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New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
MiIIer's Depew
Place Plan Favored
By City Club
Suggests Wider Roadway and
That City Have Say in De-
sign of Building To BE
Erected by n. Y. Central

The City Club is in favor OF Borough
President Miller's plans for the relieI
Of trafic congestion In the Grand Cen
trail district which was presented 70
the Board of Estimate recently. ne
pian and tho FACADE Of the building
which the New York Central will erect
across PARK Avenue nc the north end
OF the Grand Central Station, II the
scheme is approved, were reproduced
in The Tribune OF Sunday, November
26. last.
The plan provides for carrying
vehicles around the east side OF Grand
Central Station on n roadway elevated
above Depew Place and Forty.nfth
Street, and then down TO the grade az
Park Avenue through building Whieh
the New York Central would erect be-
tween Vanderbilt Avenue and DepeH
Place. Forty-ffth and Forty-sixth
streets. part Of which would be city
property.
mate the City Club speaks highly OF
the improvement In It's general scope
and des gn Of the building b. vhie tee
has long been desired. The plan would
split trafie around the Grand Central
Station, providing adequately ior an
easy and free movement OF vehicles
north and south and east and west
between Fortieth and Forty sixth
streets.
The club suggests, however, that the
city should have a say IN the character
and design Of the building which the
the New York Central win span Park
Avenue.
Location for Monumental Building
at should be borne in mind" says
tho Communication, "that Park Avenue
lust north OF the station offers one OF
lie very finest opportunities anywhere
In the city for the erection Of an inn
pressive monumental building as IT.
ting termination for the upper section
az this great avenue. The New York
Central has large properties In this
section which IL has been developing IN
an intelligent and attractive manner
There n little doubt, therefore. that
the company would not make the pro.
posed building a. harmonious and
effective as possible. The City Club
strongly recommends, however, that %
arranging nnal details there should be
a clause requiring the eity's approval
Of the architectural plans. This would
be most appropriate 1s tue De"viHs
would be erected partly on city land
ard partly on company land.
There il a detail Of the plan which
ve understand Il not final and whose
revisior we strongly recommend. The
roadways through the proposed build
lnx should be made at least twenty
seven feet wide instead Of twenty-five
feet, 20 as 20 allow comfortably for
three lines Of traffe II possible slso
the twenty foot width along a portion
OF Depew Place should be increased %
twenty-sevon feet The most immediate
and essential point, however Is greater
width through the building, because
the building will be final. Il may well
), that a width Of twenty-five feet
would accommodate all the trafiie shat
can now go over the viaduct south Of
Forty-sceond Street.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
Vhere Was New YorS First Multi Family House Located!
Builders Will
Be Kept Busy
Next Year
Great Volume of New Prof
ecis Placed ON Record
Throughout Last Month
Harbinger of the Future

Prospects are that new construction
will be as extensive next year AZ Il
was this yess. There Is not likely 20
be a dull period for builders, unless
they make Il By labor troubles, during
the first half Of the new year. which
is looking FAR enough ahead at this
time. Builders viii start the year
with a big unfinished program, which
il indeed remarkable. Tor pIpTious 20
the days Of residential and commercial
space shortage winter vas a period Of
idleness for thc construction industry.
Plans which were placed on record
last month in everY part Of The eouH-
try are assurances that builders VIII
be kept engaged frOu the very begin
ming Of the year erecting buildings %
one type or another.
A "fat" November u unusual even
In years OF great building activity, ae-
cording 90 The American Contractor
which says that last month Was tho
FIRST November since 1915 which sz-
eeeded the preceding months new
operations.
Permits taken out ss far back a.
June and july are now assuming form
day By day In the shape Of struetures'
and all men IN the conStruction indus
try, from the workers In brick yards
10 the interior fnishers, are busy. A
remarkable keeping up Of permit vol-
ume during the last three months,
therefore. means more than II the
figures we're built up from q slump.
Only two months Of this year, Jan
uary and February, were exceeded by
the highest month volume Of last year
which occurred in April, and until the
advent Of this year set a record above
that Of any previous month IN any
year from 1914.
Building figures from twenty Of The
leading cities Of the country show that
81, ,f7s 800 ,2f6 IL the total cost Of builo-
ings projects since last January. In 10
year in the history Of building has
there been q greater dow OF money
into new construction, The fetal TO-
1921, that Is, for twelve months, Wa
81 .O65, ,0s9 ,04O, which Is more than
s400, 900 900 below this years figures,
which cover only eleven months:
New York City permits for Noyeni
Der 90 mANN W VAANb Wv fNN-h -
the october level. In October permits
granted in the metropolis totaled s44,-
GO6,254 IN estimated valuation, white
those Of November totRled s62,eis,22S.
Chicago valuations Jump from slt.-
9g6,I50 70 S20,443 900. PhiladslPhia
Jumps from s9.S7e,025 20 Sii,lle.7S0.
taking third place for November vol
ume. Los Angeles holds fast 20 tie
eleven million mark and but slightly
below the actual figures for Philadel-
phia.
Reports 70 "The American Conlrac-
tor from 2O2 cities show JsS12 per
mits were issued in these cities, against
1882 in November, 1921.
The estimated total valuation Of the
permits for November is s2l2,252, 100,
al against S14s,5si 1888 for Noyenlber
Of last year. This Is an increase o.
az per cent over last years hgures.
October returns for this year from
2O4 cities gave a total Of s2i4,e7s,lss
In valuation, which was II per cent
gain over October Of last year.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
Hidden Quarters
Under City's Streets
Bring 100000
Vaults Now Big Source of
Revenue; Recesses Used
in Colonial Days to House
Slaves; Formerly Tax Free

