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details that go to make up the best
type. of Colonial home. To be sure. Mr..
Baum had the advantage of mar
veilous natural setting Of rare old forest
trees. and these have been preserved In
all the glory of their primitive beauty /;
but to them he has added rare collec-
ton of ancient lockwood.
Mr.. Baum has planted hedges to mark
the pathway to the main entrance and
introduced luxuriant clusters Of the
aromatic shrub about the foundation to
tie the house to the grounds. This In
itself produces an atmosphere of old time
sentiment and beauty that cannot be
duplicated by any modern arboral
treatment.
The architect has also given to the
structure. the main portion of which
was first erected along about 1S40, the
expressive treatment that makes 1t what
1t Is to-day, an unusually dne example
of the best type Of Colonial home He
covered the outer walls with wide siding
and added solid wood shutters to the
lower story. He introduced a lovely
pedimented portico with seats on either
side and a new doorway of the Dutch
type. with fascinating loaded glass side
and fan lights and a wrought iron Ian
tern to hang beneath the oval ceilinged
portico.
The latter Is upheld by two groups
of simple Colonial pillars. with a heavy
cornice to lend emphasis to the feature
and small hand carved sunbursts as a
superficial decoration. Incidentally, Il
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
SALE OF BENNETT LOTS
IN YONkERS IS OPENED

Fine weather and large attendance
combined to make tho first days sale OF
James Gordon Bennett lots in the Dun
woodie Heights section of Yonkers yes
terday success. UP to a late hour
Joseph p. Day. the auctioneer, had dis
posed OF 240 lots for a total OF s115,52o
or about s39S lot The sale will be
continued on Monday afternoon at 2
o'clock. on the premises, Central and
fonkers avenues. There were fully 1.200
persons In the auction tent when the sale
began yesterday.
The highest prices paid during the
early part OF the sale was $4,000 for tho
three lots at the northeast corner OF
fonkers and Central avenues. The
northwest corner Of Yonkers and Page
avenues brought s3,70o. Lots on Otsego
avenue between Emerson and Central
avenues brought $500. and tho south
west corner of Westerley street and
Central avenue brought $4,000. The
southwest corner OF Central avenue and
Onondaga street sold for $1,000, whils
Sl,250 was paid for the southwest corner
OF Central and Tiaga avenues.
Lots on the north side OF Central ave-
nue.. between Onondaga street and Mile
Square road. brought an average OF s4oo.
The northwest corner OF Central avenue
and Onondaga street brought sf.O25.
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
BUILDING INTERESTS TO.
DISCUSS CONDITIONS
Meet Tuesday in Engineering
Societies Building.

The New York Building Congress, the
local section Of the National Congress of
the Building and Construction Industry
has Issued general invitation to all in
terested In the future progress of the In
dustry TO attend its next regular meet
Ing. Tuesday afternoon, July 10. at 8 AS
o'clock. This meeting will be held at the
Engineering Societies Building. 25 West
Thirty-ninth street. and will be ad-
dressed by DR.. s. w. Stratton. director
OF the National Bureau of Standards,
Washington, ID. c. DIR. Stratton will
speak on Standardization as Related to
the Building Industry"
Following this address there will be
an opportunity for open discussion of
this subject In which all present will be
invited to participate. II Is anticipated
That this general discussion will bring
out number of interesting and import
ant facts In connection with this vital
subject TO the building fraternity which
will be OF material assistance In further
ing the plans now scheduled by the New
York Building Congress for its future
activities.
Dr. Stratton has been at the head OF
the Bureau OF Standards for number
Of years. There Is probably no bureau
of the Executive Department of the Fed
eral Government whose work has been
more fundamental or of more direct
value to our industries. including the
building and construction group.
The meeting is the first of proposed
series at which speakers OF national rep
utation as construction economists win
deliver addresses on subjects OF vital
Importance to the industry. II is planned
to give opportunity for open discussion
OF these subjects at all future meetings
and the congress Is certain that great
good will be accomplished
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
OLD FIRM TO MOVE TO
NEW UPTOWN OFFICES

