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New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Seventy Dwellings
Projected for Sites
On Throg's Neck
TwentyAre Under Way on
CosteT Estate; Many New
Projects Expected From
Brown Auction

Bronx building department records
reveal the fact that seventy plans for
new dwelling houses on the Throg's
Neck peninsula have been filed since
the sale, last year, Of the Coster estate
by Joseph P. Day, auctioreer. Twenty
Of these new houses are now in the
course of construction. while further
out along East fremont Avenue-old
Fort Schuyler Road-at points beyond
the George Bruce Brown estate, which
adjoins the Coster estate, other houses
are in various stages of construction.
It is apparent that one Of the reasons
for this building activity, aside from
the appeal of the cuperb location of
Throg's Neck, Is the fact that many of
the longitudinal avenues and laterals IN
the Throg's Neck section have improve
ments installed and are ready for the
builder.
The activity of to-day doubtless will
be considerably augmented in the very
near future by the sale of the 967 lots
belonging to. the estate of George Bruce
Brown, and located between Lafayette
Avenue on the south, Throg's Neck
Boulevard, the Shore Drive and Long
Island Sound on the north. The Colum-
bia Trust Company, trustee, has or
dered the lots to be sold.
Almost directly opposite the property
is the bungalow section known ss Edge
water Camp and comprising several
hundred buildings erected along and
immediately adjacent to the water and
beach front.
The principal factor in opening this
richly endowed section to home build
ing is the operation of the Westches-
ter Avenue extension of the Lexington
Avenue subway to Pelham Bay Park,
with an express station in Westchester
Square, at Westchester Avenue and
East fremont Avenue, from which
point the East fremont Avenue cleo
trio surface cars operate direct to the
Eastern Boulevard, which is the east
erly boundary Of and the gateway to
Throgg's Neck
The George Bruce Brown property
lies east of the Eastern Boulevard,
which thoroughfare forms the westerly
boundary Of Pelham Bay Park. AS ali
Of the principal avenues extending east
and west through the Brown property
run to the Eastern Boulevard, the
Pelham Bay Park is easily accessible
from Throg's Neck.
The section is outside the fire limits,
which means that frame construction
is permitted there.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

Bay Farm, in the immediate vicinity Of
Bowery Bay and North Beach.
This waterfront section. which in
especially suitable to improvement with
bungalows and ali-year homes. is To-
Gated between the Astoria Avenue and
Ryker Avenue trolley ear lines, but has
never before been available 10 homs-
seekers, lot buyers sHd builders for
the reason that tbs prepsrty has not
been in the msrket and could not be
purchased in separate lots.
The subdivision and sale Of this
property next Saturday BY public auc-
ton for whatever It may bring. in scr-
4rate lots, means the opening up az all
this fms waterfront aren Of kk4 Ahtoria-
Stairway sectians Of Lang Islxnd cfty
and its rapid dsysts1menG
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

100000 square feet, which is a little
more than twice the space in the
Munson Building. 1t will be remem-
bered that this site held the old
Stevens house, which was one of the
oldest hostelries in New York when it
was removed, and also the British
Consulate offices. Years ago this
block was improved with the homes of
some of the best people in town.
Ceiling Six Stories High
When the bronze doors in the central
section of the building swing open to-
morrow the public will enter into the
lofty.domed Offices of the passenger
and freights departments of the big
British steamship company. The CEN
trail dome is 6S feet high. Six six-story
houses could be placed three abreast
and rear to rear under this ceiling.
The decoration of the interior was
intrusted to Ezra Winter, mural deco
rator. The decorative scheme is evil
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

ing Astoria lots are located along
Vandeventer, Wilson, Patterson (Ja-
maica) and Grand avenues, between
Twelfth and Eighteenth avenues, and in
Graham and Pierce avenues, William,
Crescent and Radde streets. between
stations on the Astoria division OF the
Interboro and B. r. r. Brooklyn dual
subway.
The lots are located in sections that
are we'll improved with single and two-
family houses, apartment housss, store
properties, moving picture theaters,
schools, with some Of the largest me-
tion picture studio buildings erected
immediately llong the lire Of the AS
t0ris subway sxtension.
The tals eincI des the Old BowerY
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Az7zP71ZENT HOUSES an
HkENzIE MIX
AI2k LOTS

