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The New York herald., 1921-05-15

come their weakness for rising late and
dallying with their two minute eggs un-
I'll the train rolls in its location should
make strong appeal, for it is within
few minutes walk of the railroad sta
ton The cooperative purchasing terms
I'm this house call for stock investment
Of from $500 70 $10,700, depending OF
course upon the size Of the apartment.
Here too, the payments may be spread
over period of six months. The rentals
will run from $1,000 to s1,s00.
Both the Summit apartments were
designed by the architectural firm OF
Mann & MacNeille of this city. In
their plans and specifications the archi-
tects have provided for the installation
of all sorts of devices to make easy
housekeeping possible.
In Flushing, Queens, the Joint-Owner-
ship Construction Company, Inc. has
tried another interesting experiment in
apartment house disguise. on choice
plot on Bovine avenue between Lincoln
and washington streets the company
plans big house of Colonial design,
conceived by Andrew ]. Thomas. New
York architect. Here the company has
followed its customary policy of pre-
serving the open countrywide character
of the environment The rooms will be
largo and we'll grouped. opening into
each other easily and attractively with
here land there a glimpse of the out
of-dot rs. The bedroom and service por-
tons of the house are well separated
so as to insure privacy The entrance
to each apartment Is through an ample
foyer into a large living room with an
open fireplace. The dining room open
The New York herald., 1921-05-15

the house will be from the rear. and It
will be treated in a formal manner with
garden jars. inexpensive garden statu-
ary, enclosing walls and perhaps a foun-
tain. The builders will attempt nothing
elaborate in landscape architecture, their
chief object being to achieve as high a
degree Of practical beauty possible on
a limited amount of money. The apart
ments will be sold on the cooperative
plan, the purchasing agreement calling
for an investment Of from $4,000 to
$1S,900 in the stock of the company, the
payments to be spread out over a period
of six months IL so desired. The stock
of course, will pay dividends. which will
go toward the reduction of the rentals,
which vary from s675 to $4,000.
At Summit and Euclid avenues in the
same township the company viii under
take another project in unusual apart
ment house construction. AS this site
Is in the heart of the city itself, how
ever. 1t was thought advisable to apply
the Georgian type of architecture which
has enough OF Journalism to make 1t
totally different from anything in the
suburbs and not enough to make 1t re-
semble a city apartment. This building
will also have the appearance of pri-
vate residence such as one might expect
to find In the midst of a large estate.
The suites will run from five rooms and
bath to six rooms and two baths
Again the plans call for large, light and
airy rooms. The building. occupying a
plot 200 feet square. will be of brick and
will have slate roof of Georgian de-
sign. To those who are unable to over
The New York herald., 1921-05-15
CITY AND SUBURBAN
PARCELS TO BE SOLD

