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New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Queens Business Men
Satisfied With Leaders

William H Johns, president Of the
George Batten Company. Inc, has beer
renominated for president Of the
Greensboro Chamber OF Commerce fol
the ensuing year.
The eleventh annual meeting for the
election o. officers and directors vii
De held April IA Both Ray Paizs.
president OF the New York and Queens
Electric Light and Power Company,
and Edward Roche, Of Far Rockswsy,
have been renominated as yice-presi-
dents. P. A. Rowley, vice president o.
the Bank Of Manhattan Company, has
been renominated for treasurer.
The following members of the chan.
Der have been nominated for q three
year term on the board Of directors:
Edward A. MacDougsn, pres iders
Greensboro Corporation, Jackso.
Heights; W. NJ. Nones, president Nor.
ma Company of America, Long Island
City. Charles G. Meyer. Cord-Meye|
Development Company, Forest Hillss|
Guarantee and Trust Company, Lon..l
Island City; Jarvis H. Hicks, secretar1l
Long Island City Savings Bank, Lons|
Island City, and Clinton T. Roe, after
ney. Whitestone.
Mr.. Hicks and Mr.. Roe are nsFj
members of the board of directors. Al
the others having been rerominated 4
Lewis H. Woodburn, of Elmhurst, Il
chairman of the nomination committss
The other members of the committss
are Ben ]. Field. Frank L. Stiles, O.
Alexander and Charles r. Bettes.
Frank F. Adel. attorney, OF Ridr
wood. has been elected a member
the board of directors TO fiji the rs
cancy created by the death Of job
Adikes, of Jamaica.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
800 Apartnenl
Suites Planned
For Astoria
Hundreds of Lots in No.
wood Gardens and 4,
leigh Purchased for A..
100000 Housing Proier

Housings for more than 300 fsm1;.
and a large number Of new sta,..
to be erected in the Norwood G,,s.l
and Arleigh sections of Long rg..
City. The sites on which the imnr,..
ments are planned have been
chased by different BROOKLYN bnils.
from the Rickert- Brown PeaJtv 'Cl,n cea
pany tor total cost Of sf0se M
The cost Of the improvements il rIs'., ,Isy',
at an additional $1,000, 900. The b1ss'
erS nave obtained from the Netronat
tai Llfe Insurance Company loans .a
gfegat'ng S2,750,oO0 to carry on s
ne largest Of these projects cal g.
s'%ey-eignt apartment houses. eacb -.
conmo odatlng SIX families, or 2 total +
4o6 suites. They will he erected /.
bernard ". Maltz, who has nnrcb.ss,.
for $4,000 LOO feet frontage o'
Sixth and Seventh avenues. betuees
broadway and Jamaica Avenue rs.
houses will be three stories each. Wit
four-room suites, to rent for fros
$3.50 10 S15 a room Mr.. Maltz "a ~.
ported to have gold from plans seyes.
teen Of these buildings for S47s coo +
local buyers. Each fat viii occupy
full lot 25x100. The fronta will be A.
tapestry brick, with limestone trln.
ming. Mr.. Maltz has also purchas.s
for $4,000 300 feet frontage on BroaS
way, between Fifth and Seventh avs.
nues, on which he will erect ffte9
three-story buildings, containing storss
on the first floor and apartments abovs.
Simon Bernstein purchased for scr.
300 $50 feet frontage on Sixth Avenus
between Grand Avenue and Jamai.s
Avenue, on which he viii erect twentg
six two-story, two-famiIy houses. e
lots 25xl00, containing twelve roon.
and two baths, 10 sell for $50 900 eacs
Samuel Bernstein and Philip Ksv.
have purchased for s81 900 $40 fee;
frontage on Eighth Avenue, betwess
Grand Avenue and Jamaica Avenw
on which they will erect twenty-s~
two-family houses, each on lot 2r
100 feet. The houses are similar "a
those to be erected or Sixth Avenue.
All the houses in Norwood Garden
are from plans by Walter Hopkins, d
Warren & Wetmore, architects. AID
Will De IN harmony with those sireadY
constructed on Seventh Avenue from
designs by the same architect
David ". Keen purchased for 500,
900 200 lots on Potter Avenue and az
joining streets in Arleigh. on which hs
will Immediately erect a. cost Q,
approximately sl,200,000 200 two-story
onefamily brick houses, OF lots 2Gxl0t
each, containing six rooms and bath
Mr.. Keen is said TO have already sols
forty eight Of these houses from plans
to local buyers, VINO Will occupy them
as soon as completed
The houses to De built are N ths
immediate vicinity Of the 145 houses
recently erected by the Rickert- Brown
Company and sold for a total Of
SI,794.000.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
French Palace Provides
Nestibule for Building
Hcckscher Structure, at 57th
Street, Has Many Other
Interesting Eeafures

