Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-31
INDUSTRIAL TRUST
CO. BIDS S1,151,2OO
FOR UNION HOUSES
Manv Tenants Also Submitted
Proposals of Purchase at Wash
ington Today.
ACTION DEFERRED
BY SHIPPING BOARD
special Dispatch From stan Correspondent

speciaI Dispatch From atar Correspondent
WAsnrNoToN, DEC 81.
pids were opened today. at the office
of the United States Shipping Board.
hero for the purchase of the buildings in
Tho Union Park Gardens housing opera
tion in Wilmington.
Tho combined projects offered for sale
nv the board aggregate Has acres Of land
and included 2.7G2 dwelling houses and
h6 other buildings
MANY uMfNGToN RfDDEHs.
MANY bids wen, received from Whining
toniana on the Union Gardens proposition.
They were chiefly from tenants.
The most important Wilmington bids,
however, two of them. were submitted
hy tho Industrial Trust Go. at Whining
ton which was represented bv tinlde-
man G. Stout. Carroll W Griffith OF
wilmington was also here. The two bids
submitted by the Industrial Trust Go. OF
Wilmington, both for the whole Union
Garden operation. were IA follows
No s1.15l 200. conditioned on 90
per cent mortgage and 10 pcr cent each
No. 81 .0OG,3OO. con iitioned on go
PER cent mortgage and 40 per cent payable
IN nstalments in the next two years
Other bids were received for Union
Garden houses "a follows
J. n. Burns offered S2,5n0 for 2l2
South Grant avenue
Herbert A COOPER 500 for $50
McIanc street.
a. NJ Griffith s2,5oo for 2lo Gilha
street
o /. Horty 5000 for 2l33 nddlc
street
q 4 Sutherland $500 for ~
South Sycamore street
Albert Woolley 81, 500 for 2l26 lin
den street
Charles +. Curloy $4,000 for 1918
2O-22 -24-26 Lancaster avenue
W II Grpcnwalt 81 $50 for 20l r7o'iti
Union street
liz street
street
4. &. HeH 81 .500for 20i South Union
Sylvester T. Foster 81 600 FOR lp2
I Lancaster avenue and $4,000 for ! Soutl
I Union
| II W Kennedy $500 for 2ll Ian
caster avenue and $500 for 2ii2 Lancas
I ter avenue
4 avenue
q Walter WenEig $4,000 for ~
I South Svcamore street
/ Richard l., Hollnwall $500 Tor al
I5imer W Davis 50. zoo for 2l2
Linden street.
N DAVIS -. 200 for 2I2S Linden
II Westroti $1,000 for III Soutl
Grant ~ $1,000 for I0p-l1 South Grant
+. II Frorer $3.50 for 20l SoutI
Grant
Glllls 81 rect
caster avenue
All told there were 60 bidders horc for a
of the various Operations After th
I'nian Park figures had been read th
smaller onos for individual houses
werc referred to minor officers 81 ia
Shipping Roand who retired 20 consldc
them The twu bids Of the lndustris
Tr,lst Co wcnr considered by the boar
,tsrlf. over which Admiral Benson. tn
chairman presided
Rcfop, the bids were Opened haIi
man Benson announced TINT the boar
exercised the privilege of rejecting an
or all bids; also that before final actlo
was taken the bids must be approved h
all Of the members of the board
Some OF the Wilmington bidders f
individual houses did not accompany the
bids bv the required 35 per cent checl
This NAV or NAV not figure n the result
for such bids may be rejected
Walter {. Clark Of Philadelphia SCI
a letter 70 the board suggesting the form
ing of a national syndicate 10 take ov'
ali Of the operations and manal
them as al Present He said he would sui
NIT a bid, but had not done SO up % moor
rs far rs is known.
BIDS TO RE EXAMINED.
The board referred the bids to Willial
Towers of Philadelphia for analysis an
recommendations Mr.. Towers IS manag,
Of the division OF transportation an
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