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The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-04-17
Know Your Own City,
Do You Know
That?
BY v. B. INES

Hopping to it's better than hoping
for it.
Deficit is a short word but it makes
long faces.
Don't take things as they come;
head 'em off.
you TELL 'EM PLANE; You're
on the level.
YOU TELL 'EM IRWIN; Well
soon have Cobb.
You should see the Columbus golf
course. It's . beauty.
~ X
Don't worry about giving the devil
his due. He will get it.
X
The Salvation Army home fund
drive starts this week.
#*
Today is the 10Th day of the year.
The sun rises ats5:20 and sets at GAO.
X
Watch for the big bargains on
Trade Days in Columbus, May 6 and
7th.
Who'll bring Bull Smith back home
coming week? The officers failed to
do it.
Good Morning, Mr.. Cobb! He is
Columbus distinguished guest this
morning.
The easiest way we know to start
an argument is To get two men telling
fish stories.
Another remarkable man is the one
who can have Suthority without using
i to impose pI someone.
~ X
Our idea of four flusher is a man
who adds "distated but not read' to
letter he has typed himself.
Reserved seats for the Irwin Cobb
lecture at the High School tomorrow
night are going fast. Better get
yours now.
The Barrow Athletic field will be
but the street will not be
,losed for the present on account of
opposition.
It's about mosquito time again, or
soon will be. How about the miles
and miles Of drainage bitches? They
should be opened-up and cleaned out.
Il X
It's queer how things are divided
n this world: The child-less man has
1 twin-six, and the auto-less poor man
mas six twins.
The linotype operator who set this
column into type was working for
he New York World in 1905 at the
,ime Irwin Cobb became associated
With that paper.
Columbus is going to do something
o show here appreciation of The Ma
;onic Boys home at the Jones Farm.
Very probably building will be en-
lowed or something of that kind.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-04-17

Quite a number Of High School
teachers accompanied the High
School students to West Point on last
Friday. Among them were Prof.
Meadows, Prof. Middleton, Prof.
Brandon, Mrs. Hayes, Misses Rouse,
Culbert, Ethel Hardy, Nickles, Wea-
yer. who wen on the train and Misses
Roberts, Pitts, oleson and Smith, who
went through the country.
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-04-17

There were many miraculous es
capes from death. In the home Of
Mr.. Sam Smith in the Steens neigh
borhood there were thirteen people
and all escaped without scratch.
The storm gathered late Friday
night from the southeast and by 1870
it spent it's greatest force. The high
winds were accompanied by dowr
pour Of rain and this ided to the suf.
ferings of the unfor ililate people
They were thrown int darkness in q
downpour of rain without means Of
shelter and with all df their earthly
possessions wrecked al ID demolished.
The storm was Of II tornado type
1t first hurled its ford from south.
easterly direction and then switched
in an entirely differed direction, ID
one ( fjllcd ths wscsi wv slsows ths
winds to be blowing bm one direct
ion and within few hundred yards
the indications are th | it was from
an entirely different d rection.
Early yesterday mol hing when the
news Of the disaster spread over the
country the people liviig in the COM
munities not affected by the storm
began to rush in aid or the suffer
ers. They were carried to the homes
Of neighbors and every hing was done
to bring them aid and comfort.
A field worker of the Red Cross was
rushed to the scene yesterday after
noon from Columbus. kilograms were
sent to Red Cross headquarters in
New Orleans, and help from this
source is expected momentyly.
Just what kind of help End assist
ance was needed most LSas not de-
termined yesterday afternoon. All
public agencies and Citizens of Co
lumbus are IN touchl4ith the situation
and prompt actor will be taken just
as soon as a coarse Of action is de-
termined upon
Numerous Iffere of financial as
sistance to l.he suffering people came
to the Dipatch office yesterday af-
ternoon, People expressed their will.
ignes to contribute literally to a
fund, for the relief of the stricken
arel.
(Some organized manner of hand
lhg contributions to fund and fol
the direction of aid and assistance te
the stricken people will be perfected.
Dow Neighborhood.
In the seton east of Columbus or
the Air Line road the home Of Mr.
Bob Phillips was badly damaged snt
every tenant house on the place was
swept away.
The tenant houses on the place ol
Mr.. w. r. McPhersc.l were completed,
destroyed and fine, big moderr
barn sustained serious damage.
A tree fell across Mr.. W. X. Nc
Pherson's handsome automobile In
flicting costly damage to the car.
The storm was especially destruct
i've and terrific in its sweep across th'
plantation Of Mr.. Bob Phillips. Th'
Phillips home was completely demol
ished and every house and cabin OF
the place was wrecked by the onrush
ing winds.
Mr.. Lutte Black had his arm broker
in two places and sustained bad cut'
about the head
Charley Hinton and wife, negroes
sustained serious injuries, as did Hay
wood etts and his wife. Patsy Bill
ups, a negress, was badly cut abou
the head.
Caledonia Section.
Up in the neighborhood East o
The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-04-17
MOTHER GIVEN
CUSTODY CHILD
MRS. DOTHEROW ALLOWED
TO KEEP CHILD WITH
SUPPORT.
CASE HARD FOUGHT
Chancery Court Adjourned Yes
terday Afternoon After Pro-
Ionged Session.--Other
Cases Disposed OF.

