used rs
the Office Of the corporation.
Not so long aoe the property was
purchased by the corporation Of which
Joseph Grodsky is president and Ber-
Mard Nj. VAL is secretary, and work
was Immediately begun IN the laying
out Of the Developments. Streets were
opened. pavd, and sidewalks laid. was,
electricity and water Installed and the
streets lined with young trees with
pack lawns in the center. The houses
vary in architectural desigh and con-
tain from eight to ten rooms With
sleeping porches, and there is garage
to match each house. In addition to
the sale OF more than dozen o these
houses the Parkway Gardens Corpora
ton has sold p number OF lots to peo-
pie who plan TO erect their own homes
The property is within three short
blocks OF the Kings Highway station
Of the Brighton Beach line and the
Smith street trolley line passes the
property
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Plans for Queens New
Buildings Set New Record

Statistics received by the Queens
Chamber of Commerce from The
American Contractor for building
plans filed in 175 cities for October
show that Queens exceeded every city
except Detroit and Los Angeles in the
number of plans filed. and every city
except Chicago, Detroit. Cleveland and
Philadelphia in the value estimated
for the cost of the proposed struc-
lures
There have been S.753 plans filed in
Queens Borough, al an estimated value
OF $3S, ,526, in the first ten months
of the year. This not only exceeds
timated will be $4,000, 900 Tor the
year, or double the largest previous
year, which was 1911. when 5.374 plans
were filed at an estimated value OF
$22212,OOO
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Yonkers National Bank
Sells Two-Fanlily Houses
One i'm Park Hill Avenue Sold
TO Albert C.. Jordan.
an Attorney

Thomas S. Burke has sold for the
Yonkers National Bank the two two
family houses at 442 Park Hill Avenue
and at 220 Mclean Avenue. The latter
property was sold to Albert c. Jordan.
lawyer and the Park Hill Avenue
property to TWO employees OF the Cen
trail American Hat Company.
Mr.. Burke has also cold for Ferdl-
nand Witt to John c. Daley q dwelling
on Chestnut Drive, River View Manor
section OF Hastings. Mr.. Daley will i'm
prove the property.
The same broker sold for Edwin
Frankenstein the dwelling at 81 Bruce
Avenue to Minnie Lustgarden and Mrs.
Mark A. Schwartz, both Of this city, and
or Victor Nelson the five room bunga-
low at Al Jarvis Road to Anna Birding.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Bronx Dwelling Properties
Offered to Highest Bidders

Bryan l.. Kennedy will hold a spe
cial sales day auction at the Vesey
Street salesroom on Wednesday, De-
cember 10, for the estate of George
Trefel Nh, Kennedy will offer l077 to
1854 Boston Road, a three story frame
dwelling. at voluntary sale; 27 West
chester Avenue, one and two family
dwelling, and o54 Gerard Avenue,
through to Walton Avenue, 212s story
frame dwelling.
On Tuesday, December 2, at Supreme
Court foreclosure sale, Mr.. Kennedy
will sell SO and 3S Dover Street, com
prising the block front between South
and Front streets, and on December l6
l41 East Twenty-fourth Street, q two
story building
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Mount Vernon all Active
Centre of Home Buyin z
Good Offers Cause Owners TO
Part With Fine Houses i'm
Select Locations

The Anderson Realty Company re-
ports the following recent sales in
Mount Vernon: For Frederick ".
Groby to Mathews Carney, the dwell
ing at AZ Nuber Avenue, Oayley
Manor; for the Gramercy Investing
Company to Daniel B. Nally, the dwell
ing at 227 South First Avenue; for the
s ate OF Charles c. King jf., to Major
robert A. Greenfield, the dwelling at
@22 North Fulton Avenue; for the es-
'ate of ex-senator Frsncis NJ. Car
penter to James B. Lawrence, the
dwelling at 122 South Eleventh Ave
nue; and for the same estate to an
investor plot 25xll5 on Prospect Ave
nue. opposite the New York, New Ha-
ven & Hartford Railroad station.
The same company has sold for Lilly
II. Youmans to Chauncey D. MacElroy,
the dwelling at 370 Prospect Avenue;
Tor II. S. Levine to Nathan Shupnik,
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Slzcable dwelling was erected there
John c. Eames. of the II. B. Clafin
firm, was its builder. Exclusiveness
was what he wanted. The lack of pop
ular conveyances, the railroad being
three miles back from the cliffs, pro-
tected the Palisades as securely as if
in the fastness Of the Adirondacks will
derness. This attracted Mr. Eames, as
1T has others before he came and since
bllity folks have passed it by, not
knowing the nature of the land, and
have Travelled far in other directions
for property which has none Of the
attractions that this tableland pos
sesses.
1t is practically virgin country with
the exception Of the several estate de-
velopments, which have been made bv
old families and which have been mod
crnized and continued and extended by
posterity or succeeding owners. The
property is mostly heavily wooded, not
of course with virgin growth, but with
has stood there from twenty to fifty
years.
Old Indian Trails Remain
Paths made by the redmen to the
edge of the cliff and to the river edge
are still there. Some of them have
been widened and developed into fine
highways by road builders There
are many paths which are still only
trails leading to picturesque hooks and
recesses in the cliffs, according to Will
liam B. Young, president of the Pail
sades Real Estate Corporation, who
has spent the last twenty years in the
Palisades country and knows every
inch of it. its history and legends.
Some Of the trails were made long
before the -cplning OF Hendrick Hudson,
and stories are that the Indians looked
down on the progress Of the Half Moon
as she came up the Hudson in awe and
wonderment because it was the larg-
est and strangest craft they had ever
seen.
Hudson Terrace, which is about 300
to 800 feet inland from the edge Of the
cliffs, follows the course of the forma-
ton from Fort Lee north to Palisades
and the New York State line. This high
way was once an Indian trail and used
by the Redmen who made the home in
the hills about Nyack. There was q
lake on the west side of the trail. That
lake is to be restored by the Interstate
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Buys in Morristown Next
To Washington's Quarters

