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New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

It came before the Board Of Appeals
and the stand taken by Building
Superintendent Miller WAS confirmed.
Chairman Leo told the thca,r rical
folks that the Ffty-ninth Street wing
Of the proposed building woult not be
permitted because it infringcd on
street set aside for residential pur-
poses. Fire Chief Kenlon saw ,hings in
the plan that he did not like and told
architects the opportunity OF filing an
altered plan, and last Tuesday it came
before the court for the second time.
This time it was approved. Instead
of stores and exits on Ffty-ninth
Street there is to be 8 restaurant Cor
the use of the apartment tenants.
Fire Chief Kenlon told the builders
that he would vote for the theater with
a restaurant On Fifty-ninth Street if
they would put up steel curtain, hav-
ing in mind fire hazards. When they
agreed to this the board said the
tkeate7 could be erected.
residential sanctity Of Murray Hill and
Of all sections set down on the zone
map Of the city as places for dwellings
only, it approved last week q trade
establishment within the restricted
Murray Hill district. Edmund Baylies.
one of the leading legal minds Of the
city, argued against Mrs. Anna w.
Hallock continuing her tearoom at 200
Madison Avenue. gu. the board took
note Of her plea Of the great shortage
Of stores and allowed her to remain a
transg until next May. Had the
renting situation been otherwise Mrs
Hallock would have been ordered out
of tho section. This was her second
stay.
High Rentals Considered
II wish to remind you" said Chair
man Lee. directing lis words at one
Of group of Staten Islanders who had
come before the board with a plea to
disapprove petition allowing a CARA &c
to be bUilt in a residential section OF
Great Kills just off the Amboy Road
"that this is board Of equity, anc
| justice will be done to all. This mar
has been forced out. 1t is all matter
| Of rent"
+ 1t had been brought out by question
ing by mcmbers Of the board that thu
garage keeper could have remained in
garage already in the section if he wa
willing to pay rental that lad beel
! increased from about $3.50 to $3.50
month. But he decided to build
garage nearby sooner than pay thi
rental, he told the board The bear,
said that it could not see how the sec
ten could be impaired by this buildiR,
since there was a garage there now
and voted TO let the man build ney
one as it did not approve such larg
increases in rental.
But even at that the neighboring sec
ton was con sidered the beard decidin
that entrance to tAe garage must b
from the Ambcy Road and not from tn
side streets, which are within a re
str;cted residential zone.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Buying i'm the Flat
Field Leans to
LOw-P Priced Houses
Bulk of Trading Yesterday
Was i'm Buildings on the
Lower East Side and i'm
the Yorkville Section

Louisa Q. T. Boynton sold 20 Samuel
Leo the FIVE story fat. with store, at 223
East Seventy third Street, 25x1O22
The Ninety-frst Street Realty Com
pany sold to the Mortimer Realty Com
pany the fve-story fat and store at
16S9-'e1 First Avenue, 40x100, near
Eighty eighth Street.
Catharine c. Crosby sold for s1s,boo
to Jacob Epstein the four-story house
at 213 East Broadway, 24xS76.
The Safety Holding Company sold to
Philip Silverman the six-story tenement
and store at 169 Allen Street, 25x876.
Max Winkler sold to Samuel Krau~
thamer the siX-story tenement and
store at 53 Cannon Street.
Shaw {. Co. sold for the State IN
vesting Company 1891 Third Avenue, a
FIVE story triple fat, 25.2x105, to A.
Gabriel.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

countries Of Asia IL was held
unlawful to evict tenants of land
while they paid the rent--a rent not In
general fixed by agreement, but by the
custom of the neighborhood,' and he
also referred to the fact that in Tus-
cany the metayer farmer was guar
anteed by custom a permanent possess
sion SO long as he fulfilled the custom
ary conditions Of his tenure.
perhaps nowhere else in the world
has custom had so much influence upon
the rights of tenants in preventing
summary evictions and securing fair
rents as in Ireland and Scotland
Under the English system, writes
ShawLefevre in Agraran Tenures,
tenants held AS a rule on early ten
ancies, but they have confidence in the
long established practice and traditions
of the estate, and in the honor and
good faith of the owner. They know
that they will be allowed to remain as
tenants as long as they do justice to
the land, and that on quitting their
farms they will be treated with every
cons deration.' O'Brien declares that
'in England the tenant farmer was en-
couraged to improve his land, knowing
that at the expiration Of his lease he
would be granted a renewal at a rca
6ON6Dle rent; DuC IN ireland the tenant
knew that the only consequences of i'm =
proving his land would be that in few
years some poor wretch without capi-
tai or resources would be tempted to
bid some utterly exorbitant sum for q
lease of it,
"The report Of 1929 on the causes OF
Protestant emigration from Ulster
states that the agents Of absentee
landlords hab tually let the lands by
auction to the highest bidder. They
turned tenants out of their holdings
without compensation for improve
ments and let the farms to new tenants
on short leases and at rack rents
Field quotes az follows from the re-
monstrance sent by the Northern Prot
estants to the government in 1772:
"'When the tenants lease was ended
the landlords published m the news
papers that such a parcel of land was
to be let, and that proposals in writing
would be received for it. They invited
every covetous, cnvious and malicious
person to offer for his neiEhbnre y s.
sessions and improvements. The ten.
ant, knowing ne must be the highes,
! bidder or turn out he knew not whittier
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Kearney.

