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The New York herald., 1921-08-07
LOT BUYING NOW A
WISE INVESTMENT
Every Addition to Population
Means Increase in Land
Values, Says Expert.
by JOSEPH Il. DAY.

The widespread purchase of vacant
lots at auction-which. since May /. has
been the outstanding feature of the real
estate market-has been and is justified
by the improvement in business condi-
tions generally and also by the shortage
OF housing facilities and by the un-
precedented benefits to be derived from
tax exemption for ten years" by those
who commence to build home, a bunga-
low. a two family house. or an apart
ment house before April /. 1922.
Early in the current year when the
business and political outlook both at
home and abroad was anything but
bright i predicted an Improvement in
conditions before December 31-and this
improvement is now a matter of every
day report.
I approved the Gales of more than
IL 900 vacant lots variously located In
the city and suburbs because / believed
they could be sold. and they were sold
between May / and August /. in three
short months TO thousands OF individual
buyers. many OF whom have lost no time
In commencing to build despite the fact
that many thousands OF men meantime
have been thrown out OF employment
or had their wages reduced.
Now, however. money, both here and
abroad Ia cheaper than at any time In
the last two years the banks have In
creased their reserves and are more
responsive than at any time since the
war to requests for credit facilities. The
railroads or the country. which are the
largest buyers OF material and the larg-
est employers OF labor. have begun 20
increase their working forces and con-
template the early purchasing OF mate
rials with part OF the $500 0oo.o al
lowed them by the Government fnan-
cling by the railroads Is becoming dis
tinctly easier and investment bonds are
continuing 10 advance.
The farmer has assurances OF practi-
cal financial assistance. and grain ship
ments recently have approached the best
figures for the year 1920: our agricul-
tural population liz reducing its debts.
and that is a good sign always
Another favorable sign Is the In
creased consumption of gasolene and
the report that the steel companies are
booking more orders during tho second
quarter Of the year than they did In
the FIRST quarter
An the largo centres Of manufactur-
ing report q sudden influx or buyers
from all parts OF the country for goods
for immediate or early delivery. Stocks
are low and must he replenished. All
Of this means that the United states Is
holding its own and that this great
country Is destined TO be. as Il always
has been, tho mecca OF countless thou
sands of those who seek greater free
dom and riches.
with each new unit of population the
value OF land in the city of New York
and IT'S suburbs IL increased proportion
ately. The man who buys a few well
located lots now is the man who should
make a'proht In the future. A word to
the Wise Is sufficient
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
Can Father KnickerbOcker
Meet All His Hotel Bills?

will demand continued construction of
giant hotels. The danger OF an over
production OF this type of Improvement
therefore seems decidedly remote.
We venture to predict that there will
be many more large hotels erected In
Manhattan during the next ten years.
And il isn't at all unlikely that among
these will be some larger than any
now in existence.
Housing Tourists in London.
1t Is said that if three steamers from
America arrived in England In one day
and sent 1000 people to London for one
night, as far as hotel accommodations
are concerned, most of the visitors
would have TO sleep on the sidewalks.
Russians Live In Fields.
In village In Russia recently n fam
lily OF Ave was found living In quarters
In hut measuring four by ten feet.
The hut was made out OF an old farm
wagon. All five slept on bed of straw
covered by sheet and some rags. A
stove was the only household article
owned by the family. which paid a
farmer a weekly rental equal TO about
40 cents In American money. A West
crner who recently returned from Russia
declared that while this case indicated
the severity of the housing situation
over there, 1t was by no means the
worst he had seen. Many families are
entirely without shelter.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

such as first floor lavatory, coat
closet. refrigerator room. inside and out
side cellar entrances and service porch
all of which increase the comfort and
convenience of living out OF town. The
floor plan is particularly unique, pro-
viding practically one long room across
the front in the dining room, hall and
living room, which open out of each
other by wide archways. with the SER
vice portion as a unit at the rear and
the garage in its own fireproof section
on the extreme left. The treatment OF
the garage from the front is especially
fine. since 1t gives no hint OF its utili-
tartan aspect. Taken altogether II
would be difficult to find prettier trio
OF Colonial homes combining all the
beauty of the past with the conveniences
of modern life and the advantages of
an artistic environment than these
simple houses at Kensington. L. ].
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
RECALLS DREAM OF
MILLIONAIRES PARK
Coming Auction of $50 Nave
sink Lots Revives Memories
Of Jersey Coast Scheme.

