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The New York herald., 1921-05-14
GIVE GIRL CHANCE,
MRS. LOFTS MOTTO
New Deputy Police Commits
siOner Will Protect Names
Of Those Who Err.

When Mrs. George W. Loft. the new
dollar year Fifth Deputy Police
Commissioner, arrives at her Office Mon
day morning to begin her duties at the
Nomen's Precinct 434 West Thirty
gcventh street, she will have two definite
ideas for her programme. They are to
give the girl another chance and to keep
the name OF an innocent girl off the
police records.
The Honorary Deputy. who was ap-
pointed to succeed Mrs. Ellen OGrady,
who resigned in December. spent most
OF yesterday at Baldwin, L. l., where
she lives She attended three meetings
in the afternoon and arranged to turn
over TO other Baldwinites some of the
charity and welfare work she has been
doing. Later she came TO New York
and went direct to her husbands office
In Broome street Mrs. Loft is a direc-
tor of the candy corporation Of which
her husband is head. She mas an office
there and supervises and plans welfare
work for the factory employees.
The Fifth Deputy is the type OF
woman who appeals to the person II
trouble. She has sympathy without an
direct and clear. and her smile Is pleas
ant, gracious and womanly. She is OF
more than average height, straight and
graceful, and dresses in excellent taste.
First OF all | want to see that the
girl who has made a mistake gets
another chance said the Fifth Deputy.
II want the girl to understand that
we are her friends she emphasized in
a thoroughly wona My and understand
ing way. She Is direct and already has
wide comprehension of the problems
that will be put up to her daily In her
new position. "Of course we want
to keep her from repeating her first
mistake and we also want to keep her
name from the police records. We shall
have record. but 1t will be a private
one.
I'm the past wayward and incor-
rigible girls have been held at de-
tention homes where often they have
been thrown in with criminals. The
precinct will prevent this happening.
The girls will be protected here
All summer Mrs. Loft will commute
with her husband. She will be at her
desk at cock in the morning and
will not leave until IN the afternoon,
She will continue TO direct the welfare
work In her husbands factory. bui
she has competent assistants in whose
hands she can leave the details OF her
plans.
Il would not have accepted the office
If / had not been assured that the
Police Department had no other woman
in mind who would be paid n salary
Mrs. Loft said Mrs. O'Grady received
$500 year. while ] don't need the
salary / would not deprive another
woman of it," she added. And | ac-
cepted the office on the condition that
was to receive no remuneration"
Mrs. Mary II. Hamilton. director OF
the new Womens Precinct. viii con-
tinue in that capacity and Will CO.
operate with Mrs. Loft. Mrs. Hamil-
ton is having an office fitted up for
her chief. This probably viii be on
the main floor.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
CANCELLED CHECKS DEMANDED

Lawrence Ferris and John y. Magov-
ern, partners of the late Murray Whit
ing Ferris In the latter's corset making
concern at IS East Twenty-first street,
were ordered yesterday by Surrogate
Cohalan TO show cause why they
should not surrender box containing
= number of the deceased's cancelled
checks TO Philip J. Britt. administrator.
lie contends the checks will show large
payments to Mr. Ferris's widow. and
that tho others Of the firm are with
holding them IN order TO use them
against her in contest OF Mr.. Fer
riss will
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
ROBBED SEVEN WOMEN
IN THEATRE, is CHARGE
DctectiUc Says Boy Tried to
Buy His Freedom.

Harry Goldstein. is years old. who
gave his address as III Essex street.
was arrested last night in the lobby OF
Gabel's Theatre In the Bowery. near
Stanton street. Detective James Stanley
OF the pickpocket Squad said that he
saw the boy open the handbags OF seven
women.
At Police Headquarters the boy was
finger printed and then sent to tho Chill
dren's Society TO he arralgned Monday
in Childrcn's Court. Detective Stanley
said that the hoy offered him n SIS ring
and sS0O for his freedom.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
CULVERS CLOSE DEAL
ON EAST 8IST STREET
Other Transactions Closed in
Apartment Field.

