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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-19
RESOLUTION.

RESOLVED, by the Board of Commits
sioners of the City of Topeka, Shawnee !
County, Kansas, that IT becomes expedieHt
curb with combined curb and gutter
Adams Street, from the north line of Sew
enteenth Street TO the south line Of Euclid
crete wearing surface, two inches thick,
supported by n six-ineh concrete base, aud
to be paved twenty six feet wide.
w. s. HANCOCK,
Commissioner Of Streets and Public Ina
pr0vements.
Of Toneka shawnee Gounfv Kansas IL
hereby certify that the above and fore
going resolution Is a true and correct copy
Of the original now on file in my office.
ETA M. COvELL.
(Seal) City Clerk.
First published in The Topeka State Jour
nal, April Il, 1921
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-19
RESOLUTION.

RESOLVED, by the Board OF Commits
sioners Of the City of Topeka, Shawnee
County, Kansas, that IT becomes expedient
ard public necessity to grade. pave and
curb with combined curb and gutter
Adams Street. from the north line of Fifth
Street to the south line Of Fourth Street.
Said paving TO be Portland cement con-
crete; Paving consisting Of three-inch
wearing surfcce, and five-tneb base ana
TO be thirty feet wide
W S. HANCOCK,
Commissioner Of Streets and Public In
provementE.
t. Eta NJ c6eeli City Clerk OF the City
If Topeka Shawnee County. Kansas. do
hereby certify that the above and fore
going resolution is true and-ceFreet copy
Of the original now on file in my office.
5-ETTA NJ COVELL.
(SeaL) City Clerk.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Riverside Drive Corner
Among Dwellings Sold
George III. Church Sells House
for Which He Has Been
Asking SlOO.OOO

. Pease & Gilman sold for George H.
Church rs Riverside Drive, at the south
corner Of Eightieth Street, iive-story
American basement dwelling, for which
the seller has been askekd 100000. The
buyer will occupy.
Clara sMorgenthau sold to William Fl.
Taylor four-story dwelling at 20 West
Ninety-si Street, 30x100S.
Charles w. Mackey sold to Lewis S.
Davis three-story dwelling at 165
West Eighty first Street, 1s.6x102.2.
Ennis & Sinnott have sold to a client
of the J.sA. Wod Company five-story
altered dwelling at 720 st. Nicholas
Avenue, 18x100.
Abraham Luger resold to Annie Field
four story dwelling at ll7 West
Eighty eighth Street, 19x100.S.
Philip Dietz sold to Joseph Achtner q
three-story dwelling at 3l4 East Eighty
first Street, 15x102.2.
The Meister Builders. Inc, purchased
two three and one half-story dwellings
at 1853 and 1856 East 115th Street.
The Meister Builders, Inc, purchased
two 319 tory dwellings, 26xl00.11 each,
at 1853 and 155 East 18th Street.
zilpha Bcrrian sold to Augusta E.
Cornfeld 2z-story dwelling at "a
Terrace View Avenue. 35x100 irregular.
The Cusack Company rescld for
Charles A. Smith a dwelling at 511
West 1S2d Street.
Cecilia NJ. Adman sold to Giuseppe
Cirincione four-story dwelling at 32S
East Fourteenth Street, 33.1xl03.3
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Recent Buyers of Realty !.
On East and West Sides

