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Evening journal., 1920-08-16

Folks uS9d TO come from an points
around NE county There was cider
and therew as roastin' ears. And q
Good time was had By an
Rint u funny what a difference
Just a Few years makf2'
Nowadays there beunt no sech a
Thing as the wel-knoyyn "all bound
round with a Wooien string or led
dies 70 he center and gents around
the outside"
Il may be hai am OF a sudden the
whole world began % believe In the
fasg o-edged expression. variety Is
the spice of lie"
lookit what we have today-waltz.
iWo-siep. one-Sicp. shimmy. Cuban
y Az. fox-irot Nlt 90 mention the
long lost hesitation. dip. tango and
glide which have an oOme and gone
sinoa he DAYS n the barn dance.
Dance masters Will ten YOU Lhai the
oldfashioned waltz ithe side partner
10 a moonlight nrhi on The walcrl
will outlasi an other dances The
tsvo-step Is another bit OF fOOiwnrk
nat holds on. through an M COMING
and going of The great variety OF
V0icekss accompaniment % Jazz
music.
The oid-timf tango was a fad and
Ike The hohhle skirt. faded and died
IN short notice. The Dip went down
once TOO often The glide Just natur-
ally slid out OF popularity.
Evening journal., 1920-08-16
MRS. D. W. CHANDLER
ENTERTAINS FRIENDS

Special 10 The Evening Journal.
NEWPORT. Aug. i6.-Mrs. d. w.
Chandler entertained the Mlzpah Cir
Gle Of oxford. Pa. at her home on
Thursday Those present were: Mr..
and Mrs Taylor Wright. Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Reynolds Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Push. Mrs. Eleanor Reynolds. Mrs.
Clara Pugh. Mrs. Elizabeth .passmore.
Mrs. Leitie Reynolds, N4ss Leona
pugh, Miss Marion Sharpless. Miss
Elizabeth Morrall Mrs sarah r.
flinn. Mr.. and Mrs. ID W. Chandler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey +. Gregg. Mrs.
Ada Ban. Miss Lilhan Chandle- and
Miss Irene Gregg
Diamond state Grange, Of stanton.
will hold social This evening al the
home OF Mr. and Mrs Jacob G Mac
larry. Of near stanton All members
Of the Grange are invited 90 attend
Delaware Grange VIII hold a husi-
ness meeting this evening in the Red
Mems Hall. when arrangements will
be completed for the exhibit at the
State Fair.
Evening journal., 1920-08-16
SERVICE DIRECTOR
Is CHOIR SOL0IST

Al the services in Grace NJ. +.
Church last evening j. Oliver Brison.
recently appointed director Of the
Wilmington Community Service was
the solOist, singing. "ln My Father .
House are Many Mansions
Mr. BrisOn was formerly choir di-
rector and tenor sol0ist Ia Grand
Avenue NJ. i. Church old Home
Church. Bishop William A. Quale's
Church and Independence Avenue
NJ. r. Church all OF Kansas City
Mo
Mrs Brison Is expected 10 reach
Wilmington about september 4. Sh,
has had a wide experience AZ con.
lraltO singer. Both have had widl
| experience 10 oraiorio, concert ani
church musical work as soloisis ant
directors
: Ralph Minkcr. who occupied the pul
pit. IN his sermon said most Of th'
Evening journal., 1920-08-16
THE COLYIM
WISDOM
Rr Edmund Vance Cook

BY Edmund Vance Cooke.
rhls x the lore Of yesteryear.
This Is the treasure Of It's song.
\ laugh e. all too short, my dear,
A sigh Is mErh too long.
60 get you gold and set you geer
And build your ramparts tan and
strong.
Net IS the laugh too short, my dear,
Yet Is the sigh too hong
Cry cflalianes. IKE The cavalier.
And ne.ht for right and sm1te the
wrong.
Yes egery laugh's too Short my dear,
Ind every sigh TOO long.
Make every art your own career
And WIN the plaudits OF the hrong
Yet Is the laugh 100 short my dear
And Laughter dreary long.
Then. when your beard Is silver-sere
Your thin, cracked voice shall sins
my song -
A latrRh Is al too short. my dear.
A sigh Is much too long"
Copyright. 1920. N. E. AZ
Evening journal., 1920-08-16
DgEvER MEET I'M.