Chsapness of land in the Astoria Sec
tion of Long Island City, the benefit to
be derived from tax exemption and the
increase in traffic on the Astoria divi-
sion of the dual rapid transit system
were the moving factors in bringing
about the purchase by Philip Krule-
witch, president of the Filrose Con-
struction Company, and Morris Mana
cher, president of the Manacher Con-
struction Company, of twenty-six lots
on the west side of Fifth Avenue, $50
feet north of Jamaica Avenue, for i'm
provement with three, four and five
room apartments.
James E. Clonin, who has erected q
large number of dwellings, and apart
ment houses in Brooklyn and Queens
and who is prominent as dealer in
building materials in Long Island City.
has purchased twelve lots ON the east
side of Fourth Avenue, 100 feet north
OF Jamaica Avenue, for improvement
with small apartments.
Widespread Interest Indicated
These purchases indicate the wide
spread interest that has been aroused
in the Astoria section since Joseph r.
Day announced recently that he had
been commissioned to sell at auction
200 lots for the estate of William G.
Park and others. The selling Will be
started at O'Clock next Saturday in q
large tent on Grand Avenue. between
Sixth and Seventh avenues, close to the
Grand Avenue station ON the Astoria
extension.
A number of the lots to be sold are
variously located in the vicinity Of
the Washington Avenue, broadway,
Grand and Hoyt Street stations and
between that point and Sreinway Ave
nue. Others occupy several blocks
along Jackson Avenue. between Twalffh
and Seventeenth aFRnpea Th. ren4ain.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Munson Building, ON W all
Street, Opened Yester-
day; Cunard Structure
Will Be Ready for the
Public by Tomorrow

dent as soon as ono steps into the ves-
tibule to the great krched premises.
It's FIVE ceilings dontain she'll forms
harboring marine figures in the Gre
clan spirit. From the tinted plaster
background of these figures the OBJ
server gets his first hint of the blaze
of color in which the whole scheme
of decoration is conceived. Passing
on into groined vault, you look up
to see the seals of English shipping
towns as central feature, while below
in inches, connecting the vaults with
the walls Of Roman Travertine stone,
are bas-reliefs portraying the four
winds and the four seasons.
At the far end Of the hall-the Green
wich Street side--is similar groined
vault similarly treated. Between them
is the great central dome containing
four roundels of NEUROLOGICAL marine
figures. Below this central dome on
the four pendentives are large repre-
sertations of the vessels in which Left
Ericsson, Columbus, Cabot and Drake
pioneered ON the Atlantic Ocean. In
panels on the walls are maps of the
continents executed by Barry Faulk-
ner on the theory of Mercator's pro-
lection, but treated decoratively with
Lnc SdH1e glow OIL COiOT anu LOuCD OF
NEUROLOGICAL interest.
Office Entrance at South End
At the northeast corner of the
building, fronting on Broadway and
running back down Morris Street, are
the new quarters of the Produce Ex-
change branch of the Mechanics and
Metals National Bank. At the south
ern end of the Broadway frontage is
the Office building lobby leading te
the twenty local and express elevators
which with eight additional lifts al
the northwest corner of the building
serve the twenty-five stories of the
building. The first four of these floor.
are leased to the Cunard and Anchor
lines, together with portions Of the
basement.
the Italian Renaissance. The Broad
way front is entirely Of stone and the
remaining fronts of stone and bricl
trimmed with stone. Owing to an in
geniously devised system of courts
one giving upon the Morris Street ant
the other upon the Greenwich Stree
frontage, there are no interior office:
in the building. Benjamin Wistal
Morris was the architect, with Carrcys
& Hastings as consulting architects
Todd, Irons & Robertson, Inc, wer.
the builders.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

r. C. Sauter Agency sold the eight
family house 376 Second Street for
Agnes Weygandt to Christian 4. Meyer.
Buckley & Horton Co. sold 1855 Ber-
gan Street, b two story dwelling, 19x
1915, for John C. Taylor.
f. T. Newman sold the three-story
dwelling 1873 First Street. 20x100, for
Jndson G. Wall.
The Clinton Trading Corporation sold
to Ethel f. Dorm this two-family dwell
ing 1890 Park Plaee.
The Berkshire Realty Company pur-
chased plot. 1oox100. en- Lincoln
hill avenues. through 3. Greenherg.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
$3.50, 0OO"S "Szvimmln' Hole"
For L0zver Second -AUenue

be installed. It is understood that the
pool will compare we'll in size and
other features with the largest indoor
"swi}nmin' holes" in the city.
According to Gronenberg & Leuch-
tag, architects, it will cost $250,000 to
make over the interior. When this i'm
provement has been completed the
building at 80 East First Street, which
is next to the Florentine Building, will
be altered into a dressing and recep-
tion room for women patrons. This
property was included in the deal con-
cluded yesterday.
The Florentine Building is a land
mark of lower Second Avenue. 1t was
erected when many of the old families
still lived in the section.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
$2o0oo00o Office Building Projects
Ut Cunard and Munson Lines COMPLETED
Provide Downtown Busi-
ness District With AZ
Floors, or More Than
twenty two Acres Of
Fine Office Space