Behind closed doors, with the press
and members of the bar excluded
Judge T. P. Guyton reviewed the case
of Mrs. J. d. Dotherow versus Mr.. j
D. Dotherow, in which the former
sought to secure a divorce from her
husband
Two days were consumed in hearing
the testimony, and the arguments
were presented at a night session or
Friday night.
There were no sodid aspects in the
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Los Angeles Shoe
Dealer TO Locate
In 57th Street

Pease & Gilman leased the parlor
floor at 27 West Fifty-seventh Street
to the c. H. Wolfcrt Company, shoe
dealer, from Los Angeles. who will
open New York City establishment mt
here.
Royal Scott Gulden leased the store
and basement in the new building at 48
East Forty ninth Street for ten years
at an aggregate rental of $52,50o to
Louis Parme. of Paris, hairdressing
establishment.
The Brett & Goode Company, with
Brown Wheelock Company, leased office
space at 542 Fifth Avenue to the Lab
guam Uhoto Studio; Offices in sos
Broadway to Mirhinge Bros. of San
Jose, Costa Rica, with Horace S. Ely g.
Co.; space at $50 Fifth Avenue to Ru-
dolph Schreiber, Inc, and Devonshire
Mills Company, Inc, with Walter G.
Wyckoff; space at 27 Lafayette Street
to w. P. Lillicrapp; the eleventh floor
In the Burton Building at z67 Fifth
Avenue to the Mohawk Glove Corpora
ton, and the store and basement at
344 West Fifty second Street to Amzi
Fischer; also offices at 70 Fifth Ave
nue. to John Lewis Thompson
John r. and Oscar L. Foley leased
SilC oIolS az liiS oOuLiWcSJ COTueT Ul
Seventh Avenue and Ffty-second
Street to A. Massalian.
Bastine & Co., Inc, rented the store
and basement at 45 West Twenty
seventh Street to Edgar Lehman; the
store and basement at 10 West Twen-
ty-fourth Street to George C. Kindt &
Co., Inc, and the second floor at 81
Fifth Avenue to Haber Bros
William I. Rosenfeld leased the first
loft at 1876 to 139 West Seventeenth
Street to the Western Electric Com
pany.
L. Tanenbaum, Strauss g. Co. leased
the garage, 50x1O0, at 36 and 38 Beach
Street to the G. B. Express Company,
Inc.
Folsom Bros, Inc, leased the store
1872 West Forty-eighth Street for ten
years to Guido Petrocci, and the store
at 134 East Thirty-fifth Street to F. j.
Pasotti.
Huberth & Huberth leased for Jacob
Rossbach the seven-story building, AK
rs, at So and 81 Frankfort Street to
the Star Company.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
= Tasors Resell DwelIi1ag g
On Lexington Avenue
Dispose of Property at 93d St.
Corner; Sales of Other
Private Houses

