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Er On RIVERSIDE DRIVE FRor, l6a ND To t6oRD STREET

large that they are lighted by electricity
A novel feature will be the semi-hotel
valet service. which will be located in
the Drive house and will consist OF q
tailor. a presser. hair dresser. a laundry
and a refrigeration service. All this win
be available to the tenants by free tele-
rhone service in the house. These SER
vices viii be allotted by yearly lease
under the supervision OF the owners
The Drive mouse will he opened foi
tenants on January IL and the other
buildings one every fifteen days there
after.
There are no unsichtly drc escapes on
the buildings and each suite has ser.
vice entrance opening directly into the
kitchen. Upon entf ring the apartments
the visitor sees nothing but the nttra c.
lively decorated foyer hall and the living
rooms. All bathrooms open oft The Toy cr
snd sdjoin the bedrooms. Tho entire
block between Riverside Drive and Fort
Washington avenue and 1921 aud 163t
streets. with tho exception Of thr Fort
Washington avenue corners. viii bt
covered By thcse houses.
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Broadway From I'D to Goth Street. New Yorl<s New
Night Life District Is Scene of Many Large Deals
Recently Closed--Whoe Block Of Apartments Figures
in Resale and Fine Corner Sites Are Bought for
Future Flat House Projects
Future Flat House Projects

Early this year the byword in the
inner circles OF well informed specu-
Iators, operators and investors was :
Keep an eye on Broadway between
Seventy and Ninety-sixth streets.
In those days the confidential tip was
TO buy anything available along this
great highway within the prescribed
zone because--well. because Things
werc going to be doing there and veri-
table fortunes awaited the most enter
prising and courageous. The tips were
excellent ones, because from that time
on and eliminating in the last Few
months. there has been more buying
ana selling of improved property there
than in any other limited area of Man
haitian.
Tho William Waldorf Astor Estate
has disposed Of several corner plots.
most OF which were improved with low
taxpayers. A number of large plots
have been purchased by apartment
house builders, and during the last week
tho huge Belnord Apartments on the
cast side OF Broadway between Eighty
six;h and I1ighty-seventh streets and
extending back to Amsterdam avenue,
have changed hands Twice. The property
WAS valued at S4500,000. and was tho
largest single deal involving improved
real estate of the year.
Behind all this activity was the pres
sure Of business and population from
below Seventy-second street. The thea
tors and the automobile business have
been pressing hard on the upper reaches
OF Broadway below Cathedral Heights.
Small shops that once found rents easy
10 meet along Broadway below Seventy
second street have been obliged 20 give
way TO competitors in the night Lie
district between Thirty-fourlh ana
fifty-ninth streets. Large apartments
houses have been rearing their heads
along West End avenue, where old
dwelling sites were to be had at attrac-
tive figures, and the population OF this
once rather stagnant neiehborhod has
been mounting steadily. Neighborhood
shops and small thcaters have opened
up and to-day there is q night lifo
along Broadway between Sevcnty-second
and 10th street that would astoDish a
born New Yorker who hadn't visited the
district for ten years.
Talk about the possibilities OF Seventy
second street as a business section i5
cut of style to-day. Ninety-si2ih street
is the piece &C resistance at present.
Shrewd operators, speculatcrs and in
vestors, too, are lowering over this
part of Manhattan ready to carve OFF
their choicest selections.
II the plans OF all the big apartment.
house builders who intend to begin
operations along Broadway Between
E..ghtietn and Ninety-siXth streets do
not go awry during the next year, this
section will witness an impetus in popu-
lstion that will outclss IS any other Sec
ton or Manhattan. These houses
planned for Broadway. West End ave-
nue. and the side streets adjacent to
these thoroughfares are not Llinutians,
Most of them viii be at least fourteen
stories high.
The latest deal which promises an
operation OF this proportion was the
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Housing I'm Europe.