A. S. Roberts Realty Co, Inc. is the
buyer of the plot 5lx9S.9, at 4s. 81
and SO West Thirty-eighth Street,
which Pease & Gilman sold for the
Claridge Realty Co.
Paul Viane is the buyer of 549-553
West 156th Street, Ida Rubin, of Ham
lin Court, at 162-l6S Lenox Avenue
and the Marler Realty Company, of
202 West 132d Street, all sold recently.
Mary F. Fraser is the buyer of 3O5
West Tooth Street, and John d. Nc
Chester, of 220 West 136th Street, sold
recently.
Paul Bernhard is the buyer Of 645
East fremont Avenue: Annie. T..
Parker. Of 332 East 198th Street, and
Herman Kehl, of 543 Brook Avenue, all
sold recently.
The Barney Improvement Company
is the buyer OF the plots at the south
west corner of Walton Avenue and
Count Hope Place, on the south side
of Mount Hope Place, Go feet west of
Walton Avenue and on the east side
of Morris Avenue, 6S.3 feet north of
173d Street all reported sold recently.
Joseph Heistein, the buyer of 1898
Lexington Avenue, paid 500 for the
property.
Margaret e. Bergeret is the buyer Of
4b5 West Forty-seventh Street; Mamie
Albert, Of l02-i04 Waveriy Place, and
Remeldina Kroppert, of l44 West
Seventieth Street. all seld recently
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Want Long Island
Trains to Make Stop
Under 4th Avenue
Old franchise Gives Road
Right TO Establish Station
at 33d Street and Con-
nections With Subway

The Long Island Railroad Company
has been asked to exercise the tran
chise given in 1902 and establish a
station at Fourth Avenue and Thirty
third Street. Trains leave the Penn.
sylvania Station at Seventh Avenue now
and do not stop until Long Island City
has been left behind. A station at
Fourth Avenue would facilitate users
of the East Side subway who want to
get to Long Island, or Long Island
folk who want to get to points on the
Fourth Avenue route which runs into
the Bronx.
Robert w. Higbie. chairman of the
transit committee of the Queens
urged this Improvement and six others
on tho Transit Commission and the
railroad company for the betteyme ent
of conditions in Manhattan and Long
Island. In the letter sent by Mr.. Hig-
bic he said:
"a franchise issued by the Rapid
Transit Railroad Commission and the
Board of Aldermen in December, 1902,
authorizes the Pennsylvania, New
York & Long Island Railroad Company
to occupy for purposes of station
certain space under Fourth Avenue
and Thirty third Street.
IL mas pecH SuSSeetcu thdt tHiS au-
thority be now exercised by the Tran
sit Commission and station built at
Fourth Avenue and Thirty-third Street
at which trains not only to and from
the Pennsylvania Station but local
trains using the other two tunnels
could stop.
"The convenience of this station for
the interchange Of passengers between
the Long Island Railroad and the sub
way under Fourth Avenue operated by
the Interborough Rapid Transit Com.
pany is evident. 1t would, moreover, de-
crease the present congestion of Long
Island Railroad passengers at the
Pennsylvania Station.
Ut has also been suggested that
trains to and from the station use the
other two tunnels now used exclusive
ly for the Pennsylvania Railroad for
moving trains to and from Sunnyside
Yards. These ttains could stop at the
present Hunterspoint Avenue station
and the proposed Bridge Plaza station
in Long Island City, as the five-mile
restriction from Pennsylvania Station
in the franchise would not apply"
The other improvements suggested
are:
The improvement of the local service
on the main line from Long Island City
to Jamaica and on the Port Washington
division to Flushing, similar to the
local service on the Atlantic Avenue
division from Brooklyn to Jamaica.
Stopping more trains at Woodside
transfer station for the interchange OF
passengers with the rapid transit lines
Electriication Of the Montauk divi-
sion from Jamaica to Bushwick station
Brooklyn, where Interchange could be
made with new 3. II. r. subway to
Union Square, Manhattan.
Establishment of new station at
the Bridge Plaza, Long Island City,
Improvement in the method of han
ding passengers and trains in the Ja-
maica station, where trains aer fire.
quently delayed as long a time as ii
takes to operate the entire distance
from Brooklyn or Manhattan.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Can Convey Realty
Without Consent of
Wife, Rules Court
Justice Mallan Says Hus-I
band May Transfer Prop
erty During His Life
time Minus Formali:ies