Announcement by Bryan l.. Kennedy
Navesink Park, Atlantic Highlands. n. j..
calls TO mind the original ambitions Of
the founders of that nature favored col
ony on the Jersey coast. The plan con-
ceived by men like George +. Baker
James b. Hyde. Henry Hilton, Abraham
S. Hewett, James Talcott +. II. Cassatt
A. d. Juilliard, Samuel D. Babcock,
Howard Potter. Howard Russell. Henry
b. Laidlaw. Henry NJ. Alexander. Charles
Siedler. Thomas J. Kinney Fritz Achelis
and James c. Parrish to make this strip
OF land on the crest of the highlands a
continuation of "Millionaires Row has
come to nought. But Its failure has not
stripped the old project OF interest nor
has IL made the property any less desr-
able to many In moderate circumstances
who have visited the spot and known
from personal experience its alluring
combination of seashore and mountain
When the group OF prominent New
Workers. and Jerseyites ac lu'red this
lofty tract overlooking Sandy Hook Bay,
Raritan Bay, Upper and Lower New
York Bays and the Atlantic Ocean the
surrounding country was sparsely settled
and gave no promise OF the Atlantic
Highlands which is to-day one OF the
most active and prosperous resorts on
the Jersey shore. Money was not spared
In the development of Navesink Park.
Gen. Egbert l.. Viele, famous engineer
and landscape architect of the day. was
engaged to supervise the laying out OF
the system OF winding roads which are
to-day one OF the features OF the beau
tiful place. The original idea was to
divide the park into fifty plots and to
have each mepber OF the Navesink Park
Company build his summer residence
there. Although the scheme was never
ca rried out the company has held the
property intact, save for q few sales.
during all these years and almostt all
the original incorporators or members
OF their families still hold their interest
in the company and retain their places
on the board of directors. Now that the
majority Of the founders are dead the
company has decided to throw all the
remaining lots on the market via the
auction block.
Navesnk Park Is a residential COM
munity about twenty-one miles from
New York city. IT stretches along Sandy
Hook Bay for about mile and extends
far back over the neighboring hills
whose name 1t bears. encompassing In
its area Mount Mitchell, with an alti-
tude OF 269 feet above the sea level.
which is said to be the highest point
between Maine and Florida on the At
lantic coast. The major part OF the
park lies in the Borough OF Atlantic
Highlands. which has Its own munich
pal water. electric light and sewerage
systems Ample shopping, banking and
educational facilities are TO be found IN
the village OF Atlantic Highlands, about
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
Buys .3d st. Corner.

Brett & Goode Company sold for Max
katz to the Institute for Crippled and
Disabled Men the building formerly
owned and occupied by the Demilt Dis
pensary. at the northwest corner of
Twenty-third street and Second avenue
The property was held at $4,000. 1t
was purchased by Mr.. Katz last April
and it was his intention to alter 1t for
business The institute is now located
in the old Packard School site at the
northeast corner of Fourth avenue and
Twenty-third street. which was leased
this week to Louis b. Brodsky and Sam
uel Augenblick. The institute is to take
immediate possession of the Second ave-
nue. corner an order to permit the lessees
Of the Fourth avenue property to go
ahead with their alterations.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
neaI. In Greenwich village.

Pepe & Brother sold 10 Anthony
Tralna for the estate OF Zachary T,
Piercy II West Eighth street. a four
story dwelling, 25x95. The purchaser
intends to remodel the building into high
class studio apartments.
Pepe & Brother sold for George II. and
Howard r. Foster 240-242 West Tenth
street, two six story tenements, 25x96.6
each, TO Anthony Traina, new inves-
tor and operator In the Greenwich VII
lage and Washington square section.
The properties have been in the posses
sion OF tho Foster family since 1868.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
brokers' in seventh Avenue Deal.

The Duross Company negotiated the
sale or the northwest corner Of Seventh
avenue and Thirteenth street to the Met
ropolian Temple reported in these col
unns yesterday. The property sold in
ciuded the dwellings at az, "A and 46
Seventh avenue and 203 West Thirteenth
street Number az Seventh avenue runs
through TO col Thirteenth street. on
the combined sites of these houses and
the present Metropolitan Temple. adj
joining on Seventh avenue. new ten
story social centre and institutional
church will be erected.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07

