Evening journal., 1922-06-21
Much Passing of Buck" and Little Passing
Of Titles is Complaint of Buyers of Shipping
Board DweIlings. Only Forty Settlements
Thus Far Of SOB Houses Sold. May be
Finished BY End of July
SPECTATORS GRANTED FINE
CHANCE FOR PROFIT BY DELAY

With moving day" in Whining
ton only four days remote. with one
day additional because Of Sunday,
the question OF how I'VE shall find a
home in Union Park Gardens" under
delay of government rule, has aris-
en- sharply.
What has happened is a delay OF
more now than three months, due
parity to selling and re-selling by
the United States Shipping Board
and its subsidiary, the Emergency
Fleet Corporation.
There has been the usual excuse
OF red tape" but red tape" has
not brought much satisfaction to
persons who bought Union Gardens
houses 10 occupy as their own
homes.
Meanwhile. while a maze Of de-
lay and OF transactions and other
transactions has extended from Will
mington 10 Washington. and from
there back to Philadelphia and Will
mington, a coterie of real estate
spectators from other cities who
have been following up Shipping
Board realty sales are having It pret-
~ soft" while purchasers OF Union
Gardens homes are finding II hard
to get possession OF properties they
bought in good faith.
There has been a fine example of
passing the buck" and a lament
able slowness in passing titles.
Spectators who bought the
houses by the dozen have. through
and opportunity 10 resell the in
dividual properties at substantial
profits, without putting up much OF
their own money. while tenants who
bought the Gardens homes they oc-
cupy have had to go on paying out
in rent hard-earned cash they had
expected to apply toward the pur-
chase price.
All that the spectators and other
buyers had to pay at the time OF
purchase was ten per cent. OF the
purchase price and ten per cent. ad-
ditional is TO be paid at the time Z
passing the title and settlement.
The longer the delay in settle
ment. the longer the spectators in
large blocks OF houses have TO try
r. sell the properties to other per-
at ten per cent. above the re-
cent auction purchase price-a
margin Of profit the spectators are
asking.
According 10 Darlington Finn
County Recorder of Deeds, only thir-
teen titles have been recorded with
in the past month. Against this are
500 dwellings in the Gardens prop
erty to say nothing of two stores and
an apartment house.
The facts are pretty clear.
There has been entirely too much
of legal enterprise in the entire op-
Grafton to insure anything like ex-
peditious making over of titles OF
the 5Os dwellings and eight remain
ing apartment and store houses, &c
pass these properties over 10 their
rightful owners.
Chronology of the situation Is CIV
EN- in a parellel column. but it would
be better for those interested to give |
heed TO the details of this some
what expeditions enterprise of what |
during the World War" was called
a War Village"
Inquiry into the auction sale or
Buckman Village, Chester. which
was a similar project to that Of the
Union Park Gardens, revealed TO-
day that although the sale was not
held until March. or later than that
OF the Union Park Gardens. prac-
tically all OF the deeds already have
been delivered to their owners
There was no delay in the transfers
Is was stated.
Between telephone calls from
anxious purchases. Eugene Cornell
who represents Albert NJ. Greenfield
Philadelphia real estate operator
who took over the entire Gardens
properties. admitted this morning
that there was little likelihood oi
the purchasers obtaining their homes
for ten to fifteen days at least.
Mr.. Cornell. who was interviewed
at the office of the Liberty Land
21O4 Lancaster avenue
unhesitatingly laid entire responsi-
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