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The Washington herald., 1921-11-17

guished guest hurried 70 . waiting
automobile. ana In conpany with his
stan was whisksd across town t.
Howard University. where similas
ceremonies were held, during which
he was presented with an honorary
degree OF doctor of laws.
The presentation OF the degree
was made BY J. Stanley Durkss.
president Of the university, while
addrssues OF communication wefs
made ~ Stanton J. Peelle. president
Of the board of trustees. the Rev
Francis J. Grimke and Claude w.
Blackman. =,
Work Of Celored Tresps.
In response, Marshal Foch. speak
Ing in his native tongue, made the
following address:
Il md 1t very easy to express
my sentiment Of gratitude for the
cordial reception accorded me. when
l recollect the commendabl and
indispensable service rendered by
the colored troops upon the soil OF
France. know well that Howard
University contributed largely In
the war. l know also that through
the love and energy of this great
institution OF learning as manifest.
ed Tor France the soldiers, actual
ed by these impulses, gleFiously
fought in France.
although our green sod now GOV.
ers the bones Of many of your be-
loved comrades, France shall not
forget the magnificent efforts of
Howard University; and the costly
sacrince made by the colored SOL
diers, the shedding of their blood
upon the altar of freedom, shall
mark an important epoch in the
history OF human actions. can
assure you that the French people
are lavishing both love and care
upon the tombs of American SOL
diers whose bodies are now In
France"
The Washington herald., 1921-11-17

Lady Aston. England's FIRST wo-
man member Of Parliament 10 presi-
dent Of woman's football team
The Washington herald., 1921-11-17

With the exception OF" ROYAL
efflgies there are only four statues
OF women erected IN London.
The Washington herald., 1921-11-17
FOCH RECEIVES
GOLDEN SWORD,
HONOR DEGREES
Jesuit Leader Terms the
Marshal Hero of
The World"

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New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
$40, ,485, 900 Loaned on
Realty and for. Building
S2,75O,O0O Advanced on Two
New Structures in New Gar
rner,f Makers, Secfinn

William A. White & Sons have placed
$1O,4S5, 900 on mortgage loans in the
last five months. Two of these loans
cover the Garment Center Realty Com
pany buildings on Seventh Avenue, be-
tween Thirty sixth and Thirty eighth
streets, and are for $2,750000, in the
nature CT underlying mortgages to
which the bond issue of S3,50O.o00, re-
Gently recorded on these properties, IS
subordinate.
Among the largest of the other loans
placed are 100000, on 1720-24 Broad
way northeast corner of Fifty-hfth
Street; $162 900, for Fred Stone, on II
Madison Avenue; s35o,000, on i34-42
West Thirty seventh Street; $229,0
on 237 Fifth Avenue; $4,000. for the
Hanover Lunch Company, on 430-34
Seventh Avenue; $225,ooo, on the
northeast corner of Broadway and
102d Street; $4,000, on 1S9-205 Park
Row through 21a-4 Roosevelt Street
/ s275,o00, on 1914 East Forty sixth
| Street; S150,o00, on 879 West 1S0th
Street; Sl35,000, on 6 and East Thir-
| ty-seventh Street; 100000, on north.
/ west corner of Southern Boulevard and
163d Street, Bronx; s145,0o0, on 20s-21C
! West Fifty sixth Street; $4,000, or
/ IT63-71 Amsterdam Avenue, and $500
| on the reinforced concrete factory
! building to be erected at the corner Of
Evergreen Avenue and Cook Street
Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
$2,5OO,OOO Rental
For Building i'm
West 43d Street
Eight Story Structure Taken
Over by St. Regis Restau-
rant To Be Used as a
Cornmissary for Stores