Bryan l.. Kennedy will offer at auc-
ton rext Wednesday In II Vesey street
nor, than dozen properties in Man
haitian and The Bronx and two In the
suburbs The Manhattan parcels in
clude 1890 Seventh avenue, northwest
corner of Seventeenth street, three and
four story buildings. 50x120; l0o-l02 Sew
onth avenue, the northwest corner of
sixteenth street. three and four story
buildings, 50x63. Mr.. Kennedy will also
offer IL and IS West Thirty-second
street, an eleven story loft. 5oxsS; 20
Yves, Seventeenth street, a twelve story
loft S3xe2, BOT West 10Th street, a four
story dwelling. 1sx1oo; also a six story
tenement, with stores. northeast corner
OF Clinton and Division streets. 9ox64.
and ak story tenement with stores
northwest corner of Broome and Clin-
ton streets
In The Bronx Mr.. Kennedy will sell
J5n oliver street, two and a half story
dwelling, and large vacant plot on the
southeast corner OF Wellman avenue
and Erickson place. Among the out OF
town properties offered are 407 Union
avenue, Mount Vernon, n. u. a two
md half story dwelling, uixs2, a
twelve room dwelling at Grand View
avenue and Cherry street. Katonah,
". T., and "Keewaydin," Catskllls
Mountains, near Kingston. N. y. sew
erai dwellings and about 100 acres Of
ground.
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manufacturers, who have put up these
buildings, are in favor of holding the
garment centre to these comparatively
narrow confines as laid down by Chief
Engineer Tuttle and indorsed by the
Thirty-fourth Street Board of Trade.
This contest promises to be no ordI-
nary fight such as often comes to the
Board of Estimate in the form of city
zoning cases. The Thirty-fourth Street
Board OF Trade represents such inter-
ests as tho big dry goods stores in the
Herald square district. the Pennsyl
vania Railroad and the Statler Hotel
owners On the other hand, there are
numerous and influential property own
ers arrayed on the other side. Mayor
Hylan and the other members OF the
Board of Estimate are not looking for
ward to the settlement of this contest
with any degree of pleasure They
would gladly pass tho buck" to a
King Solomon Il 1t were possible.
All the members OF the Board of
Estimate want to see the interests of
the department stores, the hotels and the
railroads protected. At least one men,
ber, Borouh President Curran of Man
haitian, has intimeted that a plan some
thing like this ono should be adopted
On the other hand. President La Guar
dia of the Board OF Alderman, It is
rumored. sees in the plan an effort
to shunt tho garment workers over
around Tenth avenue where they will
be deprived OF the benefits OF rapid
transit TO their homes in tho Bronx
and the East Side.
The Save New York Committee seems
to be taking q middle of the road
course. 1t has pointed out. however,
that several costly loft buildings have
aIr Atr kan taI L., -
large sites have been purchased for
other such structures. II plans for
these buildings are filed before the
zoning resolution II adopted. the owners
can go ahead and use them for one
hundred per cent manufacturing pur-
poses. It has also been pointed out that
IL the city does restrict the contested
zone for business any building may be
used for twenty-five per cent. manu-
featuring purpose7.
1t was learned last week that at one
time during the fight of the Save New
York Committee to get factories out of
the midtown sector, n plan was con-
sidered whereby the southerly half of
the block. between Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-ffth streets, from Seventh to
Eighth avenue, also the northerly half
OF the block. between Thlrtieth and
Thirty-first streets from Seventh to
Eighth avenue, would have been in
cluded In the save New York zone. For
some reason. the facts OF which are
rather obscure. tho proposition was
never put through. Recently the Save
New York Committee added 10 its
one hundred per cent. factory re-
stricted zone. all that territory between
Seventh and Eighth avenues and For
tieth and Fifty-ninth streets. taking In
the hotel, theatre and automobile dis
tricts around Times square.
The New York herald., 1921-05-15
BUILDERS BUY LOTS
IN LONG ISLAND CITY
Queens Business Men FOresee
Big Building Boom i'm Lower
Astoria Section.

One Of the most convincing bits OF evil
dence that the long awaited building
boom has started, according to the
greensboro Chamber of Commerce. Is
the fact that prominent builders who
have helped develop Washington Heights,
The Bronx and Brooklyn are now turn
Ing their attention to the Astoria section
OF Long Island City, just above the mod
ern Industrial development at the end OF
the Greensboro Bridge This section
is now tapped by the Astoria and Corona
extensions of the dual subway system
as well as by the Second avenue elevated
and numerous surface lines, which bring
1t within a fifteen or twenty minute ride
OF the Grand Central Terminal zone. the
fastest developing section of Greater
New York.
Builders and others have been slow to
realize the euperlative transit advantages
OF this section of Queens, which is served
by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit subway
as well as by the I. r. T. subway and
elevated lines. The Greensboro Cham
Der of Commerce finds now that tho
builders have awakened to these advan-
tages. and also TO the fact that land
values there are comparatively low Last
week the vacant land owned by the
estate OF the late William G.. Park. ono
OF the pioneer steel magnates. was sold
at auction by Joseph p. Day, and these
lots. 1908 In all, situated along the AS
toria extension OF the subway, were dis
posed OF for an average Of sSis a lot.
The sale attracted thousands OF men
and women and many builders Part
OF the block on the west side OF Fourth
avenue, between Grand and Jamaica
avenues, already had been sold pri-
vately to Philip Krulewitch OF tho FL
rose Construction Company and Morris
Mannacher of the Mannacher Construc-
ton Company, who viii improve the
sites with five story apartment houses.
The O. X. Matthews Company, build
ers OF tho famous Matthews flats in
Long Island City. bought thirty-eight
lots on Twelfth avenue. between Pierce
and Graham avenues. at from $3.50 to
Ss75 apiece. Among the other builders
who bought lots for Improvement were
Charles Flores of Brooklyn, Peter
Frudi Of Manhattan. Miles Gordon OF
the Miles Gordon Syndicate and James
u. Clonin Of Long Island City.
Almost daily tho Greensboro Cham
Der OF Commerce has inquiries from big
builders who contemplate construction
Of either the multifamlly or single fam
ily type of houses. They see a great
future for the borough and want TO
come in on the ground floor.
The Building Department has In
formed the Queensboro Chamber that
during April applications for 1903 per-
mits to build in Queens Borough were
filed. The estimated cost of these
buildings amounted to $4,000, a higher
record than for any similar month In
four years
The New York herald., 1921-05-15
BY THE ODD PARAGRAPHER.