One of the oldest realty firms In New
York, the rutland & Whiting Benjamin
Corporation of Beekman street and 36
East Fifty-eighth street. will on August
1 change its name to Rutland & Benja-
min. Inc, and will open modern Offices
at IA East Forty-eighth street The
Beekman street Offices will. however. be
retained for branch purposes. The new
offices. I'm a five story building, 25x100,
with three story rear extension, have
been leased for n long term and the first
floor and part OF the basement and sec
ond floor will be occupied by the Arm.
The business was established in 1867
by NJ. A. Rutland, father Of Irving Ru
land. president OF the firm. who helped
assemble the site for the building at 5
Beeknan street, which was then the
home OF the Park National Bank. In
1897 William II. Whiting Joined the Arm
under the name OF Rutland a Whiting.
In 1910 Mr.. whiting withdrew and In
1917 william NJ Benjamin Joined II and
Il became Rutland q Whiting Benjamin
Corporation. The present officers who
will remain under the new Arm name
are Irving Rutland. president: william
M. Benjamin and William NJ. Strecton
yIce-presidents George Dromeshauser.
secretary and william Patterson. treas
urer.
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
OFFERS
WIDE LOT RANGE
j. P. Day to Sell City and Sub
urban Properties in the
Next Few Weeks.

Many interesting auction sales of lots,
city and suburban, will be conducted
during the next two or three weeks by
Joseph p. Day. These sales will include
a large tract in the Orange Mountain
section of New Jersey. tract of lots at
Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. and several
tracts in Ridgewood. Queens and the ad-
joining section OF Brooklyn.
Mr.. Day will offer 297 lots at Man
haitian Beach on Saturday, July 30, at
$50 o'clock, on the premises. for the
Beaumere Realty Company and other
owners. The properties are between the
ocean and Sheepshead Bay and are in
the vicinity of the Manhattan Bathing
Beach and the concrete esplanade along
the ocean front.
On Saturday. July z3, Mr.. Day will
sell 500 lots for the Freeman estate on
Valley road, near Orange Heights ave-
nue., West Orange. The property has
been in the Freeman family since 1890.
Ircluded In the sale is the fine old CO.
lonial homestead built about 1912 by
Cyrus Freeman, n great-grandfather OF
the present owners. the heirs of the
George c. Freeman estate. The home
stead is on Valley road. adjoining the
corner Of Orange Heights avenue. 1t Is
improved with substantial residence
and garage. Eighty per cent. may re-
main on mortgage.
On Wednesday, August 3, Mr.. Day will
offer In 1se Montague street. Brooklyn.
154 lots and one small and one large
acreage tract In Queens and Brooklyn
for the estates OF Thomas Adams and
Darwin II. James. The property con-
sists of ninety-three lots at st. James
Park in Ridgewood one block from the
Fresh Pond road station on the b. r.
r. -Ridgewood IL" on Hughes. Chaffee,
Mcpherson. Fremont and Shaler streets
and Catalpa avenue: also, In the Bor-
ough Of Queens, forty-six acres In the
Hillcrest and Jamaica estate section of
jamaica, on Grand avenue. near Briar-
wood road. q short distance from the
Hillside station on the L. I. r. r.. and
the p. n. +. IL" terminal; also three
acres at Springfield. on Broadway and
Chestnut street near the Long 1siand
Railroad station and Merricx road; also
twenty lots at Cooper Heights. In the
Middle vEAge section. between Rich
mond Hill and Glendale, on Proctor
street. Harkow and Cook places. near
the Metropolitan avenue trolley and the
Metropolitan avenue station on the b.
r. T.-Ridgewood IL"
In Brooklyn the properties to be sold
include thirty-seven lots In the Green
point section, on varick and Stewart
avenues, Cherry and Anthony streets.
two blocks from the Meeker avenue
trolley: also four lots at the corner Of
Irving avenue and Covert street. near
the Halsey street trolley.
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
QUEENS ASKS FOR
STATE CANAL BOATS
Wants Barge Service for Term
inals in Long Island City
and Flushing.