Waltz With You Through life" knew
what he was talking about
Evening journal., 1920-08-16

Smile and the world smiles with
you; cry and you spoil your com
plexion.
Evening journal., 1920-08-16

All is a chap OF the pleasantest sort,
Kindly and smiling and plain.
No one would think that his faVOritc
sport
Is giving his fellow man pain.
Birhi ln iho morning till five OF the
eve
Finds him with speciacled glare
T0rturlng people who groan and who
gricyc
stretched In his dentists chair
Evening journal., 1920-08-16

The present day sees the shimmy
shaking Itself out Of he list Of fav-
oriies and The one-step changing 10 a
duet In the form OF a two-step. Folks
may BE- doing the Cuban waltz down
in Cuba, but in America 10 has almost
departed or dcporied
The lil' Of fox trot is fast trotting
20 the stable of he also rams.
''On with the dance" people And
Just you watch the waltz and two-siep
keep the front rank while the others
swing In and out
The fellow who w1sote "IrCould
Evening journal., 1920-08-16
0IChiSLiR
on 4 DANCE FLOOR.

'Grab your pardnersw
Back In the days when the old rod
barn used 30 b. used for a dance hall
every now and then Silas lhe Of The
flowing brown whisters and the be-
frcckled facel used 30 chant the mer-
~ call FOR pardners with much gusto
Evening journal., 1920-08-16

on which the moons rays shine. i'm
bues this gem with the power to be
stow its charm and its exquisite pur
ity on its wearer. Monday is hei
lucky day and her lucky number.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

blocked by we'll established business
settlements, determined not to be dis
turbed, there was no other alternative
but to invade the dwelling place of the
Syrians- and Turks. Except that the
location was across what had always
been regarded as the traditional line of
the financial district, it was closer to
the heart of the center of Wall Street
than localities to the north and the
south, and, what was more, there were
no insurmountable distractions, and
values were very much lower.
Since the curb brokers decided to
do business in the future under roof
and selected as a site for their ex-
change the former location of the
American Bank Note Company on
Trinity Place opposite Trinity Church
and graveyard, fully 100 tenements and
antiquated business buildings in the
section have been purchased. Sales
have followed each other in rapid sue
cession. Old rookeries, which could not
be disposed of previously at any price,
have changed hands several times with
in few days, each time at price we'll
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

cast on the district by the encircling
skyscrapers. there is nothing to indi-
cate that the "annex Wall Street" is
not part of some southern European
country. Even the characters painted
on the shop windows are Turkish or
Syrian.
Home of Turks and Syrians
The Turks and the Syrians have been
neighbors of the captains of finance
and industry for many years. They
settled in Washington, Greenwich, Rec
tor and the other streets on the West
Side of the "Divide" fully half Gen.
tury ago.
1t was purely an accident that
brought the first Turk to the district
He got lost in the shuttle at the immi-
grants landing at the Battery, drifted
into Washington Street where his red
fez and foreign dress attracted the at
tention of the Irish youngsters, who,
after giving the lost foreigner an un-
gracious welcome, permitted him to
settle in their midst. Friends from
overseas followed him to the downtown
tenement district. They came in a
steady stream, pushing out the old resi-
dents little by little until they con-
trolled the district. Syrians and Turks
now occupy tenement after tenement,
using them for workshops and homes.
When Wall Street interests found
expansion to the north and south was
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Cassr'oo In |
Be Made Intaf
Studio Flats
Old School i'm Washinas,,.
Square Zone To .Re
Pressed Into Service :
Homes for Small Fa,n;V,ss
Deal ON Lexington Ay.
Group of Houses i'm Lower
End of T'horoughfare sAe.
quired for Developmsn,

William A. White & Sons hsva
for Mrs. Wesley C. Mitchell the ,a.ss -
hold property, at 1918 West E;.s.,
Street, two five-story BUILDINGS 60
ing a plot 50x100. The prone,t, :
now used as a school. The purebs.ss
will remodel the buildings for ana,.
ment purposes and will probsAlv !
cupy part Of the space for his o vs'
use. 1t is an interesting fact Ava Ava
the price brought was twice wbss s. !.
sold for two years ago. !"
Harris J. Sanders sold to tha f,;..,.
Realty Corporation, Max A. Rsmh;ss
schek, president, the dwellings, a. He
and 48 Lexington Avenue, with AN asS ~
129 East Twenty fourth Stree1.
Sarah K. Siegel sold to Stebbins n
& G. Corporation the three-story stoss w.
and dwelling. 1875 West Twentv.sesrs~vssss ssvss
Street, 21x98. SsAa ~
The Remco Office sold for J. L.h.
WITT 322 West Eighty-eighth Stress y.
Frank N. Davidson. :"
Stephen Jackson sold the three.sto,s
dwelling, 18x10G, 148 West 119th Strs:s
to Mrs. Kate Herzog. 'e'
The Houghton Company and Ja,ss
Sullivan have sold for the Charles d
Vessels Estate the four-torv ans I
basement dwelling at 1877 West NinstS.
seventh Street.
Pepe & Bro, and the Cruikshan.
Company have sold the premises "a
McDougal Street, three-story and hass.
ment dwelling with a rear building on
lot 25x10O.
The Duross Company has sold "a,
William M. Connolly to client "a,
occupancy the three-story and base.
ment dwelling at 462 West 144th Street
between Amsterdam and St. Nicholas
Avenues.
Charles c. Hefiey of Charles A. pu..
Bois sold for the Estate of John G.
Rodgers, to a client for occupaney.
The four-story dwelling, 400 West
148th Street, 20x99.11.
The three-story and basement dwell.
ling, sos West 149th Street, las been
sold by Nellie Frey to Sara Spiro.
Ida Kahn resold to Donate NJ. Vasti
the three-story dwelling, 245 East
122nd Street.
D. H. Scully & Company have resold
for John A. Cantor, the three-story
and basement dwellings, at 1924 East
126th Street, 18X99.11.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