Nowhere in the Edison QUESTIONABLE
can we find query relating to the
Identification of houses by the numerical
system. and we are keenly disappointed.
We feel certain that knowledge on this
important topic would have been just
as adequate a test of mentality as fa-
mlliarity with the habitat and family
connections of the prune. Then we had
another motive for hoping that the cleo
trical wizard would ask applicants for
jobs in his establishment just when the
house numbering device was first resort
ed to. 1t would have saved US from the
humiliation of being shut out entirely.
for we had just been reading up on the
subject To prove 1t. here goes
Nobody thought of tho simple device
of Identifying a house by number until
we'll on in the eighteenth century. Then
in certain streets of London, such as
Cheapside, shopkeepers began to rival
each other in the size and grandeur OF
their sign boards. These signs groaned
and creaked annoyingly and every now
and then helped to counterbalance any
tendency toward too high a birth rate
by dropping on the heads OF passersby
A year after house numbering was In
troduced. signboards projecting from
walls were abolished.
There is one phase OF house numbering
that Is still very much of a mystery TO
tho average resident--the skipping OF
numbers In various sections of the city.
Manhattan IL fairly well regulated in
this respect. but other sections are not
The trouble started a good many years
ago when owners were building resi-
dences In various sections OF tho city
One would erect three houses on fifty
foot plot, another two on thirty FOOT
plot and n third would build house
twenty-five feet wide This spoiled
every effort at systematizlng and re-
suited in great confusion.
A few decades ago owners were given
permits on their own Specifications as 10
locations, and more trouble resulted.
Some of the owners weren't at all paruc-
ular whether they mentioned the right
side of the street, or whether their dis
tance from the corner was accurate or
not Invariably, IL developed, they would
be from ono to three feet out OF the way.
The result can be imagined. In recent
years there has been adopted In tho sub
urban area OF Brooklyn, the so-called
Philadelphia system. This calls for the
erection of three houses on n fifty foot
plot, or a subdivision into 16.s foot lots
In consequence great deal of the old
confusion has been rectined.
Some years ago in the F'latbush sec
tion they had a self-appointod official
number expert, who. while carrying on .
rather lucrative enterprise. made no end
OF trouble. This man was sign painter.
and conceived the Ingenious idea OF
using a tape measure 10 establish a
house number. He would charge Zoe
for establishing number and then take
an extra fee for placing that number on
The New York herald., 1921-05-15
@ ~ 3TE MessIE e 9Uz4 H HOUSE FAMILY " WILL Be BUILT % oo'

Company bases its estimate OF expenses
on solid facts cleaned from fifteen years
OF experience in the erection and man
agement Of multi-family structures.
Under the leadership of its president,
Frederick Culver. 1t has sold millions of
dollars worth of these properties in New
YORK city. Now, however, 1t has ven
tured outside the city walls, where It's
work effectively illustrates this new
vogue Of camouflaging the fat house.
In Summit, N. j., alone the company
has undertaken the construction of two
such houses. One of them, veritable
Engiish country mansion with great
sprawling wings. will be built lust on
the outskirts of the town on an emit
nence known as Prospect HILL about $40
ieet above tidewatcr. From this point
OF vantage on clear days one may get
a good view of New York CITY. about
twenty miles distant. AS an appropriate
setting for the house the Amsink estate
q splendidly cultivated ten acre prom
erty. was purchased. The Amsink home
stead had burned down. but the land
alone cost the company about 100000.
Ihe slope OF the hill has for many years
been planted and cultivated as a rock
garden and contains many charming
paths and beds of flowers especially
suited to this type of culture. In the
rear of the property is forestlike
growth of trees from thirty to fifty
years old. On this ideal plot will be
erected the rambling manor house vary
ing from two to three stories in height
and containing fifteen apartments rang
ing in size from three rooms and ath
to eight rooms and three baths. The
rooms will be especially large.
The building will face to the south
west 80 as to command the best view,
and will set back sufficiently from the
edge OF the hill slope to cut off all the
Immediate foreground. The approach to
The New York herald., 1921-05-15
TURN Q FLATS INTO
MEDICAL CHAMBERS
Physicians and Surgeons Ac-
quire East 54th ST. Houses
on Cooperative Plan.

