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The Washington times., 1920-09-05

for a moment the pale lips. When
he spoke it was slowly and with
difficulty, so that the solicitor had
to bend over to catch his words:
$50, my dear Robert, we meet
little sooner than / expected. !
I'm afraid I've made rather = mess
Of things
He waited. but Robert did not
raise his head.
GLAD you've come, Baxenter
what l told you Of your cousins
death was truth-God's truth! I've
been bad through and through, bu.
I've never killed a man Intentional
ly. I had lost heavily that night
and only intended to take back nv
money. How differently we look
upon the web Of our life when wo
are dying; what hideous tangle
It seems when we have come to
the end and look back!"
Dartin's voice became weaker
and the doctor moistened his lips
from a tumbler. After few mo.
ments he went on:
II chanced upon the parchment
in my search for the money-you
can guess the rest. 1t was good
game while II lasted. Who's that
standing behind you-there, in the
shadow"
That's Monsieur de Barron, Oar
tin, the owner Of
"Oh!-yes-I know. / owe mon
sieur an apology. This is not the
first time / have visited his cha
teau. Feel round my neck, Baxen-
ter, win you?-here, beneath the
shirt, i"
The sufferer closed his eyes, and
Robert as he felt, shuddered at
the cold clamminess OF his chest.
The doctor bent forward to assist.
and, by silken ribbon, the man
drew out a wssh-leather bag. Rob.
ert put 1t in his pocket without
second glance and stood looking
The Washington times., 1920-09-05

Robert and Stella
passed out over the
moonlit lawns to the
alleyway, designed by
Cupid himself, where
the nishtinsales sing"
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Last of Windsor Arcade
Now Being Removed
South Half of Structure Which
Replaced Windor Hotel To Be
Site of New Banking Building

The work of tearing down the Wind
sor Arcade, at the northeast corner of
Fifth Avenue and Forty sixth Street, is
now in progress. The new home Of S.
w. Straus & Co., investment bankers,
will be erected on the site, and the
plans call for the completion Of the
new building May l, 1921.
The new banking house will be con-
structed Of white stone and will be
eleven stories high. Each floor will
have floor space Of approximately
will be occupied by the Straus COM
pany.
The vaults Of the banking house will
be in the basement. The entire ground
floor will be leased for shops. The
first three floors will be occupied by
the counting rooms and executive
Offices. The Straus concern will utilize
the entire twelfth floor for library
and rest room for members of its or
ganization. A feature Of this floor will
be ten-foot setback as a promenade
and roof garden for employees.
y The main lobby and counting room Of Of
feet and will have 41-foot ceiling. The
new building will cost approximately
$4.o00,O00.
The land was the original site Of the
old Windsor Hotel, which was de-
stroyed by fire on March II, 1899. The
plot then remained idle until the
Windsor Arcade was erected, in 1902
Nine years ago the W. G. ]. Sloane
building was erected on the north por-
tion Of the original plot.
The architects of the Straus building
are Warren & Wetmore and the con-
struction work is being done by the
Thompson -Starett Company.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

Thousands of New Workers. who come
to the theatrical district each night to
see a show cannot overlook the efforts
being made to provide additional
amusement facilities in the center of
the city. Those perplexed by the hous-
ing situation, which means pretty near
ly every one who pays rent-tribute, it
may we'll be called these days-must
have viewed with no small degree ~of
wonder these efforts to provide addi-
tional show space to the already great
amount in New York.
The unusual sight of brick and steel
being put into new construction is
made more poignant by the absence of
similar activities in residential locali-
ties. The impression left on the minds
of the crowd of renters who flock into
the theater district at night cannot be
agreeable. Tens of thousands of them
are in the throes of legal proceedings
which may mean their eviction and
thousands and thousands of others will
start October / on new rental sched-
ules showing increases from 25 to 100
per cent These people cannot quite
account for these non-essential struc-
tures when they think how helpless
they are to combat high rentals and
eviction because nothing has been done
or is being dene to make up the de-
ficiency in the supply of homes, while
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
$50 Theae Planned for New York City, Cost $2OO0O00; Re
Builders Can Get No Money for Apartments or Homes
Realty Men Urge
Law That viii
Release Moneu
Favor Nc Whitney Bill, Tha.
viii Force Savings Banka
to Invest More of The;r
Capital i'm Mortgaees

