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The New York herald., 1922-05-07

red -blooded products of the out-of-doors
and tributes to the far sightedness of
parents who wanted their children 10
have a chance to grow up next to the
heart of nature"
The sale of the Hoffman Park lots
will be held on the premises at 1o'clock
noon. Included In the offerings will be
the Ebling mansion which is said to have
been built some time before the civil
war by James Overing and his brother,
who were related to the Clinton family.
Another important sale to be con-
Quoted by Mr. Day involves 700 lots in
the Jamaica Estates, where home build
ers have been busy since June, 1920.
The lots to be sold are widely distribu-
ted and include almost two blocks, 'front.'
ing on Hillside avenue. Other lots front
Oh Homelawn and Homer Lee avenues.
Roxbury Road, Doncaster Boulevard,
Avon Road and Wexford Terrace. Dur
ing the last eighteen months more than
100 homes have been erected in this ele-
waited section of Jamaica, due to the
fostering influence of local tax exemp-
tion. The sale will be held on the prem
.ses on May 20.
All the remaining lots in the Vande-
veer Crossing section of Brownsville
Canarsie and Jamaica Bay district. The
tract includes $50 lots, and the sale will
be held In Independence Hall, Osborn
street near Pitkin avenue, Brooklyn, on
Saturday evening. May 20. The sites
are situated on Foster avenue, Farragut
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vacated was Available to him as long as
he chose to remain, its rent was less
tlian that of the one he leased from the
lanlord here, that he was under no
notice TO quit. and save for the fact
that his former domicile had no ele-
vator to carry his wife up and down. 1t
was quite comfortable That he gave
It up voluntarily.
Under these circumstances this ten
ant, an Educated business man. entering
into a written lease of an apartment
after driving a shrewd bargain as to
its renovation and rental, now claims
he did so under duress. His counsel
urges and cites authorities to the effect
that the defense OF 'unreasonableness in
rental and duress are vailable to every
tenant, under the provisions OF the rent
laws and that he cannot be estopped nor
precluded from its interposition. No one
Questions this. but IL is one thing to>in-
terpose a defense and another to estab-
lish It.
"The cause was tried precisely upon
this issue.
while a general emergency may
exist (and undoubtedly does) from the
inability OF tenants TO procure dwellings,
1t affects the public collectively. not al
ways individually. In the case at bar
It affected the tenant not at ALL Com
mon sense must be reckoned with in
consideration of these cases and only
where il is established that the en-
ergency affected the tenant and that
such emergency forced him into the
agreement can 1t be held to have been
established. No other conclusion can In
justice be arrived at. The emergency
recognized by the Legislature Is an
emergency that takes away homes and
shelter from the populace; no such en-
ergency confronted the tenant here. He
simply desired for his wife the luxury
OF an elevator apartment Mothers have
survived childbirth and reared excellent
offspring for centuries before elevators
were thought of. and, IL he desired the
luxury. he should be held 10 pay for t..
As well say that a passenger on rail-
road. falling TO find satisfactory seats
for himself and wife In day coach, could
demand seats in the parlor car without
paying the additional cost thereof.
THE rent legislation so curtalls the
right TO freedom OF contract Brightly so
it is admitted) that before the relief
afforded thereby can be granted, the
tenant must put himself squarely within
its provisions. the defense is affirmative,
and here he had TO show that the 'em-
ergency' worked the 'duress' of which he
complains Having utterly failed to do
so. the verdict directed for the landlord
must stand.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
HOUSE SALE AT BATH
TO BE HELD TO-MORR OW

The first OF the three Government
housing sales 10 be conducted by Joseph
J.. Day will take place in Bath, Me,
Monday, May 8. at o'clock. when 100
one and two family brick dwellings
will be offered to the real estate buy
ing public. Many financial interests
In Boston and other large Northeastern
centers have made inquiries about con-
ditions OF the sale and have had rep
resentatives examining the property.
The Bath homes were constructed for
the housing of ship workers by the
United States Shipping Board during
war times.
Chairman Lasker OF the United States
Shipping Board has insisted on special
terms for present tenants in order TO
protect Bath residents who may be oc-
cupying their homes and unable NJ
this time to purchase them even at auc-
tion.
Spectators, operators and home seek
ers have an unusual opportunity to
purchase splendldly constructed dwell
ings located at Lorain, Ohio. on Tues
day, May 23. when Mr.. Day will sell 232
dwellings and apartment houses by or
der Of the United states Shipping
Board.
Mr.. Day has also been commissioned
by the Shipping Board to dispose of n
group of seventy-nine dwellings located
at Wyandotte, Mich. at public auc-
tion In the Odd Fellows Temple, wyan-
dotte, on Thursday May Is. at o'clock.
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BRISK DEMAND FOR
SOFTWOOD LUMBER

