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New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Lumber to Build
10000 Homes To Be
Held Here for Call
Terminal To Be Established
ON Hackensack Expected
to Increase Supply and
Cut Cost S25 a 1000 Feet

Moro than little encouragement la
found, by small home builders par.
ticularly, in the plan to establish in
the metropolitan district lumber
terminal for the storing OF large sup
plies Of timber for local consumption,
The limited facilities provided in New
York for the storage and handling of
lumber have placed the city on day to
day basis and have increased the cost
of timber here because it must be
brought into the city in train load lots.
The plans Of the Fulton Lumber Ter
ninal are to establish here a plant
where lumber interests Of the entire
country will be able to ship their woods
and in large quantities and through
supplies to individual lumber dealers
anywhere between here and Pittsburgh.
A tract of several acres on the Hacken-
sack River has been secured under lease
and will be developed between now and
the summer for the handling of millions
Of feet of lumber. The property OBJ
tanned is sufficient TO accommodate at
all times 200,00o00o feet of timber,
enough, it is estimated, to build 10000
small homes such as those found in the
suburbs.
Instead of feeding the lumber wants
of the city by. rail large cargo ships
will be used. Vessels will be sent from
waters near the lumber camps Of Cali
fornia and Oregon, which are the great
lumber producing states Of to-day,
through the Panama Canal up the coast
to New York and via Newark Bay to
the Hackensack to point back of
Jersey City. AS water freight rates
are much cheaper than rail rates this
saving will be made in the price to the
builder or the consumer.
The elimination of multiplicity of
handling will be another saving to the
consumer. 1t was pointed out by the
officers OF the terminal company. Con-
signments of more than 100000 feet
Of lumber cannot be handled here to-
day. No yard is sufficiently large to
take such q supply. Lumber dealers
keep. New York fairly well supplied by
continuous shipments. They keep
trainloads on the road hoping to sell
their timber while en- route.
With terminal at tidewater, It was
pointed out, q place large enough to
handle ship load Of lumber, the COM
panies OF the South and the Pacific
Coast will use water rather than rail
and will send large supplies here be
cause 1T Is the great consuming point
of the country. More than 4,Ooo, ,ooo, 900
feet of timber passed through this city
for local use or export during the last
year.
By the use Of modern machinery,
great electric cranes and yard raft
road the cost of handling will be re.
duced to minimum. These cranes
will life che lumber out OF the holds OF
the ship and on to cars to be carried
to timber racks in che yard. Cranes
will lift the timber into place. Manua!
labor will enter only slightly in the
handling of this timber Motor trucks
will take it from the terminal to lum-
ber yards in the city or directly to
builders in the amounts desired and
when desired.
The big lumber station IL Ia said,
Will save the small horna buildss OF the
user Of lumber At lasss ea6 90 sheu-
ssnA fsss Of stmAes.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Fountain Pen Makers
Buy Factory i'm Newark
Take Plant Being Deserted by
General Phonograpln Co. for
Chief Local Works

L. E. Waterman & Co., fountain pen
makers, have purchased the General
Phonograph Company's factory at at
Thomas and Mulberry Streets, New
ark, NJ AS it will take time to move
the equipment of the phonograph
company to its new plant at Elyria,
ohio, the new owners will get posses
sion Of the factory piecemeaI.
The Waterman Company's present
factories are located in New York.
lIonnec5icus and Montreal; 1t is un-
derstood the concern will eventually
move all it's New York manufacturing
to the Newark plant. This will bring
to the city more than 200 families.
About year and half ago the
company leased premises at Chadwick
Avenue and Rose Terrace, for the
manufacture OF ink. This business
will De transferred to the Thomas
The buildsg just purchased is Of
reinforced concrete, with panels filled
with tapestry brick. The equipment
includes three five-ton elevators
sprinkling system, twenty-five Are
proof vaults, compressed air system
throughout the building, drinking foun-
tains and reservoir with capacity
OF 100000 gallons supplied by driven
wells.
Leon Feist, of Newark represented
the General Phonograph Corporation
and David Houston the l.. E, Water
man Company.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