More than 5000 feur dc lis have
been worked into the domed ceiling of
the arcade and entrance hall of the
Heckscher Building, at the southwest
corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty
seventh Street. The ceiling is one
Of the features of this interesting
building which is of French design.
The contrasting color shades of the
decorations are accentuated by rays
of soft light playing on the ceiling day
and night from hidden places in the
cornice of the walls. Black Belgian
marble is used in the floor of the ar
cade and the walls are of Italian Por-
toro marble.
The Fifth Avenue entrance vestibule
was taken from room in the famous
palace of Francis |, of France, and is
IN keeping even to the stairway which
leads up from it. On the walls are
entire effect is true to the traditions
of the architecture of that day.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

Will make this ncighborhood one Of the
most central in the city. These under
ground ribbons of steel will connect
the bank directly with almost every
home section in the greater city and
perhaps nearby New Jersey, for the
Plan has not been abandoned to bring
the McAdoo system into tho Grand
Central zone.
The bank plans to erect building
fourteen stories high Four of these,
perhaps, will go into the great arched
banking room which is to be located on
the Fortysecond Street floor of the
building. York g. Sawyer, who de-
signed the Federal Reserve Bank build
ing now under construction on Nassau
Street; the J. ?. Morgan G. Co. building
the Guaranty Trust Company building
at Broadway and Liberty Street, and a
number OF other we'll known structures
of this character, have designed the
Bowery Savings Bank branch. The
lower part, or the bank section of the
structure, is architecturally similar Co
the marble building which the bank
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Reformers and Boosters
Should Be Realty Men
Part of Business to Help City,
According to Robert z. ST.
mon. Really Onerafnr

The real estate man should be in
every respect city booster and re-
former according to Robert T. Simon.
Reforms should originate with him
rather than with civic associations and
business men, because the very natur.
of the real estate mans business de-
mands that he correct irregularities
and urge developments which are es
sential to the city.
Ihe real estate man should be the
one best posted as to the needs of the
community Suggestions for reform
and civic improvements should come
from thesr estate fraternity in the
hrst instance. Such matters as tran
SIT and port development arc distinct
~ within the knowledge of the real
estate operator.
In the past most of these reforms
nave been initiated by business organi-
cations or, social workers. The study
OF the growth of the city and the shift
ing OF trade centers are peculiarly the
JoD or the real estate operator If
proper data were had and information
furnished, and this information given
publicity, much unnecessary shifting
could be averted.
The operator and broker represent
e.ie Iiaue or PROFESSION IN the eyes of
the public, and they should cooperate
to maintain high standard and to en-
courage confidence. The average in
dlvldual has an exaggerated idea re-
garding the difficulties in owning and
real estate, as compared with
other forms of investment. This idea
can and. should be combated. Ethical
standards should be kept at the highest
point, and misrepresentation should not
be tolerated. Legislation should be
fcstered to protect where protection is
necessary"
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

