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New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Late Trading,
LIN Apartments
And Dwellings
Bulk of Tenement Sales in
Harlem and Lower East
Side; Improvement for
Row on Lexington Ave.

Fred H. Stellhorn sold to Frank D.
Eall 2o6 West 103d Street. a tive-story
fiat, 20x76x Irregular.
Charles w. Stewart sold to Maria D.
T. Lessa 18O East 1O9th Street, four
story tenement, 1S.9x10O.11.
f. Cincotti sold to Vincenzo Bracco
341 East l16th Street, a three story
house, 22x700.11.
Fregulia & Lott sold to Antonio Pei
ligrine 20 Bedford Street, a tive-story
apartment.
Morris A. Eiseman sold to the Phi
lactos Brothers Realty Company 3e5
Bleecker Street, southeast corner of
Charles Street, a three-story store
tenement 20x475
P. 1. Simonelli sold to Giuseppe Loci
cor 20S Thompson Street, d six-story
store tenement, 25xl00.
Alfred j. Amend sold to David D.
Weinberg for 5000 the six-story
store tenement, 25x100, at 36 Norfolk
Street.
Carl A. Rodenburg sold to Nathan
Flodinger POS Eldridge Street, a five
story store tenement, 25x1oO.
Charles j. F. Bohlen sold for Philip
and Carl Rodenburg the fve-story
ioit ana loUl -SVoly rear teneMeNCS ul
a05 Eldridge Street.
Wright Barclay, Inc, resold for John
81. Sheehan 513 Grand Street and the
rick building 315 Henry Street. The
buildings were sold to tenants who
fave occupied them for many years.
Lexington Avenue Houses Sold
NJ Morgenthau jr. Company sold t,
a elicit for the Stability Reality Com
pany the three fve-story brown stone
dwellings, S48 to $50 Lexington Avenue
50XS0, between y-fourth and Sixty
fifth streets. With this purchase s5-
Lexington Avenue is the last remain
ing dwelling Of row Of six purchasec
asst year by the present seller. 1t i!
announced that immediate improve
ncnts will be made to the property
Charles Wynne and Louis H. Low
operators, purchased from the Ray
.nond estate the four-story dwelling
containing twelve rooms and two baths
t so West 95th Street, 2oxl00, througi
). Simon
Clara j. Jablonski sold to Blanch,
;. Van Walkenburgh 2l4 Lenox Avenue
four-story dwelling, 20xSo.
Leroy Coventry sold for Emily A. c
iollins 1928 West Eighty eighth Street
four-story dwelling, 20xi00.
Thomas r. Connolly sold to Pau
:. Fox 279 West 1924 Street, a three
tory dwelling, 16.8x99.11.
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before the Kaiser's desire for aggran
dizement made this nation the great
trading counter for the world, had to be
provided to take care of this increased
business. Expansion has been the key
note of everything in the insurance
district 1t is still the keynote. Little
concerns have grown large and large
CONCERNS have become larger. A spread
Sn s,Sut was necessary. Those who were
essssi~atHUent than some others had to
giveS Fay to the strong and powerful,
they~tHad to surrender their space to
provide promises for the plants of the
larger speculators in eventualities or
risks. Some OF these concerns occupy
the major part of skyscraper buildings
erected hurriedly in answer to the de-
mand for space. Other concerns have
been forced to spread out in two or
three widely separated buildings. En-
elusive business homes are no longer
the exception in the district.
What Twenty Years Have Brought
Twenty years ago the insurance bust
ness was south OF Maiden Lane. to-day
there are only two Insurance concerns
south Of the lane The movement north
of the lane started ten years ago.
Either the unwi4lingness or inability of
Insurance men to meet the offers made
by Wall Street firms for their space
led them out OF the old district south
of Liberty and Cedar streets. Started
by the leaders, others followed, fore
ing out of the new district concerns
which could not contest the advance of
the insurance business by meeting the
Increased rent which the latter was
willing to pay.
The coming of the Federal Reserve
Bank to the block between Maiden
Lane and Liberty Street, Nassau and
William streets Will cause a shift in
the south tier of the insurance dis
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24