tor Street and other of the narrow
streets there has changed hands since
January 1. With the exception of the
sale Of the United States Express
Building at the northwest corner of
Trinity Place and Rector Street
through the Brown Wheelock Company
to Elias Cohen and others the activity
there has concerned unsightly tene-
ments void of the conveniences which
folks demand these days. A number
of them are now passing from tene-
ments to business buildings. Builders
and house wreckers have taken con-
troll of them and are tearing out the
interior and much Of the exterior to
permit of the changes planned by the
new owners. If bought for investment
rents of SIS and s6 a square foot
are asked for Office space in the
made-over buildings. This is about
100 per cent more than the rent asked
Tor an apartment in the fine Park Ave-
nue. district No objections are being
made to these prices, and space is
renting as rapidly as it is prepared.
Year Will Tell Story
It will be fully a year before folks
will appericate the effect of the
invasion Of Wall Street men in the
district beyond the Divide" By that
time most of the alterations and the
new building projects will be either
completed or we'll along toward com
pletion. The contrast will be distinct
enough then to enable one to get
clear mental picture of the future ap-
pearance of the annexed district.
The largest building project now un-
der way is being carried through for
the Barrett Manufacturing Company.
A building of many stories is to be
erected for the company on the north
side of Rector Street, from West to
Greenwich Street. Perhaps a dozen
old tenements have been removed to
make way for this building.
The buying movement has extended
through the entire section north to
Cortlandt Street. Chain store inter
ests. anticipating the future Importance
Of the district, have acquired good To-
cations,
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Present Rent Laws \
Blamed for Delay
In Home Building
Measures Must Either Be
Repealed or Modified to
Stimulate Construction,
Says Stanley Nj. Isaacs

Stanley M. Isaacs, in an article on
"Rent Legislation" in recent issue Of
The Real, Estate Record and Guide,
says, in part:
"In view of the special session of the
Legislature at which the housing situa-
tion in the State of New York is to be
the chief if not the only topic consid-
cred, it is important to examine the
effects of the laws passed last spring
and to see how far they have been sue
cessful in meeting an admittedly seri-
failed; and to what extent, If any, they
have accentuated the adverse factors.
The Lockwood committee presented q
program of legislation early in the
1920 session; but, while sound in some
aspects, it was by no means sufficient
to meet the approaching crisis.
"The City of New York has been
built up by speculative builders who
have erected tenements, apartments,
lofts and Offices purely on a business
basis. They have been and are ready
to build only if they can forsee a
profitable venture with the odds in
their favor. They will not build if
they deem the risk greater than is JUS
tilted by the probabilities of financial
return.
Various factors have combined to
make building at the present time diff
cult, chief among them being the in
ability to finance new operations, the
excessive cost of construction, the diff
fcelty of obtaining delivery of mate
rials and the danger of labor disturb
ances: These factors alone, however,
would probably not have deferred tene-
ment and apartment buildings, as is at
tested by the considerable number of
lofts and Offices now under construc-
ton. Added to them, however, in the
case of dwellings, is the legislation
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

over the previous figures. Real estate
spectators having heard about the
curb brokers coming west of Broadway
swarmed into the section and captured
many properties we'll placed with re-
gard to the Curb Exchange. These
they have sold to others, mostly men
or concerns associated with the curb
market, for office purposes. Business
which depended on the curb market
and it's members has paid compara-
lively high prices for favorable loca-
tions in the financial district annex.
Values Up 800 Per Cent
In the last two years values iR the
district beyond the "Great Divide"
have increased as general thing about
300 per cent. This is the opinion of
one of the best known appraisers in
the section. Three years ago he said
that $4,000 was about the average
value of parcels in the annex Wall
Street district. Prices there to-day
range from $4,000 to $4,000. 1t is
his belief that fully S1o,oo0,oOO worth
of property in Trinity Place, Wash
ington Street, Greenwich Street. Rec
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

