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New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
$8, 100000 Structure ON Fifth Avenue Block
Destined To Be Textile Center of Country

George Backer will start tho con
prospect on the Fifth Avenue block
which Marshall Fields & Co., Of Chi
cago, had bought as q site for great
store about May Is. The Textile
Building, as the new structure will be
known, Ia a direct reflection Of the
wonderful work Of the Save New YORK
Committee" and the clothing manu-
facturers In saving Fifth Avenue, es-
pecially that section just south of
Thirty-fourth Street, from blight
which would have destroyed eventually
the character and the intrinsic value
of this great business street and
promenade
Mr Backer, in announcing his plans
for the construction Of the Textile
Building several weeks ago, said that
he would not have undertaken such an
operation, involving 80 much money,
If the needle trade we're to continue on
the fanks Of lower Fifth Avenue. The
needle trade is building fine colony
of workshops at an expenditure Of
many millions Of dollars in the Seventh
Avenue district.
It was not until this was definitely
agreed upon that Mr. Backer bought
from Michael Freidsam, head OF b.
Altman & CO.., the east side of Fifth
Avenue from Thirtieth Street to Thir-
tyfrst Street, the site which was to
mark the entrance Of the great Chicago
concern in the New York field.
Work Will Start in March
On March 3 building wreckers will
take possession Of the group of old
buildings on the site and thirty-five
days later, Mr.. Backer said, he will be
setting the first members Of the great
steel skeleton around which will be
built seventeen stories of brick, stone,
terra Gotta and cement.
About December ! this year Nj
Backer will have completed his $8,0o0,-
600 building and will be ready to re
ceive the concerns which have in the
mean time rented space in the struc-
ture from blue prints.
Quarter Rented Already
Although more than 3 month will
have TO pass before the first steps In
the construction of the building will
be taken, 25 per cent Of the structure
has been rented for long periods. The
street level space Is out Of the market.
II. r. Mallinson e. Co., perhaps the
largest silk manufacturers in the
country, have taken the Thirty-frst
Street end of the street floor for
long period and at rental which will
total s2,000,000 at least. The Union
Exchange National Bank, now at 100
Fifth Avenue, will pay a similar rate
for the use of the Thirtieth Stree,
store space. The entire second floor
is under option to f. & D. Van Raalte.
Others who have taken large srace in
the building are tho Taylor -Friedsam
Company, 432 Fourth Avenue; Ru-
dolph Schreiber, 114o Broadway; Will
liam Hollins & Co.. Limited, is East
Seventeenth Street; j. T. Douglas &
Co.. 244 Fifth Avenue. and John H.
Meyer & Co, Inc, so Union Square.
Judging from the tenants who have
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Old Thorouggllfare Building
Sold, According to Report
Well-Known Structure in ''Motor Row. Is Said to
Have Been Acquired by Automobile Interests as
Site for 22-Story Building; Tire Companies Buy

Motor Row." as Broadway between
Longacre and Sherman squares is
known, has suddenly pushed to the
front as one of the active spots in the
real estate field. The Thoroughfare
Building, covering the block on Broad
way from Fifty-seventh to Fifty
eighth streets and west to Eighth Ave
nue., Is said to have been acquired by
automobile interests which will re-
move the old structure and erect on
The site tail building
The General Motors Company, which
purchased recently the property at the
southeast corner of Broadway and
Fifty seventh Street, was one Of the
concerns mentioned as having taken
the property. At the headquarters of
the company this was danied
Tenants in the building have been
notified to find other premises, which
is accepted in "Motor Row" as a con-
Armation of the report that a new
structure Is to replace the old build
ing. The story is that structure
twenty-five stoiies high will be built
and that the greater part Of 1t will be
used by the concern building it.
Automobile dealers are keenly inter
ested in the project because of the
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01

influence 1t may have on the space
situation in the immediate section.
Confirmation Of the story was impos-
sible yesterday, because Jacob Vert
helm, who holds title to the property,
was out Of town.
Tire Companies to Build
The Kelly-Springfeld Tire Company
has bought from the estate of George
A. Eelme the seven two-story stores,
apartments and taxpayers at the north
east corner of Seventh Avenue and
Fifty-seventh Street, fronting 100 feet
on the avenue and 104 feet on the
street. The buyers plan to put up an
Office building Of at least sixteen
stories, in which they will occupy exec
utive quarters. The project will either
be undertaken in the spring or at the
expiration Of the present leases Ed
ward Necarsulmer, architect, will pre-
pare the plans for the structure.
The Fiske Rubber Company has Sc
cured preliminary contracts from Klein
4 Jackson for the purchase of the Rut-
land apartment property and the ad-
joining business building at 1855 and
1867 Broadway, including ESQ to 26O
West Fifty-seventh Street. This prop
erty, comprising a plot 54.3x150l1, it
is to be developed with building Of at
least twenty stories.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
High Bridge May Lose Ttuo of Its Many
Arches; Stand in the Way of Commerce