with the advance of spring 1t becomes
more and more evident that the lumber
industry is to have a good year. Buying
by retailers shows steady expansion,
and very little of it is speculative, for
lumber is going out of the retail yards
as fast as it is being brought in, and.
according to the American Lumberman.
in some cases stocks ara being sold
more quickly than they can be replaced.
requests for rush shipment being nu-
merous. A number of the larger soft
wood producers have as much business
on their books as they care to take on
for some time. some h>vfrg called their
travelling men in off the road. Many OF
the large mills are very careful about
accepting business for future delivery.
Production, although it is steadily in
creasing, is much below orders, but
numbers of small mills. particularly in
the Southern pine producing region. are
opening up and will increase the guam
tity of lumber which will shortly be
available.
The hardwood market is not so brisk
as the softwood. During the last month
prices of softwoods throughout the
country have advanced. Hardwood de-
mand is not so keen. and While the mar
ket is firm sustained advances have
been fewer. More hardwood is being
taken by industrial concerns, but they
are very careful about buying, and are
not seeking supplies for any great
length of time ahead. Production of
hardwoods in the South is much cur
tailed by flood conditions. and it is evil
dent that as a result of recent inunda-
lions there Is going to be decided
shortage in Southern hardwoods at
least.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
WIDE SELECTIONS IN
KENNELLY AUCTIONS
Long List Of City and Subur-
ban Properties to Ge on
Block This Month.

An unusually interesting list of prop
critics. city and suburban. are to be sold
this month by Bryan l.. Kennedy,
auctioneer. Foremost among them is
the sale OF ia lots on Middletown road.
within a few blocks OF Pelham bay
Park, in The Bronx. which will occur
next Wednesday. On Saturday, May 90,
regardless of weather conditions. Mr..
Kennedy will offer on the premises sos
lots in Port Chester for the Wesley
(Breck) estate.
A long list of vacant plots and acre
ages known as the Metz tract near
block. Included in this sale Is a tract
of fifty-eight acres on the hill near the
Sleepy Hollow Golf Club. Seven acres
of level ground in Rye. near the Boston
Post road, within five minutes ride of
the Sound. is also on the list.
At a special sale to be held In the
Vesey Street Exchange on Wednesday,
May II. at noon the auctioneer will offer
a variety of city and suburban prop
critics. Among them are the Hewlett
place at Huntington. L. l.. consisting of
a large residence. eighteen acres OF land
with 575 feet of water front: also Ivan
brook, a residence and forty-seven acres.
at Deal, ". J.; five story residence at
315 Riverside Drive, 21x100; two four
story dwellings, s3x102.2 each. at 3o7
and 800 West Eightieth street; three
four story dwellings. 20x100.11 each, at
1873 to 1877 West 106th street In addi-
tion several plots and houses in The
Bronx are included in the list.
On Saturday. June 3. Mr.. Kennedy
will sell 1000 bungalow lots at Idle
wild on Jamaica Bay. The sale will be
held on the premises regardless Of
weather conditions
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would. apply an original figure of
speech to the functions of the auction
eer. The latter has been pictured as a
sort of business Santa Claus strffing
deeds to homesites into the stockings of
home hunters. He has been played up
as benevolent Frankersteib, who
single handed bowls over the barriers
to the development of the city. He has
assumed the role of special aid to Uncle
Sam in the sale of war Villages. and
finally his trusty little hammer rds been
referred to as the most effective of all
building implements. But he is yet to be
called the agent of democracy. 30 he is
going to have that title conferred on
him In this story.
To prove that the knight of tie gavel
Is WORTHY of this new distinction 1t is
only necessary to point to the activity
to-day in the Throgs Neck district .of
the Bronx and to trace the development
Of that interesting section Of the north
ern borough lying between Wes.chester
Creek. the East River, the Sound and
Eastchester Bay. 1t was during the
Dutch occupation of New York in the
fall Of the year 1912, to be more precise
than necessary, that John Thrcckmorton
applied for and was granted permission
to occupy the Vriedelandt or land OF
peace" on the long neck Of larG lying
south of Eastchester Bay. He was un-
questionably the first suburban devel-
oper to establish a colony in that section
of the country Just what terms he Of
fered to settlers is not known, but ic is
a matter OF record that he induced
thirty-fivo families to take W their
residence there.
All went serenely with Throckmorton's
Neck as the colony was called, until
of
over the title to the land There were
no title companies or Torrens laws in
those days and in the absence of legal
weapons the Indians resorted to toma-
hawks which ultimately proved their
right of possession.
-Throcl<movton sold what was left of
the title to Augustine Hermans ,apd
from him 1t descended through series
of ownerships involving the names OF
some of the most prominent families in
the early history of New York. From
early Colonial days up to comparatively
recent times this interesting section of
"Ye Old Westchester" was cluster OF
large private estates which served to
defect the tide OF population that was
creeping up into the northern reaches
OF the city.
1t was Joseph r., Day, real estate
auctioneer, who performed the demo-
cratic feat of opening up this area of
vast estates to the small home builder
Mr.. Day had forced the capitulation of
a number of big privately owned tracts
throughout the city and in outlying ter
ritories and when he brought his ham
mer down on the Margaret A. Walsh
and the Henry A. Coster Estates, he
opened up a gap through which the
homeseekers began to trickle. Then fol-
lowed the sale OF the Bruce-Brown.
Turnbull and Brinsmede estates. all of
which are located just beyond the gate
way TO Throgs Neck at the junction of
the Eastern Boulevard and fremont
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Of SO a Room Flat
toBe Shown at Exposition