The right Of the board to restrain
Objectionable construction and use Of
property, which had been questioned
by some interests thwarted in their
plans to invade residential sections
with structures that would destroy
character and value, was settled In
July by the Court Of Appeals, tho
highest law court in the state, which
decided that the board functioned
rightfully under the police power of
the state. The little court may be re-
rarded as the watchdog of the citys
future appearance, character and in
trinsic worth. Allow indiscriminate
location of commercial plants and New
York's property worth will drop, and
structurally it will become a distorted
mass, just tumble of contrasts. The
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Evctions and Rent Raising by Landlords Of
Today Have Precedent in Old World History

The renting situation now agitating
the minds of the people Of this and
other cities of the country Is by no
means new. Conditions almost 'denti
cal to those Of to-day confronted rent
ers in Eng land Ireland, Scotland. Mary
land and New York more than century
ago. In support Of the constitutional
right Of the state Legislature to pass
recent anti-rent laws to curb activities
OF landlords William D. Guthrie and
julius Henry Cohen, special deputy
attorney generals. have filed q brief
with Justice Giegerich in the case of
the Brixton Opera ting Company against
the People of New York that rectes
the story Of the relationship Of land
lord and tenant.
Emergencies involving the occupan-
cy of land,' the brief recites, "have
arisen and been dealt with in the past
first by social or communal custom
and then by legislation which converted
the customs and legally unenforceable
obligations into positive law. Surely
what history has again and again
evolved as the proper remedy in such
cases, namely. the restriction of the
right arbitrarily to evict, the recogni-
tlon Of the tenants right to renew. and
the fixing Of rentals by disinterested d
bodies, cannot be regarded as arbitrary
now. There are we'll known historical
facts which constitute the background
Tor and, IN a sense, are fairly the pro-
totypes OF the legislation now before
the court.
Tenants Rights Recognized
From the earliest times the occu-
pancy Of real estate has carried with it
certain tenant rights. The whole his
tory Of the development Of title in fee
to real estate is associated with imita-
tions IN behalf Of tenants in occupancy.
The English copyhold tenure starts at
a point where there s nothing but
occupancy; whore the villcin cultivator
Of the lords demcsne held his land at
frst at the unfettered will of the lord
but where he ultimately reached sccu-
rlty Of tenure. The fact that his name
was on the rolls of the manor built
him by slow degrees fortress against
unjust exactions and summary eject
ments.'
"ln France, from very early days
'here could be no eviction or annul-
ment Of a lease Of agricultural lands
otherwise than through judicial tri-
bunals The tenant is seldom turned
out, as long as he conducts h mseli
well and does not deteriorate the land;
and IN many parts of France the farm
though let on short leases, continues
in the hands of the same family from
father to son. The Judge has dis.
cretionary power to use indulgence
toward tenants whom he cons der:
hardly dealt with. and many gran
them time for the payment Of thciy
rent
Unlawful in Asia to Eylct
"John Stuart Mill, writing in 1879
referred to the fact that in man,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

