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The New York herald., 1921-06-19
Beautiful Suburban Community Founded by Late A. I
Stewart One Time Merchant Prince to Be Thrown
Open to Public at Offering Of 1,l69 Dwelling
and Business Sites on June 25

it is seldom that the hammer of the
auctioneer manages to batter down the
exclusive gates Of suburban area like
Garden City. the beautiful, with its
wealth of shade trees and foliage, Its
palatial homes, its far famed educational
institutions and it's splendid golf courses
through the possession of which 1t has
become known as the golf centre of the
East.
Garden City Estates Is the most re-
Gently developed portion of the incor-
porated village of Garden City, which
included the town lands Of Hampstead
purchased in 1869 by A. T. Stewart, the
merchant prince Of old New York. Be
fore his death Mr.. Stewart saw his plans
for an ideal suburban community under
way, but it is needless to say that even
his far seeing mind did not visualize
Garden City in its present stage OF de-
velopment. During the last fourteen
years more than S1,000,000 has been ex-
pended on the estates section alone and
more than 200 prominent New Yorkers
are said to have made their homes there
within the same period.
The more costly residences have been
erected along Stewart avenue and the
boulevards and avenues that cross this
fine thoroughfare, which leads directly
to the Garden City Hotel In this Sec
ton. covering the area lying between
New Market road and the Hampstead
The New York herald., 1921-06-19

Standards have changed radically in
the real estate world during the last
two or three years. The Importance OF
q transaction is no longer measured by
the skimpy rule which answered the
purpose In the somnolent days before
the spring of 1918. To-day deal must
possess generous proportions indeed If 1t
Is to claim any attention from public
that has learned to yawn at the men
tion of a million dollar transaction.
And the same thing holds true of the
auction market. Beginning with the IA
nous Bennett sale in June. 1919. a series
of big estates passed under the auc-
tioneer's hammer until the investing
public became more or less blase. Their
attitude is sxemplified in the contemp-
tuous statement made by man who
left the Real Estate Exchange while a
recent sale was in progress. "Oh, 500
lots or so: Just dinly affair."" he flung
back over his shoulder for the enlight-
eminent of friend who was just enter
ing the salesrooms.
In spite of its boredom. however, the
real estate world manifested consider
abls interest in the recent announce
nent of the sale of 1169 choice lots in
Garden City Estates, which are to be
dargled temptingly before the investing
public by Joseph p. Day next Saturday.
1t isn't often that so many lots are
thrown on the market at one time. and
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
no LOTS NEAR JAMAICA
BAY ARE TO BE SOLD

A large tract of vacant land com.
prising 110 business and bungalow build
ing lots near Mill Basin. where the city
has begun dredging for the big Jamaica
Bay development, is to be sold at auc-
ton Saturday afternoon, June 25, on
the premises by the Jere Johnson Jr.
Company. auctioneers. regardless of
weather conditions. The lots are on Flat
bush avenue Avenue u. Hendrickson and
Coleman streets and Kimball liant.
There are no restrictions and many of
the lots are well shaded with trees. In
cluded in the sale is house and nine
lots at F7atbush avenue and Avenue t.
BY order OF the Brooklyn Trust Com
pany, trustees of the estate of the late
John Vanderbilt the Jere Johnson Jr.
Company, auctioneers, will sell at abso-
lutte auction on Tuesday, June 21. at 8
o'clock in the evening. in 1s9 Montague
street. thirty-nine dual subway station
lots in Gravesend avenue, Twenty-third
avenue, Sixtieth street and Dahill road
(west street,, at the Avenue N station
Of the Culver elevated extension OF the
dual subway system. The lots are 70 be
sold on attractive terms.
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
RENT STRIKERS HIT
BY COURT DECISION
Must Reimburse Landlord for
Legal Expenses Incurred
in Collecting Rent.

