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New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Large Tract at Woodmere
Bought for High School
Ten and One-haIf Acres Are
Acquired for Building To Be
Erected by Next Year

The Payson Mel. Merrill COMPANY
sold for the Norumbega Company to
the Woodmere School plot of ten and
one-haif acres on Woodmere Boulevard
and West Broadway within a block of
the Woodmere station of the Long
The property is situated in the
middle of large tract of restricted
land which is being developed by the
Norumbega Company with private
homes and is situated opposite the
building erected in 1914 by the Wood
mere School, which now accommodates
the elementary and grammar depart
ments.
The school will erect on the property
just purchased modern building to be
used for junior, senior and high school
departments for both boys and girls,
which will be ready for the fail Of
1921. In addition to the erection If
the main school building provision is
being made for the erection of masters
houses, which Will accommodate board
ing school pupils, and for an athletic
field.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Business Properties
In Many Sections
Pass to New Hands
Concern Located i'm Wash
ington Street Buys Ad-
joining Building; Loft in
West 65th Street Sold

William A. White & Sons sold for
Nicola Dibs the four-story building,
20x50, at III Washington Street. sMr.
Dibs acquired the property last April
The purchaser will use the structure
in connection with the adjoining prop
erty at Ill to lis Washington Street,
which he purchased through the same
brokers last January.
The Haggstrom- -Callen Company sold
the five-story store and loft, 25x90x1O0,
246 West Sixty-ffth tSreet, for Charles
E. Carey othe Whittemore- Sim Com
pany, wholesale automobile accessory
dealers, who, after extensive altera-
tions, will occupy the structure
The Wood-Dolson Company, Inc, sold
for Miss Mary Butler the four-story
dwelling at 139 West Ninety-seventh
Street to Harry Bailey, who will oc-
cupy for business purposes after al
terations are completed.
The Duff & Brown Company sold for
George D. Sherman 413 TO 415 West
150th Street, a four-story storage
warehouse, 5Ox10O.
Mrs. Wilson's Renting Company sold
for Stephen C. Clark to Mrs. Mary
Merriweather Post Close the garage,
25x102.2, 107 East Eighty Street.
Koelble G. Schuyler sold for the West
184th Street Construction Company the
two-story business building 369 Audo-
bon Avenue to client for occupancy.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
HOUSE at Al2KERWE

The tract Of forty acres between
Amstel Boulevard and Isabel Avenue,
or rather between the Atlantic Ocean
and Jamaica Bay, Arverne, which have
remained undeveloped these many
years to the surprise of many visitors
to the Long Island seaside town, are
now in fair way to be rapidly de-
veloped. The owners of the acres.
swept by cooling breezes, have decided
to dispose of the land, having aban-
doned the plans they had for develop
ing the property. 1t is to be offered at
auction as the owners do not want a
long drawn out liquidation, which
would be the case if the property were
offered at private SALE
The tract has been subdivided into
324 lots and, starting next Saturday at
noon, Joseph P. Day will undertake
the disposal of the, property. He says
that nc will sell every lot on the best
bid that he can secure.
Lots Face Cement Sidewalks
The lots to be sold are on Wave
crest Avenue, CIR Beach Seventy-second
Street; in Beach Sixty fourth Street
{ lBanistar Avenue); Almeda Avenue,
Hillmeyer Street (Kate Avenue), De,
costa Street (Adeh Avenue), bayfield,
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
$3 ,426,250 Broadway Block
Once Sold at $1,000 a Lot
Anthony Bleecker Had Great Difficulty in 1850 Get
ting Such Prices for New York Theater Block
Which Last Week Sold at $13,713 Front Foot

The sale of the New York Theater
block, Broadway, Forty fourth to
Forty-ffth Street, at $13,713 front
foot should influence investment in
real estate when it is recalled that less
than to-day's price of single foot
bought the entire frontage, 200 feet in
all, about half a century ago. The
Famous Players Laskyi Corporation
bought the property last Year, at least;
arrangements were completed for the
transfer of the realty, but the minority
interest in the property said that it
was worth more, and, to satisfy all, ap-
praisers were appointed by the various
interests to ascertain the value of the
block. This was reached last week
when price cf $226,25O above the
valuation of several months age was
given as the present value. The Fa-
nous Players-L -Lasky Corporation did
not demur at the increase, apparently
considering the property worth even
the new price, S3,426,25O.
The value which the real estate men
placed on each parcel in the block is
interesting in view of the prices at
which these same parcels were sold at
auction back in 1850
Stories which have been handed down
through the real estate market say that
Anthony j. Blocker, who was the auc-
tioneer in this sale. found it very diff
cult to get the public to pay $500 to
81 500 for lots in this block. 1t was
Mr.. Bleecker's job to find buyers for
forty-eight parcels in the west end of
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Work to Start Soon
On New $653,70O
Brooklyn School