Two of the largest Of the structures
that have been building in the down
town section--she Cunard Buiidinr on
Broadway and the Munson Building on
lower Wall Street-havs been COM
fleted. The Munson Building, witch
Is owned by the Munson Steamship
Lines, was completed yesterday and
turned over to the steamship interests.
The Cunard structure, facing Bowling
Green, which is indirectly the property
Of the great British transatlantic
steamship concern, will be opened for
business tomorrow.
The completion of these structures
probably represents the investment of
$40 100000 in land, brick, stone, steel
and mortar great plies that reach
well into the sky. They have been
under way for year and are the very
last word in building construction and
commercial architecture as adapted to
New York.
The cunard Building is the larger
of the two
The Munson Building covers the
wedges shaped block formed by the
junction of Wall and Beaver streets at
Pearl Street. The Munson Steamship
Lines undertook the construction Of
the building because it needed space
and would continue to need space to
accommodate the expansion of its
business. 1t had big surplus earnines
and in the opinion Of the directors o.
the company the investment of some
of this money in q big building. which
would be the headquarters of the COM
pany, would be a good investment.
The building is twenty-five stories
high and fronts 144 feet on Wall Street
20 feet on Pearl Street and 180 feet
on Beaver Street. The roof is of red
tile. which is reminder of the COM
pany's long Identification with Spanish
American trade.
Reminds One of Sea,
The architecture indicates strongly
the business of the owners, the bust
ness Of the sea. The maritime atmos-
phere is even more pronounced in the
interior Of the street floor, which has
been taken for the use of the passen-
ger department of the line. The ex-
ecutive Offices and other departments
Of the company have been placed on
the twenty-third and twenty-fourth
floors.
There are two main entrances, or
rather there Is an arcade running
through the building from Wall to
Beaver Street. Ten high speed ele-
vators serve the 225,oo0 square feet of
Offices in the structure.
The twenty-five story building which
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Gotham Bank Building
Almost Fully Tenanted
Only q, Per Cent of 24-Story
Structure Still in Market
for Rent

The Gotham National Bank of New
York reports it's new twenty -four-story
office building, at Broadway and Colum-
bus Circle, is now 96 pare cent rented
space during the week are the r. j
Reynolds Tobacco Company, Burton
Holmes Lectures, Inc. the United
States Department of Internal Reve-
nue., Standard Garages, Inc; Charles
McC. Chapman, the Apollo Magnetic
Corporation, Aaron Hoffman, the Taller
Publishing Corporation, the Portage
Tire and Rubber Company, Lewinsohn
& Hoffman, the Ansonia Manufacturing
Company, the Atna Motor Shield Cor
poration, Yves De Villers, the NJ Dol
Company, the Leonard Morgan Com
pany, Inc; Kromberg Lustgarten, the
Eben B. Smith Lumber Company, the
George L. Miller Lumber Company and
Samuel Geneen.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Big Plant at Elmhurst
Bought by Corporation
Buildings Erected During the
War for Tire Concern
Never 0ccuried

Joseph P Day and Louis Schlesinger,
Inc, sold for the Newtown Tire Com
pany to the Cling Cutlery Corporation
the plant erected during the war on
Alvion Street, Elmhurst. L. L., 95x298.
This plant was originally erected for
the manufacture of automobile tires,
but the proposition was abandoned
after the armistice was signed. The
building was never occupied and con-
sists of one-stofy monitor roof build
ing of modern type of construction.
1t has clearance under the monitor
of % feet.
The sale includes machine shop,
boiler shop, eight-car garage and stor-
age building. There is high pressure
power plant installed on the premises.
The property was held at $150,00o, and
an amount close to this figure was real
lied, it is reported.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
DR.. C. A. Holder Disposes
of Fine Greenwich Estate

Ladd & Nichols sold for DR.. C. A.
Holder his estate on Field Point Road,
Greenwich, Conn, consisting of large
residence, garage and cottage, about
eight and half acres, one of the show
places in the vicinity. 30 G. w. Peters,
of this city. The same brokers rented
for Robert A. Shaw his house in the
North Country colony, Glen Cove, L. l.,
to II. H. Will; for John Stahl his
country house at Old Westbury, L. l.:
for Richard E. Forest his house on
Hilltop Place, Rye; for G.F Gregg his
house on Evergreen Avenue to William
j. Curtis, and for Mr.. Wolf his house
on Wainwright Street, Rye, to DIR. F..
Wilson, of New York
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Investors Have Chance
Wednesday to Buy Flats