The Joint Ownership Construction
Company, Inc. Frederic Culver presi-
dent, has purchased the nine story
apartment house. 56.3x1lz.4. at 155 to 169
East Eighty-first street. between Lex
ington and Third avenues, from Foot
& Martin, who acquired II a few days
ago from II. B. James through Pease
4 Gilman. The buyers specialize In
cooperative development OF apartment
houses on an economic basis.
Nehring Brothers resold for the
Benenson Realty Company 70 The Re-
velon Realty Company the Alpha
six story thlrty-seyen family apartment
house. with seven stores, on plot lo0xiJ0,
at the northwest corner OF 125th street
and st. Nicholas avenue. Ii rents for
$4,000, and was held at SITS. 600 Nehring
Brothers have been appointed agents.
The sellers recently acquired the prop
erty from Clara Berret of Far Rock
away
Davis & Shore and A. NJ. Robinson
sold for A. Frankenstein 657 and $50
Lenox avenue. six story apartment
with eight stores. having a rental of
$4,000 and held at 500, 900. This is the
first sale in many years The puT-
chaser was represented by Davis &
Davis. attorneys, and the seller by J.
Henry Brill.
Joseph Flaherty sold 10 Fannie Szth-
mary the four story tenement at IA
East Eighty-second street. 2ssxi0o
william J. Fleming of Jules Nehring,
Inc. sold for Samuel Raisler a five
story apartment house 6oxl0o. at 625
West 1Ssth street. having accommoda-
tions for twenty families. and showing
rental of about $4,000. Il was held
at sS5.0O0.
In the Dwelling Market.
Harry Sugarman sold for Gussie
Gansbursh l54 West 133d street, near
Seventh avenue. 16.6xl00. q three story
residence. to Charles Wynne and -.
Lowe
Wm 4. White & Sons sold for
2ailip Goldberg to George u. Rodels
lhe three story dwelling. 20x100. at 332
west Forty-sixth street. Tho buyer
will alter iIto a four story American
basement dwelling for occupancy.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
NEW COMMISSION ENTERED.
becomes Party I'm Several Gas
Cases Pending.

orders were signed in the United
States District Court yesterday by
Judge Julius NJ. Mayer substituting
William a. Prendergast and his four
associates as the new State Public Ser
Vice Commission as parties in tho sew
cral gas cases now in litigation for AL
fred NJ. Barrett, former Public Service
Commissioner.
The companies involved II these or
ders are the Newtown. the Brooklyn
Union, the Woodhavcu. the Richmond
fiill, Jamaica. 'Flatbush New York
Mutual. New Amsterdam. East River
Gas companies and the Standard Gas
and Light Company OF New York.
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BIZ the Associated Press.

HoNoLULU, May 13.--Mrs. Paul Vim
cent Southard. held here in connection
with the death Of her fourth husband,
Edward F. Meyer, who died in a hospi-
tai at Pocatello, Idaho. August 20. = in
communicate. She expresses willing
ness to return to the mainland without
extradition. Territorial officers said ar
rangements for her early extradition
were being made here.
Mrs. Southard is the wife Of navy
chief petty officer. She also Is known
by the name of Mrs. Lydia Meyer. The
Southlands arrived in Honolulu from
San Francisco January IL. They were
married in Los Angeles last November.
Mrs. William Stetzer of Honolulu. who
said she knew Mrs. Southard In San
Francisco. said she knew her as good,
sweet woman"
Southard in statement given TO
newspaper men denied the assertion at
tributed to him, by the police that Mrs.
Southard had sought to have him take
out SIC, 900 worth Of life insurance. He
said he did not carry any life insurance
and that his wife never had asked him
to take out any.
MY wife denies all the charges
against her. he said. "She has al
ways been good, true wife TO me, and
never had any reason to doubt her In
any way. I have absolute confidence in
her innocence. She will be proven inno-
cent"
Southard declared Mrs. Southard had
rot enjoyed good health since coming
to Hawaii. and that both he and she
were anxious to return to idaho. Mrs.
Southard. he declared. will make no
fight against possible eStradition to
Twin Falls. Idaho. The navy man said
his wife was almost prostrated as the
result OF the shock of her arrest, which
followed an illness.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
LIGHT AHEAD ron FARMER.

George II. Roberts. vice-prcsident Of
the National City Bank. said yesterday
in an address at the close Of the con-
terence OF the American Railway De-
velopment Association ut tho Hotel
Pennsylvahia that he feared high prices
more than excessively low returns for
farm products. He had great faith in
the future OF agriculture and predict
cd that the upward trend IN farm prices
y ould come as soon as world conditions
return TO normal
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
MrNIsfEn.s cAsE pRorrEp.

The Rev Andrew r. Wilson. So years
old. retired Presbyterian clorgyma
or Hollis, Il. r, who was arrested re-
Gently on a charge OF impalring the
morals OF two nine-year-old girls. had
his case dismissed yesterday by Magis-
trate Miller in Jamaica, when the
attorney announced that he
was now in = Presbyterian institution
In New Jersey.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
NEWPORT RENTALS.