Empire City Fire Insurance Company,
PeopIe's Fire Insurance Company of
New York, Exchange Fire Insurance
Company and Henry HONG Son
Agency
No. 1e0-Mechanics Fire Insurance
Company. Of Brooklyn.
No. 154-156-Broadway Insurance
Comparr, Citizens Insurance Company,
Lenox fire Insurance Company, Park
Fire Insurance Company and George
NJ Colt Agency.
No. 152-Farragut Fire Insurance
Company and Lorillard Insurance Com
panv followed by the Manufacturers
and Builders Fire Insurance Company
Of New York, and Kings County Fire
Insurance Company.
Williamsburg City Fire Insur-
ance Company
No. 146-American Fire Insurance
Company of New York.
No. l20-David Adee, agent, the
Equitable Fire and Marine Insurance
Company and the Merchants lnsur-
suce Company, both of Providence, R. l.
I'm this same building were the Lib
erty Insurance Company, Weed q
KenneGy's Agency. American Exchange
Fire Insurance Company, Sun Fire
Office. of London. and the short-lived
Columbian Insurance Company OF
Louisville.
No. 1oo-Contincntal Insurance Com
pany and City of New York Insurance
Company.
No. l95-Phenix Insurance Company
No. Brooklyn Fire Insurance
Company, and later the Rhoedes Agen--
cy, representing the American and
E'iremens Insurance companies Oh
Newark.
No. 187-Guardian Fire Insurance
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
New Jersey Realty
Commission Tells
Of New License Law

The New Jersey Real Estate Com.
mission has issued "circular letter
regarding the new real estate license
law, explaining that the "contents
therein are authentic, but without off
cial force and effect at this date" The
license act fixes it's functioning date as
of September 6; therefore official or
gani2ation cannot be effected until
then. The circular states
"It has been nought advisable to
make the following announcements
nofficially, in response to a grea1
many inquiries received for informa-
ton, which communications are re-
spectfully acknowledged and duly filed
for the earliest attention.
Official Information, blanks and Bull
letin in the above connection NAV not
be ready for distribution until after
the official organization meeting Sep
tember 6, 1921 (Section Of Chapter
141, Laws of 1921. New Jersey).
at is contemplated issuing Bulletin
l with introductory Statements anc
Descriptive Headlines together witt
copy of Certified Copy of the Act fol
state wide distribution.
"'Bulletin i issued will contain Re.
quest (blank -, a colored insert page
which blank is the first to be filled out
There will be loose copies of Request
to be had earlier, on application.
"In the mean time if broker o.
salesman is likely to want an early
copy OF Bulletin L. distributed before
or after SeptembeS 6, it is advised that
they send in name and address now te
Executive Office, Jersey City, / Mont
gomery Street, for fling, ss others are
doing.
"This will enable all such to re
ceiye and return early Request (blanA
u, the first step necessary in order tt
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24

obtain after September an Applica-
tion (hlank p for License.
The application, when received, if
returned promptly and in complete
form to the commission, will expedite
the earlier issue of their license, pro-
vided no objections are filed
Every person, firm. association,
tnership or corporation, whether
operating under a trade name or other
wise, to engage, either directly or in
directly, in the business OF real
estate broker or salesman within New
Jersey, must obtain license, and it is
unlawful to be without such license
after October l.
"lf firm, association, partnership or
corporation designate one official
member to take out firm, etc, broker
license, all other members and officials
thereof. acting, must each obtain a
act) :"
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Expanding TO East
and North i'm Effort
to Obtain Larger
Space to Accom-
modate Increase i'm
Business Growing
Out of Great War