Of places known in the good old bad
days as the Fortysecond Street Coun-
try Club district.
The Grand Union went down before
the rush of progress, which in this case
was all underground. The Lexington
Avenue subway had to go under this
old structure to get into Lexington
Avenue from the Fourth Avenue route
The condition of the building would
not allow burrowing under it, so the
city took it, and one of the stopping
places in the country club district
passed out The old building was
pulled down. When the city finished
with the subway work under the cor
ner surface the realty was sold to
Harry Mandel, president of the Per-
shing Square Realty Company. Sew
eral months ago the trustees of the
Bowery Savings Bank surprised saw
ing bank circles by announcing the
purchase of the inside half of the
property as site for a branch. 1t
is the first time q saving bank has
established a branch
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

occupies on the Bowery near Grand
Street. The architects we're instructed,
1t is understood, not to deviate too
widely from the general architectural
design of the parent structure. The
banking room on Fortysecond Street
viii he one of the largest and perhaps
the finest in the city. 1t will surpass
IL Sic and inish any savings bank
quarters in New York
Entrance to the banking room will
be through great arched door, located
IN the center of the 1O4 feet Of the
Forty second Street frontage which
the bank owns. At the west side Of
the structure will be a smaller en-
trance. This win be the way to the
elevators which will connect the street
level and the subway below with the
floors of offices above
The building will have a frontage
of 104 feet on each street and will
be 200 feet deep, extending from street
to street. The plot represents the rear
half of the site of the famous old
hostelry, which was one of the group
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
st. Joseph's Parish to Ercc,
SI0O,00O School in Bronx

FlanS have just been filed for Il
school Tor St Joseph's Parish, Bath
gate and fremont avenues. of which the
Rev. Father Morris is pastor.
The designs show four-story Gothic
building with frontage of los feet.
The plans are by Robert j. Reiley. arch
ltect, and call for large indoor play
room on the first floor. classrooms on
the second and third floors and living
quarters for the sisters who will teach
IN the school on the fourth floor. The
new building will be erected on the
cast side of Bathgate Avenue about 1S5
feet north of fremont Avenue and will
cost about $l5O.OOO,
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
home construction Is on Increase in Mu,y Sections

The accompanying chart was pre-
pared by Building Trades Employers
Association and covers construction in
tins city for the last nine years. The
peaks in the diagram were the result
OF local builders efforts to avoid the
restrictive regulations of the zonine
ordinance which was then under con-
s'deration. Many projects were filed
IN anticipation of these regulations,
which have never got beyond the plan
ming stage. For these reasons the
peaks should be discounted in compar-
ing the operations of builders during
the period covered by the chart.
Samuel B. Donnelly, secretary of the
Building Trades Employers Asso-
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

applied for that we can get rate of
512 20, and think this is but tenn
porary condition which should be taken
advantage of by prospective borrowers
without delay.
The savings banks and life insurance
companies are still purchasing in great
volume bond Investments which. al
though selling at much lower net
return than some months ago, are still
very attractive Investments. They are
also interested in mortgage invest
ments, but are conservative in their
Valuations
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Business and Suites for
Lexington Avenue House
New Owner 10 Alter Dwelling
Into Stores, With Upper Floors
for Apartments

James Kyle & ons sold for the $50
Corporation the three story dwelling
at 81 Lexington Avenue. The new
owner Will make extensive alterations,
installing street level store. a parlor
floor store, and four apartments of
two rooms and bath on the upper floors.
Monahan e. Mulry sold for william
j, urchs to DR., Henry C. Becker the
three story and basement dwelling at
81 West l03d Street, 19.6x10O, with an
open space on the east side Of the
premises.
b. G. Norzimer sold through George
~. Mercer Son for Mrs. Matilda
DAVIS o2' West Twenty ninth Street. a
oar-Story dwelling, 22x9S.9. The
property had been in the Davis familv
'since 1851.
Launcelot W. Armstrong and others
isoid to Ludwig Hanf d four-story
mouse at 322 East Eighty sixth Street,
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

