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New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Another Big Slice
OfLongg Island City
To Go at Auction
400 Lots of Henry Van Rens-
selaer Kennedy Estate and
Brenton I'll. Collins Will
Be Sold Next Saturday

Located on three rapid transit lines
and at three subway stations, eight to
twelve minutes from Forty-second and
Fifty-ninth streets, Manhattan, 460
Long Island City lots, on and adjacent
TO Queens Boulevard, Greenpoint Ave
nue., Thomson .Avenue, Diagonal Street
and other adjacent streets and ave-
nues, at land hetween the Rawson,
Lowery and Bliss Street subway sta
tions, are TO be sold at auction for the
estate o. Henry Van Rensselaer, Ken
nedy and the Mercantile Trust Com
pany. 2ment for Brenton H. Collins,
owner. of London, England.
The sale will be conducted by Joseph
P. Day on Saturday next under a large
tent at Queens Boulevard and Packard
Street, at the Bliss Street subway sta
tion.
Mr.. Collins, who is ninety years of
age, is a resident of England and
globe trotter of renown. He is said to
own real estate, mines and property of
of the world, and to be as we'll known
in Asia and Africa as insEurope.
Auctioneer's Praise of the Lots
In discussing the sale Mr.. Day said
yesterday:
Because of the great success of the
three-day sale last week of the twelve
toria and Bowery Bay section of Long
Island City, and the concrete proof at
forded by this sale of the demand for
lots so close to and easily accessible
from Forty-second Street, | am I'M
pressed with the Importance and the
timeliness of the offering OF the Ken
nedy- Collins Queens Boulevard and
Thomson Hill lots, which are located
even closer to Forty-second and Fifty
ninth Streets, on two subways, the
Second Avenue L and the Queens
Boulevard greensboro Bridge cars
from Fifty-ninth Street, with three
dual subway stations right at the
property.
"Unless the people of New York are
absolutely asleep they cannot fail to be
impressed as fully as | am with this
opportunity to huy lots so superbly To-
Gated and so close to the uptown busl-
ness, hotel, shopping and amusement
section of Manhattan, for just what
ever they choose to, pay for them
al cannot conceive of their failing to
realize the future of low priced apart
ment building lots, located closer to
the heart Of Manhattan than any
others now available, and on two Give
cent fare) subways.
''If the construction of such houses
is commenced before April, 1922, and
their erection completed before April,
1924; they will be tax exempt at the
rate Of 81 ,00o a room upto maximum
fiYe-room apartment. Any builder or
investor can easily figure what this
means, at tax rate of 2.85 per s100
Of valuation, or $3.50 per $1,000 per
annum. he saving grows to a very
large amount if figured on a twenty
family fye-room apartment house. over
period of ten wears, which Is the tax
GAeniL ton nfriGd.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

and Is. West Fifty-ffth Street, the
apartment house at the corner of West
End Avenue and Eighty Street,
Madison Avenue and Thirty-frst Street
81 to 81 East Thirty first Street, 33 to
AZ East Thirty-third Street, 56 and So
West Forty-ifth Street. 60 and 64 West
Forty-fft Street, 1876 to 1874 West
Fiftieth Street, 16 and 1S West Thirty
sixth Street, motion picture studio in
West Thirty eighth Street, he Film
building he souheas corner of Sevenh
Avenue and Fortyninth Street, Textile
Building and now the Heckscher Build.
ing, which is to be the name of the
building a the Fifth Avenue and Fifty
seventh Street, which corner is owned
by August Heckscher and leased to Mr..
Backer under an agreement in which
each has a control
Mr.. Backer was the pioneer builder
of business structures in Madison Ave
nue.. He was to give Murray Hill it's
first apartment house building which
he claimed would lift the objection to
this type of structure in Murray Hill
after it was completed and property
owners in the vicinity saw what a real
apartment house was like. This build
ing was to have been erected at the
northeast corner of Park Avenue and
Thirty eighth Street on the old Barney
property.
Mr. Levy said that Mr.. Backer was
a man who had great foresight and
seemed to know was wanted long be-
fore most builders. vHis loss, is a
severe one to real estate for he was
always ready to take chance.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Picturesque Long Island
Home for DIR. Catewood
Buys Estate of Robert Graves.
Near Garden City; Sale of
SerVanfless House