Thomas d. Green, president Of the
New York City Hotel Association, ex-
pressed the sentiments Of the hotel
men Of the city.
. at seems certain now" he said
N"that the hotels in the Fifth Avenue
Broadway and Times Square sections
may continue to do business without
fear of being forced to move elsewhere
by q change in neighborhood condi-
tions."
Means Much TO Forty-second Street
"Our association heartily congratu-
lates- the Save New York Committees
extension of the present zone restric-
tion north of Thirty eighth Street.
said Edward W. Forrest, secretary Of
the Forty-second Street Property own
ers and Merchants Association. Had
this change not been accomplished
the many additional thousands of en-
ployees from manufacturing establish
ments would have caused still greater
confusion in this already over-congest-
ed section of our city. At noon hour
and again in the late afternoon when
the theater audiences are coming from
nlatinees and swarming our thorough
fares added discomfort would have re-
suited to both the employees and the
public.
"Our members include the owners Of
theaters, hotels, Office buildings and
numerous merchants, business and pro-
fessional men north of Thirty-eighth
Street, who are constantly working to
obtain some relief. We feel the public
would take an interest in protecting
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Misdemeanor to Refuse
Family With Children
Mr.. Roosevelt Would Have a
Landlord Punished by Fine of
$50 TO $l0O for Doing So

1t win be nisdemeanor punishable
by q fine of from $50 to $1o0 for q
landlord to refuse to rent 60 families
with children If Assemblyman Roose-
velt's bill is passed. It is an amend
ment. TO the Penal Law, and if enacted
willFappear on the statute books as a
new section known as GOAL.
Mr.. Roosevelt plans by its provision
TO protect the family with children
under fourteen years of age from dis
crimination at the hands Of landlords.
Here is the section:
"Any person or corporation in anv
city owning or having in charge any
apartment house, tenement house or
other building used Cor dwelling pur-
poses who shall refuse to rent any
such dwelling or any part thereof to a
person or family solely on the ground
that such person or family has or have
a child or children under the age of
fourteen years shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and on conviction thereof
shall be punished by fine Of not less
than $50 nor more than S100 for each
offensen
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Will Cost Money
To BE a Broker.
Starting Next Fall
Gibbs Measure Before the
Legislature Would Have
Every Realtor a Licensed
Man; Will Kill Dishonesty

Il will cost from $5 to $40 year for
the privilege of engaging in real es-
tate after October /. Every broker
and every salesman In brokers' Office
will have to get the permission of Sec
retavy of State Lyons If Senator Gibbs's
bill for the licensing and regulation
Of real estate selling becomes q law.
1t is now before the Legislature. 1t
has been read twice and is in the hands
of the Committee on Judiciary, which
indicates that the measure has been
advanced close to the point Of beconl-
ing operative.
The purpose of the measure is to
curb irresponsible real estate agents
whose activities in the past have not
helped real estate. They have made
statements that have been found 80 be
incorrect, merely to earn a commits
sion. The fair dealers IN the heid
have suffered from these practices,
and no doubt ere in favor OF placing
the business in the hands of the Sec
to those who will satisfy him as TO
their honesty and ability TO act as
agents In this very important business.
By means Of answers to questions
which the Secretary would frame he
would be in position to Judge the
fitness of the applicants for licenses
to engage in real estate.
Fees To BE Charged
A real estate broker under TIE terms
Of the measure is one who is in busi-
ness for himself either as an individ-
ual or as & member of a company or
corporation. He will have to pay $25
g year for license His salesm en-,
the men in his office, will have to pay
$5 for their licenses, which will be
held by their employers. On change
OF position they will return the sales
mans license TO the Secretary of State,
who will issue new one TO him at his
new place Of business. The rates in
small towns and country sections will
be much less, the brokers' charge be-
ing $40 and the saIesman's license 81.
In the case of company license will
who desires to act as a broker. The
fee in such cases will be half Of the
full charge. Moneys obtained for
licenses will be divided evenly between
the state and the city or community
where the applicant lives.
The Secretary of State is empow-
cred by the measure to revoke or sus-
pend brokers' or salesman's license
when found guilty Of making uisstate-
ments, frauds or fraudulent practices or
having demonstrated untrustworthiness
or incompetency TO act as real estate
negotiator. The real estate man has
the right to have the decision of the
Secretary of State reviewed by the
court, during which time he viii be
permitted to act without restraint,
Misdemeanor If Found Guilty
AS q broker must pledge that he will
obey the provisions of the measure or
lose his license, he will not be per-
nlitted to split commissions with any
one who is not a licensed real estate
man. Attorneys, administrators, re-
ceivers, referees, executors, guardians
or any other persons appointed by the
conrt are exempted from the provi-
saone o. the measure while performing
o duty imposed on thsn 40 . sssult e2
taslr office
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
safeguarded So Strongly Promoters Will
Not Fear the Planning of Bigger
Things for Sections