A large delegation appeared hss...
the joipt legislative committee ne Az
bany Thursday in support of the h,,,
introduced by Assemblyman Tbo,,..
A. MeWhinney to secure the invs.s
ment Of a larger percentage Of ~.
available assets by savings banks sns
insurance companies in bonds ana
mortgages on dwelling house propere;..
than they are now aaaking.
The bills were sponsored bv ~.
Long Island Real Estate Board and ~.
Real Estate Board of Brooklyn. rho,s
who spoke for the bill were Jam..
Frank, president OF the New Ynrs
State Association of Real Est.t,
Boards; William Raymond Bur,;r.
president of the Brooklyn board: WIZ
lam S. Petit and Stephen Yates. renrs-
seneipg the Long Island board.
1t was stated that in times past ee..
tain savings banks and insurance eoyn-
panies gave helpful cooperation -
building construction, but that nov
when an extreme housing emereenss
exists and mortgage money is ;'lmest
unobtalnable, generally speaking says
lngs banks and insurance Companies
had during the past year decreassS
| their loans on bonds and mortYnees
The Long Island savings banks are an
| exception. They have shown a ears
mendable community spirit and O@s Sass
increased their loans on this class ~
security.
Savings banks have authority bv isw
to loan IS per cent of their denosita on
! bond and mortgage and if they eere IA
4, loan the full amount $400, 200, 900 couiS
! be released for new construction. A.
| equal amount could be released bv ir.
/ sulance companies.
While invested assets Of the cam.
/ panies could not we'll be immed;atsI,
: disturbed, the amounts which couls
: be applied from time to time during
the coming year would be ample "a
meet all requirements.
The speakers emphasized the faete
that the various housing bills designed
to relieve the existing emergency were
not defended as economic or scientific.
hut as temporary relief measures sna
that permanent relief could only ba
had by building more houses, and that
tor this purpose mortgage money was
the first esential; that the savings
banks and insurance companies had
been patriotic and large subscribers
for Liberty bonds during the war. but
that in their attitude as trustees for
the people they were now investing
largely in government bonds, shopt
! term notes and trade acceptaaces, az
bringing larger returns than mort.
cages, overlooking the fact that their
depositors are more vitality in need Of
homes than of large interest returns,
and that as such trustees it was pscu.
liarly their duty to render first aid.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

100 feet which the theatrical promot-
ers will soon remove. The tenants in
the houses, it is understood, have been
notified to find other hemes, es the
property is needed for theater sites.
$3,000,000 in Six Houses
The realty directly in the rear fac
ing on Forty-eighth Street has already
been cleared of its buildings and will
soon be ready fer bricklayers and steel
workers to start putting together ar
amusement place 80 feet wide and 10f
feet deep. 1t is estimated that the
six houses will cost about 0,00C
each.
Two theaters are to be erected on
the north side of Forty-ffth Street
between Broadway and Eighth Avenue
on the site of q row of dwellings
bought at the Henry Astor auction last
May. Samuel Harris and Irving Berlin
will erect one at 239 to 247, and Marc
Klaw showhouse at 251 to 257. These
structures will cost $575,00o to erect
side of these improvements which like
ly will be improved with theaters in
the near future.
selwyns are completing two fine
structures, one the Times Square, in
Forty-second Street, just west OF
Broadway, and the other, the Forty
! third Street Theater, directly in the
rear of this structure. They are the
only theaters in the section so far ad-
vanced in construction.
The Putnam Building, which faces
on Broadway, from Forty-third to
Fortyfourth Street, and Westover
Court adjoining this building and ex-
tending through from street to street
have been purchased by the Famous
lsycrs-Lasky Corporation. Westove,
Court is to be removed and tkcatcr
erected on its site. The Putnam Build.
ing also may be removed and new
building put up for the use of the film
company.
More Broadway Movies
The New York Theater property is
also slated for development with 8
lew theater OF mammoth proportions
according to report. The property was
bought several months ago by the Fa-
nous Players-Lasky interests.
At the corner of Eighth Avenue and
Fiftieth Street a 100x1O0 foot plot is
to be improved with a motion picture
theater to be known as the Tivoli.
There is a noticeable amount OF
theater building going on in Greenwich
village, the middle section of Broad
way, Harlem and Washington Heights
About $Soo,ooo is to be spent in three
theatres for the Village. One of the
structures, that to be erected at Seventh
Avenue and Twelfth Street, will cost
$400,00O Interests associated with the
Strand Theatre, at Broadway and
Forty seventh Street, are behind this
project. The two other Village theaters
will cost 100000.
Marcus Loew is spending 100000 or
theater at the northeast corner OF
Broadway and Eighty-third Street. The
size of the project may be estimated by
the seating capacity of the building
which is planned to hold 5000
Three of the new showhouses planned
for Harlem and Washington Heights
will cost s1,3o0,000. The Coliseum The
ater, at the corner of Broadway and
183d Street. which is understood tc
have cost B. S. Moss s1,00O,000, was
completed last week. The house is cal.
culated to hold $500 persons.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Give Every City Dweller Opportunity To Be Owner