The Appellate Term of the Supreme
Court has handed down decision which
will work adversely against tenants en-
gagged in a rent strike. The court holds
that the landlord is entitled to his right
to tax the rent striking tenant with the
legal costs involved In bringing the case
to the courts. The decision was rem
dered by Justices Guy. Blur and Nc
Cook in the case Of Springer VS.. Schlegel.
This case was brought before Municipal
Court Justice Ellenbogen in the Second
district, Manhattan. some time ago by
the Tax Payers Association of the
Tenth, Eleventh and Seventeenth wards,
one of the oldest organizations Of its
kind in the city.
Through It's counsel, Ira J. Ettinger.
the association started dspossess pro-
ceedings on behalf of Catherine Springer
against one of the latter's tenants for
non-payment of rent. The tenant upon
the return day deposited the amount of
the rent with the court and made no
claim that the rent was excessive or
unreasonable, but refused to pay the
legal disbursement of SO. incurred by
the landlord in bringing summary pro-
ceedlngs. Justice Ellenbogen denied the
motion OF the landlord to compel the
Clerk of the Court to tax the disburse-
ments.
The Appellate Term has decided that
the question of legal disbursements in
summary proceedings is governed by
the provisions of the Code of Civil Pro-
cedure and not by the Municipal Court
Code, and that the landlord Is entitled
as of right to his legal disbursements !;
also that the Municipal Court has no
discretion to refuse the same.
- -
plained that many tenants. taking ad-
vantage Of the prevailing sentiment
against landlords, refused to pay the
rent month after month merely for the
owner. and then. when the case came
up In court. Gimply rendered the amount
of the rent without reimbursing the
landlord for the expenses which were
incurred: and nearly all of the Munich
pal Court justices sustained the tenants
In this contention.
In the case just decided. the tenant
had been IN possession OF the premises
for six or seven months and had paid
the rent without court proceedings only
once or twice, compelling the landlord
to seek relief in the courts nearly every
month.
The decision Just rendered. according
TO the plaintiff association, will undoubt-
edly have a salutary effect upon that
class of tenants who were never In
tended by the Legislature to be bene-
fted by the recently enacted rent laws.
and will compel the Municipal Court 20
follow the law as interpreted by the
Appellate Term.
The New York herald., 1921-06-19

Exchange salesroom, at IA vesey street.
an interesting sale of city property
affecting three old landmarks in the
Union Square section. For the Court
landt Palmer and Mary A. Palmer
Draper estates Mr.. Day will offer the
Hotel Churchill, at the southeast corner
of Fourteenth street and Broadway;
Keiths Union Square Theatre. adjoin-
ing the Churchill on Fourteenth street,
and the old Union Square Hotel at the
south corner of Fifteenth street The
Churchill Hotel was opened in 1850 as
the Union Place Hotel and later changed
it's name to the Morton House. The
Union Square Theatre, one Of the oldest
playhouses in the city. was built in 1871
and was destroyed by fire in 1888. 1t
was rebuilt a year later The Union
Square Hotel was built in 1873, and until
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
TRACT TO
BE SOLD THIS WEEK
Auctioneer Will Offer $50
Sites in Bay Ridge Section
for McDougall Estate.

One of the largest tracts OF vacant
land offered at auction In Brooklyn in
some time will be sold for the estate OF
Stewart McDougall by Bryan L. Ken
nelly. auctioneer, on Thursday and Fri
day evenings of this week in the Brook
lyn Academy of Music. The property
comprises $50 building sites on Fort
Hamilton Parkway, New Utrecht avenue,
Eighth, Ninth and Tenth avenues from
Forty-second to Forty-sixth street in
elusive.
The West End subway line has three
stations near the property and the
Eighth avenue b. r. T. surface line is
two blocks away. The property has
been improved with sidewalks and
graded streets made at the expense of
the owner. Included in the sale are
two three story brownstone two family
dwellings on Forty-fourth street: also
four apartment houses at the corner Of
Fort Hamilton Parkway and New
Utrecht avenue.
The late Stewart McDougal bought
the property for a home about forty-five
years ago, when II was farm land from
the Baron Roosevelt line and Bellknapp
families. He had seven neighbors at the
time and the nearest school was mile
away. The seven neighbors have been
multiplied thousands Of times and eight
large schools have been built and many
churches of all denominations are near
the property
Mr.. Kennedy will also sell at auction
Saturday. June rs. 100 waterfront plots,
one stucco dwelling and a club house at
Penataqult Point. Bay Shore. l.. i. The
property begins at Montgomery. Awixa
and Penataquit avenues. and Is adapted
for summer or year round residences.
Penataquit Point on the Great South
Bay Is one of the popular waterfront
tracts on Long Island.
The New York herald., 1921-06-19

Division of the Long Island Railroad
and south thereof between the railroad
and Cambridge avenue. many of the
residences are built on plots having a
full block frontage, although erection Of
houses on plots made up of only a few
lots Is now permitted under the recently
modified zoning restrictions governing
the building of both residential and COM
mercial structures. A large number Of
the residential building sites to be Of
fered by Mr. Day are situated in this
section north of Market road and ex-
tending to the Merillon avenue station
on the main line of the Long Island Rail-
road. Many of these lots are to be sold
IN two lot plots for Improvement with
dwellings Of the less expensive type. A
number Of other sites to be offered at
the same time in the immediate vicinity
of the Nassau Boulevard and Merillon
avenue stations are available for busi-
ness use.
An exceptionally active summer
auction season will reach flood tide at
the Garden City sale, which will throw
open to the general public this highly
developed section of Nassau county, only
eighteen miles from the Pennsylvania
Station. The sale will be held in a big
tent on the premises. regardless of
weather conditions. 1t will begin at 2
p. NJ.
On June 2s Mr.. Day will hold in the
The New York herald., 1921-06-19