Harvey j, Genung and Arthur c.
Day have sold for Mrs. Hobart Can
held her residence on Norris Avenue,
adjoining Washington's Headquarters
IN Morristown, N. j., TO Mrs. Margaret
.AcCarthy; also the property of Will
lam RI. Thomas on Cleveland Street,
Morristown, N. j. to Sarah Rosen-
berg, and for the Estate of Virginia
Grant Corbin three parcels of land
on the Parkway in Olyphant Park,
Morristown, N. j., to John H. Carpen-
ter. The plots are part Of the site
occupied by the old Olyphant mansion.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Henry G.. Mead Sells
Attractive Greenwich Estate

Douglas L. Gilman &, Co.. Inc,
through their country department, have
sold tor Henry c. Mead, OF Green
wich and Seymour, Conn, his twenty
seven-ucre farm, situated on Lake Ave
nue, Greenwich, Conn.
This property covers ore OF the
finest hilltops III Greenwich, and COM
mands fine view of Long Island
Sound. Near it are the estates of Nell
son Macy, Gustav Schwab and Henry
W. Croft. There is an old farm house
on the place which the new owner
plans to improve for temporary use
whlle building permanent residence.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Frederick c. Cilsey Sells
Home at Great Neck Estates

Gilsey his attractive s stueco Dutch Colo
nial home on the southerly side of
Maple Street, Grent Neck Estates, to
Pauline Wolf. The plot has q frontage
of 140 feet in Maple Street and 100 feet
on Hillside Avenue.
The house contains ten rooms and
two baths, with modern improvements,
and garage,
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the dwelling on Pennsylvania Avenue,
Chester Hill Park; for Robert Clark
to George S. Fearing, the dwelling at
467 South Columbus Avenue; for Ce
celia Blank to Robert Clark. the dwell
ing at 409 Bedford Avenue: for John
P. Treadwell jr., to William ?. Uhler,
the dwelling at $50 Garden Avenue,
and to Edwin NJ. May plot on Ham
ilton Street adjoining his house.
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Trading Near the Seashore

The Lewis II. May Company has re-
sold for the S. F. r. Realty Corporation
1860 Hollywood Avenue, Far Rockaway
l.. T., two and a half story dwelling. to
Louis Cohen, for occupancy; also sold
for John A. Fitzsimons a plot of lots on
the west side of Beach Thirty seventh
Street. Edgemere, l.. L., to Christina
Schuler, who will construct dwelling
for her own occupancy.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Rent Scarcity Forces Real
Estate Firm to Ruv

The Lloyd Winthrop Company not
bein gable to obtain additional Office
space in the silk district to take care
OF their increased business have pur-
chased 40 East Twenty eighth Street,
four-story building. When present
leases expire Lloyd Winthrop Com
pany expects 10 use the three upper
nors Tor its management and leasing
DEPARTMENTS
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Apartment Suites Leased

Douglas l.. Gilman & Co, have leased
Il furnished apartment 1t $50 East
Seventy second Street for f. B. Boies
TO Winthrop Cowden. furnished apart
ment at lis East Ffty-eighth Street
for DR.. L. Pierce Clark 10 J. Ford
J Johnson, jr., duplex apa rtment at 2O5
Fast Sixty-second Street tor Mrs. Jenj.
K. Wood to Mrs. Rudolph Schirmer,
and at 1862 East Seventy second Street
Tor Miss Rose II. Bloch to Miss A. S.
HOPKINS.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
Charles II. IngersoH, Watch Maker, Trades
Old House for New One in Montclai1'

his residence on Scotland Road and
Raymond Avenue, South Orange, N. J.,
house of twenty rooms mad four bath
rooms on plot about 15O feet front by
80 feet in depth.
The exchange was negotiated BY f.
NJ. Craw1ey &. Bros, OF Montclair.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

upper Mountain Avenue. consists of a
residence of stone and frame construc-
ton, containing twenty four rooms and
six bathrooms. 1t is surrounded by
three acres of lawn, laid out in lawns,
gardens and tennis court.
Mr.. Ingersoll gave in part payment
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

