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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
MOUNTAIN VIEW CLUB
HAS PLEASANT SESSION

The Mountain View Club met
Thursday afternoon with Mrs. M. w.
Schumacher. A most delighted after
noon was spent in sewing and social
chat.
Mrs Schumacher, proved most
gracious hostess, delicious refresh
ments we're served. A large num-
ber of the members were present and
Mrs. Guy Van Buskirk of Potlatch
and Mrs. W. F. Morgaridge and Miss
es Ida Semmes, Duel, Millie Bum.
garner and Vera and Hazel Draper
of Moscow, were guests Of the club.
The next meeting will be with Mrs.
E. A. Walker on Thursday, July 7th.
Mrs. D. Semmes will be the assistant
hostess.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
Reformer Butts Into Fight

Cincinnati A. PA petition
asking him to stop the Dempsey Car
pentier fight was forwarded from
here today to Secretary of State
Huges by DR.. Wilbur F. Crafts, head
Of the international reform bureau, on
behalf of the Life and Thought
Club" an organization Of business
men OF Lincoln, Nebraska. Crafts
said that If the petition is unsuccess-
full in stopping the fight he will "look
around for a Judge who has courage
enough to enjoin the fight"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
Midsummer Picnic Planned

The Westdala and Nora churches
are arranging for big midsummer
picnic to be given next Friday, June
"a, either at the city park or on the
E. Lindquist farm near Dry Creek
schoolhouse. The place chosen will be
announced next Sunday at the SER
vices of the churches. The picnic will
begin with a short service at II
O'Clock after which dinner will be
served. Those who attend are asked
to bring lunch baskets for dinner.
Rev. J. A. Edlund of Marshfield,
Oregon, will be present and at 8 p. m.
he will give an address appropriate to
the day Ice cream and soft drinks
will be served throughout the day.
The church choir will sing. Every
body is invited to attend and have a
good time.-Troy Weekly News.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
Explorer Amundson At Nome

Nome, Alaska -(By A. P.)-Roald
Amundson, explorer, whose ship,
Maude wintered off Cape Serge, ST.
IBERIA, arrived here today and will
leave for Seattle on the first steamer
ne announced The Maude lost her
propeller in the ice during the winter
and will be towed to Seattle this sum
mer for repairs. Amundson said he
VIII continue his efforts to reach the
pole BY drifting with the Arctic ice
foes as soon as repairs to his vessel
are completed
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
Robbins Improves Property

w. S. Robbins is having some sub
stantial improvements made in his
property on the east side of main
street between Second and Third
streets. He owns the three store
rooms between Washburn- Wilson
Seed Company's store and Sherfey's,
and occupied by Kelley's jewelry
store, Mittens and the Moscow Milli-
merry He is having excavations made
in the rear for some permanent i'm
provements, and expects to occupy
one of the rooms with his cigar store
and pool hall some day in the not far
distant future.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
Flood Near Oakesdale

Word was received in Moscow today
that heavy rain, almost a cloud
burst, had occurred near Oakesdale
yesterday. Persons travelling through
there report the roads covered with
water to the depth Of a foot In places,
as the result of an unprecedented
rain Friday. Travel by car was said
to be almost impossible through "a
wide territory of which Oakesdale
was the center.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
+ + + + = + = I. + + + + 4 =
New Wheat 95 Cents Here

+ Offers of $1.25 per bushel for !
+ wheat of the new crop for Aug
+ ust delivery at Portland, Friday, l
+ according to a dispatch from 1
+ there. On basis of present ex- 4
+ pense for warehouse and handl- 4
+ ing charges, this would make the 4
= price here about 95 cents per
+ bushel. This is the first offer I
: made at coast points for new
= crop wheat, SO far as can be I
= learned. 4
+ + = + Z = + = Z + = = = + = = 1
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18

Price of Wheat Stationary

+ Seattle-(By A. P.)-Wheat, 4
= hard white, soft white and white I
= club, $1.22; hard red winter, soft 1
: red winter, northern spring and 1
+ eastern red Walla $1.20, Big I
+ Bend bluestem, $1.25. Yester- I
=. days car receipts, wheat, II; I
= oats, l; corn, 5; hay, 4; flour, II. I
= Red, 99c; Club, S1.O2, Here I
+ H. c. Stivers, of the White I
+ Dulaney Company, quotes 99c /
: for red and $1.02 for club, sack +
+ ed at Moscow. I
+ + 1. + + + + + + + + + - + i.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
Cloudburst in North Dakota