DeBIois e. Eldridge rented the follow
Ing cottages at Newport. r. +, for ths
season For Mrs e. q. Post. stone.
leigh" on Narragansett avenue, e Mrs.
Charles H.. Baldwin OF this city, Tor
the Pinard estate their cottage on
Annandale road TO Mr.. and Mrs James
Lenox Banks, Jr., also OF this city.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
BANK PLANS NEW HOME.

Plans were filed yesterday for the
new twenty-three story home for the
Bank OF America al A and 46 Wall
street and a and 45 Pine street. with an
l. through to 43 and 50 William street
The structure will cover plot a.3x
1854. with frontage of 10 feet on Wall
street. T'rowbridge & Livingston, the
architects, estimate the cost at s.. 500, ,oo0.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
REALTY JOTTINGs.

Plans have been filed by c. p. II. Gilt
bert. architect, for the alterations ana
additions to the United States Savings
Bank southwest corner OF Madison ave-
nue. and Fifty-eighrh street.
Brown. wheelock Company, Inc nego-
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
BROOKLYN REALTY
IN S3,5OO,OOO DEAL
100 Houses Exchanged for
Giant Factory-Both Prop
critics in Flatbush Area.

In 4 deal involving s3,500.o00 the
Pen Brook Realty Company, in which a
relative or Secretary or the Treasury
Andrew Mellon is interested. has pur-
chased the giant Flatbush Industrial
Corporation factory. at Fourteenth ave-
nue. between Thirty-sixth and Thirty
seventh streets. Brooklyn. built and
partly owned by +. Ley & Co. In part
payment the Pen-Brook company gave
100 soml-detached one family houses.
which We're recently built for them by
the Mellon-Stuart Company. in the Hyde
Park section OF Flatbush. at Utica ave-
nue. and Avenue ID.
The factory Is six stories high and
covers plot f00x400 feet, and contains
$500 square feet on each floor. It Is
already so Der cent rented ard has
rental income of s275.000 a year. 1t
was built at a cost of $1,O00.ooo, ana
among the tenants are the Butterick
Publishing Company, the Power Ac-
counting Machine Company, National
Seal Company, Tauber. Upton Company.
Industrial Lithograph Company, M.
Kirchberger Company. Inc. the Pohs
Manufacturing Company and the Amer
lean Egg Carton Company. The plant
is surrounded BY a thicSly populated
residential section and has subway
and freight station at Its door.
The Hyde Park houses are OF frame
and stucco, with six rooms and oath'
with garages.
The brokers were Pease & Gilman,
Walter j. Smith. J. p. Hamblen. Philip
J. Rose and S. Osgood Pell & Co. the
legal end OF the deal was managed o.
Alexander & Green. representing Fred L.
Ley & Co. Jesse Watson, representing
the Flatbush Industrial Corporation. and
Conklin dontross. representing the Pen
Brook Company and the Mel.on-Stuart
Company
To Enlarge Broad street bldg.
Plans have been filed for Sn. efght
story addition to the All American
Cables. Inc, Building. on the east eide
of Broad street, between Stone and South
William streets. Warren & Wetlnorc,
architects estimate the cost ST $500. .n0e
S25O,OOO Theatre for Harlem.
Plans have been filed for one and
two story motion picture theatre. TALK
1856, at the northeast corner of Lenox
avenue and llzd street, for the J. J.
Finnerty Construction Company. George
McCabe, architect, estimates the cost at
S25000o.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
BRONX SCENE OF TWO.
Big SALES TO-DAY.
Kennedy to Offer Fine Pelham
Bay Tract; Day Will Sell
Throgs Neck Estate.