Spectators in eventualities, men
who bank their dollars on your health,
your business success or your prop
srtv have parcelled out for themselves
a very comfortable area in the down
town business section. They are neigh
hors of bankers. stock brokers, LAWYERS
and large corporations Of Wall Street
East of Nassau and north of Maiden
Lane is the land of the Insurance man.
There he sits and plans the value OF
the risk that you have asked him to
take on your business, your health or
whatever it may be, for men will be
found in this section who will take
risk on anything, even insure against
weather conditions months in advance
They have not preempted this en-
tire section, but indications are that
the present boundaries of the insur-
snce district of New York are not per
manent by any means. Announcements
nre being made every day which sup
nort the belief that the insurance set
tlement will reach eventually far to
the east OF William Street, which is
main Street" in the insurance city.
Insurance Zone Will Be Larger
The solid front of the old Swamp" !"
trade district established when New
York was a wee bit of a place in the
sves of the commercial world, has
been nicked at several points by the
spread OF the insurance zone. The
chief line OF development is along or
close to Main Street" Fulton Street
has been crossed. Insurance interests
have bought on Gold Street close to
Beeknan Street in the last few week 4,
New buildings will replace those pur-
chased.
Like a great tidal wave the demands
of the insurance business will engulf
the space to the north of these outposts
up to the old Brooklyn Bridge. This
will come sooner than some folks i'm
sgine, according to some Of the most
sagacious men in The insurance and real
estate business. When the old bridge
has been reached the tide will direct
its full force to the east, levelng OPP
position to its progress. like great
steam roller.
Prospects Point Riverward
Prospects are such that it is the opin-
/ n that ten years hence the insurance
business in New Y ork will require most
OF the space east from Nassau Street
almost to the East River between the
old bridge and enlarged Wall Street.
To some men such expansion is as
sure as if it was already reality in
stead of Representation. The insur-
ance business has developed in the last
few years more than it had in the pre-
vious quarter of century. A nation
bursting with commercial energy, with
treasure houses full of money and a
crave for speculation developed during
the war, an unprecedented volume of
business has followed for the men who
take risks on health, wealth and
business progress.
Larger plants than those maintained
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Plan L. [. City
Apartment to
Cost Million
First of Three Big Queens
Boulevard Flats To Be
Built Immediately Will
House Hundred Families

AS the result of transaction just
closed by the Roman-Callma Com
pany, the construction of the largest
apartment house in Queens will imme-
diately be started on the Queens
Boulevard, in Long Island City. This
firm has sold for rankin Petit and the
Herbert Dongan Construction Company
the block having a 200-foot frontage
on Queens Boulevard, extending from
Lowery to Bragaw Streets, with 150-
foot depth in each street. The loca-
tion is one of the most conspicuous in
Long Island City, being directly op-
posite the Lowery Street station OF
Avenue az" lines.
The purchaser is the Queens Realty
Corporation, composed of Monroe S..
Goldberg president; Edward Donner,
vice-president; Aaron Woloshin,
treasurer. and Arthur D. Hyman, secre-
tary, which will Immediately start the
construction of six-story apartment
house building covering the entire
plot, at cost of $3.50 900, from plans
prepared by Neville & Bagge, archi-
tects. A. w. Feinberg,i attorney, rep
resented the purehaserSS The brokers
have secured for the purchasers, build
ing and permanent loans of $3.50, 900,
and an option from the seller on the
adjoining block fornt on Queens
Boulevard, 200x500. on which they pro-
pose to construct three similar units.
The building will have moderate
priced apartments Entrances will be
from central Italian garden, having
length of Is feet and depth of
sixty-two feet and laid out with paths
and ornamental shrubbery. Each
floor will contain ten suites of four
rooms each, ten of three rooms and
two OF five rooms each. Te entire
building will house yer 110 families,
with fourteen stores on Queens Boule-
ward.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Shyster Landlords
Should FL q q e
Shyster Tenants

sS'ENHERE are shyster landlords
and shyster tenants. The
trouble is that the former have
square deal tenants and the latter
square deal landlords. If the shys-
ter tenants could be transpIanted to
the shyster landlords property they
could fight it out among themselves
like the Kilkenny cats until they
were all killed. 1t would be good
riddance.
THE majority of landlords to-
day are not receiving 5 per cent
net income, when they ought TO be
receiving 1243 TO Is per cent, and
many of them don't receive a cent
net income. The lack of vacancies
has saved most of them" ."--Stewart
Browne, president United Real Es-
tate Owners Association.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24

had been made for the necessary al
terations. Steel shelving had been
bought, and even the carriage had been
provided for.
Ny term having expired, the finish
ing Of this important project fell upon
my successor. After three and half
wears delay the project has at last
been finished and the duplicate plant
it's now removed to place of safety
away from the location OF the origi-
nails Although not stored in the
same building assigned to me, it is in
one equally as good.
New York County is to be congrat-
ulated in that fer the slight cost of
about $4,000 saved by me from the al
lowance of the Office it no longer runs
the risk of suffering a possible loss
of millions OF dollars from the total
destruction Of its real estate records.
The calamity that befell Chicago.
San Francisco. Jacksonville and othcr
places cannot happen now to New York
County Would it not be well for
the other boroughs to hasten the COM
pletion Of their duplicate plants and
store them safely away too?
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Any One Wasss Real
Skyscraper? Singer
TosUer Is for Sale

