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The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-23

kan Chronicle)
 The proceeds of the annual ball 10 be given shortly by the Ketchikan fire department will be presented to Mrs. Ed. Parker whose late husband was for many years a faithful and popular member of the organization.
 Louis R. King has arrived at Ret. chikan to take the position of fiscal agent recently made vacant by the resignation of Cy Wyckoff. Of the Forestry service.
 James Primavera, formerly engaged as a pressman on newspapers in Juneau and Cordova, has accepted a position on the Ketehikan Chronicle. He and Mrs. Primavera are at Ket- chiloan, He was employed on the Alaska Dispatch during tho winter at Seattle.
 Robert Scott, John Cllamberlin, George H. Whitney and William J. Howell. all of Juneau are guests at the Stedman.-(Ketchillan Chronicle.)
 The Hyder Commercial Association has formed volunteer fire depart ment with F. L. Lake as Chief and Deputy Marshal Jobn Roman as as. sistant chief. The officials have been authorized to inspects chimneys and take steps to protect against fire.
 The United States Lighthouse tend CT Cedar, left Ketchikan last week for San Francisco for general over hauling. She will be away several
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-23

The coldest weather at Hyder dur ing the winter just past was de. grees below zero.
The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-23

FRANKS A. BOYLE.
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The Alaska daily empire., 1920-03-23
THE ALASKA DAILY EMPIRE, TUESDAY, MARCH g, 1920.

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New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

dicare with this very idea in view
Other syndicatcs Of ncighborhood own
ers are also stated to have been
formed, evidently with an eye to fu-
turc profits.
1amaica's resident population now is
about 10000, and the quick growth Of
The Old and new business and fiat house
sections Is concrete evidence of the
trend Of population TO this more than
200 ycar-old settlement. The Long Isl
and Railroad is the dividing line be
tween the north and south sides Of
Jamaica. with all the higher class
houses being erected in the northerlv
or hill sections. The south side also
is developing rapidly. but with more
modest class Of homes
Public Will Make Prices
Properties in the immediate neigh
horhood Mr.. Day said ycsterday. are
selllng at prices ranging from So 20
500 front foot aud from $500 to s. 800
t"cnty-foo' lot.
every inch Of this richly folagcd.
elevated and finely drained land is TO
be sold for just exactly what the buy
ing public deem it to be WORTH"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
I8 Houses and Old
Garden Between
Sutton Place, the
River. 57tl1 and 58th
Streets, Site of Most
Interesting Social
Center in New York

fed with folks in the Sutton Square. The
house will be built to harmonic with
the houses in the garden square. This
building Will screen away the struc-
lures to the south. To the west is
evident strong movement for the bet
terment Of property there Fifty
seventh Street is wide, and tn
houses on the block between Sutton
Place and Second Avenue are private
homes occupied by very nice people
Judge McCook occupies one of the
houses Another house on Fifty seventh
Street. and close to Sutton Place. Is
now being altered into an American
basement structure. 1t is understood
that this has opened the eyes OF own
crs in the block to the possibilities
which lie in their homes.
The development of the social colony
is bound TO have the best effect on
tho physical appearance of these
houses. Real estate men are Of the
opinion that it is likely to produce 3
big buying movement there. as the old
houses arc nicely located and arc we'll
worth being made over They are close
to transit lines which W get one to
the down town district in much quicker
time than from sections of the Fifth
Avenue district
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Eliot Cross, w. Ste
ward w eb b .Jr..
Frederick Allen
and Walter Dam
rosch Among Folks
Who Will to Live
OH Rivers E d &c

