The New York herald., 1921-12-12
EXCITING RIVALRY In
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Triple Tie Develops in Race to
Add to Owners and Mana
gers Association.

The membership campaign OF the
Building Managers and Owners Asso-
citation of New York is on the home
stretch and is gaining in momentum as
1t nears the finish.
When the drive commenced on Octo-
Der each one of the 164 members was
asked to propose at least one new men,
Der before the annual dinner on Decem-
ber 13. which will mark, incidentally,
the Tooth monthly meeting of the asso-
citation since its inception eight years
ago. The membership committee dis
counted the anticipated result by 50 per
cent and therefore established Its quota.
eighty new members. Thus far thirty
one members have each proposed one or
more new members and triple tie ror
first place has developed.
At a special meeting of the executive
committee last week twenty-nine build
ing managers and owners were eiected
to active and associate membership.
This number. added to those previously
elected brings the total to fifty-one new
members, leaving twenty-nine more
which must be acquired Il the goai Is
to be attained.
The apartment house committee, led
by it's chairman. William p. Barton. mas
become thoroughly enthused over the
activities of it's brother Office building
managers and has divided itself INTO
flying sauadrons to call on those real
estate offices which are notable for their
absence from representation on the ros-
ter of the Building Managers and owners
Association.
The complete list to date OF new
members elected during the drive ioi-
lows:
To active membership-George w.
Harper Jr., president Thomas Ahdis
Emmett Realty Company, 115 Broad
way: John l.. Spence, 370 Livingston
street. Brooklyn; Frederick Brown. Bob
Fifth avenue; Alfred J. Rowantree.
Rowantree-S -Schley Company. 200 Fifth
avenue; Walter Cohen, vice-president
and secretary Broadway-John Street
Corporation, 206 Broadway; Edward
Wells, assistant vicc-president Gotham
National Bank Of New York, 1919
Broadway Harold nj. Silverman, secre-
tary Charles J.. Kohler. Inc, 1923 st.
Nicholas avenue; j. Sebastian Maxwell,
3422 Broadway; Joseph Miner. East
Forty-first street; Anthony A. Palermo
president sos West End Avenue Corpora
ton, 1921 Broadway; Louis ]. Horo-
witz, presid ent Rector Street Corpora
ton, 40 wall street; Dean Widner, man
ager International Committee. y. M.
c. A., 347 Madison avenue; Philip IA.
Rose, manager Lords Court Building.
27 William street; Herbert Eayrs, man
ager Fred F. French Company, 299
Madison avenue; Lewis l.. Dunham
president 300 Park Avenue Corporation.
100 Broadway; Charles A. Millner
manager United Cigar Stores Company
of America, A West Eighteenth street !;
Charles p. Halsey. Halsey IL Flint, Z
East Forty-second street; Harry q. HUI
Artt, I,th G.
Circle: Andrew S. Spinner, Children's
Aid Society, los Fast Twenty-second
street Mark Taubert, Froman & Tau
bert, 1880 Lexington avenue; l.. c.
Haynes, vice-president Broadway-Park
Place Company. Woolworth Building /;
Crester Fullwood. manager Brown,
Wheelock Company. 102 First street !;
Edward x Van Wrinkle, 152 West Sew
enty-second street: Frank Weyl, treas
urer VIM. s. Sussmon, INC, 500 Madi-
son avenue; Henry Metcalfe. trustee
estate of John r. Metcalfe, lat Fourth
avenue; Edgar r. Silk. building mana
ger, l.. J. Phillips & Co., 14S West
Seventy-second street Samuel Kronsky.
president Samuel Kronsky, Inc. 10
West Seventy-fourth street; Frank j.
Mcmahon, f. ]. MoMahon Company
1893 st. Nicholas avenue: Edgar
Ellinger, president Langham Corpora
ton, Hotel Hamilton Corporation, 81
East Fortieth street: William f. Back.
assistant vice-president Lawyers Title
and Trust Company, 100 Broadway;
Benjamin L. hampton, manager Charles
G. Edwards Company. 321 Broadway I;
C. Bertram Hubbard, president C. Ber-
tram Hubbard, Inc. 4S9 Fifth avenue !;
Gerhard Kuehne, vice-president and
secretary New York Title and Mortgage
Company, 185 Broadway; William S.
Bastine, secretary Bastine & Co., Inc,
112 East Nineteenth street; j. e. r.
Carpenter. owner and operator, 6S1
Fifth avenue: Maxwell Whitelaw. man.
ager the Whitelaw Company, ga Madi-
son avenue; Gerald r. Brown, comp
troller Equitable Life Assurance Society.
120 Broadway; Jacob Glickstein, Luxton
Company, 26 West Seventeenth street