Contract for constructing School 1856
on Ridge Boulevard, Brooklyn, has
been awarded by the city according to
Browns Letters, Inc, Construction Re-
ports. The building will be Of the
usual school construction and will cost
approximately $653,700 when COM
pleted. The contract for the general
construction has been awarded to
James Macarthur Company, of Brooklyn.
James A. Hearn & Son, Inc, 20
West Fourteenth Street, have awarded
the contract for constructing their
new boiler house at 1928 West Thir-
teenth Street, to cost in the neighbor-
hood of $200,000. Plans and specif-
cations were prepared in the Office of
Densmore & Le Clair, 88 Broad Street
The contract for the general construc-
tion has been awarded to r. H. Howes
Construction Company of New York.
From plans and specifications pre-
pared by John Russell Pope, 527 Fifth
Avenue, William p. Liscomb Company
of Washington, D. c., has been
awarded the contract for constructing
a new residence for Irving Loughlin,
to cost in the neighborhood of $500 900.
The house will be located on Belmont
Street, Washington, D. c.
The Homack Construction Company
of Brooklyn has been awarded the
contract for constructing a garage and
service station on Broad Street, New
ark, for the McAllister Carlton Com
pany Corporation. The building will
be from plans prepared by r. Thomas
Short, $40 Macon Street, Brooklyn, and
will cost approximately 100000 when
completed
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18

the block at the highest prices that
could be obtained He was a brilliant
auctionecr, so the story goes, and he
got prices which only Joseph p. Day
might have exceeded if he was calling
for bids in those days. Eight of the
lots constitute the land on which the
New York Theater, the Criterion Thea
ter and the New York Roof Garden
now stand, and which last week finally
became the property of the Famous
Player -Lasky Corporation. The re-
naming forty lots adjoined the Broad
way fronte<, extending along Forty
fourth and Forty-ffth streets almost to
Sixth Avenue, and are to-day the sites
of several theaters and hotels.
The appraisers who determined the
price which the picture corporation
has paid placed valuation of $425,000
en- the lot at the northeast corner of
Broadway and Forty-fourth Street. Mr..
Bleecker had a job getting $1,000 for
the parcel, and $1,000 was the best
he could get for the lot next to it on
Broadway. The value of that lot to-
day, as estimated by real estate ex-
perts on modern valuations, is $285, 900.
The lot next to it on Broadway was
valued at $275,000, and parcels in the
middle of the block at $250,00O.
The southeast corner of Broadway
and Fortyffth Street they estimate
to be worth 100000, and on this valua-
tion was accepted by the new owners.
It's value back in 1850 was $1,32O.
Since that time the worth of this
parcel has multiplied four times each
year, or about 303 times since that
auction day.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Big Kinggscote, in
West 10th Street,
Bought g by Tenants
Nine-Story Apartment Taken
Over ON the Cooperative
Ownership Plan Con-
tains Eiglty.one Suites

The Lownsbery- Gage Company re-
ports the purchase of the nine story
modern apartment Kingscote at 419
West 10th Street. 1t contains eighty
one apartments and the selling COM
pany has been asking s450,Oo0 for the
property. 1t will be sold to tenants
and others on the cooperative plan
The Lownsbery- Gage Company has
also taken over for sale on coopera-
tive basis 10 Gramercy Park. 1t is one
of the original Gramercy Park proper
ties and is owned by Katherine c..
Budd, the architect.
The fve-story apartment, 5e6 to 500
West 17Sth Street, 75x95, housing
thirty families, has been sold to re-
Gently formed company, 5S6 West
17Sth Street Corporation, an investing
client of Henry S. Mansfield. j. C.
Hough & Co. we're the brokers.
The Merit Realty Company Marcus
L. Osk) bought through Ward Delknap
& Sons the five-story fiat at 1047 First
Avenue, 25x80.
Harriet L. Hornung sold to Abraham
Wertheim the five-story flat at So West
117th Street, 25x100.
Alexander Werner sold to Henry
Freeman the two fve-story fats at 81
and 50 East 104th Street, 25x100.11
each.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Il TO,On of Made-Over
A'atiquated Structures