On the west bank Of the East River
folks o; wealth and prominence
are going to live. They are in control
Of the entire block between Sutton
Place and the East River, Fifty-sev-
enth and Fifty-eghth streets. Eight
cen old brownstone houses and a
garden. which faces on the river, cover
the block The garden and the houses
gro to he remodeled into the finest
home colony in the city. Upward of
Sl,50O.Ooo at the very least Will be ex-
pended in carrying through the plans
which have been made for turning the
old block into Mayfair community Of
homes.
Eleven of the eighteen houses. which
form an al" around the garden. facing
on Sutton Place and Fifty~cighth Street,
nave either been acquired or spoken for
by folks listed in the social directory
Of New York, or who are prominent in
the business or professional wold.
Eliot Cross, we'll known archit"c
member of finn Of Cross &. Gro S; !;
W. Seward Webb ir., whose mother
was Lila Osgood Vanderbilt, and who
married a daughter of Mayor Gnynor
Frederick Allen, OF Lee, Hgginson Il
Co., Walter Damrosch. one of the great
musical directors of the world; Donald
rockingham. Harris Livermorc, George
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

M. Osborn and Rosecrans Baldwin have
taken the eleven houses either on an
option or through outright purchase.
Negotiations were pending yesterday
for the disposal of several others. !. IS
the opinion of Mr.. Cross, who is tho
fsther Of the plan for the development
o. th.s property, that every house IN
in the near future.
Most Interesting Homes in City
The development promises to be the
most interesting that has been pro-
iected for this city. In many respects
it Will be unique, as there arc no othcr
locations like it on Manhattan Island.
1t is tho greatest detection from
Fifth Avenue that has come to light
since that street became the home
center of society, fashion and wealth.
Folks who hold places in the highc st
social sphere Of the country have
located to the east of the avenue in the
last dozen years. When Park Avenue
was developed with apartments that
We'd with private homes in appointment
making their principal homes in the
suburbs.
The acute house situation Of the las'
two years in tho fashionable sector
est of Central Park led TO the rcclalna-
tion OF many houses in the fairly good
blocks over as far as Third Avenue.
In some streets houses cast of Third
Avenue have been taken by folks who
could not Get a house nor an apart
ment in the territory to the west
These houses have been made attrac-
tive homes under tho direction of tnr
leading architectural firms of tho city
VINO enter the field Of making over
houses in order TO help a situation
which could be improved only in this
way. New homes could not be built
not because clients would not spend
tho money, but because material and
labor could not be obtained to build
what had been planned.
Yesterday The final details We're COM
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Tenant Must Erict Tenon,

Lawyers and laymen are won,..
ing how the courts will regard u.
triangle of the old tenant. tn. nav
tenant, and the landlord. in the ca.
Of new leases made from Oc.ohe,
next, when the present leases .,
pirc. If the courts. under tho ,.r
rent laws, grant stays for numbs.
of months to the old tenants.
The leading decision on the po;,.
in this state. it Is SAID. holds: ~,
is not the duty Of the landlo,.
when the demised premises A..
wrongfully held by a third perso,
TO take the necessary steps TO ~.
his lessee into possession. The Ia,
ter being clothed with the r;,,e \,
virtue of the lease. It belongs "a
him to pursue such legal remedis.
IS the law has provided for gainjn,
Il, whether few or mauy."
The real property law. sec.io,
1913. states: The grantee Of lease,
of real property or Of a reverslos
thereof. the devisee or assignee a.,
the lessor OF such a lease. has ,hs
same remedies, by entry. action o.,
otherwise. for the non Performance
of any agreement contained IN the
ASSIGNED lease for tho .,,,. 4.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Writer Gets Harrison
House of Revolutionary Days

Prince & Ripley, Inc, sold for Miss
Mara +. Weeks and Miss kjrkham
thelr property, located on Cottage Ave
nuc, Harrison. y. y, 30 Mrs Blanche
NJ. Ihomas, a writer Of this city The
property consists Of about fifteen acres
and nm old house that was built in
Revolutionary times.
The section in which this property is
located IS particularly interesting in
'ha' u has no' changed since tho time
OF the tlVil War. when it acquired the
name Of Niger llils ON account Of its
bong the hiding place Of negro rclu-
Eccs lrOm lhn Soulh
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Hotel Regent, in 32d Street,
Bought by Artemus Ward
Pays Frederick Brown Something Less Than
S27o,OOO for Ten-Story Structure Between
Madison and Fourth Avenues; an Investment