Mandan, N. D.-(By A. P.)-Cloud-
bursts at Wibaux, Montana, and be-
tween Butte and Medora, North
Dakota, yesterday afternoon, caused
thousands of dollars worth of damage
according to reports which reached
here today. Houses were washed
away in the lower part of Wibaux and
hundreds of cattle were drowned on
lowland ranges, it is said. 1t was not
learned whether any lives were lost.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
Indict Woman for Murder

Portland, Oregon-(By A. P)-Mrs.
Louise Agee was indicted today on a
charge of murder in the first degree
by the county grand Jury investigat-
ing the death Of her husband, Harry
Agee at their home early Saturday
morning. Agee's throat was slashed.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
EIks Attend Funeral at CoIfax

A number of Moscow Elks went to
Colfax Saturday to attend the funeral
of R. P. Hill, a member of Moscow
Elks lodge. Among those who went
from here were Rev. H. H. Mitchell,
P. H. Sherfey, G. G. Pickett, H. N.
Wilson, Mr.. Clayton and G.. N Lam
phere.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
Lacrosse Family Comes to Moscow

Mr.. Carlson, Of LaCrOsse, has
bought the S. Emerson tract of 81
acres on East A street, within the city
limits, for the reported consideration
of $4,000, and will move into the prop
erty about July 1. The purchaser is
the father of C. J. Carlson, who
bought tract on Orchard Avenue and
moved here from Lacrosse last yeac.
The property just sold is modern, ex-
cept electric lights, which are now
being installed.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18

Atlantic City-(By A. P)-Jack
Dempsey did not take seriously the
report from Pawhuska, Oklahoma,
that he has been named correspondent
in divorce proceedings started by an
Indian. He said he never heard Of
this Indians wife and had never been
in Pawhuska
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
Moscow Gets Grand Lodge

R. R. Sherfey is in receipt of tele-
gram from Robert Otness, who is at
tending the Knights of Pythias grand
lodge at Rupert, Idaho, stating that
Moscow has been selected as the
place for holding the 1922 grand lodge
of the Knights.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
To Los Angeles in Eight Days

Gerald Meeker and Charles Pitcairn
who left here week ago Friday in a
Ford car for Los Angeles, telegraphed
that they reached Los Angeles Friday
evening, being just eight days on the
road. They made the trip without
any car trouble, not even puncture;
and report an ideal trip all the way.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18
Major Fuller In Moscow

Major F. L. Fuller, of Georgia is in
Moscow to visit his wife and her par
ents, Colonel and Mrs. E. r. Chris
man. Mrs. Fuller was called to Mos
COW some time ago by the serious
illness of her mother. Mrs. Chris
mans many friends will be pleased to
learn that she is we'll on the road to
recovery, and hopes to soon regain
her usual good health.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-18

MIR. Hilton as managing buyer will
be sent to Seattle by the Association
once month to secure big attractions
as they are released.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

because he was an enterprising and
energetic fellow.
81 remember that one of his hold
ings was the southeast corner of
Fifth Avenue and Thirty eighth
Street. He had two lots. The corner
parcel went for SIS 400 and the adjoin-
ing place, which faced on Thirty
eighth Street, brought $1,000 That
property to-day is the site of Bonwit,
Teller & Co.'s department store, which
IS one of the Oig establishments Of
,hes city. 1t is worth several millions
9t dollars.
Central Park Lots at $500 Each
"Mr. La"kin also sold the block front
on the east side OF Eighth Avenue be
tween Seventy third and Seventy
fourth Streets at $500 lot" That
property is now part of Central Park
and it cannot be had for either love
Ct money,
- doubt very much," Mr.. wilkins
would continue, as he eyed the massive
Astor Trust Building at the southeast
2orNcr Of Fifth Avenue and Forty
second Street, "if Jimmie Hayes held
the Kingsley house which he bought
from me for $35,50o. The Kingsley
house stood at 499 Fifth Avenue. just
nest to the corner OF Forty-second
Street. 1t was big price for that
property at the time, in May 1876.
The month before that sale Du0gins
& Crossman. who were the best known
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

