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connecting baths. and all bedrooms as
well as main rooms have large open fire.
places. In another part Of the house are
sixteen servants rooms The house was
occupied until October by Mr.. and Mrs.
Webb.
The outbuildings consist of brick
stable with stalls for seventeen horses
with rooms and baths overhead
4 stablemans cottage. concrete ga
rage. chauffeur's cottage tool house. ice
house. greenhouse and children's play
house. There is also a swimming pool
sixty feet long and tennis court. The
water system includes two tanks. with
a total capacity of $4,000 gallons.
Woodbury. House has u background
Of interest created by its ownership. Mr..
Webb is the son of DR.. w. Seward Webb.
His mother was Lila Osgood Vanderbilt,
'da lighter of the late William K. Wander
bilt. j. Watson Webb married Electra
Havemeyer. daughter of the late II. o.
Havemeyer Of the American Sugar Refin-
ing Company. Mr. Webb Is an ardent
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Real Estate News,
Notes and Gossip

two story semi-detached dwelling with
garage at 1872 Sullivan street..
Charles Partridge leased store at G42
Washington avenue TO Edward Byrnes.
TO be used as dairy.
| Suburban Transactions.
| Eugene Jcbs-H. Il. Beck Company
leased in Summit, ". J., the William
Oakley Raymond homestead at 6!7
! Springfield avenue to Oscar r. Ewing OF
the law firm of Rounds, Schurnan &
Dwight OF this city the Anna s. Mueller
property at 1s Madison avenue 10 Win:-
| fred A.. Taylor: the w. L. Baker cottage
! on Mountain avenue to Paul H. Weber
! of Bloomfield, N. j.; also the DR.. Charles
A Van Orden property at 63 Paramount
avenue. Chatham, to Harry S. Rossell,
credit manager for the Hunter Manu-
featuring and Commission Company of
| this city. and an apartment In 4oS
Springfield avenue to Clifford Britt.
Thomas a. McWfrinney Realty Com
pany rented for Leslie L. Beach q dwell
Ing on Monroe street, Lawrence, L. l.,
to Seiig Rogg,n.
Eugene V. Welsh leased the resi-
dence OF Mrs. John w. Castles in Nor
mandy Park, Morristown, to Thomas II.
Beck OF this city. The property In
cluded contains six and three-quarter
acres and garage.
LEcluse. Washburn & Co. sold for
Joseph Slechsa a tract at Plandome
with frontage of $50 fest on Shore
Drive The purchaser will improve
with a brick house.
Frank Hughes Company sold for J. w.
Surburg TO "a Copeland Cohen. a New
ark operator. the two story garage ar
654 Bloomfield avenue. Montclair. N. j..
on nearly half an acre. The property
was held at $4,000.
Albert Pfister Of Newark has pur-
chased the dwelling at 269 Amherst
street. East Orange, from George soften
stall through Feist & Feist.
George Hove sold for Fred A Canney
his estate In Mt, Airy road. Croton-on-
Hudson. containing thirty acres OF land,
residence and barns. The property IS
considered TO have one OF the finest
views of the Hudson River obtainable.
The purchaser Is James v. Reddy OF
this city.
Chauncey 3. Grifren & Co sold for
William Murray Seaton his property in
Mamaroneck avenue in the Gedney Ter
race tract at White Plains. consisting OF
about one ec.e, with residence and ga
rage. to Adrian l.. Quick OF Quick &
McKenna, furniture dealers OF this city.
e p. Harailton &c Co. sold for Mrs.
@. f. Curtis the residence and garage
and quarter acre OF land at 444 Hillside
place. South Orange. to Andrew T. Me-
Cullagh.
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PROPERTY IN ORANGES
FINDS READY MARKET
Jersey Brokers See Prices
Right for Buyers.

The realtors of South Orange aud
Naplewood, n. J.. have had a busy late
summer and early fall Tho builders
In this section over year ago cut the
prices OF their unsold houses to meet
tho lower construction costs and readily
sold them all. Tho homes erected for
occupancy this fall have been practi-
cally all sold. Many homeseekers have
purchased plots and are now erecttIe
homes. Land is slowly but surely adj
vancing In price. Just as was predicted
by close students OF realty conditions
Raymond Connolly Company. realtors
OF South Orange. sold to Louis G.
Taylor OF East Orange "a plot on Park
avenue, Maplewood. for Miss Florence
Atwood. The same firm In conjuuc-
ton with ]. Lewis Fiacre sold Allan
S. Thorn OF East Orange q plot on Park
avenue. Maplewood: TO Hubert De
q. Main OF East Orange Raymond
Connolly Company sold a plot on Maple
wood avenue. Maplewood. These three
purchasers are now erecting homes.
Mrs. Betty. Brooke Erskine of River
side Drive and 146th street is now in
possession OF her new residence on Hill
side place adjoining the South Orange
Field Club golf course. This property
consists Of a Dutch Colonial dwelling
containing nine rooms sleeping and sun
porches and two baths. 1t was held
at s250o0 and was sold by tho Ray
mond Connolly Company.
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TO OLIQUIDATE LOTS
FOR BRONX PIONEER
B. L. Kennedy Will Close Out
Holdings of Ephraim Levy,
Old Time Developer.