Give every rent payer the opportunity
of becoming a home owner, says Stark
1. Ferriss, and short cut will be made
in solving the great housing problem.
Mr.. Ferrss has practiced real estate
law for u quarter of a century and
for many years was with one Of the
garded as an authority on real estate
matters, whether they are Of a legal
or economic nature.
City lie has fastened itself on so
many people that it is the opinion of
Mr.. Ferrlss they could not be induced
to leave 1T for the. suburbs no matter
how good the housing facilities may be
beyond the urban sections.
1.-The housing problem is essentially
a trouble resting upon the tenant
class" said Mr.. Ferriss. "There is a
shortage Of small suburban houses,
which would be purchased by owners
if erected, but 80 per cent of the agita-
tion arises from the class of our popu-
lation who live as tenants in apartment
houses, flats and tenements. We hear
no complaints at the present time from
this small house owner class of our
population. They are undsturbed by
the foment Of agitation over rent in
creases and landlord and tenant laws.
On the other hand. the tenants of fats,
apartments and tenements, notwith-
standing their troubles, prefer gener-
ally and as class to live in the city
in the community buildings rather than
in small houses in the suburbs.
Make Tenants Owners
"1f satisfactory plan can be de-
vlsed and put into execution by which
tenants of apartments may become
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

"There is, Of course, the question of
general repairs to the community
building, but it would seem that this
could be worked out by obligating the
public service corporation which man
ages the building to make the repairs
and giving it the right to collect pro
rata in proportionate amounts from
the apartment owners and creating a
lien ON the several apartments re-
spectively, to secure payment of the
ar'ounts properly charged against the
apartment owners. OF course, there
are other details which would hav, to
be carefully considered and solved,
such as the rights Of the several
apartment owners in insurance monies
in case Of fire and as to the rights
Of the several parties in disposng Of
the fee of the property in case the
building should burn down, ETC., but
it would seem that there are no OBJ
jections which could not be overcome
on account of the operation of the
If trained legal minds set out to find
way and the Legislature were will
ing to pass the necessary laws"
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Bronx Lot Buyers Form
Taxpayers Association
Burke Eastchester Association
Starts With 500 Members;
Urged TO Build Homes

Buyers at the lot auction of the
Burke Foundation and the Eastchester
Syndicate held by Joseph P. Day and
j. Clarence Davies in July have organ
lied the Burke -Eastchester Taxpayers'
Association for the protection of their
interests and to encourage and direct
the development of the property. More
than five hundred lot owners attended
the meeting, which was presided over
by James R. Murphy, general manager
OF the .IoscpA P. Day organlza5lon.
Mr.. Murphy told of the value Of
neighborhood organization and i'm
pressed on the meeting that it was to
the lot owners advantage to initiate
home building there as soon as posi-
BILE
The owners elected Mr.. Murphy tho
associations first leader. Mrs. L. Brit
ton and H. Adds were elected executive
vice ce-presidents and w L. Savers secre-,
tary and treasurer A board of fifteen
directors was chosen, as follows: P. J.
Han"ley. w. o. Wilson, p. OBrien, D.
j. O'Brien, Mrs. L. Britton, J. Black,
H. Adds, Mrs. H. Kline, NJ. Cohen, J.
Plaut, F. Cali, Mrs. Hallenbeck and B,
Schwartz
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Realty Situation Needs
Watching, Says Parsons