citation, who prepared the djagram
says:
plans filed in the years of 1918. 1914
and 1915 were mainly for housing work.
Inc value Of large buildings filed dur
ing that period was comparatively
small. The American States filed
IN 1913, amounting to s12,5oo 900, can
be ignored, as that work was never
undertaken, The low Of November.
lSls, was the termination of the effect
IN midsummer, 1917.
"of the plans filed from January
l, 1919, to December, 1920, less than
AZ per cent was for housing work The
volume OF commercial work fell off at
the close of 1920, and beginning with
January, 1921, the value Of plans filed
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Surplus Funds May
Bring Down Rates
In Realty Field
Modification Not Likely To
BE Sensation; Indications
Are Money Soon Will
be in Big Dem an d
Edwin c. Benedict
The Charles +. Noyes Co.

The age old law of supply and de-
mand is as applicable to the cost of
mortgage money as it is to the cost of
wheat or wool or pork. Just at present
the supply of money exceeds the de-
mand and there are indications of
slight modification in interest rates,
This condition is probably temporary
and due principally to the general
slackenlng of business with the result
ant accumulation of funds at central
points. The opinion of many of our
experienced financial and business peo-
pie is that we are rapidly approaching
an al, increase in business activities and
put to work, with consequent stiffen-
ing of rates
Inc prevailing rate of interest is now
as a. IT mas has been for long time, ST.
~ U.s. is only IN special cases where a very
aVtractlve property is offered as Sc
cSurlty, curt with splendid location, large
land value and conservative amount
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Operators Sell
History Flat
I'm 10th Street
Byrnc & Bowman Dispose of
Apartment in Park Ave.
Section; Small Houses
Sought After by Investors

Byrne & Bowman have sold to Milton
& Dryfoos the fourteen story apart
ment house at t55 East Seventy-ninth
Street, 70 feet east of Lexington Ave
nue. on plot 100x100. The property was
held at SS50,000. The building was
erected by Julius Cushman G. Sons and
is laid out with three suites on each
floor. 1t was an all-cash transaction
above the mortgage.
The Biltmore Realty Corporation
with the Harris Exchange, sold for the
Old Colony Bond and Mortgage Corpo-
ration the six-story apartment house at
the northwest corner of 113th Street
and st. Nicholas Avenue, known as the
lie Roy Apartments. The property was
held at S2S0.000.
Inc Ali Company, Inc, A. H. Levy
president, bought from the West 136th
Street Realty Company the six-story
elevator apartment house at 504 West
151st Street, 75x100. adjoining the
southwest corner of Amsterdam Ave
nue., for Sf32000. The structure is ar
ranged for twentv-four families.
Fireman & Taubert sold for Margaret
ID. Fitzpatrick five story flathouse
with store at 215 East Eighty-sixth
Street. 25x100, to Emanuel Ornstein.
The adjoining houses, PIT to 221, were
sold by these brokers to Mr.. Ornstein
three weeks ago, giving him plot 75x
100.
Trading in Small Flats
Samuel H. Martin sold for the Realty
Supervision Company the five story
tenement at AIS West Fifty seventh
Street, 30x100.5, to Adolph and Aaron
Weiss
Mary c. Berman sold to the Lexing-
ton Holding Corporation the six-story
fat at 175 and III Lexington Avenue.
4S-10x90. at the southeast corner of
ihlrty-first Street, known as the Lex
ingtonia.
David Shukotoff sold to Isle Rachmel
a five-story tenement, 25x100.9, at SO
East Tooth Street.
Frieda Hart sold to the Equality
Construction Company a five story house
at 165 West 136th Street. 2611x99.l1.
Belle F. Gelfond sold to Alexander
Mintz three-story store tenement at
21S9 Third Avenue. 23xS0
George and Barbara Gross sold to
Elizabeth Smith two five-story store
tenements at 430 and 432 East Seventy
seventh Street. 50xf022
Alfred Hunzinger sold to Goacchino
Bosco a fourstory store building at
$50 Second Avenue. 16.4x6O.
Hyman Moskowitz sold to the 100
East Broadway, Inc, a four STORY store
tenement at f02 East Broadway. 25x65. !
Jacob and Beckie Rosenthal sold to
Annie Seigel a five-story Store tene-
ment at lo2 Orchard Street, 25xS710.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
New Corporation Takes Over
YOrkville Section Building