The Regent Realty Company, headed
by Ephraim Levy, has decided to Iiqui-
date its holdings IN The Bronx, where in
the last few years it has blazed the
trail for hundreds Of home and business
property builders. Mr.. Levy has au-
thorized Bryan L.. Kennedy to offer the
company's properties on the auction
block in the vesey Street Exchange on
Wednesday. November 2. Nearly three
hundred lots In developed sections will
be included in tho sale.
Among the lots to be sold arc ~ on
Morris College and Teller avenues, be-
tween 169th and 1920 streets; 81 on
Sedgwick. Undercliff and Popham ave-
$50 on Norris and White Plains avenues
and adjacent streets In the Van Nest
and Unionport sections: Is lots on
Woodlawn Heights. opposite Van Cort-
landt Park. between 23Sth and 241st
streets, and ~ acres OF water front prop
erty fronting on the Eastchester Ship
ping Canal. opposite Pelham Bay Park.
TIE Regent Realty Company started
operations about thirty years ago in
The Bronx, which was then part of
Westchestcr county. One trolley car
was in operation where subways and
elevated lines now stretch out in all
ulltSisOHS. iHty put III SSWcTS, water
and gas In many sections. and were
really responsible for the transforma-
tiou of The Bronx from a wilderness
into the great business and home centre
II IS to-day.
They opened up and developed a tract
OF 900 lots In the Morris Heights section.
II tract OF 40 lots opposite Claremont
Park, and tract OF $50 acres In Van
Nest. where they built several hundred
houses and a public school, which they
leased to the city. The school had sixty
pupils at the start and a year later
1000. Not so long ago the city put UP
its own building. which now cares for
1000 pupils in addition to 500 pupils In
the old building.
Other tracts developed included 500
lots In Woodlawn 400 lots in Union
port: 200 lots on Spuyten Duyvii Park
way and Broadway, which was sold 10
Manhattan College 40 acres adjoining
St. Joseneis Institute in Unionport
several hundred lots at Boston road and
Prospect avenue. and 900 acres In Yon-
kers. The company owned the prop
erty now occupied by The Bronx Court
House, Third avenue and 161st street.
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Builders Await Lot Sale

Owing to the comparatively short
period OF time left this year in which
to file plans for tax exempt buildings 1t
Is probable that unusual interest Will be
manifested when the $50 bungalow
sites in Elmhurst fronting on Bowery
and Flushing bays are to be offered at
auction by Joseph T. Day for the
Flushing Bay Building Corporation.
The sale will be held next Saturday
in "A tent at Schurz avenue and Thirty
eighth street regardless of weather con-
ditions. This is the section where w.
X. Gibson, the builder. has erected
more than 100 one and two family dwell
ings.
Mr.. Day will sell III lots IN the In
dustrial section OF Greenpolnt. Brook
lyn, for the Henry Hilton estate on
Thursday noon. October 20. The sale
will be held in the Brooklyn Exchange
on Montague street. The lots TO be sold
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| are situated on Meeker, varfck, Stewart
and adjacent avenues and streets In the
vicinity of the new Eastern District sub
way line to FourteeAth street, Manhattan.
The lots are adaptable for Improvement
with industrial plants and multifamily
houses.
Thirty-five bungalow and home sites
In Lynbrook. l.. l.. will be offered for
sale by Mr.. Day on Tuesday at noon in
the Vesey street exchange. The lots
are distributed north OF the Long Island
Railroad and north and south of Frank
lin avenue. with frontages on Park.
Bond. Gates and West avenues. and on
Spruce street, In y we'll populated sec
tion, about one mile distant from the
business centre Of Lynbrook.
On Tuesday at noon the auctioneer
viii sell widely distributed properties
in the Greater Cty at q special sale
TO be held In II vesey street.
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Apartment House sales.