The Hotel Regent, in East Thirty
second Street between Madison and
Fourth avenues, held IN the market for
sale at $276 600, was sold yesterday BY
Frederick Brown to Artemus Ward, Of
Ward & Cow. Frederick Fox & Co. re
gotiated the deal
The hotel. which has been known
also IS the st. Louis. IS ten stories and
covers 81 .e 40 feet wide and 100 feet
deep. The property is known as 32
and 81 East Thirty-second Street.
NJ. & L. Hess. Inc, sold for Mrs. Julia
Metzeer 392 Eighth Avenue, for Louis
Schwargcl ;,94 Eighth Avenue, for
Samuel Blank 396 Eighth Avenue, for
the estate of Ralph Mccormick 1913
Eighth Avenue for the klagcs estate
ESQ west Tn .rtieth Street, for Oes-
treich & Volt Realty Co. 25S West
Thirticth Street
These properties. four four story
buildings, cover a plot 93x100 at the
southeast corner Of Thirticth Street
and Eighth Avenue.
NJ & L. Hess. Inc. have been retain
cd as managing agents.
Larger Site for Howntown "Automat"
Horn & Har,lart Co.. owners of tho
Automat restaula lrts. purcha sed through
Tankoos. Smith &. Co. from Cornelius
Hayes. represented by Frederick RI.
Pearcc of Ann. Cruikshank Sons. 1O7
Greenwich Street. adjoining the large
plot comprising 5000 square feet at
SO Trinity Place extending through to
1885 Greenw rh, Street purchased rc-
Gently by tho Horn & Harda~t Co.
a modern offics' building will be erect
ed for the lunch company on the prop
critics from plans of Frederick Put
nam Platt {, bNO. The Automat will
occupy the basement of tho proposed
building. and ne got ations are pending
with several large insurance, banking,
export and law> firms to lease the
ground floor and upper floors.
Another 57th St. Parcel for Brisbane
Arthur Brisbane has bought As East
t'lfty.seventh Street, twenty foot
five story business; building, for about
S13O000 from Mrs. Charles w Clinton
through William B. May {. Co. Mr..
Brisbane owns 33, ~i3, 1903 and 1O5 East
Flfty-seventh Street.
Industry Locates Near Cherry Hill
The Market Slip Realty Company has
sold to the S. S. White Dental Manu-
featuring Company of Philadelphia the
seven-story loft and store building at
1853 Cherry Street. southeast corner of
Market Street. and, running through to
434 Water Street
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
George W. Perkins
Parts With House
On. Murray Hill
Park Az. Dwelling. Bought
From Corhin Estate in
1909, Sold to Neighbor:
$I5O,OOO Said To Be Price