ing and Swift describes the landlords
as 'canting' their own lands upon
short leases and sacrificing their old
est tenants for a penny an acre ad-
vance. This practice Of absentee land
lords having no direct human relations
With their tenants forced rents un-
naturally high with an effect not dis
similar TO that giving rise to the
preset laws in New York
ain Maryland, before the Revolution,
much OF The valuable property in Bal
timore County was leased for periods
Of ninety-nine years with privilege of
renewal, If exercised within the ninety
nine years. in p"rno Juity. In Banks
vs. Iaskia, As 1id. 20l, it appeared that
the tenant had beel guilty Of Inches
in falling to renew the lease, and that
five months after an action Of election
had been brought by the landlord he
tlled bill IN equity "a little more
than three years and nine months af-
ter the expiration Of the original term J
20 enforce his right Of redcm2tion.
without any legislative enactment, the
Supreme Court Of Maryland held in
the year 1876. the right Of the tenant
to renew, bssirg its decision on old
country prcceGents.
"Parnell, speaking at Ennis on Sep
tcmber 10, 1880, tod the people to pun
ish man for taking q farm from
which another had been evicted by
isolating him from his kind as if he
were leper of Old This advice WAS
at once taAen and its scope largely
extended. For refusing to receive
rents at figures which tie community
believed equitable, Captain Boycott
Lord Ernes's agent at Mayo, was Sc
verely 'boycotted,' the name OF tnis
victim being given to the new system
Of ostrac!sN. His servants were
forced to leave him, his crops were
left unsaVed and even the post and tel
egraph We're interfered with"
Acquires Horne in Brooklyn
Bulkley & Horton Co. sold 1888
Pacific Street, threestory dwelling
50Xl00, for st. Bartholomew's Church
to Anna p. Uoughton.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

just as he pleased with his property.
He could pile story upon story ia. into
the clouds and without restraint or
utilize q building for any purpose he
desired no matter how inimical it
might be to the character and intrinsic
value Of the surroundings. 1t was not
a fair condition and after long fight
measures Of restraint on building
heights and building uses were adopted
by the city government. The Board of
Standards and the Board of Appeals
then followed as courts to pass on the
operation of these restraints and also
to do away with duplicity in the juris-
diction OF city departments in building
matters, which had been source OF
great annoyance and expense to prop
erty owners and builders.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

little court checkmates automatically
attempted invasions into forbidden
parts.
Plan to ercc. a factory, a garage or
storage plant in residential Fifth Ave
nue., Riverside Drive or in some tene-
ment house block and see what hap
pens! Immediately on filing the plans
for the projected structure the en-
croachment on uses to which buildings
may be put in that particular section is
noted, and the plans rejected, with the
explanation that the operation is an
outlawed one. If the builder is deter
mined to carry through his plans. he
makes application to the court Of last
resort. the seven men, the Board of
Appeals, for revision of the decision
Of the building superintendent.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Vanderbilt Webb Adds to
Big W.estchester Estate
Buys $50 Acres Near Peekskill
for Development in Conncc-
fiOu With His Proncrtv

PEEKSKILL, Nov. 27.-Vanderhilt
Webb, son-in-law Of William Church
Osborn, has purchased large parcel
OF property in Annsville, N. Y. CUB
urb Of Peekskill. 1t is near Mr.. Wcbb's
country place.
CURED the M proDert' rt' tract '1 o. go go
acres, with two farmhouses, fc- Mr.
Webb from Mrs. Antoinette Stou Of
New York and Peekskill 1t is report
ed that some summer bungalows will
be constructed on the property.
Another sale that mas become public
is that Of seventy-tve acres by Thomas
Diamond, of New York City. to Fred
erick Osborn, a brother-in-law of Mr.
Webb, This property is IN Philipstown
Putnam County.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
233 Hornesitcs at Quaker
Ridge to Go at Auction

In order to close out all the unsold
property belonging to the Quaker
Ridge Improvement Co., at Quaker
Ridge. New Rochelle. Joseph P. Day
will sell, in the Vesey Street salesroom
on Thursday, 273 residence sites in
Strattnn and Kewanee roads, in Rock
we'll Place and in other adjacent roads
and avenues.
The Quaker Ridge station Of the N.
Y. w. e. B. r. Il. is located on tho
property, with trains every twenty
minutes
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

Publicity is given the intended trans
gression, that folks in the section
aimed at may appear before the board
when the matter is called. But whether
opposition is represented or otherwise,
the board will not allow g transgres-
sion.
Guardians of the City
Several weeks ago the Shuberts fled
plans for a theater and apartm cnt
house to cover the old Central Park
Riding Academy property on Seventh
Avenue, Tifty-cighth and Fffty-ninth
streets. An exit and two stores we're
Elanned to cover the fifty feet of the
property fronting on Fifty ninth Street
and across from Central Park On this
score and others the plan was rejected
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Rents East Both Street Home

Pcnse & Gilman let furnished for
Horace Barnard to william H. Burr
the three, story dwelling 1b7 East
Eightieth Street.
The Houghton Company leased for
Kobert Beck the fourstory dwelling
10y west Seventy-third Street to Os-
CIR Banco- Fombonu and Francisco
Garcia for five ycnrs
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Buver of 38th Street Dwelling
Plans Bachelor Apartments

estate Of Mrs Peter c. Baker the four
story brown stone residence 80 East
Thirty-eighth Street to client who
viii remodel the building into bachelor
apartments and studios to be ready for
occupancy about May !, 1927. This,
property has been in the sellers fam ly
since 1876. 1t Is part OF the original
Murray Hill farm. The brokers in the
sale have been named agents of the
property BY the new owner.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
New Workers Rem, Hcm~s