Justice George Y. Mullan, in the SUI
preme Court last week, made an inter-
esting ruling in passing upon dis
pute between Mrs. Frances Johnston.
forty five years old, and Harvey S.
Johnston, her seventy odd year old
husband, who is a we'll known real
estate operator Justice Mullan in his
motion held that the inchoate right
OF dover possessed by q wife in her
husbands property does not during his
lifetime entitle her to have set aside
conveyance of the property A>made
without her consent.
jerks & Rogers appeared for Mr..
Johnston in opposition to his wife =
motion, which was for an order ap-
pointing a receiver for property at the
corner of West 140th Street and AM
sterdam Avenue. appraised at S107 900,
which the defendant, in May, 1920. CON
veyed to his daughter, Mrs. Lillian j
Zibell Mrs. Johnston also asked for
an injunction preventing any further
transfers Of the property in question,
pending the outcome OF her suit.
According to her the defendant
parted with the ownership of his West
i40th Street property as the consum
nation OF All attempt to deprive her
of dover rights. This contention Jus
tlce Muiian QealS VIII III MS opinion.
saying:
"The action is by wife TO procure
a decree setting aside a deed by her
husband in which she did not join. An
inchoate doweress has, of course, no
estate crtitle. Nor has she even such
present interest as would entitle her
to sue to restrain estate waste (Rum-
sey VS.. Sullivan, 166 App. Div, 246).
It has been held that if her name be
forged to make it falsely appear that
she was joining her husbands deed
she may cause the deed to be set aside
as to her Clifford VS.. Kampfe, 147, n.
Y, 383). But that holding was ex-
pressly based upon public policy to
protect those who purchase innocently
from the grantee and his successors.
No such consideration is present here.
The novelty OF the case has led me to
give an extended considera ton TO the
ingenious arguments presented by
plaintiffs s counsel in his effort to show
grounds for equity jurisdiction, but
am unable to agree that the wife is
entitled to any relief unless the es-
tablished concept of the nature of the
interest OF an inchoate doweress is to
be materially changed. Motion for
order appointing receiver, etc, is
denied"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Large Sites in the Bronx
Bought for Improvement
Stores, Garage and Market to
Go Up at l77th Street
and Brook Avenue

Camniann, Voorhees, & Floyd, with j.
Romaine Brown Company, sold for the
Skeafer estate the plot 229xl0o on the
north side of East 18TH Street, $50
feet east of Brook Avenue, to the W. p.
c. Realty CO., Philip Wattenberg, presi-
dent. The buyers now control 'front.'
age of 379 feet on 18TH Street and 100
feet on Brook Avenue, which is being
improved with stores, garage and an
open market. Philip Shapiro represent
ed the buyer.
E. Osborne Smith, Inc, with Ashforth
& Company, sold for the Potter estase
the plot fronting 6s feet on Ogden Ave
nue. running through to Boscobel Ave
nue., directly in front of the entrance
to the new Ogden Theater, to the Mer-
win Realty Company; for Joseph A.
Adler the plot 50X112 on the East side
of Ogden Avenue, 500 feet north of
10th Street to Nathan Wilson; for
DR.. Lawrence Gallagher a plot 50x112
on the cast side of Ogden Avenue, ocU
feet north of 170th Street, to Raymond
Rubin; for Spencer T. Horton the plot
50x112, $50 feet north of 10th Street,
to a builder who will improve with O
fve-story apartment with stores, and
for Albert C. Hirtzler the property on
the west side of Grand Course, $50 feet
north 1of 1T6th Street, fronting ST feet
on the Grand Concourse, running
through to Grand View Place.
The vacant plot 75x10o on the south
side of 184th Street, 100 feet west Of
Bennett Avenue, has been purchased by
Charles Klein, and Louis Baer from
Jacob Berkowitz.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Demand for Bronx Flats
Show No Abatement
Houses in Different Sections of
Northerly Borough Bought
nv Tp,vestOrs