Nearly $2,000.000 has already been
spent by the State OF New y ork for the
acquisition of land and the improvement
of the three Barge Canal Terminals on
the waterfront of Greensboro, accord
ing to information just received by the
greensboro Chamber of Commerce from
Frank NJ. Williams, State Engineer. The
exact amount to date totals $1,975,647,
which includes not only the cost OF the
property and the amounts paid to con-
tractors upon completed work, but for
engineering and for obligations already
incurred for additional work
Walter /. Willis, secretary OF the
Greensboro Chamber OF Commerce, who
has Just returned from the First Annual
Convention OF the Great Lakes Hudson
and Atlantic Waterways Association.
held at Buffalo, states that plans were
started at this convention for a greater
utilization of the Barge Canal. which to-
day Is only being used to 10 per cent OF
its possible capacity and which offers
cheaper freight rates for Greensboro
manufacturers and merchants Mr..
Willis states:
I'm December, 1914, as a result OF
the combined efforts OF Borough Presi-
dent Connolly and the Greensboro
Chamber Of Commerce. the State OF
New York acquired title to property on
the waterfront of Queens at three diff
ferent locations for Barge Canal Ter
mlnals. These locations. which include
a total waterfrontage OF over a quarter
of mile and approximately ten acres
Of land are as follows:
81. East River. north of Greensboro
Bridge.
"2. Hallets Cove. Astoria.
"3. Head OF Flushing Bay.
The terminal on the East River at
the Greensboro Bridge and the one al
Flushing Bay are now available for the
receipt and delivery of freight, but as
yet adequate boat service TO and from
these terminals has not been inaugu-
rated. The Greensboro Chamber of
Commerce Is now urging the Inland
Marine Corporation and the Trans
Marine Corporation, who operate fleets
of boats, to establish service at these
terminals, SO that Greensboro shippers
can realize the substantial saving in
freight charges, as compared with all
rail rates for shipments via the Hudson
River State Barge Canal and Great
Lakes Buffalo. Cleveland. Detroit, Chi
cago, Duluth. Minneapolis and st. Paul.
as well as points along the Hudson
River and Barge Canal through the
State Of New York"
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
SAYS COMMONWEALTH
HOTEL WILL SOON RISE

The exclusive announcement in THs
New YORK HERALD last week that ten
ants In apartment houses on the site
OF the proposed Commonwealth Hotel
have been notified TO vacate as soon as
their leases expire I'm September was
corroborated yesterday by w. @. Hogg-
son. president Of tie hotel construction
company The latter In statement to
the preos declared that borings for tho
foundations viii 10 started immedis.se-
ly In the vacant ltnd on the south side
OF West Fifty-rv.h street between Sew
cnth avenue sDd Broadway.
According 90 Mr.. Hoggson the long
delay In gertfhg started on tho work
was due to the fact that building con-
dltions were not right. The time to
build. he says. has now arrived and
the delay has resulted In a saving Of
at least 100000 TO the 5000 stockhcsa-
ers. The work OF demolishng the old
buildings on the eastern half of the
block bounded by Broadway Seventh
avenue. Fffty-fifth and Fffty-sixth
streets will start with the Van Coriear.
one of the oldest upper midtown flats
In Manhattan. at the northwest corner
Of Seventh avenue and Tifty-fif'h
street.
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
BY HARRIET sIssoN GILLESPIE.