One Of the biggest and most signih-
cant sales OF vacant Bronx lots Of the
year will be held to-day when Bryan l..
Kennedy, auctioneer. viii offer 600
building sites adjoining the subway ter
minal at Pelham Bay Park. The prop
erty IS principally made up of rich fields
and partly wooded land and resembles
portions of Well developed estates which
abound in the neighborhood. The ex-
tension OF rapid transit to this largest
of all the city's Fairgrounds brings the
subway trains right up TO the front door
of the lots that are to be sold.
Investors and builders are interested
in the Gale because of the strong prob
ability that bargain prices will prevail
Builders are particularly interested for
this reason because with comparatively
low prices prevailing supplemented by
the tax exemption offered by the city
the opportunity TO erect dwellings and
apartments even in the face of the high
cost of building materials is eco
nomically enhanced.
All the natural advantages needed to
develop this area into a high class resi-
Dental section such as the park with its
recrestional facilities, both on land and
water. have been ~ hand for several
years. All the property needed was
been running up TO the Pelham Bay
terminal for several months now and the
owners of the land. who have held IL in
tact for many years, believe that the
logical moment has arrived for placing
the lots at the disposal OF builders and
, investors The sale will be held on the
premises to-day at noon.
Day TO Sell Bruce Brown Estate.
Another interesting sale OF Bronx lots
Will be held in the Long Island Sound
I and Throgs Neck section. Here Joseph
] p. Day will sell on tze premises at
| East fremont ana Philip avenues at
! 80 o'clock noon 976 lots and seventeen
| new two story, five room frame houses.
/ Tho lots compose the George Bruce
( Brown estate. They front on East Tre-
! mont, Edison, Logan, Hollywood and
! Lafayette avenues, the Shore Drive and
/ other adjacent thoroughfares, as well
as on Pelham Bay and Long Island
I Sound. The houses are situated on
/ Nigel place and Simpson and Logan
avenues, adjacent to the Brown estate
| The houses have never been occupied,
and are to be sold with immediate oc-
! cupancy.
The Brown estate sale is the first
| offering of Throgs Neck property
| since the Coster estate auction held by
| Mr.. Day last year. Tho Coster sale
drove a wedge into this area hitherto
restricted to old estates, and since then
the homebuilder has been busy in the
! neighborhood. The Brown lots are 10
be sold on easy terms. eighty per cent.
OF the purchase price being allowed to
remain on mortgage.
Mr.. Days representative will also sell
to-day the Namakating Inn with l.Ie'
acres of woodland on Masten Lake,
Wurtsboro, N Y. The sale will be held
on the steps OF the county courthouse
In Monticello, n. Y.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
LABon PROBLEMS DISCUSSED.

Discussion of labor problems was
I cid secretly yesterday by the National
Industrial Council al the Hotel Penn
sylvania. John Kirby, Jr.. of Dayton.
president. and j. Philip Bird. secre-
tary, OF this city, refused TO make pub
lilo anything that transpired.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
REAL ESTATE-OUT OF CITY.
Long Isfand-Sale or Rent.
FOR DISCRIMINATING PEOPLE.

We would like 20 hear from those who
looking for something out OF the ordinary
IN summer. week end or oil the year round
homes. We offer large plots and acreage
sites in high class development South
Shore with all advantages and will build
any size house desired from unique designs
on very easy terms. Write, call phone
Dept. o, o43 west 34th Street. Longacre $3.50.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
ON STATEN ISLAND.

The Brighton Heights Reformed
Church OF New Brighton. Staten Island,
resoid through Moffatt g. Schwao TO
Carl +. Grieshaber plot, 12oxl4o, on
Fort place and Belmont place.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
VIII Sell Havemeyer Estate.

Arthur c. Sheridan VIII sell at auction
this afternoon at 1:30 on the premises
the II. O. Havemeyer estate In Green
wich. Conn, known as "Merribrooke
Farm" consisting OF $50 acres on stan
wick road. surrounded by many country
estates OF well known New workers.
AZ o'clock Mr.. Sheridan will go ia
paIham and auction seven new Colo
nial dwellings, at Pelhamdale and Colo
nial avenues.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
LONG ISLAND BARGAIN.

At West Sayvilie. within committing dts
tance, between Merrick Road and the Bay.
Cheapest place on Long Island. Nine room
house. Hot water heat, modern bathroom.
Fine condition. Immediate possession. About
one acre OF ground. Fruit trees. ahrubberies.
etc. Price s. 900. Mortgage 5000. Phone
2os Sayville Saturday or Sunday, or $3.50
Chelsea thereafter
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
IDAHO TO EXTRADITE
ALLEGED POIsONER
Prosecutor Says He Has Evi-
dence Against Mrs. South
ard, Held in Honolulu.
FIVE BODIES EXHUMED
Woman, Now Wed to Navy
Man, Denies Charges Of Kill
inc Other Husbands.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 13.-V. Fl. ornls-
by. Deputy Sheriff of Twin Falls county.
Idaho. arrived here to-day to await
boat for Honolulu. where he will seek
the extradtion OF Mrs. Paul Vincent
Southard
Frank l.. Stephan, Prosecuting At
torney of Twin Falls county, has IN
vestigated the deaths OF three other
husbands OF Mrs. Southard. brother
jn-law and child of one o. the men
she married. All of the husbands were
insured in favor of Mrs. Southa-d. the
prosecutor said.
Ormsty said he would be accompanied
to Honolulu by his wife. who Is to get
extradition papers at Boise. She is ma
tron Of the County Jail at Twin Falls
The bodies of the husbands-Robert
G. Dooley, William G. McHaffie, Harlan
c. Lewis and Edward F. Meyer-and
Edward Dooley, brother of her first hus-
band. have been exhumed and Stephan
said he had evidence that poison caused
their deaths. The poison that the prose-
cutor said was found in the bodies OF
the men was the same in each case.
The charge against Mrs. Southard was
filed after State chemists of Idaho and
Utah had made examinations Mrs.
Southard, the prosecutor said, failed to
collect insurance on two of her hus-
bands lives. She is said to have col
lected at least $4,000 In insurance.
Her marriages took place In Idaho and
Colorado and the deaths occurred in
Montana and Idaho. After she was ar
rested In Honolulu she said she would
not fight extradition TO the United
States.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
To Enlarge Broad street bldg.
sa5O.OoO Theatre for Harlem.
NATANSON FINDS BUYER
FOR MIDTOWN BUILDING