Pease & Gilman leased 192-136 West
Fortythird Street, an eight-story and
basement building, 626x1Oo, for the
Acker, Merrall & Condit Company TO
the ST. Regis Restaurant. This build
ing will be used and occupied as a COM
missary for all the St. Regis stores
1t adjoins the Henry Miller and George
M. Cohan theaters and is opposite the
Claridge Hotel
The lease is for forty-two years at
ansaggregate rental of $2,500,000. The
same brokers leased offices at IL Stone
Street to H. ]. Broderick, and at 11b
Broadway to Arthur Stevens & Co.
Spear & Co. rented the fifth floor at
500 East 1S3d Street to the Shirt Craft
Company, Inc. the eighth floor at 81.
% West Thirty-eighth Street to the
Bud Hat Company, Inc; the store az
1892 West Twenty-fourth Street to
Peck & Wisnom, Inc; the second and
third floors at III East Ninth Street to
Cohen G. Dulkin, the fifth floor at SO
East Eleventh Street to Schorr & Gold
stein, the third floor at 35 East Twelfth,
Street to Bernofsky & Kempner, mems
clothing; the fifth floor at l5S and 100
Greene Street to Harry A Wallmau
women's hats; the third floor at 1877
l31 Mercer Street to Thorner Brothers.
paper boxes; with He'll & Stern. the
store and basement at SAT Broadway
to the Regent Exporting Company. ar
an aggregate rental of $4,000; the
four three-story buildings at 7 to 13
West Twenty-frst Street, at an aggre-
gate rental of 100000, the lessee pro-
posing to make extensive alterations; !;
space in the ST. Denis Offices, at Broad
way and Eleventh Street. to Special
Values Company, publishers; Abraham
Ort, Wide Awake Buyers, Inc: The
Associates, Adolph Bleiberg, Brander
Il Horowitz, Benjamin Robinson, the
Enamel Trading Company, Nathan Hell
fand and Addington Doolittle, and the
store at % West Forty Street
to the Empire Manufacturing Company
Albert B. Ashforth, Inc, leased Of
fees at 22o Broadway to the American
Scotsman, Inc; at 105 West Fortieth
Street to the International Pencil Com.
pany, and at la Liberty Street tc
James S. Humbert and the Industrial
Engineering Corporation.
Bennett Z. Siegelstein leased ths
corner store at 146 Sixth Avenue fol
twelve years and four months, at a
rental to the excess of 100000, for q
French lunch room and restaurant.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

that credit must be given for the glory
of New York as we now know it.
"ln 1900 the retail center was still
from Fourteenth to Twenty third
Street, with Twentyfourth Street just
beginning to come into its short-lived
glory, and Fifth Avenue above Thirty
fourth Street was still the most fash
ionable residence avenue. Forty sec
ond Street was as yet unthought of as
a business center, Neither the Penn
sylvania nor the New York Central
Railroad had begun it's stupendous
improvements Construction of the
first subway had just commenced, to be
finished late in 1904. Fourth Avenue
was still an old-fashioned street of
hotels, churches, small stores and
houses. There were no Singer, Metro
politan or Woolworth towers-no Equit-
able Building or Public Library. Madi-
son Square was still residential cen
ter; the old Fifth Avenue and Alber-
marie hotels and the Hoffman House
still dispensed hospitality on it's west
side, and DR.. Parkhurst's old church
occupied the site of the Metropolitan
Tower.
Big Building Came Late
"The Plaza, St. Regis, Gotham, Ritz
Carlton, Biltmore, Commodore and
Pennsylvania hotels are all products of
this century, as is also almost the en-
tire business development north of
Twenty-third Street, and most of the
larger Office buildings downtown, such
as the Trinity, City Investing Bankers
Trust, United States Express, Western
Union, Adams Express, Hudson Tern1i-
nal, Municipal, Woolworth and Equita-
Bile.
"Steam locomotives were still draw
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

commercial structures. Of these the
finest was the building completed by
Cyrus w, Field at / Broadway, which
whap first built was of eight stories,
later increased to twelve, and is now
being remodeled for the international
Marine The Produce Exchange was
built about 1882 and its tower was
then the highest in the city. In 1884
the first steel structure, small eight
story building, called the Tower
Building, was erected at So Broad
ment that was to transform the sky
line of New York. Beginning slowly,
the new method of building produced
in succession number of twelve
story buildings, then some of sixteen
stories, and finally in its closing years
the twenty-three story Tract Society
Building at 150 Nassau Street crowned
the drst century's achievement. The
erection of the Flatiron Building at
Twenty-third Street in the late nine
ties caused more comment and interest
then than does the erection of the new
Gotham Bank Building at Fifty ninth
Street to-day.
at was in this period also that
apartment houses began to make
their appearance as homes for people
IN mooerate circumstances, although
it WAS not until after 1900 that they
reached a stage of development which
attracted families of wealth in any
considerable number
"The opening of the twentieth cen
tury found the consolidated city with
q population of about 3,500,o0O, with
Manhattan Island practically entirely
covered with buildings. Strange as it
may be -..2a*zr.1ntemplate, it is to these
opening years of the present century
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Blue M0ndQyS Put TO Rout
BIZ Household MQCHlnerv