East Side investment and income
properties and many vacant plots in
others ready for immediate improve
ment will be auctioned Wednesday by
Bryan l.. Kennedy. TIe properties
listed are 435 East Ninth Street. TAO
East Ninth Street, ais East Tenth
Street, 3S4 and 386 East Eighth Street.
64A East Thirteenth Street, 2g9 East
Seventh Street, 2374 Amsterdam Ave-
nue.. 24S Water Street, twenty-five lots
on Kingsbridge Avenue. west Of 230th
Street and Bailey avenue; 124 acres at
Lake Hopatcong, N. j.; 592 North
Broadway North Yankers. and q plot,
9sxlo0, on the north aids of 154th
Street, iid feet east Of Macumbs Road.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

ished, inside and ont. with basement
and foundation, heating and pIumbinc
equipment ard electrical wiring. 10 be
$4,000, the figure being based on the
latest estimates on coat Of materials
and labor in and around New York
City.
This exposition has proved corelu-
sively that the only way to get thing
done is to do it yorrseif--that the only
way to beat the landlords game il to
spoil his game. and its success is ex-
pected to be an inspiration 70 other
cities to encourage home building hy
the same method.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Large Estate Near Murray Hill
Bought by CLAYTON Plat

The Payson Mel. Company and Eu-
gene Jobs, H. F. Beck Company, sold
the pronerty. consisting OF. fifty acres
with modern Colonial dwelling, stable
and various outbuildings. on Stony
Hill Road, near Murray Hill, N. J.
Mr. Merrill also sold for C. Herbert
Belts to Carl w. Lester, the present
tenant, his large English dwelling, with
combination stable and garage and
three acres, at Hutton and Gregory
avenues, Hutton Park, West Orange,
NJ r
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

R. Franklin Hull sold for Fowler &
sellars a house on South Broadway,
near Putnam Place, White Plains, to
Charles Leeney, and rented for Mrs.
0dell Avenue. to Lester B. knight.
Thomas S. Burke sold for Charles
Steele the dwelling 80 Elinor Place,
Yonkers, to Walter Terry
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

The Florentine Building, at the
flrst Street, one Of the first iron front
nulldings erected in this part of the
city and for a number Of years the
temporary headquarters of the Essex
Market police court, is to be altered
mto Russian and Turkish baths. Zim-
herman q Cohen have arranged for a
#lwenty -one-year lease of the property
hrough Mark Rafalsky & Co. and H..
joachim. They will pay $500,00O in
ssht Tor the use of the property to the
slofentine Realty Company, which
owns the corner.
The interior of the structure is to be
sneirely rebuilt. In the basement a
swimming pool eighty feet long is to
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

Avenue to illustrated New Company.
and the third foor at $50 Sixth Avenue
/. to Sam Feldnnan.
Louis Schrag lsased the store 1ss
West Twenty-second STREET to the
American Silk Yarn Companf, and the
store 81 West Twenty-ffth Street to M.
Rachow.
Dnrcss Company leased the third
and fourth lofts 68e-6s1 Hudson Street
to the Gccrgette Hat Company.
!. Arthur Fischer leased the north
store at 656 Sixth Avenue. northeast
corner Of Thirty-eighth Street, to Mar
tine. Wholesale beads,
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

The M. & L. Improvement Corpora
tion leased at 411-413 Fifth Avenue,
northeast corner Thirty seventh Street,
the corner store and basement to Max
Fertig, linens and laces, cf East Thir-
ty-fourth Street, for twenty-one years
and renewals; also leased in the same
building the second floor, containing
10000 square feet, to Bonwit Teller &
Co., who will connect it with their
rr sent space at Fifth Avenue and
Z ThirtY-third Street
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Builder Buys Long Island
City Plot for improvement,

Joseph P. Day. with Henry NJ. Vietz,
sold to j. P. Clonin, builder the plot
of lots on the east side Of Fifth Ave-
nue., 1868 feet south of Grand Ave-
nue.. Long Island City, having front
age of 100 feet and depth Of 100
feet. Mr.. Clonin intends to improve
twelve lots on the east side of Fourth
Avenue, 100 feet north of Jamaica
Avenue, which he has since resold at
profit.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Mrs. W. e. Strong Gets Big
Suite in Fifth Ave. Flat