The two five story apartment houses
at ia and lie East F'ifty-fourth street.
50x100 feet, are being remodelled for
the exclusive use of physicians and sur
CONS and title to the property has been
taken in the name of the Medical Cham
bers. Inc. Twenty-four physicians rep
resenting practically all the special lines
in both medicine and surgery, have sub
scribed to the stock in the owner corpo-
ration on the cooperative basis The
directors of the Medical Chambers. Inc,
include DR.. John E Wilson, president :
Or. Duncan Mcpherson. vice-president !;
DIR. Howard Fox. treasurer, and DR..
Edmund +. Fowler. secretary.
The building is being entirely remod-
elled under the supervision OF Polhemus
& Coffin, architects, and will be ready
for occupancy in September. The work
includes the addition of another story,
making the building six stories In height,
an entirely new facade consisting Of
limestone and stucco, new partitions,
installation Of an electric elevator and
all the equipment and sanitary appli-
ances required in a modern physicians
building.
In general the offices range in size
from three rooms to five rooms. There
are. however, two special offices con-
sisting of fifteen and sixteen rooms each,
equipped with rooms for X-ray
appliances, laboratories and dark ROOM
Many OF the suites Of offices have oper-
ating rooms in connection with the re-
ception and consultation rooms.
1t is planned to make the service In
this building the equal IL not the SUI
perior of any other similar building In
the city. 1t will be possible for patients
to reach the building by telephone at
any hour of the day or night. Walter
C. wyckoff has been appointed manag-
ing agent OF the building.
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suburb, and they don't ride to hounds
there. They play golf and tennis"
For the next half hour or SO the
homeseeker listened to lecture on
progress in apartment house construc-
ton and cooperative buying which
opened his eyes and improved his tenn
per. Among .other things he learned
that the ultra-modern tendency IN
multi-family house construction Is to
make the building look as little like
an apartment as possible. This he was
informed was largely the result Of the
invasion of the suburban areas by the
apartment house builder. In the pre-
shortage era when multiple housing
was confined chiefly to the cities II
was practically impossible to make
flat look like anything but flat The
inside might be as luxurious as the
palace of a king, but lack of sufficient
ground space frustrated even the most
skilful architectural attempts to con-
ceal the identity of the structure. In
the suburbs, however. the architect was
allowed freer play and ne ala not neg
lect his opportunity.
It was no wonder that the apartment
house hunter was surprised at the infor-
nation handed out to him. Many an
other person who like himself. had spent
the better portion of his life in mod
crate priced city apartment would have
suffered compound fracture of the
imagination if called upon suddenly to
visualize situation in which man
earning from $4,000 to $4,000 a year
and having small amount in the bank
could afford to live in a Georgian man
sion or a great rambling manor house
fitted Up inside like the most comfort
able and modern of city apartments
Yet If this ideal state of affairs Is not
already an accomplished fact It will be
as soon as the Joint Ownership Con-
struction Company. Inc, OF East
Forty-second street, has completed its
extensive programme of apartment con-
struction.
The Joint Ownership Construction
The New York herald., 1921-05-15

'How would you like to live here?'
asked the renting agent.
The apartment hunter gazed upon the
elaborate drawings and floor plans which
had been so casually placed before him,
gasped and glanced up at the renting
agent as though he half expected the
latter to poke him in the ribs by way of
emphasizing the little Joke which the
homeseeker believed had been perpe-
trated upon him. But the apartment
hunter was in no mood for joking. His
feet were tired his brain was weary
and his nerves were taut.
Perhaps you could find something a
little more desirable" he suggested.
Say, for instance. the ground floor Of
Buckingham Palace. or maybe the lett
wing OF the White House. OF course you
know that could never squeeze my reti-
nue of servants into the modest English
castle you show me here. Nor would
my children have room to play In the
measly ten acres or more of ground sur
rounding the manor house. Give me.
pray you. something that will better beft
my princely stipend of $500 a year and
my fortune of ST. 900 tied up In gilt edged
Liberty bonds. Moreover. / do not care
for anything so plebeian as fox hunting.
Nor do I like the rcd coats or high boots
that go with the sport. which would seem
to me the only fitting pastime for the
occupant of such mansion"
The renting agent ignored the satire
and got busy with his pencil.
Lets see." he said. Your salary.
you say. is $4,000 and you have $4,000
laid by. Well. my friend. that will just
about enable you to live in this Eng
lish castle. as you call it, and your
royal suite will be SO compact. well
arranged and we'll equipped that you
can dispense with your retinue of SER
wants. You won't even need a maid.
This English manor house Is just fifty
minutes from New York in a pretty
The New York herald., 1921-05-15
MOVE TOHEM IN NEW
NEEDLE TRADE ZONE

