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The New York herald., 1921-10-30
Resale of Halcyon Hall
Leads Apartment Deals

21x100. to Louis Jacobson. Samuel
Wunderman negotiated the sale.
Louis Gold e Co. purchased the cor
ner of Prospect avenue. Southern Boule-
ward and East 149th street. upon which
tkey will erect a one story taxpayer
containing fourteen stores. The builders
have obtained ten year mortgage of
$4,000 on the Improvement.
Brooklyn Market News.
BulI<ley & Horton. Company recently
sold the southwest corner of Coney ISL
and avenue and Avenue V. lot look
100, for A. Fl. Gulerer to a client for
investment.
Realty Associates sold to Gordon g.
Halperin, Inc. through NJ A. Lilienfeld.
broker. the vacant plot, 7s.3xl00, at the
northwest corner of Bushwick avenue
and Maujer street. which the purchaser
will improve with brick stores and
apartments
p. S. Treacy. with Joseph w. Pullar.
sold for J. Frevola to J. Potash the two
story frame dwelling. 25x100, at 27i
Twenty-third street.
Martin Company leased to Berger 4
Block ground floor in 470 Van Brunt
street.
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
DETAIL OF THE ENTRANCE DOORMAN

has brought certain changes that prob
ably require further improvement and
readjustment. One Of the effects already
felt Is the imposing Of strict limitations
Of cost, not only rs far as the con-
struction of the house Is concerned but
with relation to its maintenance after
ward.
The first effect Is to cause reduction
in the space in the house plan. This is
already quite noticeable In the houses
built in the last year. and the houses
built In the next two or three years may
lose some OF the spaciousness which has
been considered since early Colonial
days as essential to the American home.
IT was not infrequent to find many me-
dium sized houses with q hall 10 feet
wide, dining room II feet square and
back OF it library 10x17 and living
room 17x30. These sizes presented a
fine Impression Of spaciousness and COM
fort. Perhaps some Of our old houses
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
BAY RIDGE LOTS ON BLOCK.

Ninety-three lots In tho developed
section Of Bay Ridge. Brooklyn. are to
be sold at auction on Monday evening.
November IL, In the Montague Street
Exchange by the Jere johnson Jr. Com
pany. auctioneers. The lots are on Sew
entieth. Seventy-first. Sevcnty-fourth
and Eighty-ninth streets, near Seventh
and Eighth avenues and Fort Hamilton
Parkway and In the vicinity of Narrows
avenue. Some are on Forty-sixth street,
between Sixth and Seventh avenues. At
the same time and place the auctioneers
will also offer 81 and 37h Lawrence
street. four three story frame dwellings,.
25x1os each; also two deep lots on
Crown street. between Utica and Sche-
nectady avenues. ft
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
DEVELOPERS WAND
TRANSFORMS TRACT
Creates Village Within Viii
lage; Makes Old Estate Bios
som With New Houses.

On a tract Of land in Queens Village.
was an attractive old estate on which
stands an historic homestead, there are
now springing UP almost as though by
magic scores OF attractive houses that
will shortly constitute u little town
within a bigger town. Many OF these
dwellings, are already completed and
they present a remarkable contrast to
the oid-fashioned Suydam homestead
which they surround. Along with the
cosey modern habitations are appearing
paved streets, sidewalks and terraced
lawns prettily Handicapped.
The work Is being done by the Stewart
Wiley Company which during the war
built a community for the General
Chemical Company at Claymont. Del.
The head Of this company Is president
Of the Queens Village Homes. Inc. and
Of the Hambleton Company. which share
ownership In the Suydam estate.
All these houses will be exempt from
taxation. Some of the structural fca-
lures are built-in bathtubs, tiled bath
rooms with all modern fixtures, porce-
lain enameled laundry trays, steam heat
with hot water boiler attached for
kitchen and bathroom use In winter. a
gas water heater for summer use, four
foot white enamel tiled wainscots In
bathroom and kitchen. and one inch
oak floors with walnut borders. Tho
doors are finished with mahogany stain.
Some OF the houses have picturesque
open fireplaces. The porches run the full
width OF the house and most Of the
houses have outside chimneys.
Where buyers select a house during
the course OF construction the general
layout may be changed TO suit the pur-
chaser. This option also includes the
selection OF wall paper and Interior dec
orations.
One OF the distinctive features OF the
colony Is the absence Of telephone poles
in the streets. All wircs are carried on
poles in the rear lot boundaries; the
streets are also lighted by electric lamps
suspended from ornamental poles fed
by underground conduits. The streets
are thirty feet wide and have concrete
CUTTERS curbs and sidewalks. The
houses are set back forty feet from the
curb leaving a clear street width for
air and vision OF 110 feet.
In the village of Queens on the Jericho
Turnpike, with its towering shade trees.
there have recently been erected two
solid blocks OF store buildings. one large
hardware store and a new bank. The
community has four churches and two
public schools. There are three surface
car lines that operate through the COM
munity and the houses now being built
are a short walk from the Long Island
Railroad station. The picturesque Bel
mont Racing Park IL also within easy
walking distance. This park Is loaned
to the Queens Village Civic Association
once every year for the holding OF field
day sports and picnic parties.
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
Concerning Bargains at
Auction and Rent Jumpers
BY THE ODD PARAGRAPHER.

