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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-09-10
SEASONAL DECLINE is
SEEN IN BUILDING
So Slight However as to Seem Whole
some Indication for Remainder
Of Year

During the first eight months of this
year the total construction started in
New York State and northern New Jer-
sey. amounting to s637,534.000. was only
5000, 900 less than the amount started in
the entire year 1921. Compared with the
first eight months of last year. this
years increase is TT per cent.
August building contracts amounted 20
$50, 900, an increase of per cent.
compared with those OF the preceding
month and of 80 per cent more than
those of the corresponding month of las.
year. Included in the August total
were: SIS, 900. or 36 per cent, for resi-
Dental buildings: $12.649,oO0. or 16 per
cent. for Industrial buildings; S11,37S,-
600, or II per cent, for business build.
ings; s9.63S,oo0. or II per cent. for edu-
cational buildings.
Contemplated new work reported dur
ing the month amounted to $87,210,000
Total building contracts awarded dur
ing the first eight months of this year
in the middle Atlantic States eastern
Pennsylvania. southern New Jersey,
Delaware. Maryland. District of Column
bia, Virginia and the Carolinas) have
amounted to s347. 10000 which is only
IS, 100000 less than the amount for the
entire year 1921. Compared with the
,
increase is SIS per cent.
August CONTRACTS amounted to s36, S99.-
900. which was a decline of 81 per cent
from those OF the previous month and Of
4 per cent from those of the correspond
ing month of last year Last MONTH
figures0 included: s14.sS1.000. or Al per
cent, for residential buildings: $685.
000 or 16 per cent, for public works and
utilities; si.969, 900, or IL per cent, for
business buildings, and S4.5S1,O0 or IS
| per cent. for educational buildings.
Contemplated new work reported during
the month amounted to $52.294,000.
August building contracts in western
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio.
Kentucky and Tennessee amounted to
$50. 900. an increase of AZ per cent
| compared with those of of July and of
$50 per cent, compared with those OF
August, 1921. Last months total in
cluded one contract for s35, 100000. the
by-product coke plant of the Carnegie
Steel Company near Pittsburgh.
The awarding of this large contract
caused industrial building to be in the
lead during August, amounting to S39,-
6S8,000, or As per cent. of the months
total. Public works and utilities
amounted to SIS, 1885, 900. or IS per cent,
and residential buildings to s14,719,-
900. or II per cent. Contemplated new
work reported during August amounted
to s59.1S4 900.
The total construction business for
the first eight months of this year has
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amounted to s406. 4s2. 900, only $4,000
600 less than the amount for 1921.
Compared with the first eight months
Of last year, this year is 40 per cent.
ahead
Construction started In the central
West (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa. Wiscon-
sin, Michigan, Missouri and portions of
eastern Kansas and Nebraska) during
the first eight months of this year has
amounted TO $3.50 050.000, an increase
OF s36, 900. 900 over the total for the en-
tire year 1921. Comparing the two
years on the eight months basis, this
year is 80 per cent. ahead of last.
The August total of contracts award
ed was $S4.382. 900, a decrease Of 33 per
cent. from the peak figure OF the pre-
ceding month. but an increase of 40
per cent. from that OF the correspond
ing month OF last year. Included in last
months total were: S27,524 900, or 80
per cent, for residential buildings; s19,-
$4,000, or 20 per cent. for public
works and utilities; si1.3S4, 900. or 10
per cent. for business buildings. and
S9.675,000. or IL per cent. for educa-
tional buildings. Contemplated new
work reported during August amounted
TO 1921 900.
August building contracts In Mime
sofa and the Dakotas amounted to
s7,00s.0 900, a decrease of IL per cent.
from those Of the previous month and
of IA per cent. from those of the cor
responding month OF last year. The
August total included: s2.337.00o, or
SO per cent. for Industrial buildings /;
s2,116,000. or 80 per cent. for residen-
tial buildings. and s1.144.000, or 16 per
cent. for business buildings. Contem-
plated new work reported during the
month amounted TO s4.245.000.
During the first eight months of this
year the total amount of construction
started In this district was s62.442. 900,
an increase of s per cent. from that OF
the corresponding period of last year.
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CONSTRUCT HOMES FOR
BROOKLYN LOT BUYERS
Harmon Co. Offers to Erect
100 Houses at Once.