Apparently the United States is maxi
ing greater progress in relieving the
housing pressure than Europe. although
it might be difficult to convince the av-
erage rentpaycr hcreabouts that any i'm
proyement has been made. England.
France, Italy. Russia, Austria and Ger
many still are struggling with the prob
lem, tho writer was informed recently
by a man who had just completed
tour of Europe.
Building costs have been reduced
abroad, ne declares. but have not yet
reached a point where extensive pro-
grammes for hCpsing can be UNDER
taken. Even though building conditions
were more favora BILE he doubts IN any
but the most urgent projects would go
forward. as money is very difficult to
obtain. The visitor found hotels filed
to capacity IN every prominent city Ia
Europe. Tile general impression is that
next spring will witness the beginning
of tho greatest building boom in his
tory.
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Marriage Boom Breaks
FetterS Of House Famine
BY THE ODD PARAGRAPHEn.

No longer Is the shortage of homes
permitted to stay the boom in the mar
risge market. Less than a year ago 1t
was said that hundreds OF couples
were deferrng marriage because 1t was
impossible to find quarters for rent
According TO recent Government sta
tistics there have been q million mar
riages during the past ten months and
the number is increasing steadily.
The fact that the country is short at
least a million homes has been entirely
ignored by the happy bridegrooms and
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occupants OF the living or sleeping rooms
The plans were drawn by Sprinssteon &
Goldhammer, architects. who worked In
conjunction with Norman Denzer. broker
and renting agent. 10 overcome some OF
the common faults OF apartment room
arrangements. The result is that each
suite Is home offering luxurious lN.
ing quarters win minimum OF house.
keeping responsibilities. Another feature
worthy Of special mention Ia the gener-
Gus space given over to the foyer halls
These are so large that they may be
used for giving small dance parties.
The suites are arranged for from three
to seven rooms each. Tnc six rooms
suites have two baths and the seven
room suites have three. The Riverside,
Drive house is the largest and II con-
tains two elevators. The houses on
IG2d and 1881 streets have the same or.
rangonent and equipment. Each IS on
a pict 137xl00 and has suites from
three TO si:s rooms. The Drive house is
on p slight curve ana all the living rooms
and some of the sleoping rooms look out
on the Hudson. All the closets are 80
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TENANTS MUST NOT
OBSTRUCT REPAIRS
May BE Summoned to Court
for Hindcring Work Ordered
by Tenement Department.

Tenement House Commissioner Frank
Mann has issued an order to the effect
that whenever a tenant obstructs the
owner OF an apartment who is attempt
Ing to carry out the orders Of the Tene-
ment House Department for repairs, or
other requirements for which a viola
tion has been filed such tenant shall,
ON written complaint OF The owner, be
served with summons BY the DEPART
ment
Under section 12i OF the tenement
house act. any person who shall vioIat.
or assist IN the violation OF any provi-
sion OF the tenement house law IS guilty
OF misdemeanor and runishsbie by
fine or Imprisonment, or both.
This order is the outcome OF a pecu.
liar situation growing out of the enact
:nent OF the rent laws. It has become
a common practice FOR tenants aggrieved
at the landlord for raising the rent 20
file complaints with the various city dc.
partments having 20 do with real prop.
erty. These compls ints some time
would require, II carried out. very Sc
rious expense to owners. the inspec-
tors. who view the property in accord
ance with the complaints. frequently
find 1t necessary TO order slight altera.
lions only, or a few cheap repairs. The
complainant. dissatisfied, refuses to per-
nit the landlords woriSinen to make the
repairs ordered by the department and
refuses admittance to the premises, IN
order that the landlord might then be
prosecuted in the courts for failure to
comply
The Real Estate Beard OF New York
brought the matter to the attention OF
Commissioner Mann a few days ago.
with the result that he directed Chief
Inspector O'Sullivsn TO have the tenant
who refuses admttarcc TO the land-
lords woritmen prosecuted under that
section Of the tenement house law which
makes an obstruction 20 the removal OF
violation, n.sdemesnor.
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peprecistiuS Country Estates.