water at an even temperature or for
boiling the clothes.
The ironing machine is an econom-
ical unit, costing little to operate
and saving many hours over the iron
ing board. 1t is mistaken idea that
only Sat work can be done on an iron
ing machine. The long roll, which is
heavily padded, carries the clothes
through, forcing them against the hot
shoe with weight many times greater
than an operator could possibly effect
even with the heaviest f1atiron. The
skirt board adds much to the complete
ness of the modern laundry. 1t is sub
stantially constructed, well balanced
and need not be fastened to the floor
The sleeve board swivels on an iron
arm, hinged to the base, and the oper-
ator irons the sleeves while the body
CT the garment rests on the main board
below A push button switch controls
the electricity and a pilot light in
dicates when it is on and off.
Cabinet Dryer Great Convenience
The cabinet dryer, Indispensable il
the up-to-date laundry, is most appre-
ciated during the winter months, when
stormy weather makes it disagreeable
and often impossible to hang clothes in
the open air. There is always great
satisfaction in knowing the clothes
can be taken from the dryer clean
and free from smoke and dust specks
which are almost certain to accumulate
OH them when hung out of doors. The
method of heating the cabinet has beer
so thoroughly developed that the
clothes will always come out fresh anc
sweet, free from the we'll recognized
laundry odor. The dryer can be fur
nishe3 in various sizes and may be
heated by small gas or coal stove
provided as part of the installation OF
by electricity.
In our most modern homes the laun'
dry, too often an after consideration
is stuck in an inaccessible dark corner
of the basement. Thanks to our en-
lightened age and to the women who
are giving more serious thought tc
problems of the home, plans evincine
such lack of consideration for the
worker usually have for their fna
resting place The scrapheap, with the
old wooden washtubs, the scrubboards
and other antiquated household effects
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Garden City Will
Permit SnaaIlEEones
Under New Rulings
Property Restrictions Have
Been Lifted on 1,169
Lots Which Will Be Sold
at Auction This Month

An auction sale of 1,169 lots at the
Garden City Estates will be held on
the premises at Garden City on Sat
urday June 25, by Joseph P Day. Re-
strictions which have ruled for the last
fourteen years as to the type of build
ing that could be erected have been
modified so that now it will be possible
to build home on a smaller site, or,
to be more exact, on plot of two lots.
Notifications in these restrictions also
will allow certain portions of the es-
tates to be used for business.
The lots to be sold are located on
practically all sides of the Nassau
Boulevard station, at Garden City Es-
tates, with frontages on Stewart Ave-
nue., Nassau Boulevard and adjacent
boulevards, streets and avenues.
Former restrictions prevented home
building on small plots and each house
had to be at least two stories in height.
Flat roofs were barred and dwellings,
had TO be set back from the front and
side lines. There also were limitations
as to the building of a garage.
Merchant Prince Once Owned Land
Garden City, Garden City Estates,
the Salisbury, Garden City Country
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
No Reason TO Fear Real Estate
Values Are Going TO Tumble
By David. Fl. Knott

Sheriff New York County and Hotel Gunner
\ to Yorkan
believe
making
possibilities
haitian still
educational draw people everywhere New York
round is filled with This
is bound be
base optimism the outlook Manhattan.
not bothered with collections of and other details
hand there houeprvate and aprmenwhich be
modeed
ants be made
within hbabe place. the pesmisc that
will hardly justified
In
mind possibility
a o
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Estate to Sell Brooklyn
Tract Owned Many Years
Property Along Line of Two
Subways To Be Sold in the
Academy of Music