!. Lincoln Scide Company sold for a
client 1896 Park avenue. southwest cor
ner OF i0lst street, five story tenement
with stores. 25.11xs0, 60 n Mrs. Fried
man. This property was bought by the
sellers through the same brokers nine
years ago.
w @. Comerford OF Flynn 4 Con-
naughton sold for the Mutual Trust
Company Of Port Chester, N. Y, tho
five story apartment with stores at 291s
Eighth avenue to an investor who in
tends to renovate and occupy for bust
ress
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and brought back Che International Polo
Cup to America.
Other members Of the American team
are also residents of the Meadow Brook
hunting country. The team captain,
Devereux Milburn. lives at Westbury. az
do also Thomas Hitchcock. Jr., and
Louis L. Stoddard In the neighborhood
are the Piping Rock Club. Meadow Brook
Club and Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht
Club.
The terms OF tho forthcoming auction
call for the payment Of 10 per cent Of
the full price on tie day of the gale and
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devotee Of outdoor sports, and is known
not only as master Of hounds but as a
steeplechase rider and polo player.
TIe Is master Of the Shelburne Fox
Hounds. private pack, which he estab-
lished in 1906 and has since maintained
at Sheburne House, the 1000 acre Webb
estate at Shelburne. VT, on the shore of
Lake Champlain.
As a polo player Mr. Webb has been
especially prominent. He was No. on
tho American team which last spring
defeated the British team in two matches
al birmingham, near London, England
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Decorator Lea.e. on s.s Ave.

Miss Elsie De Wolfe. interior decora-
tor. has leased the two upper floors In
SIT Fifth avenue. Negotiations we're
conducted by cable with Miss De Wolfe.
who has been spending the summer at
her home In Versailles. France. The
lease was closed by a syndicate COM
posed OF Spear G Co. Brown, wheelock.
Inc: Butler G Baldwin and Clarke T.
Chambers ts..
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AccORDS WELL o1rzA

80 per cent. on November 10. The
balance of 60 per cent. remains on mort
gage. Francis r. Appleton, Jr, of the
law Arm of Appleton, Butler & Rice, will
act as attorney for Mr.. Webb, and
Howard LIE c. Roome of the real estate
brokerage firm Of William J. Roome &
Co. has been appointed agent.
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When Alfred I. du Pont decided to sell
auction his ESQ acre estate at Roslyn,
l.. the news sent tremor OF sur
be through both society and real es-
|e circles. Prior to that event the
btion mart was not considered the
il or most appropriate medium for
voluntary disposal of a gentleman's
kntry place. Just why that theory
walled 1t is hard to say. Perhaps
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Sale on East 2oth street.

Henry Hof sold for Nathan Halperin
to NJ. F'lumfreddo the four story building
at 213 East Twenty ninth street. After
alterations the buyer will use It for busl-
mess purposes.
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woman Lease. studio Building.

Pepe & Brother rented for Marie Tudor
Garland Of Nantucket. Mass, the studio
building. furnished, at 81 Washington
News to Mrs. Allan Buell., Jr., of Forest
Hills. l.. L., who will occupy.
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ING OF REALTY AUCTION HAMMER AGAIN STIRS SOCIET'
Watson Webb. Master Of Hound
Ind Polo Player. Follows Example
Set by Alfred |. du Pont andPlaces
Big Country Estate on Block
Going, Going, Gone!" Bids Fair
to Become Modish Slogan

list Of bidders and witnesses whose
names read like page torn from the
Social Register. and there is a strong
probability that the offering of Wood
bury House will arouse even greater
interest.
Woodbury. House is situated on Jeri-
cho Turnpike in the heart of the Meadow
Brook hunting section of Long Island,
wherein are to be found the homes of
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no cost of sentiment in real estate
lsactions was the topic of discus
/ among several real estate operators
day last week. "Son.e years ago."
operator remarked. II tried TO pur-
se certain property In the Green
b Village section owned by an estate.
vas quite an ordinary parcel, but I
particular use for It. asked the
o and q representative of the estate
My replied: $4,000
After l had recovered sufficiently j
the owner that $4,000 would be a
" fair price for the realty. That
be- he replied, but the late owner
led a valuation of $4,000 upon the
perty and before he. died requested
/ It be held at that price. It win
be sold for less told him no one
Iids of an insane asylum would seri-
" consider that price, and to my
wledge no one has to this day."
mother operator cited similar cx-
ence with some property he had been
rested In about ffteen years ago in
st. Johns Park section. In this case
owner was the widow of saloon-
per who had occupied the premises
many years. Her answer to pros-
i've buyers was: "Beforc he died
told me this property would some
be worth $4,000. II any one wants
hat Is the price"
his poor, misguided woman had no
IN confidence In her late husbands
Ement that she turned down many
! substantial offers for her property.
when a foreclosure threatened she
ined to sell below the price set by
late husband. insisting that Pat
$4,000. and IT'S $4,000 or moth
At the inevitable foreclosure the
ty brought $4,000.
lighting His Honor's Home.
real estate man who bears an en-
lie reputation for knowledge OF New
K city. its customs. &C.. called upon
writer this week and impaired tho
wing Information:
lille passing tho one time residence
he late Mayor Seth Low at 30 East
y-fourth street. southwest corner OF
ison avenue, no noticed that the
ps. which by time honored custom
he municipality were placed in front
he homes OF It's Mayors, had been
ed from the street side to a newly
entrance on Madison avenue.
he change Of location raised n ques-
In his mind concerning the con-
ed use of the lamps. since the prop
has been converted into business
ling
he city's lamps arc still to be seen
ront of 33s Lexington avenue, the
fence OF william II. Wicleham,
tieth Mayor OF New York city, who
Office from 1876 to 1876. This
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-09-27
DAN SHEA Is WINNER
OF A. A. u. DECATHLOM