1885 was known as the Hotel Dan.
These and other valuable properties in
the Pennsylvania zone. the Murray Hill
section and Harlem will be sold by Mr..
Day for the Palmer and Draper estates
as the result of a partition proceeding
in the Supreme Court.
On June 22 at z. NJ, in the Brook
lyn Real Estate Exchange. MI. Day will
offer at auction to close out the Sea
Gate holdings of the estate of Robert
Maxwell and others the Maxwell Co
lonial mansion on the ocean front and
lis adjacent lots. On June 80 in the
Manhattan exchange he will offer for
Columbia University and the Society Of
the New York Hospital 53S East Bronx
lots comprising the Bathgate estate.
near the 23sth and 241st street stations
Of the White Plains road subway.
The New York herald., 1921-06-19

Henry Brady will offer at auction on
June % the thirty acre estate OF the
late Major Richmond Levering on the
waterfront at Great Neck, l.. l. On
this well Handicapped stretch Of property
Is the unfinished Tudor mansion which
Major, Levering planned as gift to
his children. At the time OF his death
the construction Of the house had pro-
gressed 20 the stage where II was
ready for outside and inside finish but
the executors of the estate decided that
II was unwise 10 carry the work
through. They reasoned that any one
who could afford TO buy property OF
this type would prefer to carry out his
own tastes in the completion OF the
property. When the work was stopped
$4,000 had already been spent on the
structure. which was designed by Ches-
ter A. Patterson.
The plans for the residence are
worked out az carefully a. possible TO
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
The sHED LevEFsiNe HOUSE at

tho north shore, has water frontage
Of 40 feet and deep anchorage Major
Levering's scheme for It's development
provided for many artistic and useful
features. including a formal walled
garden. rough hewn stone steps and
walks and a pool with cascade. ton
mis- court and bride paths. Tho sale
will be held on the promises and will
begin at Z. NJ.
Major Levering was at one time presi-
dent OF the Indian Asphalt Company
OF Chicago, the Indian Refining Com
pany, the Bridgeport on Company and
tho Arkansas City OH and Gas Com
pany. He organized tho Metropolitan
Petroleum Corporation and the Island
oil and Transport Company. During
the war he served as chief engineer Of
the mechanical section az tho Ameri-
can University experiment station in
Washington. u. c.. and was executive
officer OF the research division of the
Chemical Warfare Department.
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
TO SELL 207 YoNKERs LOTS.
II. T.. Kennedy VIII oncr Green
baum Property Next saturday.

Two hundred and seven lots AZ Park
fIiN-on-Hudson. formerly known as the
Groonoaum property, will be offered NJ
auction by BRYAN L. Kennedy at Phil.
lipsburg Hall on Saturday. June 25. al
2 o'clock p. ~ The lots adioin .he
already built up section OF Park Hil and
begin on Van Cortlandt avenue. Eight
cen acres aiioin tho property held by
tho Board Of Foreign Missions as n pri-
vato park. a new schoolhouse Is but a
few minutes walk from the property.
and the lots 60 be sold are but ten MIN
utcs from Getty Square. Yonkers.
In order 70 facilitate those who wish
TO see the property. the owners have ar
ranged to have bus run to-day from
Mclean avenue Yonkers 10 carry those
who wish TO inspect The property free
The New York herald., 1921-06-19

preserve the spirit Of the Tudor de-
sign. The first story ls OF brick and
cut stone. the second story Of stucco
and half timber. The Specifications
called for exterior finish OF heavy fran
ing throughout, brick selected from nu-
merous klns. SO as 10 insure the proper
colorlng and texture, barge boards and
entrance woodwork OF hand carved oak.
The details of the interior called for
exceptionally rich treatment. also in
keeping with the design. There arc TO
be seven masters bedrooms. each with
separate bath. The masters suite
proper has dressing room. foyer
study and sleeping porch Attached 10
three OF the other bedrooms are dress
ing rooms and sleeping porches.
Major Levering assembled the thirty
acres of land by purchasing the estate
Of Mrs. o. III. r. Belmont and the
Provost property. The estate. endowed
with eli the beauty of the uplande on
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
Clambakc for brooklyn Board.

