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The New York herald., 1922-08-20
Large Park Av. Apartments to Be Made Smaller

N 4. CHARLES v. PATERNO. the
4 J builder of 27o Park avenue. a
group of nine apartment house
units. covering tho block bounded by
Park and Madison avenues and East
Forty-seventh and East Forty-eighth
streets. has met the constantly increas-
ing demand for small living quarters by
converting the large apartments in unit
A. at the northwest corner OF Park ave.
nue. and Forty-seventh street. into one.
two. three and four room suites of un-
usually large rooms. each with a private
bathroom and unusually large closet
space.
The building, when its alteration is
finished, will be most modern and COM
plete residential hotel. in which suites
will be leased by the year only, with
maid service and electric light included
In the rental Many Of the small suites
provided by the alteration have been
leased from the plans by Douglas L.
Gilman & Co.. Inc. managing agents OF
the property.
The restaurant on the main floor,
which formerly was the Avignon. under
Ritz-Carlton management. has been
taken over by Marchesio. who formerly
managed 1t for the Ritz-Carlton in
terests It will be known hereafter as
the Margeurey and will open on Septem-
ber Is. The hotel will be in full oper-
alton by October /. after which meals
may be served in its rooms. if desired. in
addition to which floor maids will be on
day and night duty.
No. 270 Park avenue Is one of the
largest apartment buildings in the world
and has the distinction of being erected
around a formal Italian garden $50 feet
in length. The building was completed
in the latter part OF 1917>by the Wander
bilt Avenue Realty Corporation CDR.
Charles ". Paterno, president) from
plans Of Warren & Wetmore. 1t occupies
two blocks. leased from the New York
Central Railroad Company. Practically
the entire building was rcnted from the
plans, and since its completion has num-
bered among its tenants members of
some of the most prominent families in
New York.
Douglas l. Elliman & Co, Inc. have
been the renting and managaing agents
Of the building since its construction.
For the present the building known as
unit A, at Park avenue and Forty-sev-
enth street. will be altered into small
apartments on only five of the eleven
floors because the intervening floors are
still under lease for varying periods,
The large housekeeping apartments on
these floors consist Of eighteen rooms
and seven baths each. The remaining
apartments will be altered on the ex-
piration Of the existing leases.
The rooms throughout the building are
unusually large, the living rooms in
even the smaller apartments being nearly
80 feet long and the master bedrooms. in
most cases, 2ox20 feet in their dimen-
sions. The great majority of the mas
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
BROADWAY CORNER IS
LEASED FOR BUILDING
Mercantile Structure to Be
Erected at 10th Street.

A corner in the old Broadway theater
and hotel district Is to be improved with
a business building, the height of which
has not been decided. For the purpose.
the Klassmore Real Estate Corporation
(I. Lasner president) has leased from
the Lavanne Realty Corporation (Bing
& Bing) 1205-1213 Broadway and 1885
West Twenty-ninth street, the northwest
corner of those thoroughfares at which
Is a B. r. T. subway entrance. The NJ
Rosenthal Company was the broker.
The lease is for a long term and the
total rental will be s3,ooo0oo. The prop
erty has a Broadway frontage of 110.S
feet and along the street measures 14o.5
feet. 1t has irregular rear dimensions
and contains 900 square feet. On 1t
are old one. two and three story struc-
lures containing stores and manufactur-
ing lofts.
The proposed building will have stores.
showrooms and lofts and will be erected
after its existing leases have expired.
Negotiations for leasing a large part OF
the Broadway store frontage Of the
building are pending.
Stoddard & Mark. attorneys, repre-
sented the lessor and Morrison & Schiff
conducted the legal matters for the
lesseea
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
NEW MORTGAGE BOND
COMPANY IS STARTED
Goodell; Willis & Co. to
Finance Realty Projects.