feet instead Of the required minimum
Of twenty-five feet.
The plan Ia to rip out the center
rers Of the bridge and mnRs an arch
l32 feet wide and more than 100 feet
high. Bayges Of 5o-feet beam could
then use the river.
Extensive dredging operations to
make the needed channel through Spuy-
ten Duyvil and through Bronx Kills
to the Sound are not necessary. the re-
port says. When that work has been
completed the enormous barges from
the Great Lakes can come down the
Hudson, through Spuyten Duyvil and
Bronx Kills and proceed thence up the
New England coast.
The result will be development Of
the Harlem River waterfront together
with the development of manufacture
ing plants which will become inevitable
when there are proper terminal facil-
ties.
Officials of the Bronx Board Of Trade,
which body has been trying for tho last
twenty years to put this project
through, expressed emselves as salts
fed that the report TO the Legislature
will be favorable. The Board of Est-
mate has been investigating the ques-
ton with the help of committee of
on
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
$l,l00,0OO Rental
For Space in Old
Eastern Hotel
Lunchroom Will Occupy
Lower Part of Landmark.
Which Is To Be Altered
Into an Office Structure

Rice & Hill have leased for the
United Cigar Stores Company che
ground floor and basement of the East
ern Hotel, at Whitehall and South
Streets, to the Hanover Lunch Com
pany or term Of twenty-one years
from February l, 1920. The United
Cigar Stores Company retained the i'm
mediate corner store for its own busi-
ness. The rental for the period will be
approximately S1,1O000O.
This building, which has a frontage
Of 43 feet on South Street and front
age on Whitehall Street of 1915 feet,
was recently leased by the United Cigar
Stores Company from John Bittner.
The entire building is to be altered
into q modern Office building by the
lessees at cost Of about $125,000.
100000 Fifth Avenue Rental
Carstein & Linnekin have leased fox
client to the Emerson Photograph
Company the newly constructed four
story building at 2Os Fifth Avenue,
extending through to Broadway. The
lease is for twenty-one years at an
aggregate rental Of 800 600. Benjamin
Mcnschel recently leased the site from
the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank,
through Thomas j OReilly.
Tenants for Sixth Avenue Premises
j. Arthur Fischer has leased for the
Coddington Company the properties at
$50 Sixth Avenue and 68 West Thirty
seventh Street, having an "L' around
the southeast corner Of Thirty seventh
Street and Sixth Avenue, to James F.
Ogden for twenty-one years, at rental
aggregating 5000 600. and for the estate
Of P. Maresi the four-story building at
6S5 Sixth Avenue.
The same broker has leased for Gio-
vanni P. Maresi the two fve-story
buildings at 691 and 693 Sixth Avenue,
on plot 37x100, for term Of years, at
an aggregate rental of over 100000.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
$50,0O0,OO0 Cain
For New Buildings
In January
Plans Last Month Total
an Expenditure of APP
proximately S325,OOO,
600 Throughout Country

Actual building operations through
out the country have shown q marked
gain since the beginning of the year.
Ine total for January will show ap-
proximately 1926 000, 600, or a gain of
S50000,000 over December and an in
crease of s1oO,ooo,ooo over November.
There are many indications that these
gains in the volume of new construc-
tion Will continue and that, unless con-
ditions undergo a radical change, thc
approaching spring will witness an un-
precedented amount Of building work
throughout the United States.
The demand for Accommodations of
all descriptions" Mr.. Straus declares,
is stronger than it has been at any
time in the past. due to the long period
OF underproduction in the industry and
the country's growth in population and
business. The labor situation in the
Industry is more stabilized than has
been the case for several months.
While supplies OF building materials
are limited at present, improved labor
conditions are expected to greatly
stimulate production in these lines and
ers 10 proceed with their work.
Higher Cost for Building
Building costs arc moving toward
hlgher levels, and there IS no inmed;-
ate indication that these tendencies
will be changed. The labor supply is
sufficiently limited and the demand for
buildings is strong enough to create
underlying conditions that will exert
continued pressure toward higher
price levels.
General conditions throughout the
INDUSTRY are in a wholesome condition.
This is reflected in a strong demand
or capital with which to further build
ing enterprises. Tho enormous demand
for space and the steady marking up
OF rents has brought about q consid-
cradle amount of new building of the
Larger types Of construction, such a.
otice structures, manufacturing plants.
hotels and apartment houses in the
leading cities of the country
While the demand for building. Of
all kinds will continue strong for an
indefinite period. there is no likelihood
Of runaway market or of boom corr
ditions, as the shortage of labor and
building materials will prevent such
conditions, and there seems to be eyerv
indication that the industry will gain
ADDED momentum along thoroughly
substantial lines"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
which makes navigation II small barges