Max y. Natanson sold to q client of
Richard II. Scobie the eleven story of
flee and loft building at Ills West
Thirty-second street, 50x10o. near Fifth
avenue. The property brings an annual
rental of $50, 900 and was held at $500
600. Mr. Natanson purchased the prop
erty year ago from the estate OF Alex
ander Deutsch. 1t is separated by the
wing of the Waldorf building from the
Hotel Aberdeen. which Markell & Berger
sold earlier this week to the Dasc
Realty Company in exchange for the
Riviera apartments on Riverside Drive
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
Two Bronx FLATS Planned.

Plans for multifamily houses in The
Bronx were filed yesterday as follows
170th street. southwest corner Grand
Concourse. five story apartment. 1O2x
125: j. & +. Court Company owners :
Jacob Fish, 101 West 1i2th street. presi-
dent Irving Margon. architect 100000.
Morris avenue. west side, III feet
north of Kingsbridge road. five story
apartment. 1OOxSS. S. & L. Building
Corporation. owners Sam Minskoff. 1912
Clinton avenue, president; Irving Mar
gon architect sl50000.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
Heights Library Building Sold.

l. Lincoln Seide Company, sold for the
New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox
and Tilden foundations the library build
ing at 922-924 st. Nicholas avenue
through to Edgecombe avenue, on plot
41.1hx91.11x3s.7ss ssxS0.s. to a client who
contemplates extensive alterations. The
premises are now occupied as an an
mex to Public School No. 46.
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westchester-saIe or Rent.
RYE-NEAR The WATER

OPPORTUNITY III HlN bh hteI.
owner going away. offers exceptional chance
for some one 20 rent hls handsome HOUSE.
with u spacious rooms, baths, all improve
rnents. Furnished for the summer, or unfur-
wi.hed nv the year. great bargain for ir1me-
diafe purchaser. Grounds about one acre.
wonderful shrubbsry. shade and fruit: con-
venient 10 bathing. boating, fishing, etc.
Immediate inspection from
ctsw,rt 4 Schenek- 81 +. 42d ST
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RESORTS.

Y = = = 2 =
Long Island.
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GREAT HOUSE BARGAIN

Owner 80 Ices beautiful house, prick
versnda steam heat. electricity. fine ia
lures parouetry tile bath. artistic deeora-
tions Garage space. Near subway and ele-
waited. 81 200 cesh SO monthly. Tax sS'
emption saver 81 ,425.
PHONE WILDWOOD 1888
The New York herald., 1921-05-14
Stewart c. Schenck, 81 E. AID St.
TEL. MURRAY HILL 2oo2 or RYE 800.
FOR SALE, SOUTH YONKERS

New rtucco house. rooms, baths; steam
heat much ouf ~ the ordinary; 60 BaYfeN
av near Valentine lane. New semi-bunsalow.
G rooms. all improvements 4tI Van 1ort-
lendt park av near Radford st. 54f-5f8-
VAS .547 Van Cortiandt Park av., room brick
houses: fireproof garages. All open Tor W
specfton daily. ALBERT IOCkWogn'
The New York herald., 1921-05-14

CHAUNCEy n. GRTFFEN q CO..
wertchester's Leading Realty Expert
is East l1st ~. Murray Hhl sszs.
The New York herald., 1921-05-14

NORTH SHORE REAL ESTATE.
IECLUSE, WASHBURN co,
os r,.t 4otb ST Vanderbilt 1886.
Houses Along the Great South Bay:
JEREMIAH ROBBINS. Babylon. l.. !. lei. m.
phOns gsat hers Real E,,sto vss l1for%HSon. ScL
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-10-27

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