A new company of mortgage bond
bankers. Goodell. Willis & Co.. Inc. 80
East Forty-second street, has completed
Its organization and is financing several
construction projects. Its first issue CT
mortgage bonds will be offered soon. The
company succeeds r. H. Goodell & Co..
which was established In 1908. 1t Is ur-
dertaking the financing or high class
residential. industrial and commercial
properties and will issue mortgage bonds
In form available for small investors
1t will also deal II first mortgage secur-
tiles and Is interested particularly In
suburban apartment houses.
Several men well known in real es-
tate and building circles are on the di-
rectorate. Benjamin e. Smythe. of the
suburban real estate Arm of Burke
Stone, Inc. formerly vice-president of
the Liberty National Bank and once
president of the New York State Bank
ers Association. Is chairman of the
board. r. II. Goodell, the president. was
with R H Goodell & Co.; II. L. Crow
ley. of the firm Of Farnham. Brandt 8.
Crowley. industrial engineers. is vice.
president, and w. A. Fleming. of W. A.
Fleming & Co.. public accountants and
auditors, is treasurer. The authorize
capital of. the corporation is 100000.
Other directors are Fenimore c.
Goode. formerly Of the Brett & Gooda
Company and now president of the real
estate firm which bears his name; T.
NJ. Davis, lawyer and executor of sew
eral large estates: A. Stanley Herts. Of
the house of interior decorators, tho
Herts Brothers Company. and Hitter
King, vice-president of the Patterson
King Corporation. architects. engineers
and builders
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
JAMAICA LOTS TO
GO ON THE BLOCK
Property Formerly Known as
Williamson Farm Will Be
Sold September 8.

Jamaica is spreading In every direc-
tion and growing in population, home
building and business. North Jamaica.
or the Hillside, is where more pretea-
tious and higher class dwellings are be-
ing erected by individuals, but q section
for the workingman. who must buy
cheap lots and build a home OF moder-
ate cost Is Jamaica South. the area ly-
Ing between Jamaica proper and Ja-
maica Bay. The chief activity OF that
area Is along the principal highways,
such as the Rockaway, Van Wyck and
Sutphin boulevards. the Merrick road.
Locust and Farmers avenues and other
OF the better known longitudinal thor
oughfares and laterals. particularly
those that have trolley car service.
Further development OF that section
along Sutphin and Van 'Wyck boule-
wards Is forecast In the announcement
tnat Joseph p. Day. Inc, will sell by
absolute auction on September 9, at
+. NJ. on the premises. the SEQ lots on
and adjacent to Sutphin and Van Wyck
ooulevards in Baisley Park and oppo-
site the houses erected recently by the
Harris Company.
The lots to be sold are part of the
property known formerly as the w. S.
WiliamsonN farm, which, as to building
improvements, are unrestricted except
Win regard to the city zoning restric-
lions as applied to use and occupancy.
Inc properly has a frontage of ap-
proxlmateiy $40 feet on Sutphin Boule-
Vard. about one and a quarter miles
south of Jamaica and about 1900 feet
norh or the intersection of Sutphin and
Hockaway boulevards. The main Long
Island Railroad station In .Ian,aics is
about mile distant. Sutphln Ro,,,a-
vardls one of the principal highways
between Jamaica and the Rockaways
and is the route of trolley car line
between the Long Island Railroad sta
uon. Jamaica, and the Rockaways.
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
SALES IN MANHATTAN
REVEALED IN RECORDS