this most important section ofcur city,
the center of New York, and that they
should actively support the movement
Of the Save New York Committee.
cat the request of President Thorne
our transportation committee submit
ted a report showing Forty-second
Street is used by the travelling public
more than any other thoropghfare in
the world.
"The report showed that twenty nine
surface, elevated, subway and bus lines
cross or operate through Forty-second
Street Four railroad trunk lines have
stations in the street and ferry line
connects with New Jersey. Subway and
elevated tickets TO the number of
70,930,934 were sold at the Forty-sec-
ond Street stations last year, and 1885,
206,922 transportation tickets of ali
kinds were sold on this thoroughfarc;
1896 subway trains arrive at and de-
part from Times Square daily, and 21,-
023,559 subway tickets were sold at
this point in 1920. To this great multi
tude can be added hundreds OF thou
sands of pedestrians who do not use
the subway, but who daily traverse the
streets and avenues in this district,
and these, together with the vehicular
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

! Because OF the nature Of theater and
hotel improvements they cannot be
located in sections also shared by man
ufacturers employing large operating
forces, which congest streets. Manu-
featuring trades destroy the worth OF
locations for theaters and hotel pur-
poses.
The locating of The Garment Center
building on Seventh Avenue. north of
the Pennsylvania Station, is the result
Of the efforts of Saul Singer, president
of the Garment Manufacturers Asso-
citation, to save Fifth Avenue, which he
and his associates realized was a
municipal feature and should be pre-
served by all means. 1t was perhaps
one Of the greatest civic movements
engineered by private enterprise in the
history of the city. For months and
months Mr.. Singer and John Howes
Burton, chairman Of the "Save New
York" Committee, planned the removal
of the needleworkers and their shops
to locations west of the avenue.
Low prices and fewer obstacles to
overcome decided the purchase Of close
to two blocks on the west side of Sew
enth Avenue, from Thirty-sixth to
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
SeeaOagen Has Sold Si8ty
Homes for Clark Estate
One House Week for Last Year; Jim Murphy Back
at Days; Joseph Palermo Lays Down Tools to
Play Some in South; Brokers Are Bowlers

IN the parlance OF advertising men
George Seewagen, Of the uptown office
OF the Brown, Wheelock Company, has
sold himself we'll to the Clark estate.
he has registered sixty times in the last
year. By this is meant that Seewagen
has sold sixty private houses Just west
of Central Park for the estate during
the last twelve months. This Is an
average Of house every week, which is
not to be winked at when they sold
for upward of 10000 each. There can
be no doubt that Seewagen has i'm
pressed the Clark folks by his selling
ability.
Florida Rypnotizes Murphy
James r. Murphy has returned from
e six weeks trip in Florida and has
resumed his position as general man
asef OF the Joseph 2. Day organization.
From Mr.. Murphy's story Of his trip
there seems to be little Of the Southern
state that he did not visit. He ha.
been journeying to Florida FOR the last
fifteen winters, but was greatly sur
p1sed with improvements that have
been going on there since his previous
visit 1NAS'
"You know lived In Florida for sev-
erai years handling a development in
PUTNAM and Marion countless" said Mr..
murphy: The two outstanding fea-
lures OF chls trip that impressed them
selyss on me were the production of
such staple crops as cane, corn and pea
nuts IN addition to other Eyerglade
products, and the fact that one could
go nearly half way to Lake Okeechobee
by way OF good roads, which certainly
~lH be Of immense advantage when
completed to the lake and Lee Countv
thereby tleing the east coast and the
west coast through cross state road y
B. G. w. BowIers Beat p. & E,s
Composition among concerns in the
realty neld IS not limited to putting
over deals. Rivalry in sports is now
Keen: In the summer tennis and rolf
matches are played, one firr, aeasnst t
another. Several nights ago Peasa e
Eiliman bowlers met the bowIers ~
the Brown Wheelock Company and
we're bested. Five points separated
the teams at the close Of the match
despite the fact that Joseph A. Rausch.
kolb, vice-president OF Pessa & FlI;-
man. bowled the highest Individual
score score of the evening. The Pease &
hiiiman team is looking forward TO
ahotnsF meeting with the Brown
Wheeiock fellows, when they hope to
Peat them by a. much larger margin
lhan ehey were beaten by. OF course,
the Brown Whee!ock men are sware
Of the plans Of their rivals and will
Improve their game In the hops IF
widening the point margin the nsxt
time.
Paterno Has Laid Down His Tools
Joseph Paterno has literally laid
DOWN his building tools and moved to
the south to Florida, where he will
remain for while playing simmer
games under Flordafs winter skies.
basking. in the warm sun and planning
hundreds OF homes for homeless New
orksrs- Last time Major Paterno
laid down bis toois was TO take them
up FOR Uncle san 40 O leader In ths
ss'@y ~ Builders s~ssutssA 20 hAiatsr
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