Jersey City, \. g. Sept 26.-Dan
Shea, representative Of the Pastime
A. G., Sunday won the National A. A.
U. decathlon championship with to-
tai Of 5S49.33S points. Brutus Hamil-
ton, University of Missouri, former
champion. did not compete.
In Sundays five events Shea won
one and tied in another. He was home
first in the 1900 meter run in 4:50 Is
and in the ITO meter hurdles tied for
first with w. j. OCOnnell, New York.
He was fourth in the discus throw
with 1902 feet and second in the pole
vault. He finished fifth in the iaye!in
throw
In the first half Of the decathlon
Saturday Shea captured the 100 mo
ter run and the 400 meter run, was
third in the broad jump, second II
the sixteen pound shotput. and thru
in the high jump.
Patrick O'COnHor Of New York was
second in the championship Wit
! 5,637.S75. Joseph Erbal, unattached
vas third with 5,571.897; William j
O'Connell, New York, had 4,473.9S5
j. f. Cusack, Columbia university
| 4GSS 1893, and Sven Petander, Swe
| dish-American A. c.. f34l71.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-09-27
TlLDEM Is BEATEN
BY J. 0. ANDERSON

Chicago, H., Sept, 2G.-Playing az
member Of the western sectional
team in the vacancy left by an III
American, James O Anderson of the
Australasian Davis cup team. won the
annual intersectional team clash in
blaze OF glory nc the South Side
tennis club yesterday afternoon He
stepped on the grass court in the
final and deciding contest of the nine
match team series with none other
than Worlds Champion William T.
Tilden as his opponent
Anderson handed Tilden defeat
in five sets which ran the scale Of
thrills aad disappointment and the
climax came in the NTH set, which
was so desperately batt!ed that the
tall Australian had to 80 thirty'siN
games for his victory. The scores
were 3-6, 81, 81 Is, l9-l1
Years Second Defeat for Bill.
The match was one TO so down in
memory for the windrp kept q gal
lery OF 1000 on the thin edge Cf hys.
terra. It was Tildens second defeat
OF this season the other being sus'
tanned from Vincent Richards.
The first four sets furnished keen
tennis, but Tilden was relying on
steadnes7 and waiting for Auder5on's
errors, and there was little of the en-
thusiasm which broke loose With the
wild action of the last set
Each won his service until Tilden
broke through on the nineteenth game
and led the Australian 1919; then
each lost his service until Anderson
had match point in his grasp when
in front, 12-ll. but Tidcas brilliant
effort STAYED off defeat in a long
deuce game, in which he peppered his
shots over so fast that Anderson er'
red on four straight returns.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-09-27
HIGH SCHOOL TEAM
TO PLAY SP Rim c
VALLEY SATURDAY
LINK BACK AT SCHOOL TO PLAY
ON RED AND WHITE ELEVEN
ANTRAM RECOVERING QUICKLY
AND WILL De BACK IN HAIR.
NESS IN TIME FOR GAME,