start Work on Murray Hill Flat.
Wreckers have started to demolish
the old Charles T. Barney residence at
the northeast corner of Park avenue and
Thirty-eighth street. to make way for
the construction OF a high class modern
apartment house. The new structure will
be fourteen stories in height. and is to
be constructed from plans prepared by
Schwartz & Gross. architects. The
facades will be of Colonial design and
viii be constructed of dark red brick
with trimmings OF marble and Indiana
limestone.
Apartments Will be arranged in units
containing from three rooms with bath
to seven and eight rooms with two
and three baths. Considerable time has
been spent in planning this apartment to
make IL model OF comfort and con-
venience.
Assurance that this project would be
started Immediately was coupled with
the recent announcement that S. w.
Straus s. CO. had underwritten n first
mortgage s per cent. serial bond issue
or sS25,000 on the land and building,
which are given value OF SLIPS, 900.
The net annual earnings OF this prop
erty are estimated to be approximately
s1O3.700
The controlling stockholders In the 81
Park Avenue Corporation. the owners OF
this building, are J. G. and NJ. @. Mayer.
who are members of the syndicate which
recently purchased the Strafford apart
ment hotel. now known as the Es-
planade. at West End avenue and 74th
street.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
BUILDING BOOM MADE
HOSPITAL NECESSARY

An abnormal increase in building. with
the inevitable increase in business popu-
lation, has created an insistent demand
for greater hospital facilities in the
downtown section OF New York city.
1t is for this reason that work on the
new 100 bed addition to the Broad Street
Hospital at South and Broad streets Is
being rushed forward toward possible
completion and use by the end of No
vember. The construction. which is
carrying the centre OF the congestion
well down toward the Battery. has con-
vinced the leaders of the drive to raise
the necessary 81 10000 that the hos
pital must be fit for occupancy before
winter.
The real estate committee assisting
in the drive is composed of Elisha Sniff
fen, chairman; Charles G.. Edwards of
G. G. Edwards e. Co., W. #. Ropes of
Horace Ely a. Co., John II. Scheier,
Maurice Mandelbaum and James r.
Murphy of the Joseph p. Day organiza-
ton. The personnel of the building
committee is It. II. Gillespie. chairman:
Charles A. Angel of the Crawford Com
pany. Daniel Z. Moran. Andrew ]. Post
OF Post & McCord, Inc: Hugh White
of the George A. Fuller Company,
Glover Beardsley of the Otis Elevator
Company, William Neil Smith. George
II. Storm and G. G. Cornell. Jr.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
Residential Leases.

HouGhton Company leased for Agnes
p. Dobbs the three story dwelling. 2as
West End avenue. opposite the Sohwab
mansion. to Beatrice Callahan.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
Amateur Comedy club site Re-oId.

Sale has been made OF the two old
four-story fats at 122 and l24 East
Fifty-first street near the new church
of St Bartholomew. on Park avenue.
which were bought a year ago for the
erection OF an eleven-story apartment In
which the Amateur Comedy Club was to
have home. The property has been sold
by realty company headed by Gen.
Howard s. Borden NJ a price close to
the asking figure OF $4,000
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
WHERE NEW COMFORTS AND OLD CF4ARMSARE WELL IENDE
Modern lone Conveniences Are Made
to Harmonic With True Colonial
Atmosphere That Gives Decided
Character to l.. |. Colony

ER0M TIE GENERAL DEsIGW OF 7NEsE 7YeEE
rAOU5ZS 9< 9<kEWSNG70WA AND me ARRANGEMENT or
| 1EhR FIRST floors. ONE AAI CA7CH SOMETHING
lOE The ARCH/7EC7LLRAL SPIRIT WH/CH DOMINATES
I
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
Business Property Market.
Vincent Astor Leases Corner.

Robert Levers leased for Vincent As
tor eight houses on the southwest cor
ner OF l30th street and Fifth avenue.
The New York herald., 1921-08-07
brooklyn transactions.

Charles f. Rickerson sold 20 Mont
gomery place between Eighth avenue
and Prospect Park West. a Ave stor,
dwelling 2t.4xS2.5. for the estate oi
James @. Shaw
Bulkley & Horton Company sold sgl.
Ridge Boulevard. between Eighty mint
and Nineteth streets. two story resi-
dence. for w Weldon.
Realty Associates sold 10 II. J. Clack.
ner n new two story dwelling with gar
age at ia Sullivan street
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Mexican Press Begins New
FIGHT Against Bull Ring