of any consequence not only in this
c1ty but in the entire country. Thou
sands Of concerns located in other big
cities Of the country have supported the
Save New York" movement from the
very beginning, which was about
five years ago. They expressed the
feeling that the welfare Of New York
was their welfare because of the close
business relations which exist. These
same merchants, large and small, sre
heartily in favor OF Mr. Singers and
Mr.. Burton's plan FOR the saving of
New. York's3 amusement and transient
residential center. They are frequent
visitors to New York, and they are as
keen as New Workers to protect the
recognized high spots of the big city.
The steps taken to save these locali-
ties. have resulted in an outburst of
praise from ell sides. The hotel men
and theatrical interests are particular
~ pleased, because it means that there
need be no more fear OF invasion of
their sections by manufacturers.
Great building projects will be
launched now that the threatened on
rush Of the needle trades has been
turned aside into less important sec
tions, sections which are much more
suitable for factories than Times and
Long Acre Squares, which have re-
turned great increases in tax values
while. many other sections were de-
creasing In value.
Theater Men Feel Secure
Speaking for the Theater Managers
association, l.. Lawrence Weber said
ehat the latest achievement Of the aSave
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Offers Plan to
Solve Home and
Transit. Problems
Builder Suggests I hat Higher
Fare Be Given Companies
if They Will Erect 25, 900
I'll O I'M G Along Routes
BY William D. Fitzpatrick


This is the one big. outstanding fact
IN the housing situation, viz: There
will be no building for the great bulk
OF our population, and all the aimless
babble Of the hopelessly impractical
uplifters, the yawping from the
lreamland Of single tax, the castles
n Spain and silken bridges Of fancy
u blathering city officials, limelight
Aeekers, exploiters and notoriety hunt
ters will not lay a brick or drive a
nail. New Workers must fully realize,
FULLY and right now, that building for
30 per cent of our people is absolutely
hopeless, because of economic reasons,
and that present conditions of high
rents and scarcity of flats will continue
FOR an indefinite period. Unless
there's the ruby New Workers. are
ready and willing, themselves, to fur
nIsh the capital and pay for the needed
housing.
The astounded tenant asks: "How
can we tenants possibly pay for $780,
100000 of housing?" Elementary. NV
dear Watson as Sherlock Holmes was
won't to remark.
Many mickle makes q muckle"--
hundreds of pennies make dollars,
hundreds of dollars create thousands.
thousands create hundreds of thousands
hundreds of thousands create millions,
hundred of millions creates $4,000
apartments, $4,000 apartments smash
protltsering rents, and enforced, heavy
renu reductions return the pennies,
which created the millions, back into
the hands of the tenants with shame
fully usurious interest. It's q circle,
but it isn't vicious one.
Get the idea brother2 "a good tale
VIII bear twice telling" SO here she Is
sgain in short chapters;
l.. Proud, bloated rent rrofteer.
Lowly, disgruntled tenants.
2. Tenants get bright idea. Chirk up
and kick patent nostrum housing rem.
edies into outer darkness.
8. Tenants pool their pennies daily.
creating untold millions Of dollars.
a. Untold millions of dollars pro-
euce housing in great measure. at
lowest possible rents.
5. New housing immediately smsshss
exorbitane rents.
8. Reduction of rent equals three 30
Ten times the daily investment of
pennies
7. Housing costs nothing, because it
is more than paid for out of reduced
rents, which come out of the hide of
the profiteer.
s. Last scene. Bubbles arising from
prcHteer, Great joy, contentment and
peace reign in our city. Housing and
traction problems both solved at once.
Seiahs
Yes, brother, you've guessed IL the
Arst time. The solution of both hous-
ing and traction problems involves an
increase in fare to the traction COM
panies Of odr city. For purely selfish
reasons, because it means coin in our
leans, we want to speak thusly to the
Board of Estimate: Shoot first and in
vestigate afterward. We want the city
TO give the traction companies at once
an Increased fare for limited period.
we want this because Ii means a rent
M wing. We want cur lost transfer sys-
&sr srturned and decent service, We
viii psy larger Ssscs ccnditloasA on
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Forty Blocks, Including H otel and
theatrical Districts, Have Been An
nexed to 'sSaved" Territory