From lOnR-forgotten vaults the city
will get about $500 900 this year. To
be more specific. the space hidden
under the sidewalks OF New York.
from which the City Of New York had
not got a penny Of revenue until a
few years ago, Is now steadily inereas-
ing rs these secret places are being
discovered By the tax experts or other
city officials and made known to the
proper authorities.
Two Of these recesses, In existence
for more than seventy-five years, were
discovered in the business sections last
week. Under the sidewalk in front or
q 10 1S Sprucc Street, formerly the
home Of "Thc New York Press which
vas discontinued several years ago,
was found vault extending down two
stories and across the full width Of
the building. which Is 10 feet.
II is understood that this chamber
was built IN 1850, but the city authori-
ties did not know Of its existence until
several days ago. II will be taxed from
now on. Three distinct compartments
were found under the sidewalk IN front
Of as West Third Street, and they also
will be made TO contribute 70 the run
ming expenses Of the city IN the future.
IN was the custom In early days 20
make applicatiOn 10 the city Tor the
Triviiere of tunneling out under the
sidewalk A nominal Zee was paid Tor
this privilege, which was often con-
sirued as a cult claim deed from the
citv 10 the owner Of the privilege.
poiitical. influence often would &c
euro fbe right to have a vault. IL was
nothine to be secretive about In those
dsvs Tor real estate was not so vaiu-
abio az to make much difference IN the
ta,- levy even II the vaults were made
10 produce a yearly income:
II IL understood that subterranean
commandments were first introduced IN
tbis eItv in Colonial days and served
a. sleeping quarters for slaves. Al
that tir1e there we're az many blacks as
wbites In Manhattan. and they were
bon0bt and sold without squeamlsh.
uess. or course, every slHvenoider ala
not bury his negroes at nighI
Development OF the city brought new
uees for these vEults. In private houses
the space was used for the storage OF
coal ard business concerns placed boil
ers or other machinery there
Previous 10 prohibition many wen
Known restaurants were located ln
vaults. Big rentals were PAID iof
tbese premises because they proyidef
tbe desired setting. FOR most Of these
places were run on the plan Of the beer
gardens Of Germany.
The big return due properly OWL
ers came 20 light during the ad-
ministration Of Mayor Mitchell, and the
eitv set out 20 get its share OF the
revenue secured from these places.
The revenue 10 the city from this
source has steadily increased, and the
opinion Is expressed that the end mas
not been reached, and other underline
surface quarters will be located during
the coming year and placed on the
tax books for levy.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
KV3ckERBOcKEP at 5eAREPIl
s1td zSG STRESZ S7lD 10 Be
TyRST CO. OPERATIHe HTHRZ~
-afERT IN new yak