Douglas L. Gilman & Co. leased an
apartment of sixteen rooms and FIVE
baths in the recently completed fat
at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave-
nue. and Seventy second to Mrs. Will
liam Everard Strong, wife of the late
w. 2. Strong, of Strong, Sturgis & Co.,
bankers. The rent averages about
$50 600
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Church Sells Garage

The Brighton Heights Reformed
Church of New Brighton, s. L.. resold,
through Moffstt & Schwah, the garage
and plot. 33x1o0. recently purchased, to
Carl r. Grieshaber. The same brokers
sold for Corneiia Hurline the dwelling
Ia5 Corson Avenue. New Brighten, S.
l., to Ernesto Siani.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
City Should Heat Flats
Instead of Monkey Houses
DIR. Copeland Says Children of
Poor Ought to Have Same
Cors;dorof;or os MIN ais

The Real Estate Club of the West
Side Y M. G. A. held it's annual din
ner at the Hotel Wellington last week
W. H. Wyckoff, of Pease & Gilman
was toastmaster.
The chief speaker was Royal S. Cope
land, Health Commissioner.
Many families with infants lived ir
cold water flats last winter, DR.. Cope
land said. without heat, and as the city
spends thousands of dollars to keep
the monkeys in the parks warm in the
winter, he declared. he could not un-
derstand why the city could not do the
same thing for these infants.
Joseph L. Buttenweiser, Clarence T.
Coley, president of the Building Man
ayers Association, and Lee T. Smith
also smoke
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Banker Buys at Great Neck

Os1AAHASH Nea . CT SSA S0I tFOs-EA
Harvey Craw sold the Arthur Gil
mora residence on Cedar Drive. Great
Neck, L. l., to Don C. McCord. vice
president of the Commercial Security
Company The property was held at
$4,000. The same broker leased the
Charles Frank estate in the north
country colony of Glen Cove.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Stores and Loft Space Leased

Henry Shapiro & Co. leased the first
loft at 218-222 West Thirty-fourth
street to the Tulip Dress Company and
the top loft to J. Cohen and /. Daschew
A. A. Hageman leased the third floor
at 6s4 Sixth Avenue to Simon Vein
berg. Inc: the fouth food 686 Sixth
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Montclair Corner Home Sold

John 3. Knox jr, sold his residence
at Plymouth Street and Orange Road.
Montclair, N. j. to Harry w. Curtiss.
1t contains eleven rooms and two
baths with garage in the rear and
was held at $4,000 F. NJ. Crawley &
Bros, were the brokers.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
New Madison Ave. Offices
For lanes R. Snexers e

James B. Speyers & 60, Inc. sag
large quarters In the new. Canadian
Pacific Building, at Madison Avenue
and Forty-third Street, where it is now
located. The corporation has been
completely reorganized, the officers be-
ing James B. Speyers, president; Sidney
C. Moss, secretary, and s. M. Rutledge,
treasurer
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Now i'm Own Building

The real estate firm of E.. Stanton
Riker is now located in it's own build
ing, at IL East Tenth Street Mr.. Riker
until lately was with Pepe & Hros.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

The Simpson Merritt Company sold
for J. V. D. Card of this city his
hfteen-room house facing South Will
low Street, Montclair, N. j., to Mrs.
Jessie A. Pantaenui for $4,000.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

The Simpson Merritt Company sold
for Thomas Curtis to James Tutino,
Of Brooklyn, Colonial residence fac
ing Watching Avenue, in the Marlboro
Park section of Montclair, N. j., for
$4,000.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-04-29
fApril 29-May 7-14-1921.
CITATION FOR HEARING ON PETi.
TON TO sell, MORTGAGE OR

Blue Earth. In Probate Court:
In The Matter of the Estate of George
G. Meyer. also known as George Meyer
Deceased.
The State of Minnesota to all persons
interested in the sale of certain lands
belonging to said estate, The petition
OF Helen "A. Meyer as representative of
the above named estate, being duly filed
in this court, representing that it is
necessary and for the best interests of
said estate and of adj interested there
in that certain lands of said estate des-
cribed therein be sold and praying that
a license be to Helen A. Meyer granted
to sell the same:
Now Therefore. you and each Of you,
are hereby cited and required to show
cause IL, any you have before this court,
at the Probate Court Rooms in the Court
House, In Mankato, County of Blue
Earth. State of Minnesota, on the 21st
day of May, 1921, at ten o'clock a. M,
why the prayer of said petition should
not be granted.
Witness the Judge of said Court, and
the seal of said court, this 22nd day OF
April. 1921.
court seaD HARRY A. JOHNSON,
Judge of Probate Court.
Thomas Hughes
Attorney for Petitioner.