Members OF the Brooklyn Real Estate
Board will hold an outing and clam
bake Thursday afternoon, June 20. at
Karatsonyi's. Glen Head IL. ]. Tt is
expected that about 600 will make the
trip by automobile TO tho grounds.
Upon their arrival at aratsonyfs a
ball game VIII he arranged. foiieNr.,
by other games and an old fashioned
clambake will he served at 6 o'clock.
The committee Of arrangements include
Arthur j. Horton, chairman, George $.
Horton W. Malcolm Gray. Joseph NJ.
May and George IL Gray.
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
SLRAUES SCHOOL.

The entire block bounded by Reade,
Duane. Washington and West streets.
consisting of four story buildings. Is be-
ing sold to eight commission merchants
all of whom are tenants in the buildings
Edward Roche of Far Rockaway. l.. l..
is the seller. Assemblyman Thomas A.
McWhinney of the McWhinney, Realty
Company of Lawrence. L. l.. is the
broker. The buyers and the addresses
of the properties are as follows:
H. 3. Hansen, $50 Reade street and
206 Duane street; James La Dolce, 1S2
Reade street and 208 Duane street; B.
Calandra. 1874 Reade street and 21O
Duane street Abe Opolinsky. 1856 Reade
street and 212 Duane street; j. q. La
Dolce. 1873 Reade street and 214
Duane street; Jacob Boss, 1872. 1914, 1876
Reade street and 1877 West and 21s, 22O.
222 Duane street. John c. Crate. 306
Washington street and 202. 2O4 Duane
street; Peter McClus. 300 Washington
street and 176, 17S Reade street.
The property was originally the site
for n city market and later was acquired
by the Erie Railroad for stores and gen.
eral offices. Mr.. Roche acquired the
properties In 1910.
Sells 162 Long Island City Lots.
An average price of $1,000 per lot was
obtained by Joseph p. Day at the Long
Island City auction yesterday. In two
hours Mr.. Day disposed of sxty-tw
lots belonging to the estate or Samuel
Byam K. and Frederick w. Stevens
along the line of the Astoria subway
and between that point and the Halletts
Cove section OF the East River. The
60 Ia hn1I In, - De- IL.
and Academy street and began at 2
p. NJ.
To Build Greenwich village Hotel.
Henry Ulmar. prominent investor in
Greenwich Village properties. has pur-
chased the three 4-story dwellings and
two 5-story flats at the northeast cor
nsr Of Seventh avenue and Twelfth
street. Mr.. Ulmar. through the brokers'
Duross Company, announces that he in
tends to build a 16-story apartment
hotel on the site The properties are op-
posite the new Sheridan Theatre, which
is now going UP. They front 81 feet on
Seventh avenue and 95 feet on West
Twelfth street. The seller was Mary L.
Sammis of Paris, executrix of the estate
of Alice l.. Knapp, and represented by
Peck and Hancock, attorneys.
CIothfers Lense in Herald Bldg.
The southerly half OF the former
Herald building, Broadway and Thirty
fifth street has been leased to the Rog-
ers Peet Company, which will open
new store there as soon as the present
store In the MarIbridge building opposite
can be vacated. The lease Is for twelve
years at an annual rental OF S165.000,
and covers the Thirty-fifth street front
age and about 100 feet on Broadway
and on Sixth avenue.
The property was recently leased by
Nicholas c. Partos from the Manice
estate at an annual rental of s150.0O0
for fifteen years and about 100000 for
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
Sale on sutton Place,

Sutton Square. Inc, sold 20 y. staf-
ford Montz the three story residence AT
10 Sutton place, 16.0x50. Mrs Mantz
is the treasurer OF the Corporation Trust
Company and Is now occupying the
house on East End avenue recently pur-
chased by the Duo de Richelieu.
Other houses in this group have re-
Gently been bought by Mrs. w X. Van
derbllt. Miss Elisabeth MarBury. Mrs.
II. Lorlllard Cammann and Mr. Francis
n. Griswold
Theodore r. Kennedy. ot Frank d.
WELLER & Co., was the broker,
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
W. D. GROTE PLACE TO BE SOLD.
Auctioneer VIII Dispose of Bay
vile Property June rs.