Expressing interest in story which
appeared in this column dealing with
quick profit taken on a parcel offered
at auction, real estate auctioneer said
to the writer recently: THAT yarn
brings to mind one Of the most remark
able reversals of form at an auction Of
fering within my memory. Incidentally.
what / am about to say will show how
profit taking possibilities at auction Of
ferings are often missed through the
haste Of the average auction investor to
leave the salesroom Immediately after
the property in which he is interested
has been struck down.
Some years ago the holdings Of
well known estate were sold in partition
IN the vesey street salesroom. Included
In the offering was certain tenement
on Grand street which was the centre OF
interest. The terms of sale stipulated
that the parcel was to be sold subject
to lease. After one OF the liveliest
was sold for $4,000. Immediately after
this Grand street property had been
knocked down fully three-quarters of
the persons who attended the auction
left the room.
"A half hour later It developed that
tho successful bidder had declined to
close the contract. stating that he was
not aware Of the existence OF lease on
the building.
''The auctioneer again offered the
property for sale. There remained only
a few scattered bidders in the salesroom
and Il was apparent that these were not
interested in this particular parcel. De-
soite the earnest efforts Of the auction
eer, the property brought only $4,000
at the second offering. Within half an
hour the value OF the parcel had osten-
sibly deprecated $4,000.
This of course was rather an unusual
case, but l have seen other opportunf-
ties lost In the same manner. The in
vestor should bear In mind that the
mere fact that a man has made the
nx.sst bid for a parcel does not con-
ciude the transaction. Not until the
contract Is actually signed is the prop
erty taken out of the market. 1nciden-
tally, 1t isn't always the early BIRD that
catches the auction bargain"
when Tenants Had Upper Hand.
While some tenants are still wailing
about the Prussanism Of the averag,
landlord, II may not be out of place to
recall at this time certain expressions
inflicted upon the owner of property
some slx or seven years ago. when rcnt-
ing conditions gave the tenant the upper
hand
An interesting example was furnished
this week by well known real estate
operator. Years ago. when concessions
were a necessary evil. three men. all
related. carried the following scheme
into effect with astounding success:
Each sought an apartment IN a house
that had several vacancies demanded
and almost invariably obtained one
months rent free: paid the second
months rent delayed payment for the
third month, and moved when the pres
sure became too strong--each time
without paying the rent due. Usually
they occupied their respective apart
ments about four months for one
months rent.
A separate fund was made of the
money gained BY mulcting landlords.
When IL had increased sufficiently the
thrco schcmcrs entered the real estate
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
SECOND FLOOR PLAN

treated In several ways. The service
portion should have the walls and wood
work painted buff color and enamelled.
producing a sanitary finish that Is easily
washed and cleaned. The hall, living
room and dining room would look wen
in oak, stained and waxed a dark brown.
Or they can be painted an old ivory
and given an eggshell enamel finish,
depending on the owners taste. Either
treatment would permit the house to
be attractively decorated. and furnished.
The chambers and bath should be
painted and enamelled and the chamber
walls papered with simple papers of very
plain design and light In color. in order
to obtain the color contrast needed to set
the rooms off properly, In the draperies.
The bath should be tiled to a length OF
six feet.
BY rearranging the second floor 1t II
possible to obtain four chambers. The
attic is high enough to obtain two rooms
and bath If required.
Note--Those desiring additional in
formation regarding this house are in
vited to write TO the Real Estate Editor
of THE New. York HERALD.
The New York herald., 1921-10-30

may have smaller dimensions that are
still satisfactory and give the feeling OF
spaciousness. but on examination 1t will
be found that this Is due to the fact that
the ceiling heights are as. low as eight
feet, which, with the use Of the small
and delicate eighteenth century furni-
ture. had a tendency to maintain good
proportions. In one of the most beauti-
full examples of small house on Long
Island the principal rooms are small
IA feet square, and yet they dc
not seem small. but the ceilings are
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
Cost, Without Land, About $1,000
in Vicinity of New York City

in
r. wihou
would
Of
architect
Hoor,w would cost
Of
The New York herald., 1921-10-30