ROBERT Graves sold TO DR.. William
Lawrence Gatewood, Of Park Avenue
ms country home near Garden City
known as the Riviera, a three-story
residence containing fourteen rooms
and five baths, from plans by C. H. P
Gilbert, and held at $4,000. The prop.
erty is near the Meadow Brook Coun-
try Club and Garden City Hotel. Cliff
ford Van Schurman and Francis B
Robert were the brokers'.
The electrical servantless house
which was conceived and originated bv
the Malba Estates Corporation al
Malba, L. l., has been sold through
Champ Dasey, sales directors, tc
Miss Dorothy Merritt.
The Rlckert-Brown Realty Company
sold to John M. Spindler, through Johr
w. Paris & Son, plot having a front
age OF approximately eighty-five feet
on the west side of Seventeenth Street
ll0 feet south of Broadway, Flushing
for $2,4o0.
1. G. Wolf sold at. Great Neck the
three-story building, with three stores
and apartments, on Middle Neck Road
52x137, for David Baron for $4,000
Mr.. Wolf also sold plots 5Ox15O on
Seventh Street for B. j. Fields tc
George Verschoore; 75x150 at Stonel
Avenue and Seventh Street for Charles
Shields to Henry Hung; 5ox13O on
Cedar Drive for C. NJ. Carmin tc
Charles Goldsmith, and 60x1Oo on Hill
side Avenue for r. Brand to Josephine
Borgert, & ea
Douglas L. Gilman & Co. leased the
country place of Russell L. Engs al
Garden City to S. Fullerton Weaver.
Thomas A. McWhinney sold at Law
renee a dwelling for D. E. Lennox tc
Mary A. Neccash and for Charles C
Platt dwelling with outbuildings tc
Mrs. Kate Watts
j. Albert Johntra sold for James
Webb the six-family apartment TITS
Bradford Avenue, Flushing, 50xi00 &c
Bronislaw Dembek.
The Wheatley Hills Real Estate Cor.
poration leased For Roland L. Conkli.,
his house, known as Rosemary Cottage
on hiss Rosemary Farm, West Neck
Huntington, furnished to C. j. Sym
ington, and for Mr.. Conklin another
cottage, known as the Names, to Mr.
Bowler
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Sadie Beegas VIII Always.
Lue in Minds Of BroIsors
For Two Months Was Regarded IS Market Earges1
Investor; Was Title Employee snG Ssssfseq Cen
tracts for Property for Pennsylvaessa Station

knew whom she Was -aeIiHg 1or when site
signed the contracts .5ifs sHdeEstoesi,
as a member Of the titTe company force.
that she was hiding some one who did
not want to appear jast'thSn as the
buyer of this realty because Of the ef-
feet that his identity would have on
values.
Wesley Thorne Big Buyer
Wesley Thorne was another Buyer
of real estate who, for q long TING. was
q mystery to real estate brokers and
property owners His purchases were
endless and involved avery character
of property, from q home IN the Fifth
avenue district to loft buildings in the
midtown section and Office buildings il
business zones. There were times when
he held real estate worth millions of
dollars. He had signed his name to
hundreds of contracts before il became
known that he was merely a repre-
sentative of real buyers whose names
were as hidden to him as they Rere u
the general public. He was an enl-
ployee of enc of the big title companies
and assumed the position OF real estate
buyer as part of his duties with that
company. '4as
Albert J. Bachman, cQ-wofker of
Sadie Began and MIR. Thorne, often ap-
peared IN the records as the buyer of
large and valuable, properties. Minnie
Blanchard represented clients Of the
New York Title Company who did ROE
want to be known as beiag in the mar
ket. Every title company n the New
York field IN to several Tears 4go had
men and women in It's employ who
assumed the roll OF property buyers :
for those who did MT want the pub
lie to know Of their operations. When
they became known to the market new
names appeared in the records.
Although many of these property
owners of record are still. employees
of title and mortgage companies they
are not called upon often to perform
as buyers because a new form of rep
resentation has developed.
Companies Now Take Titles
Instead of an individual signing
contract and taking title to property
the real buyer forms a company
through his LAWYER to take the realty
or he has subsidiary Of title or
mortgage company take the realty in
its name. When private company is
organized the attorney for the actual
buyer names some of, the minor en-
ployees in his Office as incorporators.
Edward H. Browning is understood
to have purchased secretly in the mama
of servants in his household. Against
the property so held he would file a
big mortgage equal to more than it's
value.
The day of the dummy buyer has
passed. Men and women are puppets
TO longer in the realty game.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