property to-day is worth several mil
lions of dollars. The city taxes it at
$2,650,0O0.
Sold Park National Bank Site
"That property there Mr.. Wilkins
would go on, pointing to the Park Ma
tonal Bank, on Broadway opposite St.
PauTs Church. "was sod on April Z,
1877, If my memory is correct, for $310.-
000 The sale included TIE realty al 2l4
and ZIG, with an extension TO Ann
Street. John 3. Norris was the man
who got it. And that property COM
mands tho value Of the site which you
say is worth $2000,o00, according to
Che city's figures
Mr.. Wilkins would halt at the south
west corner OF Broadway and Walker
Street to survey that propercy, which
he would say brought $290,000 at auc-
tion on April %. 1887. William Moir
was the buyer. He acquired the piece
at 395 Broadway and at 397 and 399
Also 81, 63, G5 and 81 Walker Street.
"The old Lenox Housc stood on that
corner" Mr.. Wilkinsa story would go
on, pointing his cane at the seven
story business building at the north
west corner of Fifth Avenue and Thir-
teenth Street. at was beautiful
house and it was with regret that
asked for bids on that property. There
were forty-two rooms in the house,
and in my advertisements in the hope
of preserving the old house, l said that
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

York, Bat there were too many who
could not see any advantage in owning
property. suppose 1t IS the same
way to-day" be would say, turning to
Mr.. Arneberg. ~rhose who bought at
my auctions sold too soon in many
cases. They permitted fortunes to slip
from their grasp for gain Of few
dollars.
''In full frankness I must admit that
! never even dreamed there was enough
potential value behind the old city
which I sold to merit such values as
you say are only fair in the current
market.
81 suppose should not censure n1y
old cron;es of the auction market" M.
wilkins miCnt continue, "hecause I did
not avail n1ysclf OF some Of these op-
po1tua;tieG to leave my heirs properly
thai yoQ say 10 worth millions and
brings p1;ncely incomes every year
Slipping, down it Mr.. Cass's ch&,r
and stretching out his limbs as a man
something interesting MI. Wilkins
would lapse into silence, We would
hold his hands over his face as If try-
ing TO visualize a picture once seen.
''Tou tell me-" he resumed, that
Broadway, the corner Of Broadway and
Battery Place, sold for $3,0o0,oo0 two
years ago. Can 1t be that some mis-
take has been made? My, what tre-
mendous price," llo would remark when
assured that that was the figure paid
by the International Mercantile Marine
lines 3or this corner. II could h&ve
had tha. corner for 100000, and likely
fered INC the price that John Drake,
the owner, had ordered me to get for
the corner. recall The day distinctlv
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
I'D Street Center
Of Hustling g Home
And Trade Section
Population, Trade and Prop
erty Values Up Is P. C.. i'm
Year: Hundreds of Dwell
ings Turned Into Flats

Population of the West Seventy
second Street district, it's business i'm
portance and property values have iu-
creased 25 per cent in the last year
No better business barometer is to be
had than passenger traffic figures In
torborough Rapid Transit statistics
show that during the year ended June
], 1919, 5,765,025 tickets were sold at
the Seventy second Street and Broad
way subway station, which means that
that many or very nearly that many
persons entered that station in that
year. The statistics announced for the
year ending June l, 1920, show that
7,O93,532 used that station in that year
This is an increase Of close to 100000
travellers within year.
A substantial amount cf residential
space has been provided in the section
IN the last year. In one block On
Seventy second Street, that between
Columbus and Amsterdam avenues or
Broadway, fifteen dwellings, have been
reconstructed into small suHes with
stores on the street level. 1t is cs-
timated that hundreds of houses within
the radius served by the Seventy
ond Street subway station have been
made into apartment buildings in the
last twelve months to meet the de-
inand for small apartments, and num-
ber OF hotels Of the apartment type
have been completed during the same
period.
The changing Of several buildings in
the Forty~second Street district from
the hotel class TO business buildings
has increased the pressure for living
accommodations in tn s hotel develop
ment and iii the small studio houses.
ANI{nynnhj1p ~,
increase in development OF the section.
particularly in the last few years In
The last few weeks the manufacturers
of the King, the Minerva and the Cum
ningham cars have located in sales
rooms in Seventy second Street.
The business development o Seven
ty-second Street and the opinion which
IS general that the next few years W Il!
see much more sweeping changes there
is interesting in view of the great fuss
that was made when DR.. Thomas, the
.balloonist, who lived in the DWELLING at
the southeast corner of Broadway and
Seventy-second Street, permitted trade
IN that property. 1t was essentially a
residential street, and ~y!de interest
was manifested in the opposition made
to the invasion because Of what il
meant to other residential streets. for
here was none other on the West Sid,
tnat was more exclusively street OF
fine homes.
It was park street and under the
Jurisdiction Of the Park Department.
The corners of Columbus Avenue and
Seventy-second Street held the only
trade on the block. The change which
has come over Seventy-second Street
emphasizes the indefatigability of
proCrese
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