by HARRIET sISSON GILLESPIE.
To transform an uncompromisingly
ugly house with the narrow front porch
and all the jigsaw work that charac-
terizes the American adaptation of the
Queen Anne style into low-lying home
of Colonial hospitality and beauty is a
problem that few architects have so ad-
mirably solved as has James Dwight
Baum in the home of o. l.. Schwencke.
Jr., on the Merrick road at Bay Shore,
L. I. From this viewpoint alone Mr..
Baum's work in this instance is deserv-
Ing of special mention and should prove
inspiring to those who are contemplating
similar alterations
The house stands to-day as charm
ing example Of the possibilities residing
In an old structure Of this anomalous
type. and therein rests much of its fasci-
nation not only for architects but for
the layman who essays such a task
IL the restorations are well studied
there is a charm about an old place re-
modelled that new house seldom II
ever enjoys. for there are certain ear
marks of age that cannot be duplicated,
however clever an expert may be.
In restoring the Schwencke house
these features have all been very care
fully preserved To them have also been
added all the charming architectural
The New York herald., 1921-07-17

as the others. and two pretty flower
boxes were added in two cases.
An open veranda was built on at the
right end of the house, and an enclosed
porch at the other, the roof of each be-
ing treated with an attractive railing
of Colonial pattern. The interior of the
house was made to conform to the best
Colonial standards. with many modern
conveniences included. The older portion
had the low ceilings and old fashioned
freplaces which the newer section
lacked. but new chimneys were built in
to afford the charm of this delightful
and in a Colonial house very necessary
feature. A low wainscoting is to be
found in number Of the rooms.
The walls have been papered in old
style coverings of the wood block type
which harmonic with their surround
ings and the house abounds In old ma
hogany of an early period. Oval and
round braided rag rugs have been used
The New York herald., 1921-07-17

chatel. and near Morges, on the Lake
of Geneva, other interesting relics are
visible.
These Swiss lake dwellings, which
were revealed to the world In 1854 by
drought similar to the present one,
are believed to have been built as long
as 1000 years ago. From about 5000
b. c. people lived In them down almost
to historic times. The structure which
supported the wooden platforms upon
which the dwellings were built was made
Of piles driven into the bottom of the
lake. The platforms were fastened by
wooden pins, and the huts made of wool
and clay. with hearths of fiat slabs of
store. The huts. which were partitioned
into rooms. varied In size from twenty
feet long by twelve feet wide to twenty
seven feet long by twenty-five feet wide.
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
\ QUAINT INTERIOR VIEW WHICH BEST CATCHES
Me OLD TINE SPIRIT of IRE HOUSE

to carry out the Colonial atmosphere,
and the side lights. fitted with nnodi-
fed type OF the hurricane globes" with
hanging prisms, fit into the background
admirably.
A clever bit of architectural strategy
was resorted to by Mr. Baum to lower
the apparent height of the house. In
making the new excavations under the
main house for cellar he took the fill
thus obtained and put it around the
house. covering UP the foundations and
affordng level surface In its immedi-
ate vicinity. This. together with the two
veranda wings that give 1t greater
breadth have had the tendency to
change the proportions. giving the house
the long low look of the old time
Colonial structure factor of consid-
erable Importance In remodelling an old
house Of this type, the first floor OF
which stood three feet above the sur
rounding ground.
The New York herald., 1921-07-17