Realizing the need for houses at mod
crate prices. William G. Harmon &
Co. have arranged plan for buyers of
their lots. whereby the Harmon inter-
ests arrange for the construction of a
hundred houses at once of varied de-
signs. turning them over to lot pur-
chasers at actual cost. Thus. a six
room house. according to this firm,
costs complete only 1850. exclusive OF
the land. Construction work will be
done by some of the best builders in
Brooklyn and the entire saving from
quantity buying and building goes to
the lot buyers.
Construction work has progressed
we'll on Hyde Park. William T.. Harmon
& Co. reporting that one building con-
Germ in particular has completed and
sold one hundred houses. sixty of which
were sold within the past six weeks
Home buying Is brisk in this part OF
Brooklyn. On their East F'latbush prop
erty. not far from Hyde Park. William
T.. Harmon & Co. have recently COM
pleted twelve detached modern bunga-
1ows-ten out of the twelve being al
ready sold This type of housing is
increasing In popularity. as by cozy
arrangements much OF the effect of
housekeeping is done away with, while
pipeless furnaces electric light and
ether modern improvements reduce
domestic work still further.
The following are a few of the recent
sales on Hyde Park: A 40 foot plot on
Foster avenue. between East Fifty-sec-
ond and Fifty-third streets. to Philip
Brady: 40 foot plot on East Fifty
third street. near avenue ID. to I. Val
entin; a 40 foot plot on East Forty
ninth street. near Clarendon road. to
c. and d. Burer: 40 foot plot on East
Forty-ninth street, between Foster ave-
nue. and Farragut road. to Henry T. and
Christina Blankschen 40 foot plot,
Foster avenue and East Fortyeighth
street, to Meyer -Ulman: a 40 foot plot.
Foster avenue and Schenectady avenue.
TO Margaret Franks; 10 foot plot on
Schenectady avenue. near roster ave-
nue., to Thomas Hughes; a 80 feet plot
on East Forty-eighth street. between
Foster avenue and avenue d. to Will
lam M. Schuman: 20 foot plot on
Utica avenue, between Foster avenue
and Farragut road. to a. Roman; a 30
foot plot on Union avenue, near Farra-
gut road. to A. Ascon; a 40 foot plot
on East Fifty-second street. between
Foster avenue and Farragut road, to ".
vineglin: so foot plot on East Forty
fifth street. near Foster avenue, to Caro-
line Cellows.
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RESIDENTIAL RENTALS.

Pease & Gilman leased for Mrs. c.
Irwin Martin her residence. Fl West
Fifty-fourth street. consisting of five
story American basement to Mrs. X.
Kennedy of Allendale. N. J. This is in
the SO called Rockefeller block also for
Mrs. James Imbrie her five story
American basement, Q East Seventy.
fourth street, furnished. for the winter to
Mrs. w. Murray Crane of Boston. The
same brokers also leased the following
apartments: In 4 East Eighty-eighth
street, under construction. to Donald F.
Ganneard in 1915 Park avenue. south
east corner OF Eighty-eighth street, to
T.. S. Avery; in 35 East /Eighty-fourth
street, corner Of Madison avenue. to
Robert M. Nelson, DR.. II. Fisher and
Mrs. l.. r. Morse: in IL East sixty
eighth street. to General w. II. Allaire !;
in 40 East Sixty-sixth street, to Miss
Eames, and in 156 East Seventy-ninth
street, to w. l.. Findley.
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ONTRACTS awarded in the twenty
seven northeastern States during
August amounted to $322.007. 900.
according to the F. w. Dodge Company.
That figure was 46 per cent. more than
that of August, 1921. and only per
cent less than that of July. 1922. That
seasonal decline has set in after four
months of unprecedented activity and
that the decline is SO slight would seem
to be a most wholesome indication for
the remainder OF the year.
The August figures brought the total
for the year to date up TO So, 362, S72 900.
which is not only the largest figure for
the first eight months of any year. but
the total for 1921. Comparing this year
with 1921, on the eight months basis,
this year is So per cent. ahead.
The outstanding feature of the August
statistical statement is the Increase In
industrial plant construction, which
amounted to $67.373.00o, or 81 per cent.
OF the months total This is the largest
monthly figure for this class since
March. 1920. One project accounted for
S35. 100000 of this large total, the by
product coke plant of the Carnegie Steel
Company near Pittsburgh. Even, omit
ting this large single project. the re-
naming amount is greater than any
monthly total since November, 1920.
Residential building still maintains
the lead in August with $100,SS2.000
worth of contracts, or 81 per cent. of the
total Public works and utilities amount
ed to S49,S25,000, or 10 per cent. busi-
ness buildings. $3S,122,000. or IL per
cent, and educational buildings. s32,-
5000, or 10 per cent. Contemplated
new work reported during the month
amounted to s371. .O0o.
Total construction started In New
England during the first eight months
OF this year has amounted to SAYS. 1884,
Ooo compared with s2o5.147.000 for the
entire year 1921. Compared with the
first eight months of last year. this
years increase Is 81 per cent.
August building contracts in New
England amounted to s2.074,0O0. an In
crease of per cent. over July and OF
ST per cent. over the corresponding
month of last year. Included in the
August total were: s12,672.000. or As per
cent, for residential buildings; $780,
900. or Is per cent, for business build
ings: SO, 49,, 900. or II per cent, for pub
lie works and utilities; s2,961.0o0, or IL
per cent. for Industrial plans, and S2.-
291 900, or per cent, for educational
buildings. Contemplated new work re-
ported during the month amounted to
SAL .236 900.
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BIG DEAL IN MoNTCLAIR.