living room was i4xli and the height
Of the ceiling was SO feet.
Assessments totallinR $1,000 placed
on the properly for the widening OF
Walker Street and the extension OF
Canal Street curtailed the original pur-
poses Of the builders.
Garry Green, who kept lumber yard
at the foot Of Horatio Street before the
Mexican War, was the first man 70 in
troduce the hathouSe idea as known IN
Paris into this country, according 70
men who claim TO know. Green was 8n
enterprisinR man. One day he read in
the newspapers that In Paris decks
upon decks of rooms we're being
erected on the new boulevards laid out
by Haussmann, who was employed by
Napoleon III 10 remodel Paris. Mr..
Green went to Paris and brought back
plans which he put into form at 500
and Sf1 Charlton Street. He built
four-story and basement house in
which were many features and com
forts new 20 New York. Zinc bath
tubs with running water, stationary
ranges with copper boilers for water on
the back Of the stove and hot and cold
running water at the kitchen sink we're
few Of the innovations he introduced.
The first floor and basement were de-
signed ag one apartment Of ten rooms;
the other floors we're arranged in apart
ments Of six rooms. The house was
the most advanced structure in New
York. and architects and builders from
all over the country came TO view II.
This feat apparently influenced the
erection Of row on the south side OF
Charlton Street, just east Of Varick
Street, FOR reference has been made 10
people living in these houses in 1858.
In the early '6Os an apartment, or
multi-family house, or great proper
tions as viewed by the people az that
time was erected on Eighth Avenue,
near Eighteenth Street. For a time IL
was referred 70 as the first and finest
tenement In New York.
A building worthy Of the day was
erected at and 4 West Fourteenth
Street about this time. II was known
as the Knickerbocker, and there are
men in this city who firmly believe
that II was the beginning Of the apart
ment era. Builders and real estate men
hold that none of these buildings re-
corded as great an advance as the
Westmoreland. at Fourth Avenue and
Seventeenth Street, or the stuyvesant
House, in East Eighteenth Street.
These men may be mistaken, and are
willing 90 be corrected If they arc.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
Passing of Delevan House
Al Rrnadway and 4Oth Street

Rszing Of the old Delevan house A.
the northwest corner Of Broadway and
Fortiethr Street will start next week.
10 make way for a twelve-story build
inc. plans for which were filed last
June The structure Is to be put up
bv the Emerson Shoe Company, when
obtained a forty-two year lease Of the
ste. fronting - feet on Broadway and
eI feet on FOrtieth Street. from the
Elliott N. hborowski estate st rentals
aggreRating about s2,50o,0O0. The
ease was arranged by Ames & Co. as
brokers.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
Croisic Building, on 5th
Ave-, in Reported Deal
Operator Said 10 Have Pro.
cured Option TO Purchase
Twenty-StOry Structure

An operator is reported % have pro
cured an option Of purchase on the
twenty-story Crolsic Building, az 2z0
FIFTH Avenue, northwest corner oi
Twenty-sixth Street, 56xl25. The
property, which has an assessed yslus-
tion Of about Sl,300,o0o. is owned by
the Terra Realty Cooperation, repre-
sented By Henry l.. Moses.
Beatrice Oliner resOld the seven
story loft building at eli East Six.
'eenth Street. b0x92, 20 the Thirty-nrst
Street and Fourth Avenue Really Cor.
poration.
Niebrugge & Mazheld purchased fof
their client, United Interests. Inc, ~
Grpnd Street, between Greens ana
Wooster streets, and will have Il over
hauled for light manufacturing.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
9Th District Municipal Court
Gets 125th Street Quarters

Barnet 4 Co. leased for a long
term the upper part OF the building AZ
3i2 20 524 West t25th Street 10 the
seventh District Municipal Court. now
located at the southwest corner q 81
Nicholas Avenue and 10th Street The
building was erected recently on =
site leased through the same brokers
from the Higgins estate for ninety
nine years al 3 total rental Of t4.o00,-
600 By the Seagard Holding Company
Nathsn Goldman president.
New-York tribune., 1922-12-24
Says Realty Will
Be in Big Demand Next Year
Outlook Supports Optimism; Prospects Are That
Business Will Be Active and Widespread;
Public Selling Factor