nue.. stapleton Heights. to Mrs. Marie
Bloch
Newark Market Notes.
Feist & Fest sold for CONGRESSMAN
G. b. Ward of this city 119-121 Clin-
ton avenue. Newark. to Margaret Mo-
Clusky. who will after improvements
occupy the premises. It has q 'front.'
age of so feet on Clinton avenue, with
a depth OF ESQ feet, and the building Ia
a -FOUR story house OF eighteen rooms
and four baths. 1t also has an electric
elevator. The property has been In
the Heller and Ward families since
1879.
Louis schlesinger sold for the estate
OF Winslow Schoonmaker 130-l34 Or
ange street. two story structures, COX
So; also sold In Eearny the dwellings
60z-80S John street to an investor for
Mrs. Hannah E. MacKay, and the plot
at 1885 Elizabeth avenue, 100 feet
front, to Morris HorowItz for Park
Commissioner Edward w. Jackson and
Percy Jackson. The new owner re-
Gently purchased the plot adjoining at
TIT. on which he plans to erect show
rooms for motor vehicles. The pur-
chase gives him a total frontage of 215
feet on Elizabeth avenue.
Suburban Transactions.
Genung & Day sold i'm Morristown.
n. j., five and a half acre plot on
Fox Hollow road for William North
Duane to Paul Moore also lot on
Washington street, corner OF mills street,
for A w. Driver TO Kate Tuttle
Miss A. l.. Stafford sold her stucco
house and garage on a large corner lot
in Larchmont Park to David Fox Of
this city. 1t was designed and built by
Judge Shafer for his home. The brokers
were Mrs NJ. A. Murdoch and Arthur
s. Hawley.
Feist & Feist sold to Antonio Depace
for Rosario Italia 275 Halstead street.
West Orange n three story building with
store, 60x125.
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
100 LOTS IN BAY RIDGE
ARE TO BE AUCTIONED

Bryan L. Kennedy, auctioneer. has
been authorized by the Samuel Adams
Realty Development Company to sell at
absolute liquidation auction sale seventy
building lots on Second and Third ave-
nues and Sixty-hrst and Sixty-second
streets. Brooklyn. on Thursday evening,
July 2s, at the Brooklyn Real Estate
Exchange, 1S9 Montague street, at s
o'clock. Transit facilities include the
Fourth avenue subway and the Sea
Beach express trains. stopping at Fifty
ninth and Sixtieth streets, one block
from the property and within twenty
minutes of City Hail. Manhattan.
Included In the sale Is three story
store and apartment building at Clio
Third avenue.
Close by the property are two schools,
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
west BroDx Flat seid.

The apartment completed about a
year ago nj the northeast corner OF
Burnside and Davidson avenues has
been sold by the Regulus Realty Com
pany (John II. Hopkin and Alexander
Allen). which built It, to the Neho Re-
atty Company (Cohen & Kilonsky). IL
covers plot 113x11s. having five
stories on Davidson avenue and six and
seven stories on Burnside avenue. IL
is fully rented Mt about $4,000 year,
and was valued at s25o.0O Jacob
Kaplan and Joseph Blackner were the
brokers Edgar A. Landauer. attorney.
represented the sellers, and Morrison &
Schiff acted for the buyers. The build
ing In one Of several new apartments
erected upon the tract owned by Charles
NJ. Rosenthal.
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
Realty Savant Sidesteps
Learnedly on Usury Topic
by The ODD PARAGRAPHER.

Samuel Untermyer's recommendation
that the usury law be repealed Is being
widely discussed by real estate men.
There are many interesting sides to the
subject. the viewpoint depending largely
on whether the man Is broker or bor-
rover.
few days ago the writer was dis
cussing various matters with an oracle
Of the real estate world and In the
course of the conversation asked this
man what he considered fair rate of
interest on money invested.
Instead OF replying directly, this walk
ing encyclopaedia. as he Is sometimes
called by his friends. entered into the
following discourse on the origin of in
terest
THE first mention of interest or
usury Is in Deuteronomy, where the Jews
were told
Thou shadt not lend upon usury to thy
brother; usury OF money, usury OF victuals'
usury OF anything that Is lent upon usury.
" Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon
sury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not
lend upon nsury. that the Lord thy God
'Usury In Greece took as security not
only the lands of the borrower but his
body, and became so intolerable that
Solon cancelled all debts on such Sc
curity for the preservation of the COM
munity. To usury Is ascribed In a large
I'm the early times the mass of Roman
citizens were yeomen living on their own
small estates. Anticipating the policies
of the present day the community tried
TO do so much to keep the proletariat
satisfied that taxation became confisca-
tory. The yeomen were obliged to bor-
row to pay their taxes while the interest
rate in Rome itself remained at about
4 per cent. The rate In the provinces
reached so per cent.
"In two or three centuries the yeomen
were destroyed and there remained only
the very poor and the very rich.
"Cicoro says that when Cato was asked
what he thought of usury he answered {:
What do you think of murderY
During the middle ages ustrv was
illegal and was condemned by the Church
as immoral This threw the entire busi-
ness of loaning money TO the Jews. II
is to this fact that their unpopularity In
those days was due and TO this their
E-oss III treatment may be laid. From
1890. when the Jews were expelled from
England. until the times OF Cromwell
very little money was loaned on usury
In England.
''Since then II has been generally rec
cgnfzed that money as the product OF
labor Is entitled TO return for manage
ment, risk of loss, and to encourage
savings"
Houses 1000 Years Old.
three months drought on the Swiss
glaciers has caused the water of the
lakes 10 sink so low that prehistoric
lake dwellings are visible at several
places. At Greng. near .he Lake VI
Norat. the remains large settle
.7ant can be zsa~ while BY Lake Neu-
The New York herald., 1921-07-17