"A walk about the city will con-
vince one that every building, no
matter how old it may be, is worth
too much to be removed. Except in
the lower city and through the
Flfth Avenue and Forty second
Street district, where units of great
height and area are projected.
buildings are not being removed.
but are being made over to meet
new requirements, whatever they
may be. If this continues for q
Few years more, active centers Of
the city will not have an old-appear-
ing building. Making over build
ings Is becoming an art. Under the
pressure for space structures.
whether they have been up few
years or many years, are being
made over to meet the demands of
the day. Last year few buildings
were removed. The year before
when material and labor prices were
still comparatively low, 261 build
ings were removed iii this borough.
Thirty-nine of them were dwellings,
81 tenements, 81 business buildings
and 148 miscellaneous structures.
But that was two years ago. 1t is
not likely to happen again until
there is great revision downward
in construction costs.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Cooperative Offices
Interest Big Concerns
Number and Character of In
quiries Gratifying to
Builders

That the Park Madison Building,
the great cooperative structure to be
erected back of the Grand Central Sta
tion, will be not only entirely rented
from the plans in record time, but will
have a tenantry that will be of the
finest character, is indicated by the in
terest being dispayed in the project by
some of the largest business combina-
tlons in the country. The interest is
more than passive; it is very active,
judging by the inquiries which have
come to Douglas L. Gilman & Co.,
managing agents for the building. in
the last ten days. Every one disclosed
an interest in the building, the ar.
rangement of the space and the CO.
operative feature that is gratifying to
the men behind the project, because
they are approvals from some of the
keenest and best known men in the
business world
Speaking of the cooperative feature.
which was the theme of the many in
Gulries received, Major S. Fullerton
Weaver, president of the Weaver Craw-
ford Corporation, said that the saving
in rent effected bv the cooperative plan
of ownership worked out for tenants
1ii mo ouAiuliiS WOulU greatly reQuce
overhead costs.
"a tenant who pays $4,000 a year
rent" Major Weaver said, "pays out
100000 and loses $22s,O00 in interest
IN twenty years, at the end of which
time there is nothing to show for this
$o2e 600 except 240 rent receipts.
II the same tenant buys this space
to-day for seven times the annual rent
al value, the basis on which space is
being sold in the comparatively owned
Park Madison Building--or $i40,o0O-
the cost to him over twenty years
would be S230,200, amortizing his in
vestment at the rate of $1,000 a wear
and figuring interest at per cent.
"At the end of twenty years he will
have amortized completely his invest
ment and rent will no longer be fac
tor IN his overhead expense. He will
have no taxes or insurance to nav.
During the entire twenty years he owns
his property, which is always quick
asset and an advantageous investment
of his surplus. The revenuesfrom that
part of the comparatively owned build
lngs that is rented pays all taxes, in.
surance and operating costs"
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
S,84O Buildings Planned
For Queens Since Jan. L


Although plans for 3,S4o new build
ings to cost S22.347.0l7 and alterations
to cost $2,204.511 were filed with the
Buildings Department Of the Borough
of Queens during the first six months
of 1920, record exceeded BIZ only
Manhattan and Brooklyn, the total is
by no means what it would have been
had building conditions been anything
like normal, large operators have told
the housing bureau Of the greensboro
Chamber Of Commerce, because of
many natural advantages and the
mooern transit systems in operation
and steadily being extended.
More mortgage funds and better
labor and material conditions will see
Queens the most active building field
in the greater city, according to the
greensboro Chamber Of Commerce.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
ZR/NI7y and UNITED S747ES REAL7y
iHLl/kD/NGS. NEXT. 70. .TR2NI7y CHURCH

Broadway back to Trinity Place along
Morris Street is now being erected the
giant Cunard Building, which will be
great British steamship company. Next
to it is the Bowling Green Building,
which was built up seventeen stories
and is now undergoing changes that
will make it as tall and comparatively
as modern as some of its neighbors.
On the other side of the building,
facing on Battery Park, is the old
Washington Building, which is to be
rebuilt for the International Mercan-
tile Marine for its headquarters. This
block is out of the market forever and
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
American Growers Society
Buy Bic Elizabeth Plant