which makes navigation u small barges
dangerous.
The bridge is part OF the old aque-
duct system of the city. Engineers In
charge Of the construction Of the sys-
tenn, now inadequate, concluded that
the only way to get the water from the
great deposits upstate across tho Har
lem River and into the Manhattan was
by carrying the huge ducts across on
bridge. This led to the construction
of High Bridge.
1t Is one of the fine civic improve
ments of the city. Its graceful arches
have been admired and for this reason
there are folks who are opposed to
changing the structure. even though it
stands in the path of trade expansion.
But the commercial demands of the
city must be servcd.
The report which the Legislature
will receive shows that the graceful
but unessental span is standing in the
way of the development of the Harlem
water front as one Of the most i'm
portant freight and manufacturing CEN
ters in the city. The report says:
The center piers OF High Bridge,
being only forty-four feet apart. it is
impossible to bring heavy freight into
Harlem River except by lighter The
channel also averages only seventeen
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Great Demand for Farms
In New York State
Farmers From Canada. Mexico
and Many Parts Of Country
Among the Ruyera

A strong demand for improved farm.
IN New York State by farmers from
other states and Canada is announced
by the E. A. strout Farm Agency.
Ihe largest number of buyers came
from sections in the middle West. os
farms are Of practically equal produc-
tlvity can yet be found AT Considerably
lower prices here. But nearby states.
and also distant ones as we'll. contrib,
uted to the total
Pennsylvania sent 79 farm buyers
tere- Canada came next with SO. fol-
lowed by Illinois and Michigan with
os and 54, respectively, New Jersey
with 4s, Ohio IS and Wisconsin SO.
Ihlrty-four buyers came from Mime
sofa, 80 from Iowa % from Indiana. y
rom Nebraska. 20 from Kansas. l6
from Virginia, 13 each from Missouri
and west Virginia and II each from
North Dakota and South Dakota.
alontana and Tennessee each sent 10
farmers 20 settle on New York State
farms, Connecticut 0, Marland 8. Ken
lucky 8, Delaware. Texas and Vermont
each, and Idaho. Maine, Massachu.
setts and Wyoming each. There were
wo each from California, New Hanp-
shire. Oklahoma and Alaska and ono
each from New Mexico, North Carolina,
oregon, South Carolina Rhode Island
Washington and Nevada, and one from
Cuba.
OF 219 New Workers who purchased
farms in other states. So went to New
Jersey. 20 TO Vermont. 32 to Connect
cut is 10 Ma;ne. Is TO Florida, II to
New hampshire ard 13 to Maryland
Ten New York farmers located in
Rhode Island. in Delaware, in
Massachusetts, 3 in Pennsylvania and
one each in Michigan and Virginia.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01

for many years. With the rapidly
growing demand for individual houses
near New York City expressive Of good
types of architecture and the desire to
protect this charming wood and from
undesirable encroachments, the owners
Of t'le dston decided to make OF it an
deal suburban park, where it would be
possible TO enjoy all the attractive
features of the country and the city.
Adequate restrictions, not too exact
irg, yet appealing to those who are
placed on sale Of all plots
Such architects as Dwight James
Baum. Harry T Lindenberg, Z. Phillips
and Others have expressed their ar.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
$4,000 a Room,
viii Be Asked in
City's Ne,U Hotel

Rents to be charged for accommo-
dations in the Hotel Ambassador, be-
ing erected on Park Avenue, Fifty
first to Fifty-second Street. probably
will be the highest demanded by any
hotel in the country; at any rate
that is the prevailing opinion, which
ia based on the fact that fve-room
apartments are listed at $4,000 to
$4,000 a year, and three apart
ments from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year. While some of the apartments
will be listed at the rate of $500 =
room a year, the average annual
rental will be from $4,000 to $1,000
room,
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Hoffman Estate Parts
With 100 Years Holding
Property Sold in Warren Street
Was Land of Kings
College Farm