The newly organized 5o1-5O5 East
Sseventy-hfth Street Corporation, hav-
ing for directors G. Lee, c. Hyatt and
l.. Burbridge. purchased the two-st ory
building, 75x102,2, at 501-5O5 East Sev-
enty-ffth Street, east of Avenue A.
The new company is represented by ].
Eckstein. Adjoining on the east is the
Adler G. Eckstein baking plant, Jacob
Eckstein, treasurer.
: Ludwig Hanf sold to the L. c. l..
Realty Company four-story house at
322 East EightYsixth Street. 2Ox1O2.2.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
)rsA Are Buying Big Housing Project Launchedin Queen
Hoover Plans to End
Home Shortage
Mobilization by Government of
Finance for Construction
Purpose Part of Plan

Herbert Hoover. Secretary of Com
merce, is determined to place the great
house-building industry on basis that
will prevent in the future a recurrence
of the housing conditions which the
country has been experiencing for sew
eral years.
Although one of the foremost indus
tries, it is perhaps the most disorcan-
lied, except in some directions. The
character of this business and its re-
lation to the comfort and welfare of
'ne nation warrant supervision of some
sort by the government. He is for
mobilization of the finance of home
building. The old way cannot go on
If the country is to overcome the short
age and always keep up with its hous
ing needs.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12


tor housing work increased and reacbed
1ts maximum in October. 1921. Since
January, 1921, approximately so per
cent OF the value has been for housing
operations. ''e
The years 1913-'15 were above nor
mai years in housing construction. The
average monthly filings for these wears
~as n Sl2,S13,696. The average monthly
nllngs for the year 1921 was s35 2o6.,
1lo. The cost of construction work in
lhe year 1921 was approximately 80
1913 15. Allowing for the increase in
cost the volume OF housing work for
1921 was approximately one and a half
mat mat Of the average for the years
The survey conducted by the Build
ing Trades Employers Association
showed that the work completed since
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

the enactment Of the tax exemntion
ordinance and the work under con-
struction on December 81, 1921. provid-
ed accommodations for 36,649 families
The value of the plans filed in tho
months of January and February 1900
amounted to $94,oO0,oOO Eighty MIL
hon dollars of this valuation was for
housing W ork. Taking the average
value family. as shown by the survey,
at $4,000, the plans filed in Januarv
and February, 1922, would provide ac,
comm odatlons ssxdfor 10000 families,
bringing the gross total to 56,649 fami
modations have already been nrovidad
and are under way sufficient to no. no.
commodate a population equal to that
OF the combined populations of the
cIties of Albany, Kingston, Newbureh.
Poughkeepsie and Peekskill ~
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
New Apartment Project Under
Way Near Washington SIR

construction work has started ON p
ssl,x-story s, elevator apartment house at,
~ West Twelfth Street. The new
building willcontain forty-seven house.
keeping apartments divided into units
OF two three and four rooms. Robert
n. Lyons, Inc, is the architect. The
81 west Twelfth Street, Inc, of which
5. Morrill, Bonner is president has
borrowed 100000 on the project -fron, n.rs
s. w. Straus & Co. - WI
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Mrs. W. Willis Reese Rents
Park Ave. Corner Horne

Douglas L. Gilman e. Co. leased for
Mrs. w. Willis Reese 40 Park Avenue
northeast corner of Thirty-seventh
street, a five-story dwelling, 25H80.
which was formerly the residence Of
her ne mother, Mrs. George Bliss, to DR..
Dharles A. Holder, president of the
rark-unlon Foreign Banking Corpora.
ton who has just sold his former res
idence, at IA East Sixty-ninth Street
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Wife of General Custer
10 Live in Eronxyilie