the Coster estate and the Westchester
Square station Of the new Westchester
Avenue extension Of the Lexington
Avenue and Southern Boulevard U.
r: TO subway. which, when completed.
VIII operate from Coney Island to Pei
ham Bay Park at S cent fare.
twenty-five Miles of Transit
This twenty-five mile transit line
vas opened last year to Hunts Point
Road. Its operation recently was ex-
tended to 177th Street and Westchester
Avenue tGrant Square), and the sta
tons beyond that point to Pelham Bay
Park, will be in use soon.
The Walsh estate property has been
ordered sold by the Guaranty Trust
Company of New York. and Clarence
W: Quinn. executors, and the Coster
estate by o. Delaney Coster, and his
sister, Miss Martha A. Coster, az trus-
tees Of the estate Of Henry A. Coster.
In addition to Its lengthy frontage
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Artificial Forces Will Not
Solve Housing Problem
Shortage of Homes Will Continue for Many Years,
Says ID. L. Gilman, if Situation Is Handi-
capped by I'LL Conceived Rent Legislation
BY DOUGLAS l.. ELLIMAN

In the consideration Of the very seri-
Gus shortage of housing all theories
must give way to facts, and there are
many facts which do not seem to be
given consideration by the Legislature
at Albany or by the Mayors committee.
OF course, there is only one solu-
tion, which is after a long delay now
admitted, and that is the building of
more apartments and houses. This
must either be done by private capital
or through government agency. If it
is to be done by private capital, first
must be considered the inducement.
Is it IS profitable as other forms Of
business?
Certainly the state Legislature is
making it as unattractive as possible
through the limitations placed on
rentals in older buildings. The news
papers are constantly denouncing all
landlords, and it would require a very
handsome return on money invested for
private capital to invest in the face Of
this situation.i
An Interesting Contrast
Contrary to general belief, the return
on apartment houses is not as high as
other forms of real estate investments.
In the best Park Avenue buildings,
where the highest rents are obtained,
4OoS
of rentable space, while two years ago
the average probably ran around $1.50.
1t must be borne in mind that it costs
more to build high class apartment
structure than an Office building, while
Office rents run about Sc and 81 per
square foot 1t is hard to understand
why speculative builders should build
apartment houses which bring a return
of only about one-half.
One of the chief difficulties with the
present situation is that the city has
lords were obliged to rent their space
at extremely low figures. The great
renting public, accustomed to this sit
uation, finds it hard to readjust itself
to one where landlords seek fair re-
turn and can obtain it because of the
shortage.
Shortage Will Continue Many Years
1t will be many years before this
shortage is overcome, and this period
will be shortened only by calm
and sensible view of the situation in
place of the present turmoil and bit
terness. Certainly the hastily adopted
and ill-conceived rent laws have handi-
capped the matter immeasurably, and
will continue to do so until repealed.
They were entirely too drastic, and
WNlle luCeuueQ W cTdUlCdLe du I'LL
doubted evil created worse one.
Through the working of natural laws
and unaffected by legislation. office
buildings are being produced in suffi-
cient quantities to offset the shortage
in this type of improvement. In an
other year we shall be we'll supplied
with this space and rents will certain
ly stabilize and perhaps diminish, but
in the mean time the production of
housing space remains stagnant and
rents will continue to increase in this
type of structure until the pressure
of artificial forces, through the Legis-
lature, is removed.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Will Sell Country Home
OF Late Levi p. Morton
Trustees of Estate to Dispose of
Ellerslie, Show Place
at Rhinebeck

10 settle the estate of the late Levi
P Morton, former Vice-President and
Governor, the trustees have decided to
sell his country home, known as Ellers-
lie, one of the show places at Rhine
beck on the Hudson. The property
fronts for more than mile on the
Hudson River, and comprises 864 acres
in broad meadows, heavily timbered
woodlands and park with private lake.
The residence is of granite stucco
and half-timbered in the Elizabethan
style, containing thirty rooms, nine
bathrooms and an electric elevator.
The estate commands fine view of
the Fishkill and Catskill ranges. There
are number of outbuildings on the
property, including dwelling, garage,
stable and greenhouses.
The Ellersiie farm, also to be dis
posed of, contains eight dwellings, a
modern barn of 200 head, boarding
houses, sawmill, carpenter shop, black
smith shop. dairy, etc. All main build
ings are equipped with electric power
and lights. Nichols & Hobbie have been
commissioned to dispose of the prop
erty
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