The estate Of w. d. Grote, president
Of the American Chemical Company, in
the Bayville section of Oyster Bay, l.. l.,
is to be sold at public auction on Satur-
day. afternoon. June %, by Arthur 9.
Sheridan, auctioneer. The estate in
cludes a handsomely furnished residence,
a number of outbuildings and seven
acres of land. The property adjoins the
Rainsforth place and the estate Of Peter
w. Rouse. The Seawanhaka Corinthian
Yacht Club. on Centre Island, Oyster
Bay, is a short ride from the property to
be sold. The sale has been set for 3
o'clock In the afternoon, and tho entire
estate with the residence. completely fur
nished. win be sold as one parcel to tho
highest bidder.
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
Rent Homes NJ ~ n Year.

In Warsaw. Poland. It Is possible 10
rent five or. six room residence for one
wear for 1000 marks. the equivalent Of
So in United States money at the present
rate Of exchange. Isaac Trieischman. q
fIl- trader in st. Louis. brings this nfor-
The New York herald., 1921-06-19

nation from Russia and Poland. where
he spent many months in search of his
daughters. from whom he became sepa-
rated during the war
Rent on all Russian and Poland prop
critics. he said. is fixed by the Govern
ment. which forbids eviction for inability
to pay Every residence bears notice
stating the number Of persons residing
within and the amount of rent paid.
washington's Octagon House.
Although It has figured quito promi-
nently in United States history, II Is
safe 20 say the average New Yorker
knows little or nothing of the famous
Octagon House at Washington. ID. c..
Aside from its unusualness from an
architectural viewpoint IL at one time
had the distinction of having once served
as the residence of the President of the
United States. During what Is known
In the United States as the War Of 1912
the White House was destroyed, and II
was TO the Octagon House that Presi-
dent Madison and his wife turned for
an official home. The destruction of the
White House occurred I'm 1914, and the
treaty of peace between the United
States and England, which was agreed
upon late In 1914 and announced In
1919, was uTdW0 I'D III tne OCtHgOn room
over the hallway of the house. During
the period of residence Of the President
In the house Mrs Madison held her
drawing rooms attended by scholars,
statesmen and other distinguished per-
sons. says the Christian Science Monitor.
The house was built by Col John Tay-
lor about a century and quarter ago.
Bricks I'm bible Times.
The bible tells of the manufacture
and use OF bricks. The most ancient
records contain references to this build
ing material. AS early as the year a.
A. D. 'he Romans used them In Eng
land. The actual scientific and mass
production Of bricks did not begin until
sS6. when Alfred the Great directed the
bricks be manufactured under Govern
ment supervision. History does not tell
of another ruler who became deeply In
terested In this industry until the reign
OF Charles T., who In 1926 thought II
necessary TO regulate the size OF bricks.
80 that transportation difficulties could
be overcome says the Detroit Netcs.
An American inventor by the name OF
Spence IL credited with the arst bricI
making machine but the British clalh
that one Clayton. whose patent was
granted in 1852. was the first 20 produce
brick by steam at the rate of about
1,J00 an hour.
The New York herald., 1921-06-19
Odd Paragraphs From the
World S Real Estate News

On one of the main thoroughfares In
the Borough of Richmond there is an
excellent illustration of the practical
use TO which discarded passenger cars
can be put. At this point an old rail-
road car was recently converted into
an attractive residence. The car is
thirty feet long and eight feet wide
dnd is set on cedar posts about three
feet above the ground. There are two
entrances. front and rear, each with an
irnprovised porch. The car has been
divided into three rooms, each ten by
eight feet. These include a parlor and
living room, In which the owner has
placed folding bed q bedroom, with
berths let down from the walls, and n
combination kitchen and dining room
The occupant has had gas and electric
light installed and the house is very
comfortably furnished. II stands on a
plot 25x150, and is surrounded by
garden The owner also keeps chickens
There are hundreds of discarded
trolley and steam railroad cars on
Staten Island that might be put TO SIM
liar use. The principal cost to pros
pective home owners would be for the
transportation of these cars from the
railroad yards TO their properties as Il
Is understood the railroad will be
pleased to have the cars taken off
their hands.
ReaIty's Voting strength.
After reading your paragraph on
taxable land In the Greater CITY, won
dered IL anyone ever attempted to find
out the actual voting strength OF the real
estate owning population of New York."
recently remarked we'll known real es-
tate operator to the wrt.er.
IT ts5 Presidential election last fall
approximately 100000 votes were cast
In this city," he continued. There arc
approximately 100000 taxable parcels,
ond while this Of course doesn't mean
these properties are held by 500 600 indi-
vidual owners. ! am sure they represent
close to 100000. Let us assume. how
ever. only 100000 voters control these
properties. Most of the owners arc
heads OF families. and considering their
influence their collective voting strength
cen Teasonably be estimated at between
100000 and .000--enoueh to decide
any election Il they were to take con-
certed action"