Sadie Beegan will be remembered BY
many real estate men for the seusa-
ton she gave the market back in the
spring of 1905. With the suddenness
of thunderbolt coming out of clear
sky she appeared in the market as a
buyer, taking ten and twelve properties
at time. The fact that all her pur-
chases were west of Seventh Avenue,
between Thirtieth and Thirty-third
streets, heightened interest in her op-
erations. No one seemed to know who
she was. where she came from and what
she wanted with all the realty she had
purchased in that part of town, which
at that time had an unsavory char
acter, being part of the old Tenderloin.
No stretch of the imagination could
see q future for that realty whose
value depended largely upon it con-
tinuing as the gay life section of New
York.
Every subterfuge was used by real
estate men to locate her, the new rich
woman in the realty field. Some sus-
pected that she was being used to pre-
vent the discovery of an important i'm
provement, and efforts were directed
to lift the mystery that centered in
this woman and her activities. 1t was
most tantalizing situation for real
estate men. If Sadie Began was buy
ing for Sadie Began they wanted
to know it, for there was much better
property for investment than in the
Tenderloin. commonly called the "Heli
Hole" of New York
Acting as Blind for Railroad
After several weeks of feverish in
terest it developed that Sadie Began
was acting as blind for a large cor
poration whose plans would radically
change not only the realty purchased
but the entire section This morsel of
information just heightened public in
terest in the hidden plans Of the un-
named corporation.
Secrets cannot remain secrets when
public interest is aroused, and it de-
veloped that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company was the real buyer of all this
land and that it proposed to erect on
1t terminal for its road that would
be one of the most costly in the world
Overnight Sadie Began lost her hold
on public interest; she was no longer
a mysterious rich woman who planned
to give New York an institution of an
uplift character.
Miss Began proved to be a clerk in
the headquarters of the Title Guaran-
tee and Trust Company She was called
into the Office of the title company
manager one day and told to sign con-
tracts for the purchase of several par
cells in what is now the Pennsylvania
district. The following day she af-
fixed her name to another string of
contracts and every day for weeks after
she appeared before the public as a
buyer. 1t is doubtful if Sadie Began
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Many Home Seekers Find
White Plains Residence

Edward NJ, West, Inc of White
Plains, have sold one of the large,
houses in the Anderson tract for the
Housing Corporation to f, ". Wesley
of the Johns Manville Company; also
sold to a client, who will build, lot
in Greenacres belonging to G. j
Springsteel. The same firm. has sold
for Claude E. Bonar hip sroperty on
Sixth Street to G: F. Maher, of Brook
lyn, and for William Heermans a lot
in Prospect Park to client. They
also report sale of plot on Chatterton
Parkway for Cooley g. West, Inc, and
A. W Haigh
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

Growing popularity of Madison Ave
nue.. as center for financial institu-
tions is further emphasized by the an
nouncement of the United States Mort
gage and Trust Company of plans for a
bank building at the northwest corner
of Madison Avenue and Seventy fourth
Street. The structure will house the
company's Madison Avenue branch. nov
located at 18th Street.
The building will be in the style Of
the late English renaissance. the ex-
terror of limestone, with Knoxville
marble entrance and base.
The site for the building is 1a0x50
feet. Henry Q Chapman fa& prepared
the plans, Contracts bavesInot been
aaaaraea fog sts construction.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
jury Refuses Landlords
Claim for Years Rental
Took Three Minutes to Decide
Owner Was Moi Entitled to
Money Demanded