The Ottawa Hirh school football
eleven, who humhlcd Bryustad's T. v,
l., G. team last Saturday afternoon at
King field, 81 to o, viii play their
second game Of the season next sat
urday, when they m"et the Spring
Valley squad on the local sriairon.
Indications point TO an interesting
battle between the two teams which
promise TO be the leading contpndcra
for the Illinois valley conference
championship this year
Spring Valley no doubt has tho
strongest eleven in the c1nlcreuy
this year This morning Coach smith
received the eligibility list from tn
Hall mentor. Tweaty-threo names
appeared on the list and every one ~
them has had some experience ut tn
game. Last year Spring Valley d."
foated the La SallcPcru squad. e.
Q. and la sale had one ~ the tough.
est teams in the ring. This year
Hailo team viii stiu be stronger due
to the experience the mumbrgs Of Tie
eleven have had and they are comiu-
to this city next Saturday with the
intention of drubbing the locals.
Alter watching his men swamp tho
p. V l.. G. team last Saturday Coach
Smith is quite confident that his team
will clean up on the Spring Valley
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-09-27
ROSS BREAKS THREE
u. S. SWIM RECORDS

New York. Sept Eight swim.
ming records, five worlds and three
American, were set in an open meet
in a twenty-five yard pool at Brighton
Beach Sunday Record performers
were Miss Charlotte Boyle of New
York. Norman Ross of Chicago and
relay teams of the WCmen's Swim
ming association Of New York.
Miss Boyle set a worlds record for
22O yards of 2:47 %, as compared
with the former mark of 1858, made
by Miss Ethelda Bleibtrey in Aus
tralia early this year. The goo yard
mark was passed in 2:32 As, four
seconds faster than the worlds rec.
ord time made by Miss Boyle here
last month
Ross made three American records,
covering 400 meters in 5:l4 %, two
seconds faster than his own record
set in 1917; 800 meters in 3:5i As,
three-ffths of u second better than
the former record made by II. Voll-
mer of New York in 1916, and 400
yards in 4:49 81, which surpassed
Vollmers 4:56 Is, made in 1916.
The relay records we're 4 40 for
the 400 yard event, in which the swim
mers were Helen Wainwright, Char
lotte BOYLE, Gertrude Ederle and
Ethelda Bleibtrey; 5:53 80 for 500
yards, in which Aileen Riggin swan
the fifth relay. and I'll 10 for coo
yards, with Alice Lord as the final
swimmer
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-09-27
OTTAWA CUBS TEAM
D|SBANDED UNTIL
NEXT YEARS GRIND
CUBS WON TWENTY OUT or
TWENTY.SEVEN GAMES DUR
ING PAST SEASON--ALL MEM.
gERS OF TEAM TO DON UN .
FOFM NEXT YEAR.

According to announcements this
morning by ManGG2r Dunn the ct.
tuwa Cubs will play 40 more this ae|-
son Not even IN cutut,toWn game
viii be played by them, at least the
association will have nctbjna to do
with IT, Sundays game with the Pom.
tiac nine brought close 10 local base
ball. Up TO that time it was planned
to play Pontiac another game In the
rctormatory city. and there was coli
siderable talk Of playing Gilkerscn IS
American Giants at Hicks Park,
Spring Valley But such plans We're
given up by members Of the associA.
ton.
As the season Is almost 1t a close
and as the seating accommodations ar
the North Side lot are bad, membeI
of the Fans Association thought It
best to stop right where they We're.
OF course. the news viii be hard for
local fans to take but the local stars
will assemble as soon rs the season
opens next year. Manager Dunn an
nounccd that they would all be back
to wear the Cub uniforms next year.
Rum0rs were spread about the city
that Muggles. Dunn'' sensational cen
ter fielder and heavy hitter would nor
be on the lineup next spring. Despite
the fact that several prominent ball
clubs want his services for next year.
Muggles himself stoutly denied that
he would desert the local club, and
wants his same berth back again
when the first call is sent out ncXt
year.
old Dame Rumor also had it that
Wilmeroth, star right fielder, would
also be among the missing, but the
rumora have no backing. Wilmeroth
will be back in the harness when
Dunn gives the first toot OF the horn
noxt season. Kutz, Brundage, Sheldon
and all the rest will be back, 50 there
is no need to worry whether or not
Ottawa will be again represented by
semi-prO team.
/ This season has been Il most sue
cessful one for the Cubs. They estab
| lishcd Il record that no doubt exceeded
all previous Cnes, and made baseball!
/ in Ottawa a big thing, They laid a
/ foundation to baseball in future years
in ottawa that will not die out very
soon,
During the recent year the Cubs
/ engaged in twcuty.seven games. Out
of that number they were victorious
in twenty games, having lost seven OF
the combats. Three of the seven LOST
games went to the Pontiac Athletic
Tho first game that the Cubs lost wa
to Gilkerson's Union Giants, to ,
1t was the fourth game Of the season
and the locals were way out OF form