A NY ONE who has few million
L dollars lying idle and would
like to put them into the purchase
of real skyscraper might be inter-
ested to know that the Singer
Building, one of the three great
towering heights OF New York, can
be bought. At least two we'll known
real estate men have been offered
the building. They lost interest in
the property because Of the high
valuation placed on it by the owners.
The story is that SIG, 100000 is the
price that the Singer Manufacturing
Company wants for its monument,
the first great tower office building
to be erected. The story that the
Singer Building had been offered for
sale caused y sensation In the realty
market yesterday, because it was
the first time that the Singer COM
pany has intimated that the prop
erty could be purchased at any
price. 1t was erected as an adver-
tising monument for the Singer
sewing machine.
The erection OF the Singer Build
ing started competition for height
supremacy which has resulted in the
construction of the Metropolitan
Tower in Madison Square and the
Wcolworth Building, opposite City
Hall. three OF the taliest buildings
in the world. The Singer tower WIS
challenge to other skyscrapers. 1t
was expected that this structure
would discourage further attempts
IN po higher into the clouds.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
}eal Pending by New Company
In West 57ih Street Buildings

Negotiations are pending for the
easing by the Metcalfe estate to the
cwly organized lat and 149 West
ffty-seventh Street Corporation of the
our and five story buildings 37xle0.5 5,
( LAT and i49 West Fifty-seventh
Street, west OF the Calvary Baptist
Church. The acquisition of twenty
one-year lease of the realty is beng
considered by the new company. which
has for it's directors J. II. Hughes, A.
Lowenhaupt and C. E. Bates. In the
event of the deal being closed the
grade floors of both building will be
altered into stores and the upper
stories converted into apartments.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
~uyer of Morris Ave. Corner
Plans Apartment fer Site

Samuel Roseff sold FIVE lots at the
e-<ner of lSist Street and Morris Ave-
nue to Hyman Shatz, who plans to
ssset fve-story apartment.
.. Osborne Smith Inc, sold for R.
Is Dittmers the plot at the southwest
s'rner Of Grand Concourse and 18Oth
ees;eet, 100x100, to an investor; also
cold for Andrew Littlejohn the two
'amily dwelling 2180 Walton Avenue.
Francis S. Nollen sold to Markus
ochmitt 800 Oak Tree Place. 25x9O,
southeast corner of Arthur Avenue.
:, Albert H. Harris sold to the Single
realty Company the plot, 10Ox1O6, on
sne south side of 149th Street, 300
rect west OF Courtlandt avenue.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
"a Lots in Pelham Sold
For New Residence Park
Windsor Heights Property.
Partly Within City Boun-
Diary. To Be Improved

The sale of large parcel OF property
containing eighty-four. lots, formerly
known as Windsor Heights. Pelham
Manor, situated on the border line and
partly within the boundary OF New
York City. overlooking Pelham Bay
Park, is announced The property was
originally developed by the Pelham
Bay Park Land Company, OF which
William Bissell. of New Rochelle Trust
Company, is secretary and treasurer.
The sale was effected by George Howe
TO the Anoka Construction Company Of
New York, of which O. Nielsen is presi-
dent. The property acquired consists
of practically all the remaining plots,
held at 100000. The purchasing COM
pany plans to complete the develop
ment Of The park for homes.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
LlEW yoRK5 IN5NRaWcE Z0WE

stores. Ae Arst saysegaper insurance
homo and the start of the development
of William Street as the center of the
insurance business came in 1892, when
the ten-stcry Stokes Building was
erected at as to 40 Cedar Street, just
west Of William Street. The Queens
Insurance Company and the Phenix In
surance Company of Brooklyn were the
first concerns to move into the struct-
ure. The CID Continental Building, di-
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Safety Place for
Duplicate Plant
ided at Last
Storage of Property Records
in CatskilEs, Begun Three
Years Ago, Completed;
Averts Risk of Great Loss
By John ]. Hopper

One of the most important things
that had set my heart upon doing
while Registrar has at last been con
summated. When I retired from that
Office on January /, 1918, left the
duplicate plant bound in volumes,
boxed and ready for shipment to a
place Of safety in the Catskill water
shed.
The Water Department had assignee d
stone building formerly used by the
engineers in their surveys, but now
no longer in use, in which to store
the duplicate plant. Arrangements
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24

which is reproduced on this page
gives the names and locations of the
occupants as fo' lows:
Broadway
No. 206--Frame and Shade Agency.
No. 172-Long Island Insurance Com
pany and Clinton Fire Insurance Com
pany.
No. 6s-17o-Montauk Fire Insuance
Company of Brookl5 N, Mercantile Fire
Insurance Company Of New York
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24