The Duross Company has sold In
conjunction with Stoddard- iotfmap for
the Charles Hoffman estate thef Ave
story building at 26 Warren Street,
near Broadway, on plot 25Al0O.
The property, which has been in the
pos ession of the selling family for
100 years, has been purchased by Max
Marx, and originally was part of the
Kings College Farm.
The Duross Company also transacted
another interesting sale in the down
town section in the disposal of the
property at 275 Pearl Street, four
story building on plot 22x99.9, near
Bcekman Street, to Hiergescll & Son.
now at III Nassau Street Mr.. Hierge-
sell Is making the move to lower his
rental cost and to assure his bust
ness q permanent home.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Architectural Gem in Pretty Corner
Of This City Bought BY 7. e. Arden

T. r. Arden, of Bogota, r. j.. is the
new owner Of the Dutch Colonial dwell
ing shown in the accompanying pic
ture. 1t was the home Of Dr.. George
A. Wyeth, and is located at Fieldston,
Riverdale on the Hudson. George
Howe negotiated the sa e.
Fieldston is one of the pretticst
spots in New York City. it is coun-
try place within the city limits and
convenient to all its advantages, such
as transit, entertainment and shops.
In 1917 Fleldston was opened to the
public as restricted suburban park
This tract of 200 acres had been kept
intact as mart of me DclatiAld e. tata
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
East Side Leads Way
In Dwelling 2 House Sales
Peter A. Broe Sells in 6lst
Street; OHCorman Estate
Parts With Buildings

Pease & Gilman have sold for Peter
A. Broe, three story and basement
and dwelling. at 214 East Sixty-first
Street, on lot fC.9xl00
S II. Frankenheim has sold for the
estate Of William O'Gorman to the
c. r. M. Realty Company. AIT to AL
East 1S9th Street, and 4eS and 40
East l40th Street six three-story
dwellings, on lot 17x100 each; also 499
to ASl East l4lst Street, three three
story dwellings,
Joseph G. Abramson has sold to DR..
Theodcrus Bailey, the four story and
basement dwelling, on lot 20x1O2, Mt
l2C East Seventy second Street, ad-
joining Park Avenue. William VOLTS
Sens were the brokers.
West Side Sales
The Rutland & Whiting Benjamin
Company las sold for Joseph Walker
to Jacob Gilman, for occupancy, the
three story and basement dwelling, at
535 West 142d Street, on lot 16xl0O.
Harry Levy has sold for Anton
Gronich, the three story dwelling, on
lo5 l5Xl00, at 528 West 149th Street.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Connecticut Thread Company
Buys Factory al Wllites.one

The Sea Island Thread Company, %
Connecticut, has purchased the factory
property at Twentieth Street and
Z eventh Avenue, Whitestone Long
Island, which was formerly a plant o.
re American Can Company.
The thread company will manufacture
mercerized thread, and will start op.
erstions as soon as possible with about
;hree hundred employees. This factory
is located in the midst of a con ider-
able number OF silk mills in College
Point and Whitestone.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01

admirably in this section of Riverdale
The charming sites possessing pic
turesque powders, old trees ard well
kept lawns have been utilized advan-
tageousy y in locating the residences
Of attractive styles of architecture
which IS dominated largely IN the ex-
pressive Of several types of Colonial
and Eng lish houses
Fieldston is delightfully."- refreshing
owing to the decided contrast il makes
with the noisy city streets and ights,
at distance suifici emily removed 20
shut out the unpleasant features yet
near enough for the professional or
business man 20 make II his permanent
h. nc
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
36th ST. Houses Taken
Over for Tea Rooms
Two Buildings Near Fifth Ave
nue. To Be Extensively Altered
nv the S!,attuck Coonnarv

The Frank G. Shattuck Company has
bought the dwelling property at East
Thirty-sixth Street, on lot 25x10O, from
the Metropolitan Trust Company, and
has leased the adjoining property at 4
East Thirty-sixth Street for twenty
one years from Charles Flint 1t is an
nounced that the properties will be ex-
tensive altered for tea rooms
The deals were transacted by the
Cross (; Brown Company, which also
has sold the property at II West
Thirty-seventh Street, on lot 25x10o, to
the Garrett Realty Company.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01

built about twenty feet back OF the
cornices, is to used as club and hotel
for the tenantry of the building. A
number of sleeping rooms will be pro-
vlded for the accomm odation Of busi-
ness guests Of concerns in the build
ing. There will be baths, restaurant,
lounge and smoking room, all on the
top of Fifth Avenue, and removed from
ali reminders Of business,
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Plot Buyers at Wykagyl
Plan to Erect HOnes