Otterbourg, Steindler & Houston re-
sold to the Calma Realty Company, Inc,
the three-story dwelling at 1923 Lexing-
ton Avenue, southeast corner of
Ninety-third Street, 16.Sx7O.
Coughlan G. Co., Inc, sold for Ger
trude A. Price three story dwelling at
267 West Seventy-frst Street, l7x922.
Margaret Maher sold to Flora L. Col
lette four-story dwelling at 1877 West
Eightieth Street, 21x1O22.
Kathleen Bough sold to Annie Dono-
van four-story dwelling at GO East
130th Street, 18.9x99.11.
George w. Sasse sold to Mrs. Mary
Mulligan for occupancy three story
dwelling at Sl9 West 113th Street,
16.Sx1O0.
A. G. Thompson Company sold 233
West 136th Street, three-story dwell
ing, 16x9911, for James A. Watson to
James A. Reid, of Boston, Mass
Fitz Howell sold for Bessie Kitten
plan three-story dwelling at 22o West
l36th Street, 16.Sx99.11, to buyer for
occupancy.
Ellen Butler sold to Montrose w.
Thornton a three-story dwelling at 31T
West 18TH Street, 15x99.11.
Moore, Schultz g. Co. sold for Ida
May Mcclure a three-story dwelling at
$40 West 149th Street, l5x9911
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Chinese Official Calls
Japan Biggest Menace
His Nation Will Insist on Evac.
uation of Shantung, Says
DIR. Chang Yu.Chuan

HONOLULU, Oct. 20 (By The Associ-
ated Press).-Dr. Chang Yu-Chuan,
chief counsellor of the Chinese Foreign
osiice at Peking, who is here on his
way to Washington to attend the arma-
ment conference, declared in an inter-
view to-day that the Japanese empire
Is the factor most imperilling the peace
oil the Far East and of the world. With
pr. Chang is a party of ninety-eight
consulting delegates of the Chinese
mission to the conference.
China, with her 40O,0o0,o 900 in
habitants. vital force to be reckoned
with in molding Far Eastern develop
ments, looks upon the Japanese empire
as the most dangerous vital factor, i'm
pefliiing the peace of the Orient and
therefore, the peace of the world" DR..
eh&ng said, China will insist absolute
y that Japan get out of Shantung en-
sifeiy and shall insist upon the uncon-
ddI'lonal revocation of the twenty-one
uemands and Japanese evacuation of
su Chinese territory.
Our experience with the Japanese
.1 uas ieft in us deep seated conviction
''as Japan Is not to be trusted"
Dr 0hang declared intrigue of the
japanese General Staff was responsible
aor the friction between the Peking
China. '''' 'e''e's' " N01'A
plhe delegates leave here for San
francisco tomorrow.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

MoNTCLAIR-sf2,bo 200: leaving town: mod :
ern home. finest section, rooms, all Inn
provcments sun porch. steam. electric.
garage. Montclair 1914.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Westchester Houses and Sites
For Homes Purchased

Chauncey B. Griffen & Co. sold for
Mrs. M. j. Cherry her new brick home
with garage in Larchmont Manor
Larchmont, to H. P. Hevenor. The
property was held at s35 900.
Prince & Ripley sold for Charles
Paul, of White Plains, his residence
on Sterling Avenue, White Plains. to
Frank f. Holloway. of Brooklyn. The
property consists of a nine-room house
on a half acre. held at $4,000.
The Fish-Garmany Realty Corpora
tion sold two lots in the Fernaliff sec
tion of Scarsdale for Judson R. Swift
to Mrs Henrietta Robson, of Scars
dale, who plans to improve the site
with residence.
Stilwell Realty Offices rented the fur
nished residence of Bertha Strich at
Larchmont Manor to John T. Byrne,
of this city.
Cordelia Shipman sold to George
Mansfield, Of this city, the store build
ing at the northwest corner of Bruce
and Caryl avenues, Yonkers. Thomas
S. Burke was the broker.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Two Big Flats Planned
At YOnkers Dividing Line

The Samuel Katz Construction Com
pany purchased a plot fronting 200
feet on the south side of Caryl Ave
nue., about 400 feet east of South
Broadway. The rear of the plot forms
cities.
On the site there will be erected two
six-story apartment houses containing
suites of two, three and four rooms
The houses will be finished in frontal
style both on the avenue and park
sides. and at the rear there will be no
fence or wall, the park becoming what
might be termed the largest apartment
garden" in the world, extending as it
does from the Yonkers line down to
242d Street. The new houses will be
within 150 feet of the Putnam division
railroad station.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Investors Busy in
All Parts of the Bronx
Operators Also Figure in the
Buying of Flats; Many
Dwelling Houses Sold