Philip Wattenbcrg sold the north
west corner of 1S0th Street and Daily
Avenue, known as 21o5 Daily Avenue, a
five-story modern apartment. with
seven stores, 6sx10s.
d. A. Trotta, with James Federico,
sold for B. ST. Holding Corporation,
'237S and 1882 Bathgate Avenue, two
four-story apartments, 76x90. Mr..
Trotta, with F. Utano sold, to Boro
Associates Inc, 1859 to 317t Villa Ave
nue., seven three-story and four family
houses with stores, 175x1O0.
The four-story Boston Avenue flats.
Third Avenue, extending through to
99l and 995 Boston Road. have been
sold by Benjamin Rechsoh to Mary O.
Morrill,.
The Sonbern Realty Company sold
to Solomon Morantz the northwest cor
ner of Forest Avenue and 16Oth
Street, five-story apartment, 4S.8x9sx
irregular.
The Haves Realty Corporation sold
ito Frank B. Cotton 2120 Hughes Ave-
nue., southwest corner of 181st Street,
a tiye-story apartment, 50x127 Ak. ir-
regular. s'1s
me MaSroe Realty Corporation sold
to Fannie Bilsky the apartment house,
40x100. at 1887 Bryant Avenue.
Victor A. Bcckowitz sold to Anna
Reichardt the tiye-story flat, 25xlO0,
at 529 East 150th Street.
Abraham Travis purchased from the
Lowinson Realty Company 396S Third
Avenue, four storysfat. 24.gxa9.6.
The Paradise Realty Corporation
sold to M. Robert Gadrich 9O7 and 900
Trinity Avenue, five-story apartment,
60x10O. y,
The Shakespeare Holding Corpora
tion bought from Osais Glantz the four
story fat, 40xlo0, at S57 Beck Street.
Richard 4. HoeIger. sold to Arnold
da S. Percira 3D8 Willis Avenue, a. FIVE
story fiat, 25x100.
Harry Litchenstein sold to Ida Green
the tive-story fat, 2bxloo, at 42l Brook
Avenue.
Jennie Leitner sold to Samuel Zeich-
nepa A. three-story dwelling at 1465
Washington Avenue, 1S.7x14O.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Macy Once Fitted.
Out on. Broad Street

NHE first ships of the American
navy were fitted out for fight or
frolic in a shipyard on Broad Street.
near Exchange Place. The center Of
Broad Street at that time was
canal extending from Bay, which
came up to what is now Pearl Street.
The shipyard was on an inlet on the
east side of the canal at what is
now 43, As and AZ Broad Street. the
location Of the Combustion Enri.
neering Company.
Tradition links much of the ac-
tiyity Of old New York about this
location. and it has been said that
the early American officers saw their
first prides in the way OF full.
rigged frigates i'll this Broad Street
shipyard. From there they started
on many missions of war and ad-
venture.
A little more than stones throw
to the east was a coffee house that
was later popularity known as the
cradle Of the Union, and to the
north was pfllory where slaves
were burned 10 death after an in.
surrection.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Idlehour, Vanderbilt
Place, May Be Sold
| Roman Catholic Diocese Said 10
Be Aftes. Costly Estate
fnr Seminary

IdlehouJ for years one OF the most
famous show places at Oakdale. L. L.,
owned by the late William X. Wander
bilt, is to be sold shortly, according to
reports. One has it that the Roman
Catholic Diocese Of Long Island will
purchase the estate and convert it into
seminary. Another rumor is that a
number Of wealthy New Workers. are
negotiating for the property to estab-
lish an exclusive club, and it is further
reported that another group Of men
will go to Oakdale to-day to look over
the property with the idea Of buying it.
superintendent ?. j. Premm, who has
been in charge of the estate for many
years, admitted last night that d num-
ber Of prospective buyers have been
over the estate recently, but he knew
nothing OF any negotiations for its
purchase. He said the vast estate,
consisting Of over six hundred acres. is
now owned by Harold Vanderbilt, son
of the late William K. Vanderbilt.
Idlehour has been unoccupied for
about FIVE years, and has been permit
ted to detcriorate rapidly, there being
very little help maintained on the
estate. The homestead. a brick and
marble structure, is said to have cost
close to S2.000,000 to erect.
The estate fronts on the Great South
Bay and Great River, is mostly wooded
and abounds with game. 1t has fine
roads and system CT inland canals.
There is probably not over fifty acres
Of clear space on the estate.
The estate was offered to the Red
Cross about three years ago as a cor
valescent hospital. At that time all the
fine tapestries, bric-a-brac, antique fur
niturc and most of the furnishings
were removed, but the officials of the
| Red Cross found the building. would be
impracticablc for hospital use and did
not accept the offer to take it over
Owing to the absence of Bishop Nal
| 10y from Brooklyn it has been impos-
sible to verify the rumor that the pur-
chase Of Idlehour is being considered
for a seminary. Bishop Malloy is said
| to be in Ch}cago.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Apartment to House Eighty
Families Planned for Brookln