Frank j. Parsons, vice-president of
the United States Mortgage and
Trust Company, conNnenting on the
real estate and building situation,
says:
"It is clear that construction costs
and labor difficulties have made it
almost impossible for new building to
keep pace with real estate sales and
the real demand for homes andsbusi-
ness structures. This has resulted
in increased borrowing and to Ger.
tain extent makes the real estate
situation insecure and calls for care
full watching. In the long run it
may prove, however, that these fac
tors are blessings in disguise. MS
they have prevented excesses in
building construction and real estate
speculation at time when the mass
Of the people were little inclined to
put any restraint upon their spend
ing or the enterprises in which they
were engaged"
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Thirteen New Amusement Places Near Broadway
Costing About ST., 100000 Being Rushed to
Completion While Rent-Oppressed Folks Won.
der at the Lack of Residential Construction

extraordinary efforts qre being made
to provide amusement places.
Theaters, but No Homes
Lawmakers, city officials, moneyed
interests, builders and others have
come in for many seedlings because of
this situation when rent payers have
observed the fevcrish energy being ex-
erclsed in supplying additional ex-
travagance when essential construction
should be the rule rather than the
exception.
| Why the city or state has permitted
such dissipation of material and capt.
tai to go unrestricted is question that
has been asked many times. In view
of the great need of homes, folks ask
why the lawmakers have not arisen to
the situation and placed a curb on all
non-essential projects so as to control
the use of material, labor and capital
until the housing shortage has been
removed. Depositors in and policy
holders of various institutions must
have~ asked why their money should
be used to buy brick and steel and tim
Der for the construction of Offices and
theater buildings instead of for homes
for the accommodation Of the folks
who supply these funds to the institu-
tions. The $2,500,0O0 which has been
laid aside to buy the things which
will be required in the sixtcen-story
theater and Office building which is
now being erected at the north
east corner of Broadway and Forty
fifth Street, extending through the
block to Forty sixth Street, and the
$7,500,000 which has been promised to
the sExchange Association for the
erection of an addition to the Stock
Exchange would provide homes for
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Finds Pleasure and Profit i'm Luring Folks
To New Rochelle by Means of Splendid Homes

Charles Pausner, an insurance broker
of this city, has just purchased one
of the most attractive of New Rochelle's
new houses. It is house Of the kind
seen on the west coast OF England and
a type of country home that is we'll
adapted to the country Of which New
Rochelle is q part. W. D. Hunter,
architect and builder Of New Rochelle.
is very proud of the house, particularly
so because Mr.. Pausner, who is q New
ing it over once.
1t is two stories and attic, of stucco
and hollow tile, built on large plot at
the corner of Antler Place and Forest
Avenue in the Forest Heights section.
There are ten rooms and four baths in
the house, sun porch banked with
flowers at one end and two-car
garage at the other end.
On the first floor are q drawing room,
living room, reception hall, dining
room and tiled dining porch, kitchen,
pantry. mans room and bath. On the
second floor arc four bedrooms and two
baths and in the attic two bedrooms
and bath. OF the second hoor is 8
sleeping porch.
Mr.. Pausner sold his house in the
attractive little city on the Sound and
then bought the Hunter house.
Mr.. Hunter calls it and others OF his
houses in New Rochelle "honor built
homes" because he has given as much
attention to the design, arrangement
Of interior, installing Of eonveniences
and construction details as IT, each
house was to be his own home. In
the first place, Mr.. Hunter has lived
IN New Rochelle and has boosted New
Rochelle at avery opportunity that
offered itself. He likes his town and
wants others to like it, and in order
to accommodate the kind of people
who like New Rochelle he has set him
self the task-or duty, he would call
it-of building homes that arc homes in
every sense, attractive of design, COM
fortably arranged and well built.
He has completed six houses in Rock
land Place in the Rochelle Heights
section Of the town. They are houses
Of. seven and eight rooms Of Eneiiah.
Dutch Colonial. Southern Coloniai and
New England Colonial designs. They
range in cost freua $4,000 TO ss7.6oo,
The lattar heuse 10 o CAlonial house
with . gambrel roof. 5t mas alght
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