May Q. Morrill, sold to tho Plangent
Realty Company two five story tene-
ments with stores, 1S10-1s12 Third ave-
nue.. 50x9S.
The three story Building 2s2 sixth
avenue, 1870, near Fifteenth street. has
been sold by 232 Sixth Avenue. Ino.. to
Philip Suchar.
The 2s2 Manhattan Avenue Corpora
tion sold to Mollie M. voitter the five
story fat 2s2 Manhattan avenue, 34x1O0.
near 112th street.
Howard Trading Corporation bought
the six story building 80 Laight street,
2s.4x175x irregular and turned II over
70 the Vestry street Corporation.
Washington I. Van wart sold 70
Abraham Stern and Simon Okun ass
Seventh avenue, four story building
with stores, 2t.4xs2.3. near Twenty-fifth
street.
Hattie Hirsch sold to Leopold Loeb
the Ave story tenement s24 East Ninety
fourth, strcet, -2sx10o.&
The New York herald., 1922-08-20

tween the East 177th street (Hugh ].
Grant Circle) and Westchester Square
stations on the Pelham Bay Park ex'
tension of the Lexington avenue subway
to the Eastern Boulevard. 1t Is under
stood that the seven or eight hundred
families who have built In the last two
years all year homes. bungalows two
story houses and stores on Throgs Neck
will prepare soon petition to Grover
A. whalen. Commissioner OF Plant and
Structures, asking that the present bus
service be increased and extended
The new schoolhouse will be opposite
the 9e3 lots comprising the Morris
Estates. with nearly mile OF watef
frontage and valuable riparian rights en-
the East River at the entrance to Long
Island Sound. That waterfront prop.
erty. suitable for -,bungalow sites, 10 70.
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
PERSONAL AND MPERsoNAL.

Afo Realty Corporation. Fred Open
heimer president. Is the buyer OF 2os6-
2O3s Webster avenue.
Portland Cement Association has Is
sued booklet or concrete dwellings,
entitled Concrete Houses"
Morris Winston. architect. has moved
from the seventh floor of 16 West Thirty
ninth street to much larger quarters on
the third ioor of that building.
Abbey s. Gotterer. formerly with the
real estate interests of N. D. Shapiro
and Samuel J. Flash. Is with Thoens q
Flaunlacher. Inc.
Herman A. Acker states he was
broker in the recently reported deal for
the business building 2052 Jerome ave-
nue., east side. 25 feet north of Burnside
avenue.
Brown wheelock- Harris. vought &
Co. and D. Kempner & Son negotiated
the sale for the Livingston estate of the
five story apartments $50 West Twen-
ty-first street to the Blades estate.
Samuel williams was the seller OF the
st. Regis apartments. southwest corner
OF Prospect avenue and 16Sd street. re-
Gently acquired by the st. Regis Apart
ments. Inc. Samuel Fine was the broker.
An interesting illumination of what
can be done with old buildings by care
fully planned remodeling may be seen at
eo4 Front street and 209 Water street
J. II. Michaels purchased the buildings
for use in his business two years ago.
Extensive alterations were planned i'm
mediately and have just been completed
New concrete floors were built through
out the buildings an da freezer plant Of
huge capacity put in
improvements for the new Recon-
struction Hospital for United States SER
vice men on the old site of the Orphan
Asylum at Kingsbridge road and Sedg
wick avenue, are under advisemcnt
James A. wetmore, supervising archi-
tect at Washington. D. c., is receiving
bids from contractors for the erection
of a garage and attendants building, the
cost OF which has been estimated at
Sl50.0oo.
Z A practical joker spread yesterday a
rumor among vesey streets curbston-
ers that applicants for brokers' licenses
would be required to pass stringent
physical examination. Brokers less than
six feet tall had no chance to get a IL
cense. according TO the report. One
curbstoner. who fell short of the six
foot mark by couple of feet, became
indignant over the reported physical re-
quirements. by golly,' he declared
hotly, Il won't take no examination.
I'll sell jewelry first
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
LATE NEWS OF BOTH
BUYERS AND BROKERS
Operators Add to Holdings of Mid
town Business Property Residence
on 10Th ST.. Near 5th Ave, Sold