The American Grocers' Society Inc.
purchased the United States Printing
Company's plant at Elizabethport, N.
j., consisting of one and two-story
buildings, which contain approximately
10000 square feet. The property was
valued at S250,000 and was sold through
Joseph l.. Feibleman & Co. 1t Isl the
intention of the purchaser to convert
the buildings into large packing
plant
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
al A0nERWE BEAcH

meet the. demand for bungalows, cot
tages and all-year houses on the coast
between Neponsit and Cedarhurst, of
which district Arverne is almost the
exact geographical center.
In former years long stretches Of
ocean and bay frontage were available
to purchasers. These sandy reaches are
almost completely occupied now with
bungalows, the demand for which has
been SD strong and insistent that
bonuses have been paid for titles and
for leases.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18

is the main thoroughfare of Arverne,
in which are located stores of every
description. Tho lots are unrestricted.
Trey are suitable for improvem ent with
one and two family houses and bung-
allows.
The Rockaway coast and Jamaica
Bay section of New York have grown
rapidly in the last decade, and is still
growing as rate more rapid than
any other seashore section of New
York and It's environs.
1t has been practically impossible to
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
England Is Helping
Builders to Prouide
Homes for People

Home construction in England !.
now subsidized by the British sos :
enment. Economy experts holS;n,
cabinet positions in the Departmsrs.
of Internal Affair and in Parlismsss,ss.
have hit upon this scheme as mss,s
of expediting or encouraging tbs s
building of homes. The subsidy ~ ~
duces the investment required ~
the builder to point that il na. a
much above what he put into ~
operation before the era of hieS
building and labor costs, which ara
just as prevalent in England A.
here. The subsidy depends on tSs
size and character of the residential
structure projected. In some in.
stances the governments interest IN
a project is 9250 Buildings erected
for the accommodation Of tenants
of large incomes do rot share in N.
building subsidy plan.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
3OuzENA4D ONE OF Al2HERWE5 BUSINESS S79EEIs

Street usabe' Avenue), Beach Sixty
seventh Street (Nernam Avenue) and
Beach Sixty Street (Gaston Ave
nue). Cement sidewalks and curbs are
installed and wide thoroughfares laid
out through the property.
has good train service and the protec
tlor afforded by the police, health, fire
and other departments of the City of
New York.
Just south of the property and
paralleling thu Long Island Railroad,
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Another Resident for Arleiah

The Rickert-Brown Realty Company
sold to Maurice Van Praag 2-story
and basement Colonial brick dwelling
on Ditmars Avenue, between Goodrich
Street and Merchant Street, Arleigh,
for $1,000.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
New Factory for Talking
Machine Compsu,

The Victor Talking Machine eea'
pany has ordered the erection o., q :
ene-story storehouse. 400N424, at "a
der, N. ]. The building viii BE OF W.. W.
construction " h concrete stoor, usr 81
ite" exterior walls and interior 70, 20
walls. Work will go forward az eass. s.ss
Ballinger & Perrot are the archl'eee,
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
First Properties in Hps,
ling and Busting C;,.
to Have Reached a S,.,.
Which Cannot Be 81.
ceeded; Buildings Hay,
Been Piled as High.In,s
Clouds as Father KnicL.
erbocker Will PERM,
Structures to Go

tensive development, yet they =. :.
regarded as final operations. and 4 a8
fore the property which they ea~a. ,,..'e :
not stamped as having reachss !. :
limit of possibility. The apartn.s =
house erected by DR.. Charles pstsrrSa' s,S'
which covers two blocks, is a notss,
example. There is no certainty AZ. AZ.
the duration of the occupancy Of ssss ssss
erty in the Grand Central distriss' x Z
apartment buildings. y
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
DIR. A. II. Doty Parts With
Three Staten Island Homes

The Cornell Real Estate and Auction
Company, Inc, has sold for DR.. A. H.
Doty, former Health Officer of the Port
Of New York, three houses with a
large plot at Fort Wadsworth, Staten
Island.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
New School Building
Ready IN Ocl0pe'

The new building of the Hamilton Is'y -
stitute for Boys. at 339 West Elsaa :,
sixth Street, win be ready fol :
cupancy in October, according y :
announcement made yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18

improvement will end the future of the
block. The bank is anchored there,
and the building which it purposes to
erect is close to the height limit which
folks in the street and in neighboring
structures may have some direct sun
light, good air and no shadows.
Finality Not Reached Uptown
North of Fulton Street, that is, in
upper sections of the city, are great
buildings which are structures of in
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Sale of White Plains House

T. K. Mays, treasurer of the Brad
ford Draft Gear Company, purchased
from William A. Siewers a new Co.
lonial dwelling in Walworth Avenue,
White Plains. Maxwell Smith was the
broker
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
BUYS Bronx Store Dwelling

Samuel Singer sold for the has~s, sasss,
Realty Company 76S East i6htn o =
a three-story store and dweilins'
client of A. Henocksberg.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18