The Brooklyn Academy of Music
will be the scene of an auction sale
of $50 lots in that borough on Thurs
day and Friday evenings, June %
and "a Bryan L, Kennedy will be
the auctioneer. The lots belong to
the estate of the late Stewart Nc
Dougall and are located at Fort Ham
ilton Parkway, New Utrecht, Eighth,
Ninth and Tenth avenues. and from
Forty to Forty y-sixth Street.
1t is the largest tract of Brooklyn
lots that has been offered in some
time. The lots are on the line of the
New Utrecht subway to Coney Island
and the West End line. Included in
the sale are two three story two-family
dwellings in Forty-fourth Street, and
four apartment houses at Forty-fourth
Street and Fort Hamilton and New
Utrecht avenues.
Mr.. McDougall bought the property
about forty-five years ago, when 1T was
farm land. from the Baron Roosevelt
and Bellknapp families.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

Club and Cherry Valley golf links, the
Garden City aviation field, portion Of
Mineola and all the property lying
in between and surrounding these
residential colonies were purchased in
1859 by the late A. T. Stewart, mer-
chant prince, whose second great dry
goods store in New York, at Ninth
Street and Broadway, is now part of
the John Wanamaker establishment.
The great work carried out at Gar
den City by Mr.. Stewart, and since his
death by his heirs, has given to this
section of Nassau County the superb
residential colonies at Garden City and
Garden City Estates, the Episcopal Ca
thedral of the Incarnation, the see of
the Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese
of Long Island, St. Mary's School for
Girls, st. PauI's School for Boys, the
notable Garden City Hotel and the
various golf and country clubs that
have combined to make Garden City
the golf center of the East.
AS q result of the plans of Mr..
Stewart hundreds of New Workers have
purchased sites and erected residences
at Garden City.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
FxcHAN0E AAcEL LOOKING 70 AFN0XxR 81 N 1881

Harry Hall, who besides being an
able real estate negotiation is a student
of local history, has prepared an inter
esting booklet, illustrated with old
sceres, on the development of New York
City, for distribution to clients of
William A. White & Sons, of which firm
he is director. The booklet bears
message to real estate men that should
rout pessimistic ideas as to property
future, for it reminds them that New
York has never stopped expanding, and
there is nothing now that indicates its
development has reached the limit.
There we're people here in 1850 who
thought New York had reached the
limit of development--it had spread out
days, great as it seemed, was only
shadow of what it was to be. New
York of to-day may be only a shadow
of the New York of tomorrow. 1t is
just as possible, in fact more so, be-
cause there is greater energy behind
the development of New York to-day
than at any time in its history.
But as Mr.. Hall says in the foreword
to his booklet. People generally have
very short memories, and exercise
small powers of. observation, which &C
counts for the tone of pessimisn that
begins to manifest itself whenever a
I temporary depression in real estate
activity occurs.
New York of 800 Years Ago
"In the first 200 years of it's exist
ence, counting from 1920, the popula
tion of the district now included in
New I fork City grew from small hand
full of settlers of about 10000 inhabi-
tants. At that time the city itself oc-
cupied the portion of Manhattan Island
below Canal Street, all it's business be-
ing conducted on the lower east side
streets, with Pearl Street, then the
/ terry, and it's fashionable residences
clustered around Bowling Green along
/ lower Broadway.
| by 1910 the population had risen to
nearly 100000, and the northward
march had carried the city blocks we'll
up toward Union Square. People of
fashion we're beginning to feel the pres
sure of business, and.Mere DESERVING
| the lower part of town for the quieter
neighhorhood along upper Broadway in
and around Bond Street and the vicin-
ity of Washington Square.
/ Twenty years later, in 1860, the
numbers had nearly tripled and the
growth of population to almost 1900
600 had caused an advance of solid
residence blocks very close to Forty
second Street The Crystal Palace
then occupied the site of the present
Bryant Park and was considered the
northerly limit of the city 1t was in
the SOS that the foundation of the
Hoffman fortune was laid by the pur-
chase at auction of lots in the block
bounded by Forty y-second Street and
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