A jury took three minutes last week
to decide a case in favor of tenant
who was brought into court in an ac-
tion to recover years rental. The
verdict was in favor of Walter Miller.
tenant, of 612 West 112th Street
who was brought into court by Hecto
M. Hitchings, an executor of the estate
of the late Maggie S. Payne.
The tenant had occupied the
premises for three years at an annual
rental Of $1,000 and on April 23, 1920,
was given a lease to sign effective
October l last at "a rate of $500.
When October came the tenant re-
fused to pay the increase and held
up a months rent. The landlord
claiming that the tenant had violated
a. clause of the lease, demanded a
who'll years rent at the increased rate
and brought suit. The matter came
to tl'i"l before Justice Lehman, with
the @ult of victory for the defen-
dant
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Longdcre Section to Haze
14nOtfaer Film BUILDING
EPesssS " - eS9
Twelve-Story Structure Planned for Seventh Avenue
and 18th Street Corner by Jacob Amron; Site Is
Taken Tor ~ Years, With the Right of Purchase

Improvement of the southeast eorner
40 Seventh avenue and Forty-eighth
street with a tweive-story store and
sfice building will be started shortly,
fhe new structure will be on the ad-
;e;ning corner to the Robeyts6n-Coie
Luilding and. like it, will DC especially
arranged to suit the needs of iilm con
Germs Henry Shariro e. Co, who will
ss agents for the new building, lease d
he Site yesterday for forty-two years
sar the owners to Jacob Amron, who
operates the Marlborough Hotel. The
lease carries an option to purchase.
Lispenard Street Loft Buyer
The Dell Realty Company sold to
Townsend Pinkney, II Lispenard Street.
i seven-story loft building, 24.1lx94
isaac N. Sievwright sold for $4,000
10 Reuben Halter 251 Water Street,
southwest corner of Peck Slip, five
story building wit histories, 23x44.6.
Harold Contenti sold to Rose f. Car
DEM PSI, three-story garage, 25x1o0.5.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Prospect Ave. Apartment
Sold by Realty Syndicate
Selvin Co. Parts With l69lh ST.
Corner, Takes Boston Road
House i'm Trade

The -Selvin Realty Company, Sig
mund Levin, president sold the north
east corner of 1e9th, Street and Prospect
Avenue, a ive-story apartmen taking
in part payment i437 Boston Road, a
siX-story apartment, The brokers were
Hillman & Smith The same company
sold S14-3l6 East lo6th Street, six.
trry new-law tenement.
C. l.. Aronds Company sold for Mary
Wieffenbach 2oS9 Washington Avenue,
a four family house with double garage
and for Mr.. schley 1895, three
family house.
Alexander Selkin, David Mintz and
Harry Katz sold 2763. a three story
dwelling, 50x100, to a cambridge Ave
nue. client for occupancy.
). CLARENCE paf.ies sold for Frank
Read to Lillian Haeselbarth 1886 Cedar
Avenue, north OF 177th Street, two
story brick dwelling. 1S.6y1o5
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Cigar Co. Gets Landmark

The United Cigar Stores Company
leased from the estate cS Colonel Ed
ward H. Wright the northwest corner
of Saybrook and Street and Park Place,
Newark, N. j., directly opposite the
Hudson & Manhattan tube station. The
new owners will begin Immediately to
Improve the entire property. Feist g.
FeiSt were the brokers.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Fine Home at Monfclair
For Ralph Ell. Thompson

Arthur W. Loasby. of the Equitable
Trust Company, New York City, has
purchased the handsome residence of
Ralph Fl. Thompson at 1913 Gates Ave
nue., Montclair. N. j. The residence,
which is considered to be one of the
finest types of Colonial architecture in
the town, contains fourteen rooms, five
bathrooms, solarium and billiard room,
and is located on a plot of land about
one half acre in extent, og>the rear of
which is two-car garage. The prop
erty, which was held at S65.000, was
sold by F. NJ Crawley & Bros.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Investors Are Strong for
Realty in Tenement Zones
Several East and West Side
Flats We're Taken Yesterday
bv This Glass Of Ruvers