Dwelling in Brooklyn Sold
Bulkley G. Horton Co. sold 213 La
,ayette Avenue, 4-story dwelling, 22x
LOO, for James G. Hamlon.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Get Suites in Apartments

Payson Mel. Merrill Company leased
duplex studio apartment at 257 West
Eighty-sixth Street to DR.. Lefferts
Hutton, an apartment at 81 West Fifty
third Street to Stephen Peabody jr.
and an apartment at 14O West Fifty
seventh Street to Robert N. Olyphant.
Huberth & Huberth rented at 81
West Twelfth Street apartments, con-
sisting of seven rooms and bath, TO
Robert B. Meyer, George E. Warren
and A. Stanley Dell.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
Coal Dealer Invests i'm
West Side DWELLINGS
Purchases Two Houses in 82d
Street and Another in
85th Street

Joseph S. Ward, president of the
Thomas Ward Coal Company, bought
from Ennis & Sinnot the two 3-story
dwellings,, 33.4x1OO, 224-22e West
Eighty-secohd Street, and from Mrs.
Isabel De +. Colbron, the 3-story
dwelling at 164 West Eighty-ffth
Street, 1S.9x1OO. Edward c. H. Vogler
was the broker.
Porter & Co. sold for the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, to Frederick
G. Davis, the 3-story dwelling, with
garage, at S92 st. Nicholas Avenue,
18x125.
Sebastian Marti sold to Sadie B. Til
lotson the 4-story dwelling at 46 West
Ninety-seventh Street, 20x10O.
The 3-story dwelling at 1872 West
132d Street, 16.Sx10O, has been sold for
Mark Ansorge by Isidorc Brown.
Carrie S. Weiss sold to Ella C. Krasu
the 3-story house at 1873 Amsterdam
Avenue, 19.6x10O,
Herman Hassell purchased from
Ellen 7. Blake the 4-story dwelling at
44O West Forty-third Street, 1G.Sx10O.5.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-18
" @ h ss with stss @

from the physical standpoint will be as
highly developed as it can be.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-21

the Chamber of Commerce build
/ ing.
There are kilograms at the West
ern Union for c. b. Doolittle, f. A.
Young, Robert Goggins, Mrs. J. A,
| Hockney, Jack Clark. e, f. Per-
! nett. Hart Robinson and Mrs
Edith Padlett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harris Miller mo-
tored back to their home at Spring
erville, Ariz., yesterday morning,
after spending several weeks visit
ing Mrs. Millers mother, Mrs. j,
Vota and attending the wedding of
her sister. Miss Ida c. Nota, to l..
f. Malone.
This is Literature day at the
Woman's club and there will be a
South American program under
Mrs. George valiant, who will have
a paper on ''Novelists of South
America" Mrs. r. j. Mabry will
have the subject, Poets of South
America" There will also be
some musical numbers.
Charles Young of Wheeling, w.
Va, passed through here yesterday
on his way to California overland.
Mr. Young will be remembered as
putting on the first auto show here,
! together with Col. d. *, b. Sellers,
about seven years ago.
/ Mrs. w. II. Gill of Forester ave-
nue. was operated upon for appen-
dicitis yesterday morning and is
reported doing nicely.
Scion Rose left for n two-days
trip to Ell Paso last night.
| Reports are to the effect that b
| RUPEE who underwent an opera
| ton last Tuesday morning for gal
stones. is now recovering and will
soon be able to attend to business
There will be a regular meeting
of Adah Chapter No. +. Drdrf q
Eastern Star, tonight at the Ma
sonic temple az s O'Clock,
The Loyal Women's Bible class
of the Christian church will hold
monthly business meeting at the
home of Mrs. Douglas Roy, 6la
South Walter street, tonight al
7:45 o'clock.
H. A. Hudspeth, United States
marshal, was in the city yesterday
on official business.
w. A. Hammell of Springerville
was in Albuquerque yesterday on
a short business trip.
A. Savage arrived in the city
yesterday from Palamar, n. Y, for
a short visit with friends and to
recuperate in health. Mr.. Savage
served sixteen years on the police
force of New York city. after which
he served three years In the United
States navy during the war.
Judge w. w. Mcclellan expects
to leave tonight for Ell Paso, where
| he will attend the spring ceremon-
ial of the Dramatic Order knights
of Khorassan.
F. f. Bonner, assistant chief en-
gineer of the forest service, with
headquarters at Washington. d. c.,
arrived in Albuquerque yesterday
and will spend the next two days in
the district forest office in con-
ference with District Engineer G,
A. Long, after which lie will leave
on several weeks inspection trip OF
the roads and trails in the national
! forests in Arizona.