MEXlCO CITY, Nov. 30.-The news
paper "El Univcrsal' has started a
campaign against huIlhghting, which
appears 70 give promise of possible
success. In the belief that the present
generation Of grownups enjoys the
sport so much that its prohibition is
impossible, the newspaper is attempt
ing TO keep children away from the
fights and to that end has placed the
Mayor OF Mexico City and the Gov
ernor of the Federal district in which
Mexico City is located on record as
opposed to boys and girls witnessing
the brutal sport"
Quarterpage pictures OF youngsters
eagerly watching the CORY sights Of the
arena have heen printed and the news
paper asks if this is the sort Of en-
vironnlent that makes for culture and
refinement. Felix i. Palavicini. editor
of "El Univeral." long ago placed HIM
self on record as unalterahly opposed
TO bulltights, although, in Difference to
popular opinion, his newspaper carries
exhaustive accounts OF the corr:das.
He argues, however, chat II the young
sters are now kept away from the fights
the next generation will not want them.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Billion Candle Power
Light to Guide Flyers
European Airways Are Rapidly
Being Equipped to Make
Night Travel Possihle

LONDON, Ncv. 81 (By MaiD.-
Preparations for night aying on the
sirways Of Europe are rapidly pro-
ceeding. reports "Thc Times
The French Air Ministry has lust
acquired new aerial lighthouse that
exceeds in candle-power and intensity
anything that has yet been attempted
either in aerial OR marine lighthouses.
Showing flashing power Of one
Thousand million candles it will be
visible from distance Of 200 miles,
and will be the guiding light for night
air expresses entering or leaving the
Paris acrodrome at lie Bourgct from
The south. The new lighthouse will be
ertceed on Mount Africa, hilltop
seven miles from Dion, rising, to a
height Of 1900 feet
On the London airways seven aerial
lighthouses arc now in operation or on
the point OF completion. The stretch
OF alrway between the London air sts
ton at Croydon and the coastal mir
junction at Lynlpne is now illuminated
by four lighthouses, flashing distinctive
signals. They are so arranged that an
air express pilot proceeding either TO
or from London and the Continent will
always be III sight Of one of them. In
addition, it is proposed to make altera-
tions in the Varne lightship, which is
mocred in mid channel. so that it will
act as Il guide not only to shippine.
passing up and down the Channel but
also to ncroplanes flying above it.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
500 Chase Man
After Woman LIS
Beaten With Axe
Supposed Assailant Eludes
Pursuers i'm 9th Avenue;
Screams Arouse Tenants
and Door Is Broken Down

Five hundred persons engaged in d
vain pursuit last night Of man said
by the police to have attacked Mrs.
Fannie Giles, thirty eight years old. Of
315 West Forty-frst Street, with a
meat axe.
The woman was found by neighbors
soon after 10 o'clock last night lying
unconscious on the kitchen floor Of
he- apartment. Beside her was a
blood stained axe. Ambulance surgeons
said her skull had been fractured. She
was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
Tenants in the building heard her
screams and on trying to enter the
apartment found the door locked. Ex-
cited women in the building screamed
for help from the windows.
Patrolmau John Flanagan, of West
Thirtieth Street police station. forced
the door Of Mrs. Giles's apartment. As
he did so, the patrolman says, a man
emerged from another door and ran to
the street. Men and women tenants
gave chase and pursued the supposed
assailant. The congreg CATION Of d
church in the vicinity, emerging from
a lecture, joined in the pursuit. 1t
ended in failure.
first Street to Ninth Avenue with q
constantly increasing crowd. The fugi-
tive turned into Ninth Avenue and was
almost overhauled when he dived into
Il tenement door and disappeared.
The police say Mrs. Giles lives at
the apartment where she was injured
with her husband, Charles Giles, q
chauffeur. Giles could not be found
last night
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Private Detective Shot
BY Fellow He ThrasI,es
Bullets Fly III Grand Central
Station, One Causing a Pos
siblv Mortal Wound

An unidentified foreigner Mt Grand
Central Station yesterday fired four
bullets at Michael j. Higgins, a private
detective from Auburn. n. Y. One
bullet penetrated Higgins's lungs. and
the wound, in the opinion Of Bellevue
Hospital surgeons, may cause death,
Two bullets injured one Of Higgins 8
hands and one hurt the other hand.
The detective explained he was at
the station to protect client whom
he knows only as "Joe.' His client had
complained he had been annoyed fire.
qucntly by the man sought now as the
person who shot Higgins. The
wounded detective said that when the
unidentified stranger approached Joe he
thrashed the fellow and was receiving.
the thanks Of his client when the for.
eigner left, but returned armed with a
pistol.
Higgins declared The eunman opened
fire at once and that when he closed
with him he received the three bullets
in his hands. He asserted that his as
saiant then drew of, aimed delibe-
rately and fired the shot that entered
his breast. Higgins said that by
ISLANDERS pursued the foreigner. A
brown Fedora hat, said TO belong to the
gunman, was found in the station.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Youth and Girl Die of
Poison Near Each Other
Stricken at Her Home, Boy Is
Making Statement to Police
When Death Comes