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
rany is to exhibit a model of it's pro-
posed 50 per room apartment house. at an
exposition on the building growth of
Queens Borough to be conducted by the
builders and business men of that bor-
cugh in the Astoria Casino, Broadway
and Steinway avenues, Astoria, be-
ginning on Monday. May %. Other
features Of the affair will be exhibits
of some OF the more important hous-
ing plans which are now under way
in that rapidly growing section of the
greater city.
The Metropolitan has consented to
participate in the exhibition at the i'm
vitation of the real estate leaders in
Queens. This will be the first public
presentation of the model of the cheap
rent apartments which the Metropoi-
tan Is now authorized by the Legisla-
ture and Governor Miller to build and
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BREWERS TO SELL
BROOKLYN PARCELS
Many Unused Corners to Go On
Auction Block This Month;
~ Other Sales.

Twenty-Five properties owned by the
in Brooklyn are to be sold at auction
Tuesday evening, May %, in 1S9 Mon
tague street by the Jere Johnson Jr.
Company, auctioneers. The properties
include stores, business parcels. flats
tenements and vacant plots. including
ten corners. The highest bidders will
be required to put down only 90 per
cent cash. The sellers as a brewing
company have no further use for the
properties.
In the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn
the same auctioneers will on Thursday
night May 49, sell twenty -four lots,
suitable for improvement, with business
buildings and dwellings. On Wednes-
day evening, May 10, in 1S9 Montague
street. the auctioneers will offer In a
partition sale the three story dwelling
at SO Hanson place. near South Portland
avenue. Immediate possession VIII be
given.
Sixty-six lots in the Bath Beach and
Dylxer Heights sections will be placed
on the auction block in the Montague
street salesroom on the night of Wednes-
day. May Is. The lots are situated be-
tween New York Bay and Cropsey ave-
nue., opposite the Dyker Beach Park and
near the golf links. In the vicinity are
n number of new bungalows and dwell
ings. The properties are reached via
the Eighty-sixth street and Fifteenth
avenue trolley lines which connect with
the West End subway line at the
Eighteenth avenue station.
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-avenue Now comes the announcement
of another sale to be held by Mr. Day
in the same section next Saturday.
This latest Throgs Neck Offering
drives the final nail i:..o the coffin OF
old Hoffman Park, haven Of the pre-
Volstead period, which long flolrished
as sort of adjunct to the Ebling
brewery. A beefsteak dinner was held
last Saturday to celebrate the passing
of the place, and the heirs of the Ebling
estate gave Mr.. Day instructions to par
eel off the property forthwith. The sale
will comprise 1876 lots, including the inn
mediate southeast corner of East Tre-
mont avenue and Eastern Boulevard
directly opposite the terminus of the
East fremont avenue crosstown trolley
line. which connects with the West
chester square station of the Westches-
ter avenue and Lexington avenue sub
way At this point certain enthusiasts
on tho future OF the section predict the
establishment OF an important East
Bronx Business center 1t is this poten-
TALLY. they say. that gives Hoffman
Park lots a high speculative value.
When Mr.. Day was asked to under
take the sale OF the lots he Immediately
dispatched squad of his experts to the
section to look over the ground and
make an estimate of the possibilities of
The place from the viewpoint of both
;he home buyer and the speculator. In
this squad was Gerald o. MacConachie
cf Detroit. Mich, young man who had
come to New York to take charge of
the idea incubator or to use a more
technical term. the advertising depart
,nent of the Day organization. All that
Mr.. MacConachie had TO do was to
produce at least one fresh ided a day,
job that he had performed satsfac-
torly for the Bethlehem steel Corpora
;'on and the Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton. On his first trip to Throgs Neck
Mr.. MacConachie got as far as the
junction OF Eastern Boulevard and East
fremont avenues. where he was so inn
pressed by the health and spirits OF the
child life thereabouts that he forgot all
about the lots. He had his one big idea
for that day so he dashed back to the
affice and made this report:
They raise everything but rents in
Throgs Neck section And because they
are their own landlords the folks in this
rapidly developing district raise other
little things Hundreds ~ homes have
sprung up where none existed less than
a year ago and with the building OF the
homes there has been the sunshine of
childhood to brighten them The Riddles
there are typical wholesome examples
OF what life in the open. with the green
grass under their little feet and the
blue sky overhead, will do for youthful
eyes and checks. No crowded tenement
atmosphere could have contributed to
such robust happy childhood. They are
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IL necessary to indulge In to the extent
of sl00, 100000.
The object of the realty men in
Queens in holding the exposition is to
demonstrate that there is no borough
in the city which is moving faster along
the line OF demonstrating what can
be done to solve the housing problem.
There are now more than $50 concerns
erecting homes in Queens and the entire
investment represents an outlay of
about sl25,00o.0o0.
The show will be under the direction
of T.. J. Dempsey of Elmhurst. as
sisted by G.. Witherspoon. Il. M. Byrne
i. Spielman, Il. A. Dwyer.-J. w. Ken
nedy. p. Guidera. T. p. McCann and
+. w. Mcmahon.
There will be shown every variety of
house that Is being erected In Queens
from the modest single family dwelling
and bungalow to the high class apart
ment house and big tenement housing
from sixty to eighty families.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