Within the last few weeks several
country estates said to have cost upward
~ a million dollars brought less than
- per cent. OF their original cost at
private contract The millionaire who
spends hundreds OF thousands OF dol
lars IN the development of q tract Of
land to suit his personal whims and
fspcies obviously adds little or nothing
10 Tho value Of his property.
Many oe tho labor saving devices Of
the gentleman farmer are too costly
and impractical Tor use BY the man who
makes a business OF farming. Swim
ming pools hanging gardens, &c. on
fine estates seldom return even part OF
their cost TO the owner when the prop
cTty Is offered for sale. The prospective
land buyer considers t.isse improve
inents "luguries' that lose their value
when they pass from the hands OF the
gerson who designed them.
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brides. Not alone in the United States,
but In many of the countries in Europe
las the number OF marriages increased
enormously. Germany alone is tagging
in this respect. In France and Italy the
number is far above the normal record.
Even divorce is said to DO on the in
crease. France, which not. so long ago
boasted that the lack OF houses and
apartments is checking divorce proceed
ings. now finds that separations are be-
coming almost as numerous as we'd
dings. Accerding to the ohio State
Journal the boom in the marriage mar
llet has brought TO students of sociology
an interesting question to which has
been given careful attention but for
which there has been no explanation.
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ga le last week OF the block front on
the east side OF Broadway between
Eighty-second and Eighty-thlrd streets
by Bing & Bing to Samuel Minskoff,
the builder, who assured THE New YORK;
HERALD that he intends to begin work
soon on fourteen story flat for one OF
the two corners. Anthony CampaEna,
the veteran builder recently acquired
from the Astor estate the northeast
corner OF Broadway and Ninety-second
street for similar operation, which
may be started carly next year. j. W.
Herbert, an attorney, recently bought
the old Astor taxpayer parcel at the
southeast corner OF Broadway and
Nincty-third street from Max n. Natan-
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apartment house at the northeast corner
of Broadway and Ninetieth street, which
they bought from the Astor estate. This
house will probably be completed next
spring.
This marked activity in upper West
Side-Broadway real estate has been 60
Ing OH for nearly six months. With the
sale by Bing & Bing of the block front
between Eighty second and IIiglty-third
streets through Byrne e Bowman, comes
the end Of the present available par
GELS adapted for development. on large
scale. Just now the remaining parcels
are in strong hands, and unless unfore-
seen conditions arise, there is apt TO be
a lull In trading and q email whirlwind
The New York herald., 1921-12-18

The largest single apartment house
operation said to have ever been under
taken on Washington Heights is being
completed on the block bounded by
Riverside Drive. 1921 and l63d streets
and Fort Washington avenue. by ELS
Maran. president OF the Mardel Estates
Inc. There are five distinct houses in
the group. and they accommodate 24d
families. and will cost approximately
s2.5o0.000. The Metropolitan Life IN
surance Company has advanced the
building and permanent loan on the op'
Grafton which, for the benefit OF the un.
sophisticated seeker after real estate aud
housing facts. means that the buildings
Will be as high grade as II is possible to
make them.
Aside from the high standard Of con-
struction the houses have an unusually
well planned layout OF the rooms in each
sui.c. Mich intelligent effort was mad.
to serarate the living rooms from TIE
bedrooms. and 20 preserve o layout
whereby the Kitchen work can be &c.
complIshed without disturbing either the
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of building. Meanwhile there is bound
10 be considerable amount Of trading
on q smaller scale. involving inside lots
both along Broadway and or the side
streets.
Wiseacres in the investment world
ere still giving their friends a. conf
Gontial tip to buy generously OF apart
lnent houses or business properties any
where witi1in 300 feet OF the new Great
White Way. The market in this par
ticular district will therefore probably
DO we'll worth watching.
The New York herald., 1921-12-18
LONG ISLAND BOARD
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS

The annual election OF the Long Isl
and Real Estate Board took place MT the
Cafe Boulevard on Wednesday, Docein-
ber "a. The following officers were
elected:
Richard II. Childs. president: Carl y.
Elmer. secretary; Granville II. Rome.
treasurer.
The vice-presidents as follows: George
$. Horton OF Brooklyn. Edgeworth
Smith of Queens. William s. Petit of
Far Rockaway. Charles Hyde OF Por.
Washington and Frank Hicks OF Sur-
folk COUNTY.
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Brooklyn Trading.