George ". Perkins sold his town
house at rs Park Avenue in the Murray
Hill section to John f. Berwin. coal
magnate. whose residence is at 1O2
East Thirty-ninth Street, around the
corner from the Perkins house. For
many years Mr.. Perkins has spent most
of his time at his large estate in the
Riverdale section of the city.
The house has FIVE stories and base
ment. 25xl00, located on the west side
Of Park Avenue, $50 feet north Of
Thirty eighth Street a block and n
half north of the two j. p. Morgan
houses. He bought it in 1909 from the
estate Of Austin Corbin, paying, &C
cording to the deed. S135.OO0 for the
property. At present the city assesses
it for taxation purposes at S105,00O, of
which ST7,500 represents land value.
The selling price is said to have been
s15O 900.
S0th st. House Bought for Occupancy
Malcolm +. Smith and Rudolph c.
four story and basement dwelling, 15Sx
1922. at SO East Eightieth Street. The
new owner bought for occupancy.
Baltimore Dweller Sells Here
l.. J. Phillips e. Co. sold for Allan
c. Hill. of Baltimore, to a client Of
Otterbourc. Steindler e. Houston, the
four-story private dwelling 637 West
142d Street. 15x1OO.
George w Sasse sold for r. Y. Wors-
tell 234 West 18th Street. a three
story and basement dwelling, 17x1O0.
Leases in Midtown Section
Cushman e. Wakefield, Inc. leased,
for the Life Extension institute, space
AZ 25 West Forty-fifth STREET to Spauld-
ing. Chandler & Lcifingwcll and Offices
at 10 East Forty-third Street to f. A.
Palen.
A. Frank Shaw leased for Walter J.
Salmon the basement store 20 West
Fortythrd Street, to the Marjorie
Cafeteria
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Fifth Avenue Merchants
Claim Values Are Too Hieb
Charge City Experts With Assessing Big Store
Properties Above Actual Worth; Court Asked
to Have Tax Board Explain Its Figures

Lord & Taylor. James McCreery &
Co. Tiffany G. Co., and C. G. Gunther's
Sons have obtained from Supreme
Court Justice Leonard A. Giegerich
writs of certiorari, directing the tax
commissioners on or before October
to certify 10 the court their reasons
for assessing the property of each at
valuations which they say are eNces-
sive.
Lord & Taylor claim that their three
properties at 424 Fifth Avenue, 49,
l2l Fifth Avenue and IL West Thirty
sixth Street are largely overvalued on
the commissioners tax lists-the first
mentioned at S7.300O00, though worth
only 6,i00 900; the second at $4,000,
though worth but 900. and the
third at $4,000 as against $4,000
which the petitioners describe as good
and reasonable value.
S7lO,00O Too High on McCreery Store
James McCrcery e. Co. allege that
their property at 4l6 West Thirty
NTH Street and SO West Thirty
fourth Street is worth but S3.loo.ooo.
though assessed at S3,7l0,0oO; also that
1872 West Thirty-ffth Stree. IS as
sesscd at 100000 though worth only
$500 900.
Tiffany e. Co. state the value of
their property al HIS Union Square IS
100000 and that it was assessed at
$4,000 more; also that % East Fiji
teenth Street is worth but ST 600
though placed on the tax list at S37,-
600.
c. G.. Gunthers Sons set forth the
value of their premises at 39l Fifth
Avenue as 100000. The tax books
have it at s775,000.
The plaintiffs set forth, through
Bella Darwin Eisler, their attorney,
that New York city property is as
sessed generally at so per cent under
its value, although theirs is assessed
700 high.
Assessments Lower Elsewhere
AS examples. they set forth that
fl and 45 broadway, worth S2.000.00o.
is valued at so per cent of that
amount; the old Holland House
worth $4,000, at 65 per cent; the
New York Theater. worth $4,000 600, at
81 per cent: tho Wyoming apart
ments, $40 and $50 Seventh Avenue
worth 81. 100 600 at II per cent, ANA tno
Langham apartments; 139 Central
Park West. at II per cent. OF 81 $50
600, alleged to be the actual value Of
the building.
The petitions for revision of as
scssmcnt valuations relate to such
valuations as were placed upon prop
crty for the Year 1919 90, on October
1919.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Steps Are Taken to
Link Statrn Island
To City by Tube
Board Of Estimate Agrees
to Appropriate $4,000
to Locate Best Route
Under the Narrows