Nettie Singer sold to the 1857 Cor
poration, having for directors Louis
Schwartz, Abraham Tabachinck and
Barney Heiss, an apartment at 1857
Hoe Avenue. 75x100.
The Suchy estate sold to J. Waller
through John r. Prendergast five
story apartment at All and 419 East
147th Street. 54x100.
Kate Pantell sold to Edward +.
Thurlow four story fat at 629 East
l35th Street, 24.11x1OO; also 631, a
similar house, 25x100 to Rudolph Fier-
eraband, and 633, similar fat, 25x100,
to Otto Eichman.
Emanuel Glauber sold to Isaac
Cashin a four-story fat at 1910 Third
Avenue, 25x99.6.
The B. r. P. Realty Company sold to
Jacob Berlin the property, 1O7xl5S.3,
at 2460 and 2470 University Avenue,
extending through to 188th Street
John Dreher sold to Rose Ware q
two-story dwelling and stable at 1o46
Union Avenue, 33.1x175x regular.
John F. Prendergast sold to G.
Kostarko for W. L. Greene a fve-story
fat at 33 East 139th Street, 25x100.
Louis M. Greenberg sold to Victor
Mock the three-story dwelling at 1872
Bathgate Avenue, 163x81.1, at the
southeast corner Of 173d Street.
David Beutelstetter sold to George
Mccormick three-story dwelling at
1886 Brook Avenue, 17.8x90.
George Will jr.. sold to Louis M.
Greenberg dwelling at 1891 Monroe e
Avenue, 24x95.
John R. Scott sold to Margaret
Crowley a two-family house at 1921
OvS
Bertha Segal sold to Pincus Polonsky
a three-story dwelling at 1914 Clinton
Avenue, 19.6x90.2.
Joseph A. McOwen sold to Bridget
McDermott a two-story dwelling at
4o7 East 134th Street, 16.5xS5.
Gennaro di Donate sold to Crescenzo
Desimone a two-story dwelling at S34
and 836 East 147th Street, 5911x100..
Anna Clark sold to Loretta Rotch-
ford a two-story dwelling at 2S4s
Briggs Avenue, 25X100.
The Debb Corporation sold to Leo G.
Ruhl three story dwelling at 592 East
1s7th Street, 25x92.6.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21

Peasc & Gilman leased apartme ents
at 755 Park Avenue to Mrs. A. II. Nor
ris, at 582 Lexington Avenue to j. G.
Purdie, at 146 East Forty ninth Street
to Miss Edna Noland, ut lao West
Fifty eighth Street to A. 7. Burr, at
1877 West Fifty-seventh Street to Mrs.
William Breustadt, at 152 West Fifty
eighth Street to J. Wilson and L. Rog-
ers, at l20 East Eightysecond Street
for E. C. Wendt to Daniel Gregory Ma
son, at 70 East Eighty seventh Street to
Ralph Royall, at 124 West Seventy
second Street to w. ]. Gallear, at SO
West Seventy-sixth Street to Oscar E.
Veit and at 1913 West Seventy ninth
Street to Robert Cushman.
The Everett NJ Seixas Company
rented the furnished apartment at 40
East Eightythird Street to Frank D.
Webster and at $50 West End Avenue
to J. L. Rubenstein.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Home Planning in Bronx