PASSA1C, n. j.. Dec. 26.-Thomas
Brangs. eighteen yeals old, and Ma
tilda Rist, seventeen years old, both
! Of Passaic, died in the General Hos
ptal here tonight within half hour
OF each other, of strychnine poisoning.
The police were taking an ante mortem
statement from the young man when
he was siezed with convulsions and
died.
The girl was removed from her home
in Central Avenue shortly before mid
night. She was in extreme pain. Young
Brangs was at her home at the time
and told the ambulance surgeon that
he too. was i'll. He appeared perfectly
WE'LL however, and it was only after
he pleaded to be taken to the hospital
that the surgeon took him in the am
bulance.
She police, We're notified De7ec-
tives went to the hospital. The young
man talked willingly. matilda and /
have been friends for more than q
year he said. "Wevc been going around
lot. The other day ''
1t was at this point that the young
man was overcome. A few minutes
later he was dead.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Theater Audience
Sees ; Disturbers
Given TrOuncil,o
Men Who Refuse to Occupy
Proper Seats Attempt to
Pummel Policeman and
Are Thrashed After Battle

Twenty-Five hundred persons watch
ing "A vaudeville performances in Proc
tors Fifth Avenue Theater, Broadway
and Twenty eighth Street. abandoned
the show shortly after 10 o'clock to
witness fight in which Patrolman
Patrick Carniack, of the West Ihirtieth
Street station, beat one man into un-
/ consciousness with his nightstick and
severely punished two others before he
was able TO place them under arrest
katroIran Carmack was summoned
from his beat near the theater by San
! field Walsh. assistant manager Of the
house. who said the men were creating
disturbance. refusing to leave or to
occupy the seats they had purchased
in the balcony. Carmack found the
| men in parquet seats and ordered them
from the theater They refused and
Carmack attempted to remove them.
! The three set on the patrolman who
was thrown down in an aisle Ct the
theater. beaten and kicked.
A young woman singer and dancer
continued her performances in spite of
disorder and the orchestra played on.
but the audience refused to be diverted
from the fight. Men clambercd over
the backs of seats and women crowded
the aisles while Carmack struggled to
overpower his three assailants.
Fearing a panic, Carmack ran into
the theater lobby, pursued by the men.
with more room TO handle himself the
patrolman reversed matters. He
dropped one Of the men, Martin De
Sitio, of 13 Macdougsl Street, with u
blow of his nghtstick. and when De
Sitio rose for another rush sent him
down again. The second time he re-
mained down. The other saen, Angelo
Metale. of 10 Macdougal Street. and
John Orcila, OF 10 Nandam Street
submitted to arrest after being be!ted
once or twice with Carmack's club.
During later stages of the fight Car
mack and his obstreperous prisoners
struggled to the street, where not less
than half the theater audience congrc-
gated. De Sitio was taken TO the no
lice station still unconscious. He rc-
ceived surgical aid from an ambulance
surgeon.
When the prisoners were arraisned
in Night Court Magistrate Eeaaud
fined Metale and Orcila SIS each OF five
days in iail. They were unable to pay
lines and were locked up. De Sitio
was charged additionally With resisting
an officer. He received a ten-dav sem
tcncc.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-27
Motorist Props Victim,
Against Door and FIees
Injured Boy Taken to Hospital.
Where Mother, Seated at Hus-
bands Side. Faints

Norris Reiss, twelve years old, OF
21l0 Arthur Avenue, was taken to Ford
ham Hospital last night, suffering frol.s
concussion Of the brain. He received
his injury when he was run down By an
unidentified automobile
Philip Lotof, another tenant OF 21l0
Arthur Avenue, took the boy to tie hos
pital. He said that as he was returning
TO his apartment he saw large auto
mobile stop iii front Of his residence. A
tall man got out with Morris in his
arms. The man set the boy down in the
vestibule of the house snd departed.
only explaining briefly. "He was play
ing in the street and foll."
Morris's mother was in Fordham Hos
pltal when he was carried in. She was
sting beside her husband, who is re-
covering from an operation for a2pen-
dicitis. She tainted on hearing Of her
sons condition.