1oc5ly opposite, ~ 40 Cedar Street, and
the building at the southeast corner Of
William and Cedar streets were erected
the same year.
If one were to visit the insurance
district of thirty years ago he would
ind most OF the insurance companies
on Broadway and in Wall Street. A di-
rectory Of the old district compiled by
William A. White & Co., together with
map of the old and new districts
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Hospital Sells Six Buildings
In Eas. Il6th Strecl

Leon S. Altmayer sold for the Syden-
ham Post Graduate Course and <Hospi-
ia! the six buildings at 331 to 34l East
l16th Street, six three-story and base
ment Institutional buildings, 10sx
l00.11.
Mr. Altmayer was also the broker
in the recent sale of the premises 34s
to SAT East 18th Street TO the Amer
can Red Cross
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Colonial Home at Pelham
For Miss Mary g5acNar

George Howe sold for Scheinev .
Irumpy an English Colonial reside
IN Second Avenue, Pelham, to Nj.
Mary MacManus, Of New York; ale
sold to the Ellen Construction Compan
three lots On Pelhamdale Avenue, Pei
Company. to w. Il. Duff, three plot
in Pelham Heights.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Estate to Improve 43d ST. site

The estate Of / Charles, fruitsrerg
and grccers. have ordered the CON
struction OF six-story building, AK
1905, On Fortythird street, just west
Of Vanderbilt Avenue and adjoining
the wing OF the new Liggett Building
on the east. Charles L. Berg, archi-
teet, estimates the cost at $3.50 600.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24

trict. Bankers will outbid the in
surance men for locations close to the
bank.
Broadway Was "Main Street" in Old
Zone
The old insurance belt reached in
zlg-zag fashion from Broadway over to
Pearl Street. 1t touched Wall Street
at one end and Liberty Street at an
other. The buildings were Of few
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Spanish Church Sells Houses
In Rear Of Ed;Gcs n,, I-4l .

The Church OF Our Lady of Quad
lupe, Spanish church, in Fourteeni
Street, sold the property in the rea
OF the church 226 West Fifteent
Street. The adjoining owner is the ea
tate OF the Montgomery Estate an
they sold 22S West Fifteenth Strse
An association bought the two honss
at a price CT approximately $3.50
each.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Sale of YonSers Residence

Thomas S. Burke sold 10 Sedgwick
Avenue, Yoakers, for Alfred H. Ballard
to Frank Nowicki, The property has
frontage of 200 feet on Sedgwick
Avenue and is improved with an eight
room dwelling and garage
Inc same proSer recently ,resold the
property for Mr.. Nowicki 70 Arthur
Hume.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24
Sells Lease in s4th Street

] Arthur Fischer has sold for
Martha Mcbride the furnishings and
lease in the two four-story buildings
314 and SIG West Thirty-fourth Street
New-York tribune., 1921-07-24

Acquire Staten Island Home
Motfatt & Schwab sold for Agnes
Lndemann the residence on Ward
Avenue, Wards Hill, s. l., to Frederick
Huher
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-08-09
ut-Whe Wedding-Firs Reunion of Descendants of Sher
hum and LYDIA Marston in Smith6eld-Personal Items

rector of Religious Education in
Maine of the United Baptist Con-
vention of Maine. of Waterville, was
in town Sunday and conducted SER
vice at the Bethany Baptist church
in the absence of the pastor, Rev.
George Merriam, who was in Free
port, where he was at one time pas
tor of the Baptist church and where
on Sunday he preached Mr.. Hen
derson spoke especially of the New
England Baptist Conference School
of Methods which will be held at
Ocean Park, beginning the oath of
August and closing September 2,
which about 90 of the members of
the Bethany Baptist Credit Glass are
planning to attend. The service was
much enjoyed by all in attendance.
Mrs. Ethel Whittier Ames presided
at the organ and Mrs. Donald Bur-
rill was the soloist.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Burgess and
son Walter, of Auburn, who formerly
resided in Skowhegan on Water
street, Mr. Burgess being the man
ager of the Somerset Grain Com
pany, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. H.
c. Judkins over Saturday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Fox and young
son Leon, Jr., are at a cottage at
| North pond, Smithffold.
/ Mrs John H. Lancaster and her
! daughter. Miss Adelaide Lancaster
! left Saturday for Peaks Island,