WALTON AVE, $. 17o.s n of Burnside
av; 5-stry br ten, 51xss.1; 8 Const Co.
owners; Henry Jackson. 500 Irvine ST.
pres; @ T Pelham, 200 w 72d st. archt !;
cost $4,000.
231Sr ST, n $. 1o5 w Brentwood av: .
stry dwlg. 21x45; Jos Cuscianni 900 E
1oSth st, ownr Frank Hausle, 81 E 125th
st. archt; cost $4,000.
OAK TERRACE.n $. 100 w Beekman av:
3-stry br dwlg. 2ox54.8; Morris Browdy.
40 1921 st. owner; Behling, 1872
Nerega av. archt; cost $4,000.
GOLDEN Az s. 246 Gunhii Road q
Inc, ownrs; Thos Malcolm, i3o w 42d
st;~pres; E r Williams. 22o8 Tth av. arct :
WILCOX Av. s. 375 N Phillips av: !
stry fr dwlg, 90. 6x3s, Gunda Hellman. ON
prem. ownr; Thos c Petersen, 1898 Ma
=, 6, combs a,2s Read arct; cost. 5000;
BEACH Az. e $, 1868 T. Gleason av,
two 2-sty brick dwlg, 25x55: Diodot &
Nitfona, 595 d l39th st. owners. NJ
Cohen. 1872 Fulton av architect: cost
BAINBRIDGE Av. n s, 112.ss It Mosh-
olu Parkway, 2-sty brick dwlg. 2lx65
H SEWERS, 1857 Decatur av. owner
G Gum, 2567 Decatur av. architect
cost, $4,000
GUM HILL ROAD. s. $40 It W Pauld-
Ing ay 2-sty brick dwlg, 25x4s: P w
navo, Ito w 10th st, architect: cost
2lsTH ST. n $. 2os As IT w Bronxwood av
1-sty frame dwlg, 2ox36; Leonardo Ro-
naidi. 3Sl5 Bronx wood av owner: E
Cannaya, ITO w 40th ST. architect; cost
s4.500
es6aH ST. n cor Richardson av. four ?
sty frame dwlgs, 2lx53 Francis Van
Dam, 720 221st st. owner; Geo ii
oiphert jr. 657 222d st, architect
GOLDEN Av, $, Pts 1T Mace av. 1-sty
brick dwig. 2+x35; Antonio S!rin. 44s W
4ist st. owner; Carl Cali, 81 Il l25tb
st. architect: cost. $4,000
HOLLYWOOD Az. W 8. 105 IT Oils av
u -sty hrtek dwlg. 2Ix34; Emma q
Almquist. 2911 Haskin ST. owner: Geo r
Crosier. $50 II 22ad st. architect; cost
SIS 600
BRuNER Av. G 8. $50 fl Edenwold av
l-sty frame dwlg, 21x56 Lillian Drab
S4S e 2lsth st, owner; Geo Crosier
ess L 22ad st. architect; cost. 5000.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Antique Spanish Chest
And Stand Brings $40
Artistic English Pieces in Sale
at American Art Galleries; 1st
Sessions Proceeds @6 SCC

Artistic antique Spanish and English
furniture and embellishments, removed
from private residence ct Spuyten
Duyvil, were offered Cor sale at the
American Art Galleries yesterday. The
afternoon's proceeds were $6,522. The
last session takes place this afternoon.
mounted walnut vargueno, or chest
of compartments, and stand, Spanish
sixteenth century, one of the finest
pieces sold, was acquired by w. B.
Greenman for S440 Its construction is
carried out in gilded sorged iron her
aldic panels imposed ON ancient Grim
son velvet, and having twenty drawers
architecturally pillared and inlaid with
ivory. Mrs. E. Weston was the pur-
chaser of a rare sapphire blue Navarro
altar carpet, seventeenth century Span
ish, signed by the maker, Ana Roori-
guez, and in fine preservation. This
article brought $500. Other sales were.
Large upholstered blue velvet diyar,
to Y. Arai, $3.50; two oak Windsor beds,
to f. H. McKeon, s210; cared walnut
table, seventeenth ceT 'urv Spanish, to
L. Kcbier .'75 ea cArved leather
chairs, seveNrcer.-A con'uFy Spanish, to
d. 2. Nooriar.. sI5C LAX bureau, Will
liam 81 No period. to Miss M.
Green, $50; two carved walnut arm
chairs xt3euth century Spanish, to
Mrs ulf Martin, S120; carved poly
Al ome chest, fifteenth century His
pano Moresque, to Louis & Co., S120:
two carved walnut armchairs, sixteenth
century Spanish, to F. Baumeister,
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Simon Risberg, Disabled
Veteran, Wins Art Prize
His Poster To Be I'LL in Ad.
versising Buttonhole Hell
met Made nv Wn,,rxycJ

simon Risberg, a disabled soldier
STUDENT OF the Society of Illustrators,
was awarded first prize Yesterday fo,.
ms poster presenting the trench -hel-
net emblem to be worn on Armistice
pay. The contest was arranged by the
commletee in charge of the Dugout.
LOU East Sixtykrst Street, workshop
ana clubrooms 5or wounded soldiers.
Alfred M. Lowe and G. NJ. Behar were
awarded second and third prizes. The
awards consisted of checks for s25.
Sl6 and $40, respectively.
SIXTY former service men taking the
governments courses in vocational
training, entered posters in the COM
petition. The idea was to illustrate
the buttonhole helmet which members
OF the Dugout are making to be worn
ny citizens during the celebration
planned for November II.
A committee consisting of Howard
Chandler Christy, G. B. Falls and II.
=. Baker, artists, and Major L. H. 3.
Pell, made the selections. Colonel John
j. Bradley, chief or staff. 77th Divi-
sion, presented the awards to the men.
The winners design represented a
hillside with soldiers graves and an
American eagle lowering over them
silhouetted against red-sky back
ground, with placard in front bear
ing the date November II and the
scribed: 'Wear an A. E. F. Helmet on
Armistice Day. Made by Disabled Ex-
Service Men at the Dugout."
Risberg, who dives at 533 East
Eighty-frst Street, was a member of
the 312th Machine Gun Battalion of
the 10th Division, and was injured by
an exploding shell.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Home Buying in BROOKLYN