J. Lacov sold for Henry s. Quinn and
Mrs. Ferguson to l.. Goldberg lot
20x100 on the east side(of East Twelfth
street. 40 feet north OF Avenue /.
Henry l.. Nielsen Offices sold the plot
40x100 at 195-197 Pulaski street, with
two story building, for r. c. Cade TO
Solomon Blum.
Bulldey C Horton Company sold 2S5
De ISalb avenue, near Clinton avenue.
a three story dwelling, 95x1Oo. Cor the
Logan estate.
A. Bennett & Sons have sold so
Fourth avenue, an apartment house
with store. FOR John ID. Cosgrove 105
Third avenue. double store and apart
ment. for James NJ. Downey, Nj. ID. {;
with Il. IL. Streeter 453 Pacific street. a
three story dwelling. for Henry g. Nc
Lean. and with c. G.. Paige, so South
Elliott place, a three story dwelling. for
William VI. kenny.
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APARTMENT HOUSE BEING ERECTED BY JOSEPH
a7 lie NoRTHEAsT eoRNEe 1 sRoADvAN
and 9Oth STREET.

son. the operator. Mr.. Herbert has ac-
cepted renewals of leases on the prop
erty, but he doesn't deny that before
long the site will give way to tau
flat with stores.
While the Campagnos and the Pater-
nos have been evidencing their faith in
this choice zone OF the upper West Side
by erecting graceful siSyscraping flats
on West End avenue, Joseph and Sam
uel Golding have braved the vicissitudes
of the building game and the rent laws
by starting work on q fourteen story
The New York herald., 1921-12-18
Multifamily Property Sales.

G. Tuoti & Co. sold for A. Prade!ia the
two four story flats at S10-312 East 122d
street to Gaspero Miceli and Michele
CalGarella.
Max Weinstein sold TO Isaak Krafchll
three story tenement with stores. 22,i
7G.2. at 76S East 1G1st street for s20,-
o00.
John Finck has sold for the Worthwhile
Realty Company the seven story apart
ment. 3G.2x100. at the northeast corner
OF Amsterdam avenue and f21st street.
The yearly rental is $4,000 and the
approximate selling price was 100000.
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Club INV. miareacId rlnrc.

T.. ~. pcc', of S osgood Pell & CO..
sold for The Riggs estate rs houestcad
property known as "Natlocll" in Ridge
field Conn. consisting cf a stone man
sion. outbuildiugs aud mark o. thirty
acres. The sale was Tadc Indirectly TO
Col. Louis y. Coulsy, who Is tho inter
medary ior we'll known society
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Turchiu. S. Kramer and j. y. Patch)
purchased the four story dwelling. 1GSx-
1905. at 81 West Fifty-eighth street
from Edith Lustig. 1t is represented by
II. Turchin, attorney.
Pease & Gilman sold for the Hender-
son estate a three story seventeen foot
dwelling at 552 East 1Gighty-seventh
street, in the Henderson Place Colony,
to DR.. Thomas X. Davis.
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Latest Reports From City
and Suburban Markets