John F. Reed sold for Mary A. VIII
son to Wolf Treistman the feur-storr
tenement, with store. at the northwest
corner of Second Avenue and Thirty.
first Street. 20x62.
Ralph Russo sold the four-story
tenement on lot 20x1o0 at $50 East
121st Street for V. Celenza to j. Ka-
minsky.
The Bertrand Realty Company is re-
ported to have sold the SKIS fat.
4oxl0o, adjoining the Red Cross Hos
pital, at the south corner of Central
Park West and Tooth Street.
Schenck & Tsehanett sold the two
ave-story fats at az and 40 East 11eth
Street, 50x1o011.
Joseph Flaherty sold to Fannie
szthmary the four story tenement. % 3
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Business of George Backer Who Gave City $1oOoOoOOO
Worth Of Buildings, Will Be Carried On By Associates

Company Will Be Formed by Samuel
Levy, CoPartner and Attorney, to Con-
tlnue Uncompleted Work of the Late
Builder; William Backer, Who Will
Graduate as am Engineer From
Cornell Next Month, Will Take
u p Affairs of His Father
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Greens Farms Home for HinkIe

John Crawford sold Broadwaters, the
short front country place of John H.
Cole at Greens Farms, Conn, to Eu-
gene E. Hinkle. The property consists
of about fifteen acres, and fronts on
Long Island Sound for 750 feet There
is a seventeen-room house, with all
modern improvements. The place was
held at 100000.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Brokers in Archibald Sale

George Howe and Douglas l.. Gilman
& Co, negotiated the sale to the Sis
ters of st. Vincent de Paul of the
country estate of the late John D.
Archbold, at Tarrytown. 1t contains
Approximately fifteen acres extending,
from the Albany Post Road .tp the Hud-
son River
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Operators Take Bronx
Block Front of Lois

Max n. Natanson and Benjamin Be-
nenson have bought the block front on
che south side of 160th Street, running
from Bryant Avenue to Boston Road.
The property consists of about twenty
SIX lots and is ready for immediate i'm
provement. 1t will be sold to builders
BY the purchasers. properly financed.
Inc property was. held at 100000.
the Transaction
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
10Th 81. Plot for Ruiiders

A, H, Mathews has sold for the es-
tate of Henry G. Marquard the plot on
the south side of 1o7th Street, begin
ming 93 feet east of First Avenue and
having a frontage of 270 feet. to the
L & Construction Company, l. Lang
ner president s. Michel represented
the purchasers
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Buy Mountain Lakes Homes

The Mountain Lakes Corporation
sold six room Colonial house on
Cobb Road at Mountain Lakes. N. T.
l0oxf54, to A. N. Granzen, of the
Trans Marine Corporation held at
$4,000. Mrs Lottie M. Silsby of Flat
bush, purchased home of EIGHT rooms
at briarclyffe and Laurel Hill roads.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Annex for U. 5. savings Bank

Plans have been fled by G. ri III.
Gilbert, architect. fer. a.tegatioI.s and
additions to the United States Savings
Bank, southwest eorReT af Madison
bank recently acquired twenty-five feet
additional frontage adjoining to the
south on Madison Avenue
The present four-story building on
this property Will be deselished and a
new structure erected, which will be
added 70 the banking property, making
q total frontage on Madison a enus of
fifty feet
The upper part Of the present corner
building now owned by the bank viii
be remodeled, and the upper part oe
tne addition on Madis Avenue viii
arranged for oFflce% Tor physiciana
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Margaret Ellington BUYS Estate

Margaret Ellington, actress, has
bought farm of 103 acres at Grants
Corners near Ossining, n. Y. She con-
templates installing lake on the prop
erty w. II. Oliver negotiated the sale.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