A. J. Murphy sold for Winfield S.
Wagar to the Empire Building and I'M
provement Company plot 37.6x100, on
the north side Of Forty third Street,
437.s feet west of Twelfth Avenue, and
for the Borough Park investing Com
-pany the adjoining plot, 376xlo0.2, on
the north side Of Forty-third Street,
400 feet west of Twelfth Avenue, and
for S. Roth q plot s7.sxloo, on Il the
north. side Of Forty-third Street. 363.e
feet west of Twelfth Avenue, making
a plottage of 1875, on which the buyer
intends to erect four-story apart
ment, 100x93, to accommodate eighty
families.
Mr.. Murphy sold for Franklin c.
Stafford to John Hansen and brother a
;plot 6oxt0o, on the north side Of Fifty
ninth Street, $50 feet west Of Seventh
Avenue, to be improved Immediately
with two-famHy dwellings,.
The 3, F. Knowles Company sold 2oS
Bedford Avenue. store apartment. to
the A. g. G., Corporation for Nj
Stevens
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
VIM. Ziegler Estate Sells
Argyle Park, in Babylon
Buyer, 1t Is Reported, Will
Give Property to the Vii
laoe for n Park

jeremiah Robbins, for client, pur-
chased from the estate of William Zieg-
Ter the three lakes and yacht harbor
at Argyle Park, Babylon, which the
purchaser is TO present to the village
of Babylon to be used as a park.
Argyle Park was laid out about fifty
years ago by e. B. Litchfield, Of Brook
lyn, and was sold in the 's0s to the
Long Island Improvement Company, a
syndicate composed largely of Scotch
and English capital, of which the Duke
OF Argyle was large stockholder. The
park was previously known as Blyth-
bourn Park. Many Of the streets re-
ceived Scotch names after it was
changed to Argyle Park, such as Stuart,
Dundee, Cameron, Highland, Caledonia,
Argyle, Douglas and Montrose avenues
and Glencoe Way.
The property was improved by tho
Long Island Improvement Company
With a large hotel, known as the Argyle
HotAl, with $50 rooms, and thirteen cot
tages were erected. The late William
ziegler purchased this property, razed
the hotel and built number Of other
cottages on the property There are
aobut forty cottages now in the park.
Argyle Park is located almost in the
center of Babylon Village, with pri-
vate entrance to the railroad station.
and is one Of the show places Of tho
South Shore
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
New Company to Spend
$780, 900 ON New Homes
Plan Apartment and Private
Dwellings for Site Bought
on Haven Avenue

The newly organized Arrowhead
Building Corporation, Harry H. Uhl-
fielder president, purchased a plot Of
about fifteen lots on the west side of
Haven Avenue, facing 178th Street
and the Arrowhead Inn property. The
site, which extends through to River
side terrace. was acquired from Sonn
Bros, who recently disposed of a l5o-
foot plot, adjoining on the north, to
q buyer for Improvement with twelve
two-story private houses.
The latest deal. which calls for an
expenditure of $450.oOO, involves the
erection of q six-story apartment on
the Haven Avenue. side of the plot and
private homes on the terrace. The
plot has the street frontages of about
LEO fet, the northerly line being 177.0
feet and the southerly line 1858 feet.
The buying company, which is repre-
sented by Abraham Leichter, attorney,
also includes r. Small and S. Eichler
in its directorate. 1t is capitalized at
$25,OO0.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Biscuit Company Finally Gets
Control of West Side Block