pany will act as agents for the build
ing.
]. Arthur Fischer sold for Frederic
Poffet the four story remodeled dwelling
at 334 West Nineteenth street. 23.6x32,
tc client for occupancy.
Other Deals In Manhattan.
The Commercial Quitting Company,
tenants of the four story building with
stores. 25.2xS1.6. at 81 East Broadway,
purchased the property from the Mer-
chants National Bank Of New Haven.
William Hobson. owner of storage
warehouse on West lSlst street. who
recently bought the plot, 25x17o. on the
north side OF that thoroughfarc, go feet
east of Audubon avenue. has purchased
the stable property, 25x99.4, adjoining
on the east.
Suburban Transactions.
Oliver Chichester reports the following
sales in the Nassau Boulevard section
of Garden City, for Lconard J. Kers-
berg. house OF eight rooms S0x100,
held at st6.500: also the plot, 60x100,
on the east side Of Easton road south
OF Chester avenue: plot 60x100 on the
west side of Roxbury road, north of
Stewart avenue: plot. i00X100, on the
east side OF Kensinston road. south of
Stewart avenue. and plot, 60x100. north
west corner OF Salisbury avenue and
Euston road, all for improvement
L. y. Nicholson & Co sold cottages AZ
Lyndhurst, ". j.. to Theodore Smith
Nicholas l.. Gibney, Thomas o'DonnclL
Marion Bertram and william A. Halck.
and to Emil Fuchs a vacant plot.
The o. L. Schwencie Land ana In
vestment Company reports sales Of plo,s
cf three to ten lots ut lenpstead. l.. T..
to J. Bolton. II. &c u. Cronhaci. G.
Holmes. J. NJ. Murphy, W. n. & A. r.
Robertson. A. A. spit2 and y. = White.
The Batson Farm Agency has sold the
80 aero Lee farm. near Stamford. n. Y,
to A. Bedoir os this city: also large
boarding house hotcls IN STAN ford IN
II. #. Hoffman, 10 Eusenc Butler and
A. Lehman; the Clark farm. near Som
ers, Wcstchestcr county. to T.. Anger:
also the Hillcrest Inn at Milford. Pa.
to j. Smith Of Broo!slyn: summer
camf property. with buildings. order
ing Twin Lakes, Conn. 20 :. ;iodnich
& Co. for boys summer camp: also
large boarding house ct Hensonville.
n. y, TO II. Heinrich: also BOARDING
house farm at Freehold, ". T.. to B.
Smcltzcr OF Brooklyn.
Chauncey IL. Griffcn d Co. sold
large plot In the White Plains Highlands
subdivision for Louis II. Genung of
Prince & Rip,cy's staff The purchaser.
r.. e. Stringham. will build a house OH
the site.
Thirty-Dinth street Loft Deal.
The Charles It. Noyes Conlpany sold
for Daniel It. Mahouy 3io-31s West
Thirty-ninth street. 50S100. $50 feet
west of Eighth avenue. valued at $780,
600. improved with a six story loft
building. under lease 10 John 4. Murray
& Co. wholesale plumbers supplies. on a
net rental basis. The purchasers were
Philip Llbermpn and II. shapiro. who
own considerable property in the locality.
In the Dwelling Market.
J. Arthur Fischer sold for Frederic
Poffot the four story remodeled dwelling
at 334 West Nineteenth street. 23.6x92
The newly formed 81 West Fifty
eighth street Holding Company Ga. I.
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II was reported yesterday that the
westerly block front on Eighth avenue
between 125th and 126th streets, 200x
100, had been leased to NJ. Glazier. presi-
dent OF the Eighth Avenue & 125th
Street Corporation, through the II. c.
Kopp Company from the Michael j.
Adrian Corporation. The lease Is foi
81 years at an aggregate rental of ST.
100000. 1t Is said the lessecs contem-
rlate extensive improvements to the
property which consists of eleven four
and five story buildings The property
is opposite the Bishop and Braddoci
buildings. Victor Szafrnary represented
the lesseee.
Bronx Market News.
The block bounded by Webster. Valen-
tine and fremont avenues and 1TSth
street, which faces the plaza, has been
leased to a syndicate headed by Silver
man, Maltzer & Reinhorn for twenty
ono years, with two renewal privileges.
The plot comprises about $4,000 square
feet and the lessees announce their in
tention of improving IL with business
buildings and apartments. The lessons
were John S. Bush, William H. Bush
and NJ. Natalie Balcom. II. & G.. Pflomm
were tho brokers. The aggregate rental
TO be palu Will pc oDOuI fl,uVV,VVv.
A six story elevator apartment house
with suites of from two to four rooms is
. to be erected on the southeast corner OF
Andrews avenue and 10th street by 9.
newly formed corporation which has pur-
chased the site from Nathan Wilson OF
the Occidental Holding Corporation. The
entire opera ton. 1t Is said, Will cost
about s250.O00. The plot measures
179xS0. The directors of the purchas-
ing company include Joseph Warren. z.
Brown and +. Morrow. NJ. Staub, as
attorney. represented the seller
u. 8. Rubber Co. Buys on Duane St.
The United States Rubber Company.
whose New York branch is at 139 Duane
street, has purchased that property and
the adjoining buildings at 137 and 1fl
orane street I'm addition TO the abuttinS
srcels at 62-66 Thomas street. Tho
>5ates Brothers Real Estate Company.
The sellet, will receive 100000 for the
properties. which comprise one, three
and five story loft buildings with stores,
on a combined plot. 75xi75. The realty
is assessed at S240.000 by the city.
City Gets Site for New school.
The selection OF a site for new
Cast Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
streets. between Second and Third ave-
nues, has been approved by the Board
of Estimate in preference to an alter
nate site at Lexington avenue and
rwenty-seventh street. The assessed
valuation of the Twenty-third street
site, which includes the present School
for the Deaf. Is s134.500.
A request by the Board OF Education
or the acquisition OF site on 10Th
street. between Mohegau and Honey
vell avenues, the Bronx. has been re-
ferred to the Committee on Finance and
Budget.
Columbia Lcnschoid sol'.
Everett NJ. Seixas Company sold for
tho estate OF Edward A. Bogue. repre-
sented by the AIontclair Trust Company
OF New Jersey. the Columbia College
leasehold dwelling at GO West Forty
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uarIcm nulIding in Rcsaic.