The dwelling could be made into fine
hotel, club or school 1t faced fifty
two feet on Fifth Avenue and sixty
five feet on Thirteenth Street. Sim
clair Myers bought the property for
$95,O00 That sale was held on April
27, 1875. The following year | sold
the property at TO Fifth Avenue TOR
,000 1t is now part of the Knicker-
booker Building at the southeast cor
ner o. Sixteenth Street.
Sold Out to Go West
"Thomas o. Larkin, who got infected
with the gold fever, which had spread
across the continent from California,
sold the northeast corner OF Fifth
Avenue and Thirty-frst Street where
stands now twcnty-story office and
loft building, erected some years ago
by the American Real Estate Company
on February 23, 1858, for $4,000 Four
dwellings,, four stories high, With
carriage houses in the rear on Thirty
first Street, were on, the property at
the time. The houses fronted 100 feet
on the avenue and 100 feet on the
street. 1t was big job getting thai
price for the property.
"Larkin had number Of properties
on Fifth Avenue, Broadway and other
parts Of the city which he sold that
day to get funds to go West, as
Horace Greeley used to advise. i have
no doubt that he made money there,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
Only Home Construction
Allowed Until 1924
Bill ia Assembly Will Not Only
Restrict New Projects but
Also Prevent Destruction

oiG Assemblyman Donohue's bill is
enacted construction for the next three
years will be for residential purposes
only unless the constituted authorities,
which will be the Board of Standards
and Appeals, will grant permission.
The measure is intended TO foster the
building resources Of the city for the
exclusive use Of residential construc-
ton until such time as the housing
shortage has been removed. SO little
Improvement h&s been made in the hou5-
ing situation Mr. Donohue feels that
stringent measures should be resorted
to, since others have failed to break
the tie-up Of house building.
Not only viii the bill prevent new
construction other than residences, but
it will also restrict the destruction of
buildings. The Donohue measure, which
is known as Assembly bill 294, amends
the greater New York charter by add
ing section, 1718-f, which provides
that until July /, 1924, no building
used principally FOR dwelling purposes
shall be demolished except upon the
written permission of the Board Of
Standards and Appeals, and that no
building shall be constructed or
changed FOR any purpose other than for
dwelling purposes except on written
permission of that board. The decision
Of The board granting such permit
shall be fiual
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
Home Hunters Will Have
No Guides i'm Jersey
Orange and Maplewood Brokers
Vote to Close Half Day
on. GnIn,.a. Lon
ON Saturday

Homeseekers who like the Oranges
and Maplewood, n. j., and who plan
trips of inspection to those charming
communities, are hereby warned not
to start later than noon on Saturdays
on such trips. If they do they will have
to go about their house hunting alone,
without guide OF informant, for the
Board of Realtors of the Oranges and
Maplewood voted unanimously on last
Wednesday night to close their Of
fees promptly at noon on Saturdays
throughout the year, and not to open
though fortune in commissions is in
volved.
That was the principal action taken
at the monthly meeting of the board
held at the Maplewood GLIB. About
forty members present also went on
record in favor Of the proposal to
license real estate brokers. The board
also voted to hold a banquet,
Several of the real estate reporters
OF the New York and Newark news
papers were guests OF the board at the
meeting ard at dinner at the club
which preceded it. During the after
noon the newspaper men were taken on
a tour of inspection of the country by
President Raymond Connolly and
Vicc-President Charles Z. Rousek, VINO
pointed out the large number of most
attractive, moderate-p priced homes that
have been built throughout the section
recently and now are awaiting buyers.
Reports made by various brokers
who attended the meeting indicate .
good demand for homes in the Oranges
and Maplewood, many of the brokers'
telling Of an unusual number of sales
closed fer this time of year.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13