Having halted the development OF
factories in Fifth Avenue, the "Save
New York" Committee has taken q
stand for the protection of the theater
and hotel sections Of the city The
sfes restricted FIVE years ago by this
committee has been extended from the
west side of Seventh Avenue to point
beyond Eighth Avenue, and from
Thirty-eighth to Fifty-ninth Street.
Within these forty blocks are located
millions and millions of dollars worth
of theaters and fine hotel buildings,
which are as essential in q measure as
are transit lines to the welfare of the
city.
The amusement and hotel Sec
tions Of New York are we'll established,
and IL was because of their permanent
location that no hcsitancy has been
shown to finance building projects
there. At this time more than half
dozen fine theaters are under way in
the Times Square and Long Acre sec
lions, whose value will total close to
$4,000, 900
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

traffic, cause a greater congestion q
our thoroughfares in the Yicinity 4
Times Square at the present time, o.
pecially during certain hours o. 8,
day, than exists in any other par I
the American continent"
Burton Gives Credit to Singer
Mr. Burton. father of the Save ",
York movement would have it unlsT.
stood Enthusiastically that Mr.. Sings, b,
been largely responsible for the us
cess cfNthe Save New York nlcYemeqi
He wants it known that it was N,
Singers iGea that the Save New faH
Committee extend its zone to tska
the hotel, theater and automobile ss
tions and ali of Times Square; that
was MIR. Singers idea that the rona }
enlarged to zone running from Sa
enth to Eighth Avenue, half way u
tween Thirty-ninth and Fort&l
streets, and extending 80 Fifty.nrA
Street, so as to make it the perEaIer
theater and hotel. centre, and slse !
insure for the future q permanent lc
cation for the garment and need
trades in their new district, from MIN
teenth to Thirty-ninth Street vest |
Seventh Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Extension of s'Save New York;
Zone Leads to Realty Deal

The extension Of the 'Save New
York" area 60 include Eighth Avenue
is understood TO have indvced the pro
prietors of Rivoli, Inc, restaurant. al
$50 Eighth Avenue, TO purchase that
property from Benjamin Weiss. The
restaurant keepers use the ground
floor of the building. It is four stories
high and just north OF the northwest
corner Of Forty-9ourth Street. The
extension Of the restricted area, which
will safeguard the theatrical center OF
the city, decided the question Of psr.
ehass 9sa saa Rivoyi eornoRation.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20

up the fighting men at the front. r.
was while building for Uncle sar, - -
army or for others Of this great big
family marshaled to wage war against
Germany that home shortage de-
veloped on the West Side. Mr.. Pa
terno was always busy piling stories
upon stories previous to the war. He
has built some houses in the last year
end is now engaged on other housing
projects.
Had to Build Home Of Their Own
Nehring Brothers have had to eject
building of their own at the corner
Of st. Nicholas Avenue and 1s2d Street
to get, space sufficient for the needs Of
their business. It is q good indication
OF real estate conditions in the Wash
ington Heights section, which is the
chief field of operation Of the concern.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Office Rentals Sho,U
Tendency to Rise

value of business space In the
uptown commercial sections has
stiffened. 1t is my belief that office
go down, which was the tendency
until recently. A complete change
Judging from conditions as now
presented and those of several
weeks ago."--George Backer.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
Tenants Buy ON 9th Ayenue

The group of buildings st the south
west corner OF Ninth Avenue and Forty
second Street, recently sold through
Edward j. Hogan and James A. Far
ley, were bought by Salvatore Graziano,
Samuel Solomon Frieda Ellison and
osiaa Bserner, all tenants.
The Caps Realty Corporation % the
buyer OF thA house Ai East Eight
ieth Street, aeld Tacsnsiy,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-20
J. II. Roscoe, of Colgate & Co..
Buys Home at Summit. Il. L

James R.. Roscoe, general manager
Of Colgate & Co., of Jersey City, N. J..
has purchased the Vincenco Vicari
residence on Montview Road, Summit,
N. j. The Summit Home Land Com
pany has sold to Oscar Gustafson
two plots on its tract at Summit. n.
j. The Eugene Jobs-H. F. Beck Com
pany, of Summit, N. j., negotiated both
deals M