Road, Glenwood Road and 101st and
1cSth streets.
A number OF investment properties in
Guiding vacant lots and dwellings in
Manhattan, The Bronx and Queens, in
addition TO a large tract of unrestricted
waterfront acreage in the exclusive
Sands Point section Of Great Neck, L. l..
will be sold at special sale to be con-
Quoted Tuesday, May 8, in IA Vesey
street The Sands Point property will
be sold in three parcels. On Wednes-
day, May 10, Mr.. Day will sell a two
story dwelling, 2ox100, at 1910 Amethyst
street. The Bronx.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
TO SELL WAR MATERIAL
FOR SHIPPING BOARD

About s1o,oOo.00o worth of surplus
material bought by the United States
Shipping Board during tho war and
stored at Wilson Point, South Norwalk,
Conn. will be sold to the highest bidder
on Monday, May 20. by Charles :.
Gerths Realty Experts. Among the ma
terials to be offered is a bronze bust OF
the former Kaiser Wilhelm and num-
Der of paintings taken from the former
Hamburg American yaterland. now the
Leviathan. A number of buildings. con-
tanning about 100000 feet Of lumbers
are included in the sale. The remainder
of the effects include every Imaginable
piece of machinery used, on shipboard.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
As NEW HOMES IN QUEENS.

One Of the largest and most interest
ing housing developments In the eastern
section of Queensborough at present
Is the operation by James D. Geddes
which includes the forty-five six room
houses on Jericho turnpike. near Madi-
son avenue and Walnut stret, village
Of Queens. The houses are a short
walk from the Long Island Railroad
station They are Of spruce timber,
and Electricity. They are built 10 seD
fronf about 5000 TO $500 each. Mr..
Gedtes has acted as his own foreman
and toverseer on the contracts.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
BAY RIDGE SALE COMING.

A tract of l61 city lots and fiftee3
gore lots in the Bay Ridge section ~
Brooklyn will be sold at auction or3
Wednesday evening. May "a. in ~
Montague street. Brooklyn, by thu
Chauncey Real Estate Company, Ltd.
The lots are located near Lefferts Park.
Mckinley Park and Dyker Beach. with
frontages on Bay Ridge avenue.
Eleventh and Twelfth avenues and
Seventieth, Seventy-first and Seventy
second streets. The section II ripe for
homo building and Is served by the
Sea Beach and we-e End subway linea
of the B. h~T. A
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
A young Westerner now
In the real estate business

A young Westerner now
in the real estate business
in this city made a trip to
the Throgs Neck section of
the Bronx recently to look
over some property to be
sold at auction by j. p. Day.
He became SO interested in
the robust youngsters run
ming about that he forgot
the lots. His impression of
the landscape at the juno
ton Of Eastern Boulevard
and 5ast fremont avenue
is recorded above.
At the right are shown
a few of the many houses
which have sprung up in the
Throgs Neck area since the
first auction sale was held
there in September, 1920
The New York herald., 1922-05-07

With the lot market boiling over and
writer's on real estate topics strainlng
their jaded imaginations for rev and
picturesque phrases to describe the situ-
scapty choice remains for the scribe who
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Sam Harris Buy. summer Home.