architects in the city, paid $4,000 for
the fye-story dwelling at 583 Fifth
avenue. That same day / could get not
more than $4,000 for the house at
614 Fifth Avenue, which was bid in by
John c. Mills. This was in April.
"In February, 1876, Charles Duggin
corner of Madison Avenue and Forty
fourth Street for $28 200" The Bilt-
more Hotel now covers that pronertv.
"That block" Mr. Wilkins would in
dicate the west side Of Fifth Avenue,
from Forty-sixth to Forty-seventh
Street, II sold on May 8, 1867. for less
than S25,0 300 lot. The Forty seventh
Street corner brought $24,600 and the
Forty y-sixth Street corner S23 900. John
II Sherwood bought the latter corner
and three adjoining lots. He paid
$4,000 each for the inside lots. The
lot next to the Forty-seventh Street
corner brought $4,000. / suppose that
property is worth Z big heap of
money" And he would took Mt the fine
store building of ]. NJ. Gliding & Co.
end the eleven story building IN which
are located Reed & Barton.
100000 Would Have Taken Savoy Site
at may interest you to know" and
the old auctiyn would view with in
terest che Hotel Savoy, at the south
east corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty
ninth Street, and the Hotel Neither
land, at the northeast corner IN t
100000 would have bought these prop
critics. 1t was just before the Christ
mas Of 1876 that I put an part of the
site OF that hotel" meaning the Savoy.
''Fronting so feet on the avenue and
100 feet in the street it brought $50. 900
after half hundred offers had been
made for it.
Owen O'Coner paid $30,400 Tor the
immediate corner of the Netherlands $
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
Skyscraper to Cost
e >000,O00 To Be
Built by Hearst
T~enty-swo Stories VIII Be
Added TO Present Two
Story Building Occupying
Block in Columbus Circle

William Randolph Hearst is TO erect
skyscraper IN Columbus Circle. He
s having plans prepared by James c,
Green, architect, to add twenty-five
stories to the present two-story amer
icau Circle building occupying the
block bounded by broadway, Central
Park West and Sixty-Arst Street, which,
it is said, will represent an expendi-
.ture in the neighborhood Of SO 100000
The building on the site IS Of mod
en- construction, containing founda-
ions capable of supporting many ad-
ditional stories, and fronts SO feet on
Columbus Circle, 3lG.4 feet on Broad
way, 261.G feet OF Central Park VI est
and l95 feet on Sixty-frst Street.
Another improvement planned for
the section is soon to be undertaken
ny Deputy Police Commissioner Hay-
riss, and involves the old Thoroughfare
Building block, bounded by Broadway,
Eighth Avenue, Fifty seventh ard
Fifty eighth streets. Plans are now in
progress by architects Francisco 6,
lacobus for a sixteen-story Office build
ny, with stores, to be erected on the
lite.
Thomas j. O'Reil1y sold for the En-
grant Industrial Savings Bank the five
tory garage building 233 East TWen-
ticth Street, 22x92.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-13
Broadway, Wall St.
and Fifth Ave. Had
Comparatively Lit
tie Value When
Maurice Wilkins
Was Taking Bids at
Public Sales After
Civil War Closed

If Maurice wilkins, one of the early
leaders of the real estate auction mar
ket and member of the brokerage firm
OF L. II. Ludlow & Co. fer more than
Ealf a century, were to leave the grave
and reappear in the real estate field
be would be greatly impressed by the
wonderful things that would meet his
bewildered gaze. Great throngs on tho
street, speeding automobiles, changing
trolley cars, cloudpiercing skyline, the
wavc of Iawlessness and other ccus-
monplsce things of the day would be
so astonishing TO the old realty market
leader, who has been dead many years,
that he would cringe with fear until the
assurance that was once his would re-
turn.
After the shock of such revelations
had passed he would likely inquire OF
Albert NJ. Arneberg or Maurice S. Cass,
successors Of f. II. Ludlow & Co., or
of Ewing Speed, or Edward Crawford,
members of the concern, something
about prevailing prices of property in
Wall Street, Broadway, Fifth Avenue
aad other streets in which he sold
prope-ty when active as Sn auctioncer.
d:spiey ever the physical development
6 tac csy during the years he had
Acer oE. o the maraes would be great,
IS ,i'-e.y thaG greater would be the
&c. when Mr.. wilkins heard what
s,o2oc5.- values are in many sections OF
Naw 2ogl City. With concentrated at
tcntion and bulging eyes he would fol-
tow the vollcy OF prices that would
conc from the Ludlow firm folks Of to-
dSy. Denunciation would probably come
aftor the surprise and astonishIuent
rgd passed. He would have something TO
say about the men who had attended
MS auctions and had lost gold mines"
timc after time for niggardiy S..
Owen O'Coror, Torrance Farley, Charles
KGight, Jacob Vanderpool and others
would be rakod fore and aft, so co
speak, and caustically censared Tor
i&cl, OF foresight and confidence in the
future OF New York.
lie Told Them SO
"I told them, yes, many times, that
it was we'll to own little biz Of New