Townsend Inc, through A. Straus, the
five story apartment house. so Orange
street, at Hicks street. The property con-
tains fourteen apartments and was held
tor $4,000.
Court Holding Company bought Ill,
lila. 113. lis Court street. three four
story brick buildings with stores in
block bounded by State and Schermer-
horn street and opposite to the block front
recently leased to Harold witteman and
Egeloff The property was held for
$4,000 and purchased from the Cramp-
ton estate of West Hampton. The pur-
chasers intend TO remodel the buildings
into stores and Offices soon. The brokers
were Albert Lohman and Stephen c.
Halstead.
Bulkley & Horton Company sold rs
McDonough street, between Marcy and
Tompkins avenues, a four story eighteen
family apartment house. 50x100, for the
Algross Realty Company.
McInerney Klinck Realty Company
sold the detached house $50 East
Twenty first street. 5ox10o. for the Jane
P. Gilbert estate to Jean Alice Gardner
for her occupancy.
]. Lacov sold for the Naomi Building
Corporation TO Frank NJ Katz two
family house and a garage, 50x10o.
northwest corner of Avenue L and Tast
Twenty-third street, held for $25,750.
Henry l.. Nielsen Offices leased to the
Anderson Sheet Metal Company Of
Providence. Il. l.. the one story building
1S5 and 1877 Seventh street for term
of years
Jamaica Leases Reported.
NJ. Morgenthau Jr. Company has
made the following leases of Jamaica
business property: To Max Porter. 473
Fulton street: to A. NJ. Weitzer. AIS
Fulton street: to Mrs. Pearl Kehof. 403
Fulton street.
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
TT RAcT Of nearly five city blocks.

IT RACT Of nearly five city blocks,
adjoining East River Park In AS
toria. Is to be developed at once
with two family homes. The property.
= block TO the north from the park. be-
twean Ditrnars and Potter avenues. has
frontages on Van Alst and Ditmars
avenues. Haiiett, Howland and Crescent
streets and Mcclellan place. 1t Is within
, short distance from the Ditmars ave-
nue station of the Astoria elevated ex-
tension Of the subway to Long Island
City and fourteen minute ride on that
bne prom Manhattan
Tho plot was purchased from the
Riclkert- Brown Realty Company by the
Potter Avenue Realty Corporation, so
Es st Forty-second street. OF which David
w. Keen and Henry y. Saitman are the
managing directors. The Potter Avenue
poinpany is building house a day on
Another tract adjoining the one pur-
fnased. For the latter close to $1,000. 900
WAS paid and on II 102 two family brick
dwellings, are to be constructed. Ex-
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
Showing Character Of Morri. Estate. Waterfront.

Joseph p. Day, Inc, on August 26 at
2 p. NJ. on the premises, rain or shine.
The sale of the Morris EstatAs viii
open up to development the section ct
Throgs Neck just beyond Dewey avenue
and the intersection of East fremont
avenue and East 177th street.-the hub
OF the Neck--and extending TO the Eart
River at the entrance to Long Island
Sound.
At the same time and place Mr. Day
will sell six new frame dwellings. never
occupied. directly opposite to the Morris
Estates, In Sampson and Logan avenues
and Nigel place. Those dwellings arc
TO. be sold for the stockholders or the
Fort Schuyler Company. Inc, and imr1e-
date possesion Of them viii be. given
THAR buyers
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
LUMBER CENTER PLANNED.

About 500 acres at Secaucus have
been assembled for the Fulton Lumber
Terminal Company. which will build a
large mill and shed for the manufac-
ture and storage OF lumber. The prop
erty lies along the Hackensack River
to Division Creek. west OF the land
bought by the Hudson County free
holders for a tuberculosis sanitarium.
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
Y. w. c. A. SELLS IN NEWARK.

vacant lots. 2S7-303 Lake street. south
of Bloomfield avenue, Newark. have been
sold by the Young wGmen's Christian
Association OF that city to the Montray
Investment Company. The plot has a
frontage OF 225 feet and depth of 100
feet.
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
WILL LIVE AT GREENAcREs.