Boulevard. Lincoln avenue. Wyckoff
street and adjacent thoroughfares There
are many attractive one and two family
houses i'm the vicinity.
with the rapid trend of population
toward Brooklyn. another interesting
sale Is that Of 20i lots I'm the Kensington
section OF blatbush at the Ditmas ave-
nue-C Cortelyou road station on the B. r.
r. Culver line Il" and the B. r. T..
Broadway subway. The lots arc on both
sides OF Gravesend avenue. on Sixteenth
avenue. West street. Thirty-eighth and
Thirty-ninth streets. in locality where
only a few lots remain available and
where there are q large number OF
apartment houses. dwellings, stores and
commercial buildings. public schools and
churches already erected. This sale is
TO be held on Thursday evening. No
vember 10, In 1S9 Montague street.
Brooklyn.
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
FAR ROCkAWAY TO HAVE
FOREIGN HOUSING GROUP

The NatiaOal Housing and Land De-
veloping Corporation has purchased the
Stner property at Broadway and Oak
street, Far Rockaway, l.. l.. from the
Metropolitan National Bank OF Man
haitian and will develop the triangular
plot OF three and three-uuartcrs OF an
acre with modern housing group thu
will embody the chief features of both
French and British country and sea-
shore communities. The project. II v
estimated, will cost 100000 and vii
constitute one OF The most revolutionary
undertakings OF Its kind I'm this part cf
the country. n is said TO have the in
do.sement OF large lending institutions
Lcwis H. May a. Co. were The brokers.
George & Edward Blum are the archi-
tccts.
The main structure viii contain apart
ments. or pensions" on individual
plots. each suite having twelve rooms
Close by will be a modern hotel, With
all tho features necessary In seaside
hostclry Around this main group Of
buildings which also includes seaside
casino, with dining room at vast ball;
room. will be grouped the smaller
dwellings. reminiscent Of the chateaus Of
France and tho cottages OF England.
The larger buildings will lean moro
strongly In design to the English manor
houses sucn as are TO he seen in Surrey
and Kent. ''Nc facades will be of red
brick and hight stucco with tlIatcfcd
roofs.
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
a FRAME STuccO

a FRAME STuccO
HOUSE OF SIMPLE BUT
ORIGINAL DESIGN IN
WHICH THE ARCHITECT.
A.RNHMOND ELLIS, HAS
EMBODIED ALL THE ESSEN
TlAL FEATURES REQUIRED
IN a SMALL, MODERATE
PRICED HOME
little over Z feet inches high. The
walls are covered with delicately carved
panellings, simple wood cornices and the
windows are small with panes of glass
6xS inches. The furniture is of the deli
cate eighteenth century pattern and
therefore In perfect scale with the rooms.
These are some of the features which
we will have to consider If we are go
ing to reduce the cost of building by
reducing the area and height of our
rooms. Therefore, If the width Of the
dining room and living room Is less than
fifteen or seventeen feet and the width
/. of the entrance hall Is less than nine
feet, there is a possibility that these
rooms may seem cramped and since
these rooms on the ground floor are
the most important in the small house,
as most of the family life is carried on
therein, the whole house is failure IL
they are not properly proportioned. II
they are reduced to dimensions as small
as thirteen feet for principal rooms and
a height of eight feet only very low
ceilings and delicate details of woodwork
and furniture may redeem them.
There Is a great difference between
rooms that seem cozy and rooms that
seem cramped. 1t is impossible TO men,
tion here all of the ways of modifying
our plans in order to retain the air of
roominess and scale. but there are sew
eral methods already known and more
may be found. 1t may be necessary to
increase the size of openings between
principal rooms in order to borrow
space from each other.
Another method is the elimination of
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
Election Day sale at aedncy Farm