For the purpose of exploring the
bottom of the Narrows. in order to To-
cate route for rapid transit line
between Richmond and Brooklyn. the
Board of Estimate and Apporti ionment
has decided to make an appropriation
Of $4,000 to be expended by Transit
Construction Commissioner John II.
Delaney in making borings, soundings
and other surveys preliminary to the
preparation of detail plans for linking
up Richmond with the other boroughs
Of the city. This decision was arrived
at following Commissioner Delaney's
report on seven proposed methods of
extending the city-owncd rapid transit
line from Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, to
Staten Island.
This appropriation is the first tan
cibie step toward giving Richmond
residents participation in the cty's
dua! subway system. A. the present
time the municipal ferries between the
BATTERY and Staten Island are carry
ing an average of 10000 persons daily,
exclusive OF those using automobiles
and other vehicles as a means of trans
. portation.
In his report Commissioner Delaney
recommended that serious considera-
ton be given at once to three of the
seven schemes upon which ne made
detailed reports. These schemes arc
as follows
l. A combination tunnel and viaduct
along the New jersey snore extending z
from St. George to the Battery.
2 A tunnel under the bay, largely
within The New jersey line, connecting
s. George 20 the Battery
3. direct tunnel connecting St.
George with the Battery, lying under
the shallow waters Of the bay nearer
BROOKLYN.
4. Tunnel connecting with Fourth
Avenue subway at foot of Sixty seventh
Street Rrooklvn, under New York Bay
20 Tompkinsville. Staten Island; csti-
mated cost, s25.OO0.O0Q; estimated time
for construction, five years after be
ginning work
>. Portion of No. 6, with ferry;
estimated cost. s6.000.o00 estimated
time Of construction, two years.
6. Extension Of Fourth Avenue sub
WY from Eighty-sixth Street 70
Nincty-ff.h Street, through Ninety,
ff.n Street TO shore Of Narrows. under
Narrows 20 Rosebank, Staten island
estimated cost Of construction, 500
100000; tine required for construc-
t!on, from Eighty-siXth Street to shore
front. two years; from Eighty xt'h
Street % Rosebank, Hvc years from
timc of beginning work.
:. A bridge connecting Richm ond ir
-rc vicinity Of Rosebans> with Brook
yn. in the vicinity of Third and FourN
erenues At or near Ninety -sccont
Street
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
BIT ofl lAMaIcA Es7A7SS WOODLAND
Trading in Brooklyn Real
Estate Was Slowed Down

The Bukley & Horton Company sold
$50 Stuyvesant Avenue. between Put
nam and Jefferson avenues. three
story and basement brownstonc. 20N95.
for Mary B. Henry to a client for oc-
cupancy.
Green Brothers sold the detached
dwelling AT 80 De kovon Court. South
Wildwood. Flatbush. for +. J Rowe to Il
client for occupancy.
The Realty Associates sold TO An
tonic Riccio la to liN Conovcr Street.
three four-story double fats, 25N5sNl00
,nrn
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

pleted for the transfer of the block
with its interesting old garden and
houses to Sutton Square, Inc, headed
by Mr.. Cross and consisting of Mr.
Webb, Mr.. Allen and John Cross.
The price is said to be close TO
100000, which was paid over in
cash. 1t is the assumption that Mr.
Osborn. who was understood TO have
acquired the property for another, did
not surrender the block until he was
assured that he could have the three
houses at the northeast corner Of SUIT
ton Place and Ffty-scventh Street.
Restrictions Will be placed on the
block which will prevent it from ever
being used for anything but site for
dwellings Of not more than four and
nc-half stories This eliminates
apartment house invasion. Twelve feet
Of the garden will be allotted to each
owner for use as tea house Bay
windows facing on the garden must be
above a certain height and must not
extend out from the building wall more
than four feet.
Every design must be approved by
the syndicate to promote a pleasing
color treatment and architectural CT
feet. The restrictions, Mr. Cross said,
arc reasonable but just, and every one
has been framed for the general benefit
of Sutton Square house owners. The
garden will be owned by the company
in which tho bordering house owners
Will hold shares.
VIII Influence Future of Section
The street elevations Of the houses
are TO undergo big change. Those
houses which arc not removed will be
,lntc cl, |,
VIII be the equal Of new structures.
All that will be left will be the walls
and the floor beams. Entrance to each
house will be from the street.
The building on the south side of Fifty
seventh Street facing the block is to be
taken down and an apartment house
erected by group of men closely denti-
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Builders May Go Up
90 Feet Higher in Chicago