Sam Harris. the theatrical producer.
has purchased the Clyde Knapp water
front estate at Great Neck. l.. l., and
will make II his summer home. The
property was valued at $175.000. Mr..
Harris has also sold his residence at
Great Neck, furnished, to Albert Brown.
Mr.. Harris valued the property at
$125,000. Harvey Craw was the broker
In both transactions.
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On staten Island.

Cornelius O. Kolff has rented for Miss
NJ. L. cohl to Frank p. Weekly OF Man
haitian her property at 40 Fairview ave-
nue., castieton Hiu, g. I. ....-.-'.. .
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Another big Plant for l.. I. city.

william d. Bloodgood & Co, Inc. OF
Long Island City sold a plot on the east
side of Rockdale street, 800 feet south
OF Nelson avenue, for the Thompson
estate. This completes the assembly of
a plot comprising $4,000 square feet In
the Thompson Hill section of Long ISL
and City for the Underpinning & Foun-
dation Company. which is now erecting
a plant TO contain 10000 square feet OF
floor space.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Rental nt Newport, n. I.

De B,ois & Eldridge rented for Mrs.
c. S. Spencer her property known as
Chastellux, on Chastellux avenue, New
port. r. T.. to Mr.. and Mrs. f. w.
Frueauff for the coming season.
The New York herald., 1922-05-07
Bronx transactions. \.

The Benenson Realty Company resold
through Charles Hunted a Colonial resi-
dence on plot 130x17O on Griswold place
end Fieldston road, Riverdale, known as
the Power house.
Isaac Lowenfeld ard William Pra-
ger resold to Meyer Miller S4S East
1e3d street. adjoining the southeast
corner of Prospect avenue. q five-story
apartment, 49x100. housing twenty
families. with a rent roll of $1,000 and
held at s65,000. Charles Goldberg was
the brokerl Lowenfeld & Prayer pur-
chased from Mary Dean Hildebrandt
SGT Caldwell avenue. near Wcstchester
avenue, q four-story apartment with
two stores. renting for $4,000 and held
at S22,500.
Harry II. +. Johnson sold for Samuel
Shapiro. builder. the northeast corner
OF Morris avenue and 1S3d street, 'front.'
ing 90 feet on the street. with a depth
of Al feet, a one-story building contain
ing seven stores and held at Sf5,ooo'
The same broker also sold for Mr..
shapiro the one-story building with
seven stores at the southeast corner OF
81 street and Albany Crescent. 96x35,
held at 100000. Both buildings are
under cons Struction and will be ready
by June 1. They were acquired by the
same buyer.
Irving 4 Chester ID. Judis sold
through Albert y. Phelps and II. J.
Rogers to the Single Realty Company.
Emanuel Glauber president. the north
east corner OF Burnside and Harrison
avenues plot of about seven lots
having 1s1 feet frontage. The buyers
will erect a one-story taxpayer having
sixteen stores.
David Woodall. Jr, sold for Caroline
Fraser five lots on the east side OF Third
avenue, about 110 feet south of 1S9th
street.
Charles Edelson sold for the Olinville
Realty Company q plot, S9x2S0. on the
northeast corner of White Plains ave-
nue. and 222d street.
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brooklyn Market News.

]. M. Hoffman Company sold for l.
saks the southwest corner of Brooklyn
avenue and Union street TO Or. Henry
Sussman for $4,000, and for Halpern &
Weinstein the property at 233 Rogers
avenue 10 George Belopolsky.
Realty Associates have sold In the
past two weeks eight detached cottages
In Bay View Gardens, each containing
eight rooms. to the following purchas-
ors: l.. Prussner. r. Collum, l.. Dauber.
NJ. Triano. e. Presly. Y, Leichenstein,
+. Mehr and +. Lepez.
George Gauzle has sold 1867 La
fayette avenue, an eight family apart
ment 25x100, for Bernhard Baron to
Pasquale Marlno: also 115 Hewes
street, west OF Bedford avenue. three
story dwelling. 2oxso, for Frank d.
Smith. .DAfA-