Chauncey b. Griffen & Co.. auc-
tioneers. viii cell at auction on election
day. Tuesday. November 8. at r. NJ,
on the promises. nineteen building sites
Mt Gedney Farm, white Plains. The
plots are to be sold separately to the
highest bidders and they are located In
that section of Gedney Farm where
severe. water. gas. electricity and mac
sdamixod Utroeeo have Aasn xnstaAlsds
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
TRICKS THAT MAKE THE SMALL HOUSE SEEM SPACIOJ
Illusion Of Size May Be Created ir
Rooms by Low Ceilings, Delicate
Woodwork and Furnishings, and
Elimination of Non-Essentials--
Other Salient Hints Regarding
That Home You Mean to Build
nv A. RAYMOND ELLIS.
Architect.

American Is practical and has in mind
certain standards of utility, comfort and
convenience. as we'll as the use Of me-
chanical equipment and approved sani-
tation that add considerably to his
efficiency and to the welfare of his
family. BY training he looks upon this
type of house as essential and a good
investment. This is the result Of three
generations of Improvement. but the war
The New York herald., 1921-10-30

field as real estate operators. While the
boom was on In the Hunts Point Sec
tion of The Bronx they operated ex-
tensively and made a fortune.
These former tenants may now be
proflteering landlords. Such is the irony
of fate.
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
New owner for yonkcrs Home.

The attractive tapestry dwelling OF
Colonial design at 75 Fanshaw avenue
Yonkers has bccn purchased by Jacob
Albcrts OF this city from Louis Hirt.
The residence was designed by Howard
Chamberlain and was built in 1871 on
a plot 1O0x10o. II contains twelve rooms
and three baths and includes three car
garage. The sale was negotiated by
Thomas s. Burke. broken
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
woman Buys Montciair Hotel,

Mrs. Annie Il. De Voc has purchased
from the estate of William Mertens the
Mountain House. four story structure
containing thirty-six rooms on the NORTH
side OF Bloomfield and Claromont ave
MUGS. Montclalr. through u. NJ. Crawlcs
& Brother. The house was built In IS3S
by w s. Holt as private school anc
was later enlarged into hotel anr
boarding mousse. There Is a cottage on
the grounds which front $40 feet on
Bloomfield and clarcmont avenues and
have depth Of 312 feet
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
bronx Transn c,ions

NJ r. & c. Erncs, sold Ss0-S7o Mel
rose avenue. the northeast corner OF
l60th street. q two story hricS taxpayer
with stores. two lofts and basement,
The New York herald., 1921-10-30

BlRDSEYE VIEW
FROM tile 1URNBULL
MANSION REVEALING
SOME OF THE BUILDING
ACTIVITY in the
THROGS NECK
SECTION Of the
BRONX
The New York herald., 1921-10-30
Buy rIot for Dyckman Flat.
Loew Sells Bronx Theatre.

Marcus Loew has disposed OF the two
story Elsmere Theatre. 1o9,3x205, at
1924 Crotona Parkway (Southern Boule-
vard). opposite Elsmere place, in The
Bronx. The theatre is leased for long
term to David V. Picker at rental ag-
gregating 5000. 900. Mr.. Picker has since
become associated with the Loew forces.
and IL Is this lease that now changes
ha ndg.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-05-12

bankruptcy. But under conditions
now existing Throughout the agricul-
tural districts west Of the Mississippi
it would be tragic for city jewellers OF
any others not veteran farmers to at
tempt to migrate to those regions in
the belief that they were going to live
what the "back to the land" propa-
ganda glibly styles "a life of indie
pendcnce."
In the first place there is no new
land suitable for farming, and all ad-
vertisements and literature to that eff
feet are false and misleading. It is
true there are approximately 200, 000,.
900 acres of public or government
lands in the Rocky mountain states,
out that portion of this public land
which is not strictly mountainous, Ut
terly impossible of any cultivation un-
der any conditions, is semi-arid land
which produces only after very ex-
penslve system of irrigation has been
constructed, and only then at a very
great annual expense of maintenance
of the irrigation system. Long before
these irrigation systems could be in
stalled so as to make the land tillable
the industrial conditions throughout
the United States will have resumed
their normal prosperity.-National
Republican.
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Sherburne Co. Farm Loan Board.