Since 1911 the height limit on con
structon in Chicago has been 200 feet.
Pressure brought on the citys fathers
TO permit taller structures so as to make
equal the competition with the build
ings erected before 1911, which arc all
above the 200-foot mark, and also the
need for greater revenue, has led to
the establishment of the height at 260
feet. The extra sixty feet will bring
about Sl0,000.O00 a year additional
taxes to the city treasury.
Labor men in the city government
voted strongly for the revision because
they are of the belief that this change
will bring back the thousands of build
ing men who left Chicago for more ac-
tive fields in the last five or six years
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Home Buyers Active i'm
Village and Old Chelsea
Houses in Perry, 10Th st. and
22d st. Taken by Folks " no
Plan 10 Alter Them

T.. McDcrmott throo-story and base
nent house at $ Perry Street, 2oN9s,
TO DR.. William G. Doran, VINO is to
alter it into Offices and apartments.
Also sold the four-story and basement
house, as West Twenty second Street,
for John Reid. to Miss Rose Break
stone and for Mrs. Carrie Nath. three
story and basement house at l30 West
Tenth Street, near Sixth Avenue, TO
CASTOR Canton.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
Brokers to PAY 100000 for
Offices in Proposed Building

II. l.. Horton & Co.,, Stock Exchange
firm. is to leave tho Columbia Trust
Building, at GO Broadway The third
floor in Sl,o0o,ooo building to be
erected FOR The Combustion Engineer
my Corporation, at i3 to IL Broad
Street, has been leased by the firm
for ten years at a rental Of 500 900
through Welt & Suydam and Charles
c. Wolch.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06

Jamaica Estates, one Of the we'll
established home Developments of
Qucnes, Will be in the hands Of many
folks this time next week. Starting AZ
noon next Saturday. Joseph p. Day viii
undertake the liquidation Of a great
tract Of land, subdlvldcd into 1000
homo site, N a section Of New Yorl.
which should appeal to the man who is
contemplating erecting a home in the
suburbs in the near future
The property rises from Hillside
Avenue north to Union Turnpike and
comprises ell the remaining unsold
area lying between Midland Parkway
and Nollswood Avenue.
This highly elevated northcry sec
ton Of fast growing Jamaica is about
nine miles from Columbus Circle.
Came Near Being City Park
Twelve years ago Tho c.ty vas con
slderIng taking 0hs property foy u
park but lna y decided ON the present
Forcs, Park site because j, was closer
70 the bullt-up sections o. inc Greater
City.
The site Of Jamaica Estates having
been widely advertised, was pur-
chased then by It syndicate headed by
the late Timothy l.. Woodruff, formcr.
ly Lieutenant Governor Of the State
Of Ncw York Since then the prop
erty, IN part. has been developed at Il
very considerable outlay Of money to
which must be added the large amounts
!nYcStcd. by private owners, in the
purchase Of building SITES and The cree
tlon Of all year residences.
The forthcoming salc has been or
dcrcd by the present owners, the buy
crs at a force lOsurr sale bcruu4. uS
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
X. II. Culver Forms New Firm

Rudolph c. Culver. formerly Of
Malcolm +. Smith and Rudolph c. Cul-
Yer. Inc. has retired from TINS hrm
and has onencd an office at : East
Forty second Street, under the namc
of CulNor 4 Co
New-York tribune., 1920-06-06
George Backer Moves Close
70 Textile Building Operation

In George Backer Construction
Company has moved to is new Office
A. 1915 West Thrty-six,h tree. The
location il close 20 thc old Marshall
Field block in Fifth Avenue. which
Inc Eac>cr Company ~ 70 improve
nith big building for the tcxtilc
trade