+. NJ. Crawlcy & Bros, of Montclair,
y. j., have leased for Carl Bonwit his
residence on Lorraine Avenue to Robt
+. smith, Of Ne" York City; for Miss
Lois h. Smith her residence on South
MouhtaIn Avenue to l.. b. Sawyer, Of
New York City. and for D. S. Marsh
his residence on Gates Avenue to
b. Parson, of New York City.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Big Demand for Business
PrOperty i'm FLUSHING

II. Lawrence and Mrs. Charles II. r.
Burling have sold to an investor r
Main Street, Flushing. Ira l.. Terry
negotiated tho sale
This Is the thirty seventh store
property on Main Street in the bust
ness section of Flushing to change
ownership within the last few months,
according to MIR. Terry.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
New Building Planned for
Oucnnshnro Rridcc Plaza

William D. Bloodgooa (, Co., Inc.
has sold for George ". payntar, ct al
to Lewis Loft. frontare of ninety
three feet on Academy Street, ninety
eight feet ON Hunter Avenue. ndjoin-
ing the buildings Of the Corn Exchnnge
Bank and the Long Island City Say
lnSs Bank in Long Island City. The
plot Will ne improved with a CONNER
cl;.l structure
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Can Name Your Own Rent
For Space in This Build;nc

Vescy Street sa.csroom on December
8, on which occasion Joseph P. Day
will sell the lease Of the top floor Of
the twelve-story mercantile building
at 4S East Twenty y-hrst, extending to
40 East Twentieth Street. The lease
involves $500 square feet for term
of three or more years from February
L 1921
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Trucking Concern Buys Large
aterfroEf Tract on East Side

Edward J. Thompson aud Isidor &
Jacob Kaufman sold for the Bradley
Contracting Company (Stephen u. Hop
Nns. John S. Sheppard and Robert C..
Morris receivers) sixteen lots of up
land and about 1870 feet of waterfront,
a the foot OF Stanton Street Including
warehouses, to James S. and Daniel L.
Reardon, Of the p Rcardon Trucking
Company. The buyers intend to erect
81 artificial ice plant and coal ward.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
New Building Planned for
Downtown Insurance Trade

Bennett Ellison will erect building
for the insurance trade at S9-101 Will
lam Street. Mr. Ellison will occupy the
ground floor for his own business and
lease the balance of the property A
lease has practically been closed for
the second floor and negotiations are
pending with out-of-town insurance in
terests to take two floors, according to
the Charles F. Noyes Company, agents
for the projected building.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
100000 Dutch ST. Alterations

The Travellers Insurance Company
IS to alter the manufacturing building
at aud 10 Dutch Street at n cost Of
100000, according to Browns Letters.
Inc. The plans are by Martin J.
hAekett. The contract for the general
ccnstruction work has been awarded
to Bernard Golden, % Chambers Street
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Realty Firm in New Home

Howe Thompson are now located In
their new office building at Depot Pluza,
White Plains, on land leased from tho
New York Central Railroad. facing the
White Plains Station.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Offices TO Replace Lofts

The buildings at lO9 and III Leon
ard Street, north east corner Benson
Place, are to be altered into six-story
Office structure by Sigsbee Graham.
Charles F. Noyes Company, agent,
leased the basement, ground and sec
ond Doors to Boerum Peasc Com
pany
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Buys $4,000 Newburgh Farm

The Horton farm. near Ncwburuh.
conaiating Of $50 acres, one of the bcst
farms n Orange County, has bcen
farm was held at $4,000.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Tenant Buys in SID Street

Samuel G. Boos sold to the Jerome
Paper Company. the tenant, the three
story nuilclng at 3l4 West Fifty-third
Street, l5.7x75.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Estate Offers BROOKLYN House

Tho dwelling at S75 st Marks Ave
nue.. Brooklyn. 25xl50. belonging 10 the
late John c. Wiarda estate, will be seld
at auction by the Jerc Johnson Jr. Co.
In tho Montague Street salesroom on
Tuesday.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Sales of Newark Dwellings

Feist & Feist sold for the John W
Read estate the dwelling q Nelson
Place. Newark, n. j.. 2sxl0O. to Joseph
Sicgcl; the dwelling ~ New Street
25xlo0 TO Rocco Tortorielio Tor Eliza.
beth Farrely. and fcr the John Market
estate the five one family houses at
S63 to $50 Nineteenth Avenue and So'
South Nineteenth Street.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

Acquires Horne in BROOKLYN
Bulkley & Horton Co. sold 1888
Pacific Street. a three-story dwelling,
50xl00 for st. Bartholomew's Church
to Anna p Uoughton.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28

Unlawful In Asia to Eylct
"John Stuart Mill, writing in 1879.
referred to the fact that in MANY
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-17

APALACHIcOLA.