A transaction involving about $780,
Voo was consummated last week.
frederick Brown has sold Elm Lodge,
one of the finest estates in the exclu-
slve Mountainside section of Montclair,
o Charles Fl. Ingersoll, watch manu-
+actufer The property, located on
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
l.. I. City Site for Storage Use

James n. Wells Sons have sold for
client OF George +. Clap six lots for
Vernon Avenue. near Harrison Street,
Long Island City, to Clarence L. Smith.
Inc, who will use them for a storage
place.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
uNFuRNIsHED APARTMENTS WANTED

APARTMENT WANTEIs-t-nfrrni~h@.i
WA"f0'' To- 'tAsneri--e po-~. So ---.s--s .,.-
furnished foui nsr room apartment with
kiio..sa....e h-fS. >A>v...- A.
dress Il. o. FREsTsss. rs H4oaA~sy. 'Phous
koctor-s000
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
-CHkNcE LARGE PROFITS

Vicinity BROADWAY-s6TH STREET.
Rents 81 900. Price $4,000
Vicinity BROADWAY-l0 -l03D STREET.
Elevator apartment house. lo-year
mortgage. & rooms Rent $1,000
Price $1s5. zoe.
Vvin.ty OADWAY Y-IIOTH
STREET. Apartment house. 8 q 5
rooms. Kert $4,000 Price $4,000
AMSTERDAM AVENUE CORNER,
BELOW i25TH STREET, stores Il
rooms Rent see o0u Price 1890
WEST SIDE BELOW i25TH
STREET, corner apartment houses 4
Z rooms. Rent $4,000. Price sla5. 900.
Take 10000 cash. balance l0-year first
vicin!ty BROAD wAY-i1orH
STREET. Five S-story apartment
houses. 6 q roorns Rents s34.70o.
Price $3.50
SETTLE ESTATE, apartment
houses. ADJOINING BROADWAY,
choice location. Rents $4,000 Price
1925 600
CORNER ELEVATOR APARTMENT
HOUSE, choice location. near Subway
Station. I stores. & room apart
;nents- Rents $4,000. Price $3.50. 900
BROADWAY. large corner elevator
apartment house. stores 3 n roomA
Rents s5l. 900. Price Sa5G,30c.
Also other bargains, large and small.
What do you want: What have YOU
to SELF
II. T. WOOD, 22o Broadway.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

TWO furnished unfurnished rooms with
laboratory oi bath: private or separate
satrance, Phone werth 1eaA.
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FOR rent November 10 May longer
very attractive residence. completely
Furnished: three baths, electric light. hoi
water heat. fireplace. laundry; garage
and chauffeurs room: IL acres: near vii
laxe. y miles from Hartman on Eri.
main line; rent SIS per month. Othei
places TO let furnished and for sale. W
ID. GILDERSLEEVE, Phone Si-F3. Gen.
tral Valley, ~. Y.
TELL US about your wants. Living In the
mountains We specialize mountain houses
hotels. sites: furnished unfurnished. sale
or rent: choice properties: many bargains.
Mountain House Hote! Agency, shandaken,
n. Y
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23

DESIRABLE farm. suitable FOR country
home. 32is acres. 20 lowiand, balance
pasture: 1000 feet fronting on concrete
State Road 500 feet on Esopus Creek
boating. fsh!ng, bathing. also i-acre pond
gas and water. electric lights 10 minutes
walk to trolley; foothills OF the Catskiil
Mountains, CITY OK Kingston, y. Y. price
$4,000. Owners. S. Cohen's Sons. King
ston, y. Y
New-York tribune., 1919-11-23
REAL ESTATE
NEW YORK STATE
6 Sma'I Frui' Fou rv&fervy Farms

Thirty acre village farm house larg.
rooms. water in house and bath can hav.
electric lights; barn and garage: $4,000
1881 acres; 9-room house. barns. new Ions
hen house. garage; 500 fruit treee 5 aot
asparagus; BY trolley and school: -. 800
~ acres; Groom horse. barn. hen house
By school widows place: $500 81 acr>s'
I-room residence. barns: 600 fruit trees
mostly apples. young; By school. mil
from town; level land; lost wife: s3.25e
80 acres; S-roorn residcnce, water IN house
barn, garage: 10 minutes walk trolley;
- 500. II acres; groom house. barns:
1000 fruit trees. mostly bearing: $4,000
Come at once. Lloyd II. Hallenbeck
Greendale- on the Hudson. y. Y.