Through the purchase from Jacob A.
Rauth of the six-story saloon property,
25xl00, at the southwest corner of
Ninth Avenue and Sixteenth Street.
the National Biscuit Company has now
completed its ownership to the entire
block bounded by Ninth and Tenth
ssayenucs and Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Streets, where its plant is located.
! The company long ago planned to
erect large addition to it's building,
but needed few scattered parcels on
the block, which have been accnmu-
lated the last few years
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
and Comment Of City and Suburban Real Estate Marke
New Income Tax Law
Will Help Realty Sales
Surtax Reduction on Property
Sold nj Profit Will Bring
Greater Activity. Saws Raiaey

VAcattT sActlVItys cayS nalacy
Frank Bailey, vice-president of the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company,
commenting on the change in the in
come tax law, says:
TO those engaged in operating in
real estate the provision Of the new
income tax law offers one particular
advantage and that is reduction of
the surtaN of property sold at profit,
where the real estate or other securi-
ties have increased in value very
largely since March /, 1913. If the
owner OF real estate. happened to be
engaged in business, making considera-
able profits. and the real estate we're
sold he would, under the old law, have
to pay to the government large per-
centage of the profits. in some cases
as large as 70 per cent.
Experience ins operating the present
shown that where you make tax too
high it does not function or collect
money.
Therefore, in the new tax law, a
provision has been inserted to the ef-
feet that after January 1, 1922, an
owner selling capital assets, which
have been owned for two years, may
pay the government 12h per cent OF
the net profits, EVEN if his income is
such as to place him in the surtax to
an extent where he would pay so per
cent.
"In other words, the operator can
now estimate how much he will re-
ceive and how much the government
will get when he sells piece of real
estate which he has owned for two
years.
"This should help brokers in the
sale of properties which have in
creased in value largely since March
l, 1918. and should bring about many
sales of properties which ere other
ness to go 70-30 with the government"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
" ashington's Headquarters
I'm MontcIair Sold for Home

r. NJ. Crawley & Bros. sold the well
known site occupied as Washington's
headquarters, on the northwest corner
of Claremont Avenue and aVlley Road,
Montclar, N. j, to DR.. Maurice Cohen.
The property ID one OF the oldest
ard hest known in the mountain town.
On this site was erected the Crane
homestead, built in i772, and occupied
by Washington. The property has 9
total frontage of 212 feet. DR.. Cohen
will shortly Improve the property with
the erection Of d Colonial residence,
containing fourteen roms and three
baths.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
,Ahe takra Up py once rooms and lob

lIc taxed Up py once rooms and lob
bies.
The third floor will be entirely de-
voted to clubrooms, housing the vari-
ous activities Of the organization.
There will be thirteen of these rooms,
-four of which can be thrown into one
large room for banqueting hall. The
fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
floors are the dormitories. There will
be thirty-five rooms to floor.
The building is planned to be made
of light-colorcd brick with stone trim
mings.
Gifts Of $4,000 by Philip lie Boutii-
'icr. $1,000 by J. B. Mahon, $4,000 by
Gilbert Colgatcand $25,000 (anonymous)
'hsve already been received. The total
fund to be raised is $2b0,000. The
West Side x. M. G. A. will amortize
the balance from its current expenses.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-04
Broker in Series of Deals
Of Properties in Bronx

Eugene J. Busher Company, Inc,
sold for O. William Heck the prem
ises on the west side of Pauling Ave-
nue.. 100 feet north of Mace Avenue, a
private residence with garage on plot
50x1o0, to John Flanagan; for the
Irving National Bank, trustees Of the
estate OF the late DR.. George II. Nc
Guire All East 145th Street, five
story fiat, 30x10o; with the fremont
DR.. George II. Mcclure, the plot on
the west side of Valentine Avenue
running through to Ryer Avenue, 80
fet on each avenue by 179 feet deep to
& builder, who intends to improve the
site.
Harry Calm has resold to the Har-
may Realty Corporation the four story
apartment at 764 Hegney Place, 25xS1.