IN value for the time being. Those IN
vestors who had left the real este:A
market were confronted with invest
mert purchaEes of lower value. while
New York real estate, whieh they had
neglected, continued 10 rise tn value
with each succeeding month. We have
only 10 trace the prices 0f stocks and
bonds throughout the last six or eight
years as they fuctuated up and down,
and compare them with the constantly
increasing value Of New York real es-
tate 70 appreciate the fact that moth
ing equals Manhattan real estate from
the investment standpoint. There Is no
plot on the island whose value Of the
moment is not fixed. and whose greater
value Of the future Is not as ured.
/ predict that the development and
expansion which VIC have seen In Man
haitian In the past decade will be as
nothing compared with the develop
ment which has Just begun and which
will continue for the next ten years.
We must look 10 the next decade 70
show US a real estate growth outdist
ancing BY a tremendous margin any
growth OF the past. Consider FOR
moment Manhattan Island as IL vas
one hundred years ago, or even less
II an fifty years sgo. Go back only a
period Of a single generation ana you
can sec the radical changes which have
taken place in the city. Look az that
district between Forty-Eecond Street
and Fifty-ninth Street. Office build
iues, hotels, apartment houses. banks
and department stores are being built
there In eyer-increasing numbers. Then
lrck AZ the Bronx. Two hours ride
through this borough will show you
sections often several blocks in size
scattered throughout the borough,
which ten years ago we're vacant lots,
and which to-day are occupied by
homes Of all descriptions, from the
single house 10 the large apartment
houses. All these changes have taken
place within twenty-five years. What
car we not expect for the next genera
tionl
Increasing Transit Facilities
Another thing which gives me conf
denee IN NeW York real estate Is the
constantly growing transit lines. No
where in the world arc there such
transit facilities as exist in our city
to-day. The wonderful part Of i ALL
TOO, is that still greater transit faeih-
lies are IN store loI the Pr"PiN " -.
YORK City. There Is no doubt that
Ire next few years will see our sub
way system extended 20 further points
In Staten Island, Queens and other
boroughs, where the increasing popu-
letion Il fast overerowding the present
system. have only 20 90 back two
Years in the history OF our orgnniIa-
tion here 20 find ar example Of the
Increase In value Of vacant property
adjacent 20 new subway extensions.
Among the new transit units addea 20
ihe dual subway some time In lszl
WAS the extension Of the Lexington
Avenue fye-cent fare line 20 Pelham
Raw Par. In the early spring OF that
wear held my great Pelham Bay fark
lot sale which was attenced oy mois
than 5000 persons, few OF whom pa'o
Ccssiiauss - paps ihrD
The labor world., 1922-01-07

cause Governor Hooper is regarded as
President Harding's personal represen-
tative on the Labor Board. In addi-
tion,> the President expressed substan-
TALLY: the Same sentiment in his ad-
dress to congress on December $. -.
Evidently the administration con-
templates forcing an "industrial
court" law, made according to the
Kansas pattern, through this con-
gress. I .....
It is understood that it will. not
apply to railroad labor alone but will
take in miners, steel workers and
everyone employed in the big indus
tries, =
Tho Garys, the Morgans, and the
Atterburys insist that the workers
must be chained to their jobs.
Nothing is better calculated to
solidify the ranks of labor than this
proposal. "THEY SHALL NOT
PASs!" will be the shibboleth Of the
workers. They are prepared to fight
to the last ditch AND FOR A CON-
SIDERABLE DISTANCE BEYOND
THAT POINT.
The labor world., 1922-01-07
Bad Laws Will Not STOP strike,

- Out in the state of Kansas. we
have an ambitious governor. He
will even admit that he is a wise
and generous governor. Really no,
one takes him seriously. That is
why he il gratified. The fact that
most, people do not agree with him
satisfies his own judgement of sup
eriority and a pity it is that the
ordinary folks are so lacking in in
telligence and unappreciative of
greatness.
Likeall wise men of the past,
Governor Allen must become the
saviour Of the people today. He
shall be the Moses to lead Gods
children out of the industrial will
derness into the Promised Land of
Industrial Tranquility of Glory and
Plenty. He, too, goes to the noun
tain tops and consults the oracles
and there hears the voice of the di-
vine man of the states Supreme
Court bench, telling him what sort
OF a slave law he will uphold as
constitutional and by which Govern
or Allen may lead the workers of
Kansas like innocent sheep where
ever and whichever way he may
choose.
The enactment of the Kansas In
dustrial law followed. The Court
Of Industrial Relations was created
and Governor Allen is now proud of
the fact. that the workers of Kansas
can strike no longer and that, there
fore, industrial tranquility reigns
supreme. It is, indeed, remarka BILE
for one to be possessed of a faculty
that can find self-glorification and
extreme happiness, not in seeing
things as they are, but in beholding
them as they are not; not in under
standing that which is clear, but in
failing to comprehend what is un-
derstood by eveyone else.. Governor
Allen is, evidently, abundantly bles-
sed with this virtue.
Despite the fact, that the. Kansas
Industrial law was intended to pre-
vent strikes, the most bitter strikes
have taken place in that state since
this law has been placed on che
statute books. Never before was
the feeling between employer and
employee SO strained as it is at the
present time. Evidently Governor
Allen has been dealing In fiction
and has wholly overlooked facts.
That, however,is not strange to Gov
ernor Allen.
The wage earners Of America love
the principles Of Americanism. They
not only manifest their belief: in
The labor world., 1922-01-07
PACKERS PRIVATE. WAR
IS IGNORED BY PUBLIC