Burke Stone, Inc, sold for the Joint
Ownership Construction Company, Inc.
q seven-room apartment on Palmer
Avenue, Bronxvile, to Elizabeth Gus
ter. of this city. Mrs. Custer is the
wife OF the later General Custer, the
Indian fighter.
,, Inc Scarsdale Estates, Robert E.
Farley president, have sold blot in
The Creenacres section Of Hartsdale IN
-Mrs. G.. A. Jones.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Purchases Suites i'm Flats
OF Park Avenue Hn1ses

Douglas L. Gilman & Co. has sold
for the Seventy ysixth Street and Park
Avenue Company large duplex apart
ment, containing twelve rooms and
four baths, at $50 Park Avenue, to Mrs.
Carter Herndon.
Pease &; Gilman have sold for S. A.
Herzog an apartment of eleven rooms
and three baths at 969 Park Avenue to
Miss Amelia Z. Cameron.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
S2OO.OOO Flat for Brooklvr

The Fred Morton Company has been
awarded the general contract for a
four-story apartment, 1O2x15O, to be
erected for the Portwood Realty Com
pany at 255-263 Ocean Avenue, Brook
lyn. A building loan has been financed
by the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company. Plans are by Rouse & Cold
stone, architects, and will involve an
expenditure of about 5000, ,OO0
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Garage for Long Island City

The Roman Callman Company sos
for the Leicestershire Realty Compans
Franklin Petit president, TO Herms
Kuthe and others, the property, 10y
zoo, on the southeast corner of q
Queens Boulevard and Harold Avenul
Long Island City. The purchasers VI
erect'a modern garage building vii
shv>yrOOmS
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Minister BUYS Apartment

me Rev Gordon Matthews, con-
focte'! with St. Bartholomew Church,
purchased an apartment at 112 Tween
fy-th'fd Street, Jackson Heights. An
assment at III Twenty third Street
mas been purchased by Lionel Schuster.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Trading on West Side

The Connor Construction Compai
sold to the Ursa Realty Corporate
one and three-story buildings, at A!
and 436 Washington Street. 65.7x ire
ular, south of Desbrosses Street.
F.. G.. Pflomm sold for Esther Dry|
to Leo Kahn 217 West Eightesn]
Street, 50x1Q0, two fve-story huildin
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Alfred l.. ~-...... ,eases Home
On Riversiae WY

Pease & Gilman leased -
E. Smith, president of the ~ ~
Company. to j. Hartley Manners 81 e.
his wife (known on the stage as ,:s nas
rette Taylor) the four-story dweii'a
at SO Riverside Drive.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
River Avenue Plof Sold

Dwight, Archibald g. Perry, Inc. sold
for Edmund. Henry S. and William S.
Coffin plot lO0x1O0, vacant, on east
167th Street.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Cassidy Estate Sells Realty
AT Shelter island He;ehts

The Buckley & Horton Company sold
the Cassidy estate, at Shelter island
Heights, N. Y, situated on Main Street.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Investor Buys Wiltshire,
In West l4lst Street
Six-Story Apartment Near River
side Drive Has Suites
for S4, Families

The Starzer Realty Corporation sold
through Slawson & Hobbs to client
Tor investment the Wiltshire, a six
story elevator apartment, at Goa -610
West 14lst Street, between Broadway
and Riverside Drive.
The Wiltshire fronts 1856 feet on
l4lst Street and contains suites for
lifty-four families, laid out in three.
our, five and six rooms. 1t was held
at $4,000
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12

Sale of West 56th St. Garage
Dwight, Archibald & Perry, Inc, sold
Te or cEdmund, Henry S. and William S.
Co1tln the two story garage, 25x1OO. at
ITO West Fifty sixth Street.
New-York tribune., 1922-03-12
Sale in West 4.3d Street

The Cusack Company and E. O'Sulli- |
van sold q three-story dwelling at 441
West, Forty-third Street for Jacob
Kessler.