now being made for the construction
Of six theaters and in another block
foundations for two showhouses are
now being dug, one next to the @ther.
With the exception Of three houses
work on the new projects is in an ele-
mentary state, which means that de-
spite the scarcity of material theatri-
cal promoters are sure that they will
get brick and steel and timber and
cement in quantity sufficient to build
their theaters. Some of the theatrical
projects are monsters and involve large
expenditure of capital and the use of
much material. The Marcus Loew en-
terprise at the northeast corner of
Broadway and Forty-fifth Street will
cost $5,000,000
Great Picture House
On the corner a tall Office building
will be erected, with a lobby through
it to q great motion picture house in
the rear extending through the block
to Forty-sixth Street. The walls of the
theater are now we'll along. Orders
are that the theater must be rushed to
completion, while the business build
ing may be erected more leisurely.
The twelve-story building at the
northeast corner of Seventh Avenue
and Forty-eighth Street is for the use
of the show business, it being the new
home of the Robertson-Col Company.
1t will contain two theaters. and the
concerns business and display Offices.
1t will cost S1,000,000 to complete the
structure
The Shuberts will spend from ST.
| 500 900 to $3,00O,000 on the six theaters
which they will erect shortly in Forty
eighth and Forty-ninth streets just
west of Broadway. Five of the build
ings will be on Forty-ninth Street,
| three on the north side of the street
and two on the south side. Exeavators
have completed the hole out of which
the three north side structures will
rise. They will have Il frontage of
about eighty feet each. Directly across
and just back Of Churchi!l's is a row
of eight houses having a frontage of
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
representing s25 900 900 Worth Of build

representing SEE, ,ooo, 900 Worth of build
ing construction, have been planned
for this city since the first Of the year.
When all of the newer show houses pro-
jected for locations in Manhattan have
been erected there will be $50; and in
the entire city-that is. in the five
boroughs, $50. About half of the $685.
100000 appropriated for theaters will
be spent in the eight blocks between
Forty-second and Fiftieth streets, west
of Seventh Avenue. Thirteen theaters
are now under way in these blocks and
several additional ones will be an
nounced in the near future.
In one block alone preparations are
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26
Active Trading
OF Homes i'm
Many Sections
Brokers Get No Rest Try.
ing TO Locate Houses
for Those Anxious to
Become. Own Landlords

Pease & Gilman sold for Herbert S.
Carpenter to Mrs. E. B. Barrett, the
fivs-story, 1s-foot American basement
dwelling, Sc West Fifty-fifth Street,
between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The
same brokers sold for Grace Ewing
813 West 1O5th Street, q ive-story
American basement dwelling, 2lx1OO.
William Pierre Jockin sold for the
County Holding Company 40 East
Fifty-third Street, fve-story American
basement dwelling, to the Good Homes
Realty Company.
Changes for Fiftieth Street House
J. B. English sold for Elizabeth A.
Viau to John E. Felippelt. the three
story dwelling, 81 West Fiftieth
Street, 19.2x100. The building will be
extensively altered
The Haggstrom-C Callsn Co. sold for
Christine, Germaine the y. three-story
dwelling, 1e.sx1oo, at 1875 West Sixty
third Street.
Justua Pfei9enschneider sold to
Charles J., Coyle jr. the three-story
21xl00.8.
NJ. H. Gaillard & Co. sold for Charles
Campbell and Allie c. Fitzgerald the
three-story house, 333 West Eighty
fifth Street, 20x1O22.
A. II. Bickmore sold his residence at
the southwest corner Of West End Ave-
nue. and Seventy-frst Street q five-
story dwelling, 19.5x82.10.
John H. Pierce sold for James C..
Byrnes 125 West 132d. Street, three
story dwelling, 16x1o0; also resold for
Hudson P. Rose 240 West 136th Street,
y 'three-story dwelling, 16.8x100, to
Susan l.. Fletcher, of Washington.
Julia T. Glover sold to Mary Zorro
the three-story dwelling 1894 Lexing-
ton Avenue, 16.Sx55.
Harry Pollock the three story dwelling
206 West 10Th Street. 16.8x1O011
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

"The housing problem at the present
time. is made much more difficult of
solution because the lenders of money
refuse to make loans of large amounts,
Federal and state income tax law. To
meet the situation the title and mort
gage companies are calling attention
to their facilities to dispose of frac-
tional interests of $500 and $1,000 each
in mortgages, and to the plan Of issuS
ing bonds in small denominations of
500 and upward against real estate
mortgages in large amounts as secur-
ity. If the plan of selling apartments
in fee ownership, such as is suggested
above, can be worked out so that such
homes may be freely accepted as salts
factory mortgage security the solution
of the housing problem will be brought
much nearer.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-26

many families, who will remain under
a roof this winter through the grace
of some law which the extraordinary
Legislature may pass.
$50 New Show Houses
With plenty of money available for
financing their building programs and
with labor and material at their call,
it is only natural for theatrical pro-
moters to take advantage of the stu
alton to advance their business in
terests. Builders of what are termed
essential buildings envy them their
good fortune.
1t is estimated that $50 theaters,