The New York herald., 1921-12-28
PERSONAL AND IMPERsONAL.

| 1T never OCCurTeu 10 US Wlllie We
were wishing our friends merry
Christmas last week that we might also
have expressed the hope that they
should find house and lot in their
| stocking. Since the housing shortage
set in gifts of that type have become
tremendously popular Even vacant
| lot is not to be sneezed at. So If you
were out of luck this year take our ad-
vice and wear larger stockings in 1922
Thus Santa Claus in addition to his
many other troubles-such for example
as squeezing a sixty-four inch waist
line through a twentyfour inch chimney
pipe and coming out at the other end
with his ermine and white whiskers un-
solied-is now being forced to act as
conveyer of deeds. The M. Morgenthau,
Jr., Company alone reported a great in
crease in the sale of lots in the Country
Club-Jamaica development just before
the holidays set in.
The annual discussion of plans for the
erection of a new Federal building N
| New York city is on and without too
great a concession to cynicism 1t Is cafe
! to predict that the subject will enliven
conversation at the usual seasonal in
tervals for several years to come.
1t is only fair however, to say good
word in behalf of the old post office
and court house building which affronts
| City Hall. Were it not for it's presence
| no one could ever conceive the actual
| distance which American architects and
builders have covered since the sinister
old stone pile was put up. But right
across the street the glistening Wool
worth tower tells it's own story OF
structural progress. 1t is a historic con-
trast. so why mar it by tearing down
the horrible example
Harry Lustig has Joined the Lewis
H. May Company. He will be stationed
in the office at Cedarhurst, L. 1.
New York Title and Mortgage Com
pany is lending s360,000 to the
Crestonia Construction Company on the
| southeast corner of 1S0th street and
Creston avenue. Three five story apart
ment houses are to be constructed on
| the site.
A fifteen story hotel with 900 rooms
is to be erected at Syracuse to cost
| s2,500,000, according to the Ward
Building Reports. The structure, from
|
be put up by the Syracuse Hotel Cor
poration at South Warren, East Onon-
daga and Harrison streets.
Lawrence. Blake & Jewell have placed
first mortgage of s360.000. at 6 per
cent. for five years on 302 Fifth evenue,
northwest corner of Thirty-first street
a thirteen story mercantile building
valued at 100000. The present mort
gage is 100000. 1t will be reduced ia
$500, 900. and is taken by assignment.
The Wilton Holding Corporation OBJ
tained from the Crestonia Construction
Corporation a building loan of s105. .00d
on the property, 92.3x101.1. at the
southeast corner of Creston avenue aid
1S0th street and from the same in
terests a loan for sS2.500 on the prop
erty, 965x79.3, on the east side OF
Creston avenue, 92.3 feet south of 1soth
| street.
Brooks & Momand have placed a first
mortgage loan of s13. 900 on 219 West
Twenty-ninth street $4,000 on the
southwest corner of Third avenue and
Twenty-ninth street; $4,000 on 1884
Avenue Az $3S,000 on sos West 173d
street; $4,000 on 15S West Fifteenth
street. and 100000 for the Selene
! Realty Company on the new five story
| apartment house on the west side OF
Stebbins avenue, 321 feet north II
| Dawson street.
! Samuel Galitzka has placed first
mortgages aggregating $4,000 .or the
Adage Realty Corporation on the north
west corner of Avenue and East
| Twelfth street, Brooklyn, Ave two story
store properties and the southwest cor
ner of Avenue ] and East Fourteenth
street, two two story buildings.
| A. Bran6sten negotiated the sale TO
| the Manhattan Roofing Company OF
the building it occupied for many years
at 1913 East 1iSth street. A six story
office and loft building will be erected.
NJ. II. Gaillard & Co. were the brok-
ors in the recently reported resales OF
113 to t19 West Eighty eighth street for
Abraham Luger.
There viii be n meeting of the Greater
New York Taxpayers Association OH
Thursday evening at 266 Grand street
Quinlan & Leland have placed first
mortgage loan of $4,000 on the five
story apartment building at S71 Fox
street.