Howe & Thompson have sold large
colonial style residence on Sage terrace
south. Greenacres. for the Scarsdale Es-
tates to George M. Waugh of East
Orange, ". j., who will occupy 1t.
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
on flnst and second mort

Interest on first and second mort
cages OF $1,000. .................... .So6O. 90
water ..........*.......... .......... lh.VV
Insurance ........... .s................ s.VV
Tax lover tax exemption ,........... $500
$4,000
Income from one fiat at $40 a room,
$50 a month or year,. ..........S1 90
$500. 90 annually on first fortgage. payable
semi
100000 annually on second mortgage. pay
able semi annually.
$500 90 total annually. or $50 a month.
TN addition to having his rent free
the owner, after the first year. would
decrease his interest payments yearly
by SO a month the first year, s6 a month
the second year. 50 month the third
year, and at the same average for every
year thereafter. While he would con-
tinue to pay $50 a month on the princi-
pal IL would be the accumulation of
the reduction of interest annually that
would help him pay the $50 a month. In
other words. after the !, first year, ne
would have to pay only SAT a month
after the second year s44 a month. and
after the third year s4l a month, and
50 on, but still by paying the lesser
amounts receive a credit q month OF
esq.,
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
TO BUILD IN FLUSHING.

]. Albert Johntra sold for James D.
Tullis the southwest corner Of Mitchell
avenue and Hicks place, Flushing. to
Joseph Stafford of this city, who will
erect q dwelling on the property.
The New York herald., 1922-08-20

~ OINCIDENT with the residential
growth of Throgs Neck the Board
of Estimate has approved tho
Board of Education's selection OF a
large plot on the north side of Dewey
avenue between Logan and Edison ave-
nues, for the site OF the first public
school on Throgs Neck. The property is
assessed at s25.7oo.
The site Is at the hub Of Throgs Neck
the intersection of East fremont ani
Dewey avenues and East 177th street,
which latter thoroushfare extends under
different names from the Harlem River
to Long Island Sound. and undoubtedly
will be one Of the great future cross-
town streets.
rrollsy~ oar lines already operate --be~
The New York herald., 1922-08-20
PLAYGROUND IN DEVELOPMENT.

has turned its tract Of more than 900
lots at the Hillside station of the Long
Island Railroad over to a builder. who is
going to develop it with single houses.
The plan Is to sell a house and lot
from plan and build according to its
owners idea A playground will be laid
out
The New York herald., 1922-08-20

These items are based on estimates
submitted which will. without doubt.
be modified"
The New York herald., 1922-08-20

Realty Associates sold to Elwood NJ.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-01-30
NO GOVERNMENT JOB LIKE HIS.
Man Who Runs Washington Monument
Elevator Only One in Class.

j, d. Evans Is one Of the men who
has distinctive job in the United
States, no other man having similar
job, or at least not exactly similar
He Is the man who runs the elevator
in the Washington monument and he
has been sliding up and down that
white shaft for ~ years.
Ii one estimates in miles the num-
Der Of feet he has risen and fallen
again, one would find that similar
distance would run three times around
the world.
In addition TO this, the number OF
men and women from every part Of
the country carried by him would pop
iIlate New York City, and hteir num-
bers have included every social CON
tition known to man. from ruling pow
crs 10 paupers, and from Africans 70
scientists from the worlds universi-
ties.
He never computed the number Of
times he has been asked How high
is the monument = but if he had he
thinks it would run into the millions.
Detroit News.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-01-30
BETTER THAN CALOMEL
Thousands Have Discovered
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets
are a Harmless Substitute

DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets the sub
stitute for calomei--are mild but sure
laxative. and their effect on the liver IS
almost instanta1eous These little olive
cnlored tablets are the result OF DR..
Edwards determination not 10 treat
liver and bowel complaints with calomel.
The pleasant little tablets do the good
that calomel does. but have no bad after
effects They don't injure the teeth Ike
strong liquids OF calc-nd- They take
hold OF the trouble and quickly correct
H. Why cure the liver al The expense Of
the teeth, Calomei sometimes plays
havoc with the gums So do strong
LIQUIDS. Il Is best not to take czlonel.
Let DR.. EdUzris' Olive Tabiets take
us rlau-
Hesd8dlles "dufiness- and that lazy
feeling cone from consfiDafion ard a
dis1rdered Evcr. Take Dr.. Edwards
Olive Tsblets utlrr voufeei lurv and
heavy" n1ey dear ciooded han
and perk - The sp-itk Is and 3oc
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-01-30
A Stork Swindle.

a well-appearing man walked INTO
the Offices of the New York charity
organization society just before noon
on recent Saturday and nervously
asked for immediate assistance in what
truly sounded like a serious predica.
ment He and his wife had just
reached town over the Pennsylvania
railroad on their way to Montreal just
before arriving in New York the wife
had been taken seriously III and q
doctor on the train had advised him to
stop off in the city and take her to a
maternity hospital. OF course he
decided to do so, but whereas he .had
bonds and other securities in lock
boxes III Montreal, he was without i'm.
mediate funds. He had left his wife
in waiting room Of the Hotel Penn
sylvania. Would the organization of
ficials arrange to place her IN mater,
nifty hospital ut once and finance him
until the imminent event took place.
They would. They arranged with
hospital for her Immediately reception
and they arranged also for his board an
lodging in a decent boarding house. But
they did not give him any ready mon
ey. That would come later, after they
had investigated. He went OF express
ing deep gratitude. Later in the day
the hospital called up and inquired
about the woman. She had not APP
peared. Nor did they hear OF the pair
for some weeks and then ii was from
other organizations which had been APP
peaIed to with the same tale. had made
hospital arrangements and had given
the man ready money
Some time later the society received
a telephone call from cooperating
institution concerning d lady in dis
tress who was in immediate need Of
hospital. Could they make the neces
sary provision The other institution
was told to send the woman over. She
came aud told the same story of COM
ing in over the Pennsylvania road on
the way 10 Montreal. Of the doctor on
the train and Of her husband being out
even then looking for immediate cash.
They asked her ii she could reach her
husband anywhere by phone. She
could and did He was reluctant
about putting IN an appearance, but
he did SO after some threatening pos
sibilities there his wife were brought 10
his attention. In fact the lady herself
attended 10 that. He was the fellow who
had been there some weeks previously. !
but he had neglected 10 tell his wife
about il. He agreed to take full !
blame If his wife was allowed TO 90
and he is now serving a sentence ON
Island.
But what Of The ladv's impending |
appearance. so to speak One of the
natrons solved that problem and she is
he possessor of fine sofa pillow with
presumably the fictitious child's name /
upon it.-Theodore Wat
re, in Leslie's Weekly.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-01-30
EAST BRAINTREE

Mrs. n. ". keyes has received wore
OF the marriage Of her niece, Miss Jen
ME Jerd, formerly of this place, to I'll
lott Hart in Syracuse, n y, Jan. 70
Mr.. and Mrs. Hart were married at tbs
home OF her sister and started imme
diately for Hollywood, Cal.
The ladies aid gave an oyster sup
per and entertainment in grange hal
Friday evening, which WAS well at
tended
r.. NJ. Rowell was in Lnderiiili on
business several days last week
Mrs. Ella Wills returned home Fri
day
Mrs. T.. II. Smith il visiting hef par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry kibbee at
East Randolph.
Miss Hazel Ferguson Of Montpelier
passed the week end at home.
Miss Doris Blanchard, who has been
ill for several weeks, il improving.
i. r.. Abel ii away Tor several weeks,
visiting relatives IN Elmira, n. X III,
i. Hebard is assisting in the store dur
ing his absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Upper OF 81.
Adams are the guests Of her mother,
Mrs. L. X. Abel.