The first big auction sale of the fall
season of vacant property in the
greater city will be held on Thursday,
september 23. in the Vcscy Street
sTallesroom: So Two large tracts in the
Throg's $ Neck section of the Bronx,
belonging to the Henry A. Coster
eState H and the estate of Margaret
IVA malsn, ana will be divided into building
care to give. In all, 556 lots will be
disposed of.
This section of the Bronx is known
for h its large and charming old estates,
thn Wnefe, & &hsrtofore, owners have repelled
the pubic for gaining a residential
ff,o"thold.. New subway facilities and
tEe coming lot sale will mean the
1penlng ~ of these locRed gates at
ahrGg,s arat;ss Ness ,9 for home building. The
9uS1ion q 1o wtll be conducted by Joseph
The walsh estate, comprising 21s
lots, Is situated about midway hefwsep
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

| which has made building rent literally
impossible for conservative builder
and investor. The Legislature has no.
tilted all owners of dwellings in the
City of New York that they will be
limited to whatever the Municipal
Court judges deem o reasonable ra-
turn upon their investment. No test
is suggested, however, to determine
what is reasonable except that Is per
cent increase over the rentals obtained
year ago Is declared presumptively
all that landlord should be entitled
to receive.
Either the rent laws now on the
statute books must be repealed or
greatly modified and building by
private builders stimulated, or else
the state or municipality must itself
step in and replace the builder who
has been eliminated by the legislation.
Nothing that the special session of the
Legislature can do will meet the sit
uation short of this. To relieve new
buildings from taxation will to some
extent help; to exempt mortgages
from the state income tax will be in
itself useless, but on the other hand
should this action be followed by a
similar exemption from the Federal
income tax, quite substantial sums
will be restbred to the mortgage mar
ket. Neither of these things alone,
however, will encourage building, un-
less at the same time the menace
which the builder faces in the exist
ence of the present laws and the
threat of more drastic legislation is
removed, or fairer and more intelli-
gent method found of carrying out
their provisions.
The shortage Of lofts and office build
ings is already in a fair way toward
being cured, because the high rents
obtained for such space have already
attracted investors and speculative
builders who are erecting numerous
structures that will soon wipe out the
shortage, and because the same high
rents have induced others to build for
their own occupancy, vacating quarters
that will help to relieve the pressure
On the other hand. the shortage of
to-day than year ago, and the imme-
diate outlook is that there will be
no new construction by private capital
and this is the direct result of the
legislation Of last spring.
"The measures should be confined
to lower-priced apartments and tene-
ments. To permit the litigation in the
municipal courts Of questions affecting
the rents asked by the owners of high
class. modern elevator apartments rent
ing for thousands Of dollars per year
to tenants fully able to take care of
themselves and by whom rents are paid
more for service, location and fashion
than for housing, on the theory that
such tenants need the protection of
the Legislature or the courts and that
the public welfare is involved in their
receiving such service and accommo-
dation at low cost, is of course thor
oughly unsound."
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12
Folks Are Returning
To Old Home Districts

II have noticed in my Office and
most of the real estate agents in
the city will report TIE same that
the tendency is now to move down
town and as close to the center of
Manhattan as possible. The tre-
mendous bulk of business interests
in New York, take up the center
Of the city, and it is ever expand
ing and moving northward. The
solution lies in the people living
east and west of the large business
centers of the city, in old districts,
some of which>have been practically
vacant for years, in so far as pop
ulace is concerned, but are now
coming back into their own. Chelsea
is such section. Louis Carreau.
New-York tribune., 1920-09-12

in East fremont Avenue, the Walsh
estate includes valuable frontage in
Waterbury Avenue. another important
thoroughfare. which is the direct ex-
tension of Westchester Avenue from
Castle Hill Avenue, at which point
Westchester Avenue, swings sharply to
the northwest. Waterbury Avenue is
the direct route, as mapped, from Cas-
tie hiil Avenue, to Pelham Bay, and is
the pivotal point around which is
forming a new East fremont Avenue
business and residential zone. The
Schuyler Road electric car line is
routed past the property from West
chester Square and the new subway
station, directly to the Eastern Boule-
ward, and the Coster property, directly
to Throg's Neck.
Homestead Of Revolutionary Days
The Coster estate has been held
intact for more than q century. the
property having been purchased orisi-