Charles Field Griffen & Co. have sold
for the Wykagyl Holding Company,
Inc, five large plots at Wykagyl New
Rochelle. The buyers arc Charles W.
Alexander, Charles Mckinley, Peter
Duffy c. E. Davis and Henry Boecker,
who will Immediately begin the cree
tion Of residences for their own occu-
DANcv
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Sales of East Side Flats

Froham & Taubert have sold for Max
Greenebaum, 1913 East Eighty second
Street, five-story double fat. OIL plat
3oXlo0, between Lexington and Park
Avenues, 20 Hermina Steiner.
George n. Bruno 4 Co. have sold for
the estate of Richard W. Block TO
Josephine Carre. 2073 Second Avenue.
four story tenement with stores
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01

Sommerfield & Steckler are the archi-
tects, christopher j. Jepperson the
engineer and George Backer the
builder. While this building is under
way Mr.. Backer also will be busy at
the southwest corner Of Fifth Avenue
and Fifty seventh Street erecting the
most spectacular structure ever pro-
Jected for Fifth Avenue-a thirty-story
oiflce apartment and theater building
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Estate Sells Newark DWELLING

The estate of Clara J. Teas, through
Louis Schlesinger, Inc, has sold All
Clinton Avenue, northwest corner Of
Hunterdon Street, Newark, to the Union
Building Company: The property has
frontage Of so feet on Clinton Ave
nue. and 100 feet on Hunterdop street
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Building Cost To-day
And o. Year Ago

Of
compared with those Of month tell something of the
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01

signed for reservations and those con-
sidering premises there the textile
building with be one Of the most i'm
portant centers in the textile world, it
being the home. the headquarters, Of
leaders in the silk and other textile in
dustries.
Though a great commercial center. it
also will have social attachment
The seventeenth floor. which will be
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01
Sale in Walker Street

Folsom Brothers. Inc, have sold for
Howard Conkling the five-story store
and loft building at 81 Walker Street to
an investor.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-01

Charles A, O'Malley and Eugene A.
Walsh have sold for the estate Of M.
J. Mallory 1852 and 36i West Broadway,
between Broome and Grand streets, q
six-story basement and loft building, on
plot 45xGS. The building is one of the
hcsr est structures in the district. The
purchssers after alterations, will oc-
cupy the premises.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-01-08
THE CONGRESS HAS !
MUCH WORK AHEAD
ONLY EXPECT REcEssEs WHEN
PARTY coNvENTioNs ARE
IN FALL SESSIONS.
HOPE TO CLOSE UP TREATY
General TaroIr Of Internal Revenue
Tax Revision Legislation Is Not
Expected at Present Session.

Washington Congress reconvenes
after fortnight's holiday with months
OF hard work in sight and adjourn
ment expected by few leaders before
the presidential campaign.
The only recess looked for Is a brief
one In summer when the national par
ty conventions are in session.
Innumerable domestic and indus.
trial problems await the attention OF
Congress. with partisan politics of the
coming presidential election promi-
nently to the fore. Political speeches
OF presidential candidates and mem
bers Of Congress up for reelection are
expected to food the record.
The senate returns in the hope of
disposing Of the German peace treaty
this month, but without substantial
results from compromise negotiations
during the holiday recess.
Many Investigations will be pros
ecuted by both senate and house. BE.
sides the house war expeditures in
quiry, senate committee will continue
the Mexican investigation, here and
on the board
General tariff OF internal revenue
tax revision legislation is not planned
during the present session of Con.
gress, although minor house bills af.
fecting individual tariff schedules will
reach the senate.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-01-08
RARE DOUBLES TO MoNARCHS
Resembiances, Fancled and Real, Have
Given Rise to Some Highly
Imaginative Stories. ~

Most monarchs possess at least one
double, but so far the double of the
present shah OF Persia has not been
discovered. His grandfather. Nasr-ed-
Din. had n famous double I'm the person
of Edmund Yatee. The resemblance
between these two was so striking that
Yates photographs were sold In Brus-
sells rs the shah's when. Nasr- -ed-Din
visited that city. However, he never
suffered through the possession of a
double as another monarch did, If we
may credit a theory of Andrew Lang's.
According to that ingenious historian,
Queen Elizabeth and Darnley were
doubles. The second husband of Mary
Queen of Scots was not, as is generally
supposed. blown up in the explosion of
Kirk o. Field. but escaped into Eng
land. He then somehow got Elizabeth
at his mercy and ultimately secured
her throne, posing as the queen to the
end of his days. Thanks to the amaz-
Ing resemblance between the two, the
imposture was not discovered until
after Darnley's death.-Mancheste
Guardian.