Goodwin & Coodwia sold FOR the Mar
Ter Realty Company 20 client Of SGT
Strauss tha rotr story bsilding at q.
West 125th street.
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staten Island Market.

The dwelling. 7Sx1S0. at 21s Egbert
avenue. West New Brighton s. L.. has
been resold through w. $. Il. Hall to
Ralph II. Welton Of New Brighton for
occupancy.
Referee In Macy Rent Appraisal.
Clarence IT. Kelsey or the Title Guar
ansee Trust Company was the umpire
and arbitrator in connection with Frank
y. Ames, representing Frederick Brown,
William J.. dc Bost OF the Crullishank
Company representing the other owners.
and Lawson Purdy representing the ten
ant. In the settlement OF the new $4,000
600 ground rent TO he paid by r. II.
Macy Co. for the next twenty-one
years covering the ground upon which
largely stands their building at Broad
way. Thlrty-fourth to Thirty-fifth street.
Plan 100000 store Annex.
The Goerkc-Klrch Company. Depart
ment store proprietors in Elizabeth. n.
j.. have leased as site for a 100000
addition 10 their store the Albert G.
Stein property at 10S-110 Broad street
and if-13 West Jersey street, through
Murray Apfelbaum, broker. Tho site
has a frontage of 100 feet on Broad
street and a depth OF 170.
The annex will be connected with the
present store and will be equipped with
an elevator. The lessor, who is In the
hardware business. viii sell out and re-
tire before next April The deal Is said
10 involve the largest rental value ever
recorded in Union county, N. J..
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buys Jackson Heights suite.

George +. Braithwaite has purchased
Garden apartment at Jackson Heights
in the new building at II Twenty-eishth
street.
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Columbia LenschoId sol',

Everett NJ Seixas Company sold for
tho estate OF Edward A. Bogue. repre-
sented by the Mon,clair Trust Company
OF New Jersey. the Columbia College
leasehold dwelling at GO West Forty
eighth street, 2i,sx1oo which will be
rcmodcled. The Everett NJ. scixas Com