A loan of s1.25Oo0o was closed yes
terday by the Mutual Life Insurance
Company on the northerly Garment
Centre Building at the northwest corner
of Thirty-seventh street and Seventh
avenue simultaneously the Title Guar
antee and Trust Company advanced to
the same owners a loan OF N,5Oo.W0 on
the southerly Garment Centre Building.
southwest corner of Seventh avenue and
Thirty-seventh street. Both these loans
we're negotiated by VIM. A. White g.
Sons.
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and the Bay Ridge High School is only
a few blocks away Mr.. Kennedy will
also offer on the same evening thirty
building lots at the northwest corner OF
Eighth avenue and Sixty-first street.
with the subway entrance of the Sea
Beach line within 100 feet Of the prop
erty.
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aueens-Richmond sales.

Lewis II. May Company sold for
Theresa Neiman plot on the east side
OF Beach Thirty-third street Bdgemere.
year houses.
Moffatt schwab sold for Henry o.
Lindemann his residence on Zebra ave-
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Houses 1000 Years old.

A three months drought on the Swiss
glaciers has caused the water of the
lakes TO sink so low that prehistoric
lake dwellings are visible at several
places At Grens. near .he Lake vi
Morat, the remains g large settle
.aant can be zzr~ while by Lake Neu-
The New York herald., 1921-07-17

Walton avenue. west side, rs feet
south OF 1slst street. Ave Ftory apart
ment. 75xss: Lanada Building Com
pany, owner; Adela NJ. Harrington.
1476 vyse avenue, president; Margon &
CHASER. architects: $4,000
Grand avenue, west side, so feet south
OF 1924 street, nve story apartment.
75xSs; Grand Hill Building Company.
1nvc.. owner Louis Horowitz. 6sss Con-
cord avenue. president Marson a.
Giaser architects. s150.O0O
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1921-01-06
x
HELGE


The Rosbv Ladies' Aid met on
Thursday. December 80 at the Hoff
home. The Aid will next meet with
Mrs. Bert Rouser A good attendance
is hoped for.
The Luke Taylor family is now oc-
cupying their new home This seven
room house is ot'yet complete as to
detail. but when finished will be up
to-date and convenient. Mr. Taylor
has constructed the house himself
Miss Adah Williams spent New
Years at the home Of her friend. Miss
Clara Cooke Of Deer River.
James Hanson, who injured his
ankle a Cnunic Of weeks ago, is able
to walk again.
Fred Bucksen spent the weekend
at Deer River.
Ed. Larson and family and Walter
Larson had New Years dinner with
the Pognes.
Mr.. Taylor has purchased a fine
young horse from H. r. Gillette to
replace the, one killed on the NJ. & I.
tracks few weeks ago.