After spending years Of work to free
Fifth avenue and the midtown retail
section OF the city from the blight Of
the garment factories. and having
glirnpsed the first fruits of its victory
in the tall modern loft buildings that
are going up west OF Seventh avenue
above and below the. Pennsylvania
Terminal the Save New York Commit
tee is confronted with a proposition adj
yanced by the Thirty-fourth Street
Board OF Trade, now before the Board
OF Estimate, to shut out manufacturing
from a large part of the section west OF
Seventh avenue In which the Save New
York Committee has encouraged the
garment manufacturers to locate.
Many property owners who have re-
lied on the coming of the garment manu-
Sacturers 20 the district are decidedly
opposed TO the idea of restricting 1t
against factories. They regard the gar
rrent trade as their deliverers from
realty stagnation and as the most logi-
cal developers of that section now COW
cred with small ramshaclSle tenements
and cheap business buildings. The
Thirty-fourth. Street Board of Trade.
headed by Vivian Green. president. Is
busy getting signatures to its petition
asking tho Board of Estimate TO Inn
nose the restrictions and the property
owners headed by Ralph Y. Wechsler.
their attorney, are hustling 70 organize
ms many opponents to the scheme as
chew can hnd. The first open skirmish
a. the arht will occur next Friday when
IN. Board OF Estimate will hold its frst
hoaring on the proposition at 10 o'clock
sn room 16, City Hail.
Tho district which the Thirty-fourth
street Board of Trade would free from
loft manufacturing is bounded by the
following streets: Eighth avenue. east
erIv side. from n line 100 feet north Of
west Thirty-fourth street 70 West
1rortv-second street; Eighth avenue.
westerly side. and Ninth avenue. boah
sides. from a line 100 feet south of Weat
Thirty-first street to west Forty-sec-
ord street: West Thirty-flrst street.
yyeat Thirty-third street and West
r,birtv-fourth street from Eighth 10
Ninth avenue; West Thirty-flfth street.
west Thlrty-sixth street. southerly
side. West Thirty-eighth street north
erIv side; West Thirty-ninth street.
west Fortieth street and West Forty
frat street from Seventh TO Ninth
avenue.
This plan leaves in the centre of the
proposed restricted section two small
square tracts for the garment trade be-
tween Thirty-eighth and Thlrty-sixth
,treets from Seventh avenue to q point
1Oo feet cast of Eighth avenue and
from a point 100 feet west of Eighth
avenue to a point 100 feet east Of Ninth
avenue. Two of the largest units 1f
garment manufacturing lofts have Al
ready been erected between Thirty
eIxth and Thirty-eighth streets on tho
vest side Of Seventh avenue. between
the York and Navarro hotels. Saul
singer and Mack Kanner, garment
The New York herald., 1921-05-15
When We're Numbers First
Put on Houses, Mr.. Edison?

the house. The scheme wouldn't have
been so bad IL the tape measure hadn't
stretched. But In time. instead of the
25-foot tape measure he started out with
he worked along unknowingly with one
of about % feet. Moro confusion.
Out in the Brownsville section they
have their own methods. The city Is
sues numbers, and If the tenant of the
house suddenly decides the number
isn't lucky one, off goes that num-
ber and the next day there may ap-
pear Z or II. What the idea is no one
seems to know. but it Is a fact that in
Brownsville there are more trick"
numbers than anywhere else. Bill coll
loctors might throw some light on the
subject
The New York herald., 1921-05-15
ACTIVITY AT MOUNTAIN LAKE.
Buyers Choose Homes I'm Charming
New Jersey Development.

Mountain Lakes Corporation sold tho
six room house on Cobb road, Mountain
Lakes, n. j.. to a. N. Granzon. The
house occupies a plot fooxi54. shaded by
oaks and n profusion Of Towering
shrubs and plants. Mrs. Nellie NJ. Sis
BY OF Flatbush has purchased m eight
room dwelling on large plot at the
corner Of Briarclyffe road and Laurel
Eill road The house as "servantless," !"
being equipped with all the modern
electrically controlled labor saving de-
Woes