The meat packers are continuing
their private war against organized
butcher. workmen" and the claim
that the public will insist on justice,
when once acquainted with the facts,
Is again shown, to be fiction.
The strike Is nationwide, but to
date the. innocent bystander" that
is paraded. by the public press when
it demands "can't-strike' laws, has
failed to protest.
The strikers have made. numerous
offers to arbitrate and have appealed
to the government to act against the
meat trust, which is using the strike
to squeeze Independents and raise
prices. Nothing has been done.
Trade unionists point to. this sit
uation as a refutation Of the claim
that workers can trust "the public
to accord them JUSTICE rather than
depend on their. own efforts. This
beautiful theory has proved unwork-
able, the unionists say. as the pub
lie is less interested in justice than
they are in their own convenience. as
shown by their interest when the
miners or railroad workers talk
strike.
In discussing the present meat
strike, the New York World issues
this warning to the innocent BY
'standers:"
when the packers needed collec-
tive bargaining to hold their men,
they used it; now that there is
enough unemployment so that they
have chance to win a strike they
turn their: backs on the unions and
arbitrate. Unless public opinion
forces governmental interference, as
1t did in the case OF the threatened
railway strike, the big five (pack-
ers) will probably win and the peo-
pie Of the; country will pay the costs
in the form of higher prices for
meat"
The labor world., 1922-01-07
THE UNEMPLOYED

/ never saw a ;sadder thing
Beneath Gods vaulted blue
Than that grim line Of starving men
Who had no task to do.
They came before the frozen stars
Had faded from the sky.
And all day long the wealthy folk
Rolled curiously by.
They did not ask for lordly things.
For temples or for lands;
They only askel the right to use
The glory Of their hands.
And all day long the waiting line
Stood shaking in the street.
And, oh; their willing, idle hands!
And oh. their aching feet.
never saw a sadder thing
In all the city's strife
That that wor rn host of ragged men
Who waited there for life.
They did not ask for aims Of gold,
nor things of lordly worth.
They only asked the right to share.
The labor Of the earth.
The labor world., 1922-01-07
WHY ORGANIZE?

Who raises your wages? The
union.
Who shortens your hours?: The
union.
Who projects you from grinding
bosses? The union.
Who fights for sanitary work
shops? The union.
Who gets behind every piece of
remedial legislation? The union.
Who takes the children out OF the
workshops? The union.
Who demands equal pay for the
sexes and who reduces hours for
women? The union.
Who continually forces. employers
to protect workers lives? The union.
Who has forced. the establishment
Of factory Inspection? The union.
Who has started .the long: list of
social advances now being accepted
everywhere?: The. union.
The unions do things. Every hour
Of the day they advance inch by
inch and step by step. They have
beaten down ,op pposition. They have
compelled judg les, clergymen, econ
omists and educators to revise their
views Of our dause. and movement.
The union IS the best investment
a worker can make. They are here
to stay and tn Dir usefulness will ex-
pand only as fast as our nonunion
fellows join with us.
There is no limit to what good we
can do by united action.
Join with I'D in this great human
'izing, educational movement that has
proved it's worth and stands today
the only force between workers and
degradation.
:. No other mbvement on earth can
compare with organized labor in the
practical direct benefit to the toilers.
T.: Let unioni$s proclaim. the faith
that is in then. and let them spread
the gospel of trade unionism to their
unorganized craftsmen.
Grit your teeth and organize, for
you will enjby only those benefits
that you take.
The labor world., 1922-01-07
VOLUME AND PRICES.

!: Henry Ford is quoted as saying he
paid Uncle Sam $76,0oo,ooo in taxes
last year. If his taxes were that big,
his taxable income must have been
more than $1o0,oo0,0oO.
The Wall Street journal quotes this
comment by an anonymous banker:
i" The Glass l railroads will have a net
operating income for 1921 slightly in
excess of 100000, 900, Of which credi-
tors will receive about $500, ,00O, 900,
and to owners will accrue a little
more than $1oo,ooo,ooo. In short all
tho Glass l railroads in the United
States will have in 1921 about the
same taxable income as Ford had in
tho year to which he refers."
The reasonf Ford believes in big
volume Of business at low prices. That
system should be applied to freight
rates.