Apalachicola, Oct. IA unique en-
tertainrnent was given on Monday last
at the home of Mrs. B. D. Morris by
Trinity Church Guild. 1t was called
a Wasteful Party: and every one was
asked to pay. in pennies, for the num-
Der of inches around their waist line.
Punch and cake was served through
out the afternoon. Mrs. Frank White
side gave an entertaining reading. A
sum of $40 was turned in to the cof-
fers of the guild. Among those assist
Ing Mrs. Norris were: Mesdames
Frank whiteside, Carter. Benedict.
Hodges, Porter. Porter, Jr.. and the
Misses Grady, Hoppe. Porter. Cook and
Theobald.
J. S. Hatcock is still confined to his
last week, when an automobile ran him
down near his home. Mr.. Hathcock
had his little grandson in his arms, at
the time that the car struck him, but
with great presence of mind, he tossed
the baby out OF dangers path. The
latest report tells of Mr.. Hathcock's
improvement.
Last Wednesday evening the follow
ing gentlemen: Hon. J. A. Williams,
State Shellfish Commissioner; DR.. j.
o. Clark. u. s. Bureau of Chemistry.
located at Savannah: DIR. E. Field, u.
S. B. of c., Pensacola; J. H. Pledger,
j. F. Smith, State Food and Drug In
spectors; DR.. A. N. Henry, assistant
State Chemist; John Mullaly and A. c.
Harler. both state food and drug in
spectors. gathers at the Woodmen hall.
Here they met the local oyster deal
ers. and gave them a report upon
their inspection Of the factories To-
Gated in the city. The gist of this
report was, that these factories were
being we'll handled and in a manner
that was entirely satisfactory to the
inspectors.
Mrs. c. P. Fullington is visiting rela-
tives in Columbus Grove, Ohio.
P. II. PIoeger is the new agent for
the Standard Oil Company, Mr.. Vim
cent handing in his resignation re-
Gently.
Frank Holly is back in town. He
has spent the past month in New
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-17

-Haven, Conn, as the guest of his Sis
ter, Mrs W. J. Valentine.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ruge are home
again. They had a most delightful
trip around the Great Lakes and a
months outing in New England
Mr.. Reed, president of the Dixie
Lumber Company, located at Hagers-
town. Md, was the guest of Mr.. Henry
Murphy all last week. While here,
Mr.. Reed went to Port st. Joe to in
spect Mr.. Murphy's plant. He also
visited the Hagerman mills at Tilden,
and was the guest of Louis Prel on
several bay parties.
The City Commissioners, Frank
Wakefield, Mr.. Rhodes and Mr. Buz-
zett have called an election for Octo-
Der &c, to vote on bond issue to be
raised in order to buy a municipal
light plant. In pursuance of this pur-
pose, a mass meeting was held on
Tuesday last. AT this meeting Don
Mcleod, John Cook, Mr.. Wakefield,
Mr.. Hinsey, Joe Messina and Mr.. wal
ton all spoke. There was good crowd
out and it is likely that Apalachicola
will soon own her own plant.
Mr.. Vent, u. S. Inspector of Hulls,
has been transferred to New Orleans.
Judge w. H. Johnston was called to
Carrabelle Saturday to hold an inquest
over the colored men killed in the
shooting affair which occurred some
time Friday, in which four negroes
were killes.. Judge Johnston held the
ring leader, who is also wounded, over
for the. grand jury. He is now in the
county Jail.
On Monday night, Mrs. James Mont
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-17

gomery died al her home in this city.
Mrs. Montgomery, has been an inva-
lid for many years, and has been
gradually growing more feeble. So her
death, did not come upon the conamun-
ity, as the shock that 1t might nave
proved. Mrs. Montgomry is one of the
old families here. She is related to all
the old time residents. She leaves one
son, S. E. Montgomery, and two broth
ers, George and Fred Egbert and one
sister, Mrs. LeGallie. These are the
closest relatives of the deceased. How
ever, she has many cousins and friends
through out the community, who will
mourn ner loss.