Sherburne Co. Farm Loan Board.
The board of directors of the Shcr-
burne County Federal Farm Loan as
ISOLATION met at Big Lake Friday even
ing, which was the first meeting of
the board since operations were sus-
pended last year.
The board had instructions to select
only three applications for the county,
and these three in order to be ccccpta-
bic by the fern loan bank, were re-
quircd to meet certain qualifications
which were very strict.
More than As people in Sherburlne
county are DESTROYS of obtaining loans
and of these only those most urgently
needing the loans made out applica-
ton blanks. Of the seven applications
considered only 3 were permitted to be
accepted.
1t is hoped that later in the year
more funds will be available in making
of farm loans and that others needing
the loans may be able to obtain them.
C. C. Hickman, Co. Agt.
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Bringing the Bodies Home.

Twenty thousand bodies of Ameri-
can soldiers. who fell IN France have
either been shipped to the United
states or are now on their way for
burial in their native country. With
LUZ officers of the American army and
personnel for more than 1000 men
working night and day in many Sec
tlons OF France the Graves Registrar
ton service of the American armv has
reached point where it is possible to
forward 1000 bodies month. The
work of sending back the 52.311
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The Fallacy Of the Thing.

| Several newspapers are carrying
news stories to the effect that tire.
mendous "back to the land" movement
is under way, as result of reduction
of wages and wholesale loss of jobs
in the industrial centers. These stor-
les are all given western date lines
and have every appearance of being
well authenticated. AS the stories run
men are seeking farms in such guam
titles that western railroads are re-
inaugurating 'thome-seckers" rates
and excursions, after five or six years
discontinuance of them. The stories
say that very great percentage of
the homeseekers arc ex-service men
and it is expected that the movement
will result in the development of the
great country in the Rocky mountain
regions and beyond to the Pacific
coast.
Just what influence started these
stories is uncertain, but, whatever the
origin, they are not in accord with
facts as department of agriculture
specialists have gathered them.
There is no place in the mountain
Gus or Pacific coast states for any con-
vert to the ''back to the land" move
ment. There is no place anywhere in
the west, northwest or Pacific coast
regions for amateurs in the farming
game; nor professionals, either, I'M
less they have big bank account
back of them. Certainly it would be.
tragic for those who have lost their
jobs in the business or industrial
world, or for the ex~service men who
have not relocated since they were
mustered out, to spend what savings
they may have in answering the lure
to the back to the land" propaganda.
Under the most favorable circum-
stances of several years ago the "city
farmer" however well-intentioncd, in
dustrious and ambitious, had a most
prccarious existence when he entered
upon his homestead and attempted to
establish himself as a farmer. If he
succeeded it was only after long
period of self-denial Of practically all
the comforts and some of the So
called necessities of life-a period of
isolation from the world he had
known and years of back-breaking
toll such as he had never known. In
a large percentage of the cases the
end was heartbreaking failures and
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-05-12

kets said were permissible in the
higher grades. The Minnesota grades
provided that No. wheat could con-
tain three per cent rye :nd barley,
singly and in combination, but the
federal bureau of markets has de-
termined that the quantity of rye or
barley makes the wheat No. 3, even
though the wheat has all the other re-
quiremcnts necessary for No. 1.
Chemists have proved th:t the quality
of the flour, is not deprecated by the
prevalence Ct as high as three per
cent Of rye or barley"
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DAIRY MARKETING.
Minnesota Expected to Have Place on
National Investigating
Committee.

Committee.
St. Paul, May 12.-Minncsota far
mers, who lead the nation in the value
of their annual dairy output, undoubt-
eddy will have representative on the
committed now being appointed by
James R. Howard, president Of the
American Farm Bureau federation, to
work out plans for strengthening and
correlating cooperative dairy market
ing enterprises, officials of the Mime
sofa Farm Bureu federation said to-
day.
Mr.. Howard was directed to ap-
point a committee of II dairy market
ing leaders, by delegates from Fl
states and 81 cooperative marketing
organizations, who met in a national
conference in Chicago last week.
H. R. Leonard, manager Of the
Twin City Milk Producers association,
and A. J. Mcclure, cooperative
creamery expert of the University of
Minnesota, addressed the conference.
The delegates voted unanimously to
authorize Mr.. Howard to select an, in
vestigating committed of II, with the
advice and consent Of the National
Milk Producers federation. This COM
mittce is directed to draft plans for
forming dairy marketing organiza-
lions in unorganized territory, to
existing organizations, and
recommend methods Of putting CO.
operative marketing of dairy products
on a national basis.