j. D. Ranck sold for the Realty Sales
Company q bungalow at Ala Avenue j,
40x10O, to Wilhelmina Wilkening; at
4717 Bay Parkway, 52x100, TO Rose
Coppage, and at 1914 Ocean Parkway,
40x15O, to Joseph G. Thesis. and for
Annie W. Jewett two-family house,
1855 East Seventh Street, to Daniel V.
McAuliffe
A. Miskin sold for the Solphil
Realty Corp. to Harry Silverman, q two
teenth Street
The Henry L. Nelson Offices sold
the two-family dwelling at 514 seventh
Street for ]. H. Brown to Miss Jennie
Quignev
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
Real estate News
Flats i'm Harlem Section
Still Sought After
Woman Parts With House in
I20!h Street Near Madison
Ayenue Corner

Nehring Brothers sold for Elsie B
Smith 66 East 120th Street, hve-story
apartment house, 26x100. The pur-
chaser bought the same free and clear
and has arranged fr-t mortgage of
$4,000 at per cent with the New
York Title Insurance Company and
plans extensive improvements.
Francis j. Arend sold to Bertha Ack-
orman a five-story fathouse at 1927
Amsterdam Avenue, 25x100,
Abraham Goodman sold to Harry
Perkenwold story flathouse with
stores at 323 East Tooth Street, 25x
10011.
Ralph Russo resoid for Samuel
lsaacson five-story tenement house at
4o3 East 106th Street, 25x1o011, to
Mattco Governal.
William H. Barnes sold to George W.
hruse a five-story fathouse at 225
West 105th Street, 33.4x100.11.
: BuelHh II. Redman sold to Charles
Sehuck jr. fve-story store tenement
at 952 First Avenue. 3S.5xSO
New-York tribune., 1921-10-21
New Buildings
For Sites i'm
Motor. Section
Broadway and Goth ST. Cor
ner Leased for $2,S20.-
600; Plot in w. 54ah St.
Rented for ST., 100000

The newly formed 1871 Broadway
heal Estate Company, Inc, has leased
the property at the northwest corner
OF Broadway and Sixtieth Street fer
slXty-tnree years at an aggregate
rental OF S2,520,000, and plans to i'm
prove the site within the next few
months.
p The property, known as 1s41-ls4s
Broadway and Gil West Sixtieth
Street, is owned by Peter Doelger and
has frontage of 5S.4 feet on Broad
way. 1t has now been sublet by Mar
garet Lorentz to the 1841 Broadway
Realty Estate Company, which gets
possession of the property on Deccm-
Der l next for period of twenty-one
years and has an option of two renew
ais for similar terms. For the first
term the company will pay net an
nual rental of $4,000 and for the two
succeeding terms the rentals will be
not less than that figure.
me leasing company, capitalized at
$4,000, was formed by Algernon 1.
Nova. Brooklyn lawyer, and has for
its other two incorporators Isidor
Staub and Alexander Cohen 1t plans
to i.rrove the site with an eight-story
structure,w which will doubtless be de-
voted largely to the automobile trade.
Edwin H. Duffy was the broker and has
been appointed agent of the property
by the new company.
New Nfty-fourth Street Project
John H. Scheier, architect and
builder, has taken lease on 241 to
24b West Forty-fourth Street, next to
the Automobile Club and the Pierce
Arrow Building. Rearing on the
property is the Calvin Building, which
Mr.. Scheier completed recently at 1856
and '23a West Fifty-ffth Street, and
the property at 240, which he owns.
The Fifty-fourth Street properties
were leased through Albert H. Stout
from Charles Sommer & Bro, Inc, who
have owned the parcels for more than
half century. The lease is for
twenty-one yee"s, with renewals, and
contains an O. on of purchase The
transaction inv.ives q net rental ag-
gregating s1.0O0,0O0. Mr.. Scheier will
erect a six-story store, office and apart
ment bull, r., on the site.