Forty-third Street, Fifth and Sixth
avenues.
"By 1880 the population had almost
reached the two million mark and the
lines of dwelling houses on Manhattan
Island had moved north to about Fifty
ninth Street.
"At this time the wholesale business
district was confined almost entirely
below Astor Place. The center of the
retail section was along Fourteenth
Street, extending down Broadway to
Eighth Street, and on Broadway and
Sixth Avenue to Twenty Street.
Booths Theater, at Twenty third Street
and Sixth Avenue, was the most nor
therly playhouse, the others being
clustered around Union Square, the
south side Of which was then called
the Rialto and was the Gay White
Way of its day. though without cleo
trio lights.
Broadway Without Cars
broadway was still innocent of
streetcars, three lines of stages run
ming from the ferries to Twenty
Street, above which point Broadway
ceased to be of Importance.
From Madison Square to Fifty
ninth Street was occupied entirely as a
residence district.
"Up to this time in its history New
York had been dependent entirely
upon horse power for its local trans
portation, and its growth was limited
to the effective radius of the streetcar
or stage In 1880 the elevated lines
Were completed and a rapid northerly
building movement set in which by
1900 had closed the gap between the
city proper and the suburb of Harlem
and extended we'll beyond.
"ln 1880 there were few imposing
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

ing trains through the tunnel under
Park Avenue, which, instead of being
the magnificent residence avenue that
we see to-day, was then q street of
breweries, factories and tenements.
The demand for garages had not yet
developed, for the automobile was only
just beginning to make its appearance,
and livery stables were numerous in
all parts of the city.
Interruptions Brushed Aside
"All of the five periods under con-
sideration provide an interesting re-
semblance in that in each, except the
first, occurred a war in which the
United States was involved, and each
experienced an era of great financial
disturbance amounting to a so called
panic, which temporarily suspended the
progress of the city, and appeared to
depress its real estate values, and yet
through the entire century can be dis
cerned one progressive movem ent 1t
consists of frequently recurring dis
placement, in turn, of the residences,
hotels, theaters, institutions, retail and
wholesale business, by pressure arising
from their constant mutual need for
expansion.
THE lines of this movement can be
roughly traced.
Thus the fashionable residence cen.
ter starting originally around Bowling
Green and the Battery has moved
steadily northward in turn to around
Chatham Square, Canal Street, Wash
lngton Square and Lafayette Place
Murray Hill, and now to the section
east of Central Park.
The theatrical center, with it's hum
BILE origin on John Street, has in turn
been located on Park Row, Broadway
north of Canal Street, Union Square
New-York tribune., 1921-06-12

Broadway from Twenty third to Thir-
tyfourth Street, and is now solidly
intrenched in and around Times Square,
with its advance guard already at
Columbus Circle.
THE retail center, beginning on low
er Pearl Street, first moved west to
William Street, then to Catharine
Street, to Broadway at Chambers
Street, and thereafter progressed
steadily northward to Union Square,
and successfully occupied Fourteenth
Street, Twenty-third Street, Thirty
fourth Street, Forty-second Street, and
is now rapidly spreading into Fifty
seventh Street.
"The New York Historical Society
has had six homes before finally To-
eating in its present building on Cen
trail Park West, at Seventy sixth
Street. Columbia College, from its
original location at Barclay Street
moved twice before finally securing
what seemed to be adequate space on
Morningside Heights, where it now
again finds its future expansion limited
by the city's growth around it.
Bankers Have Stood Fast
"Of all the varied activities of the
growing city, the financial center alone
has remained fixed, and from it have
radlated constant and ever widening
circles of expansion, until to-day, ex-
cept for q few protected spaces, bust
ness occupies all the main arteries
up to Fifty-ninth Street, and largely
covers the area which in 1880 comprised
the entire intensively developed part
of Manhattan Island. while the outer
circles of residences extend to all
parts of the enlarged and consolidated
city, with a population now of nearly
| 100000 inhabitants.
''Who shall say that the buildings Of
this day and generation, magnificent
as they are, will prove more perma-
nent than their predecessors or remain
unsurpassed? Already many substan-
tial buildings erected less than thirty
years ago have been consigned to OBJ
livion.
Pessimist or Optimist?
"And who is there that will dare
to predict that New York, with it's six
millions of population and its present
| physical character, has reached the
/ final stage of its development? Signs
are all too abundant that the same
forces are still at work. and with ever
increasing energy, and there seems
little reason TO doubt that the next
twenty-year period will repeat the ex-
| perlence Of its antecedents in reeuir-
ing provision for an increase of popu-
/ lation, nearly, if not quite, equal to its
present numbers, which means the
building of new New York, with the
/ attendant remodeling and readjustme ent
of the present city.
1T Is the privilege and duty of real
| estate men to anticipate and direct
this expansion and not merely TO profit
/ by, it,