MOO, at 5l4 East Eighty-second Street,
Davis & Shore and A. NJ Robinson
sold for A, Frankenstein e57 and $50
Lenox Avenue, siX-story apartment,
with eight stores.
A. H Mathews has sold for the New
York Life Insurance and Trust Com-
Company to Jacob Schulman the fiat at
500 and 30d Avenue A.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Invests in Newark PIof

teenth STREE Newsrk 9ISe S0 9ar9 $oI75 SPur bns
been sold by the Clinton Hill Mutual
Investment Association. to Morris C.
Cohen through Louis 'Schlesinger,3 ! Inc.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
APARTMENTS TO LET-rURNIsHEp
Manhattan

Manhattan
sStH ST. (252 LBINGTON AV)-'rwo
rooms bath; highly furnished; s195
Vanderbilt 1882
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Woodmere House R,vo,,

The Country Home Construction
Company, Inc, sold at Woodmere house
NO. ls, consisting of ten rooms and To-
Gated on Elm Street. to Mrs. M. Marcus,
together with adjoining polt.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Will Live i'm BronxyiIIe

Burke Stone. Inc, Bronxville office
report tllesais 4of a residence on Janv-
rim Avenue, Bronxville, for Raleigh
Hyatt to Frankling Giddings, Of New
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
NEVTOwN
Florida

II YoU WILL TELL US. IN YOUR FIRST
iet{er what you want in Florida we Will
pc glad 10 give you friendly. helpful ad-
wee as publishers of Florida"s leading
farm journal il is to our interest to he!D
you get properly located. We have no
honest unbiased advice to those who SEEK
home in Florida Address the Home
Location Bureau The Florida Grower,
famna Fla '
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
FARMS FOR SALE
81 .ooO SECURES 13T ACRES WITH

siQo0 SECURES 1lT ACRES WITH
10 COWS . HORSES. CROPS
Harness vehicles machinery, etc. plo
perous section convo nient advantages: 100
acres machine worked loan, cut Il tons
nay, acre; 30-cow. spring -watered wire
fenced pasture; wood; apples pears; plums.
cherries, etc; T-roOm house: maple shaded
advanced age forcing sale: 81, 800 takes All.
only $1,000 down. easy terms. Details page
~ Illustrated Catalogue, LOO bargains,
FREE STROUT FARM AGENCY, l5o r.
a. Nassau St, New York City.
JERSEY FARMS. hundreds. la~Ee and
small, $1,000 to $4,000. some only $500
DOWN also committing hones with acre
age send for new catalogue and map Of
New Jersey or call; please name price and
.ocation preferred. ANDREWS FARMS,
22o w. A." st.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

Sands Point Acreage Buyer
Pell e. Tibbits sold for the Pell es-
tate to Clarence H, Eagle acreage to
the north of his estate at Sands Point
l.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
New Offices for ENir,san

John P. Kirwan leased offices, 15t0
Broadway, at the northwest corner Of
Forty-ffth Street.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

BFOker m Stuyvesant Fish Deal
John Finck' negotiated the sale for
Sidney Webster Fish of the former
residence of Stuyvesant Fish at 208
East Fifteenth, Street, ren1.ted yester-
day. 1t had not changed hands in
seventy-five years
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Dyckman Plot in New Hands

The Bond and Mortgage Guaranty
Company sold to. Miriam Brettschneider
the plot, 50x100, on the south side of
Iosth Street, $50 feet west of Ninth
Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

g. E. Barker Buys in e. Orange
Frank H. Taylor & Son, Inc, sold
for Mrs. Lillian NJ. Porter to George
E. Barker 35 Fulton Street, East
Orange, N. Ia private dwelling.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15

Kopp & Go. Change Quarters
H. c. Kopp & Co. have leased agcr
Quarters Ut 402 Madison Ayenue'M>
New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
New 3ersey

SOUTH ARLINGTON Av.. 4s--Attractfv.
unfurnished Groom apartment To let
convenient to East Orange station; sl2e
month. Phone Orange 2l44-J.