The Center Amusement Company.
owners of the Strand and Central thea
tiers Of Newark. has sold 5o7 and 500
Bloomfield avenue. between North Full
lerton avenue and Park street Mont
clair. In the transaction the Frank
Hughes Company of Montclair repre-
New York investor, was represented by
Louis Schlesinger, Inc. The building
is a brick structure, two stories high
The property is at present occupied
by the Butterick Publishing Company
and the G. Andersakes Candy Company.
1t was purchased for investment. The
location is in the heart of Montclair's
best section, opposite the new Hnck
theater and office building. at the juno
ton of Bloomfield avenue. South Full
lerton avenue and Church street.
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BIDS FOR PUBLIC WORKS.

Proposals have been received by
the acting supervising architect at the
Treasury Department in Washington.
for the U. $. Public Health service
garage In the Bronx, according to
Browns Letters Inc. construction re-
ports. The building will be at Sedge-
wick and Webb avenue. south of Kings
bridge Road and will be two stories
high, 35x110. The lowest estimate was
submitted by Niewenhous Co, Inc, at
s3s,990. The second lowest estimate
was submitted by J. Waters CO.
at s39.940.
The City OF New York. through the
Department of Plant and Structures.
has opened bids for constructing a
housing station at East End avenue
and Eightieth street, according to
Browns Letters, Inc. construction re-
ports. The lowest estimate for the gen
eral construction was submitted by I.
j. Reilly Co., amounting to s67,752.
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PREPARE TO WIDEN
WEST 9TH STREET
Borough President Miller Lets
Contracts; Merchants
Much Pleased.

Another important step In the devei-
opment OF the uptown business section
Is seen in the announcement by Borough
President Miller of Manhattan that con-
tracts for the widening and repaving of
West Fifty-seventh street between Fifth
and Eighth avenues, and Madison ave-
nue. between Sixtieth and Seventy-second
streets. have been awarded. The work
on the construction of the sewer in
Fifty-seventh street between Fifth and
Sixth avenues has already been started.
Charles ]. Oppenheim. Jr., president
OF Jay-Thorpe, Inc, one of Fifty-seventh
streets merchants, in speaking of the
effect this widening will have on the
development Of this important cross
town thoroughfare, said: This devel-
opment. brought about through the Fifth
Avenue Association. conclusively proves
that the belief of few of us, who a
few years ago pinned our faith on the
future of Fifty-seventh street. is now
vindicated This widening, combined
with the widening of upper Madison ave-
nue. and several other widening projects
in the immediate neighborhood, will do
much to hasten the time when Fifty
seventh street will be the undisputed CEN
ter of beautiful shopping and business
district. Real estate values have al
ready started to climb and building ac-
tivity is increasing.
THE widening of this street, combined
with the ordinance procured by our as
ISOLATION barring illuminated signs and
regulating other signs. will increase the
value of Fifty-seventh street as the most
northerly location for high class shops.
This street has for years been one of
Fifth avenues main traffic outlets For
westbound automobile traffic it is prac-
tically continuation Of the avenue It
self. for the shopping and business por-
ton Of Fifth avenue is halted at Sixtieth
street by residential restrictions.
THE business interests OF Fifty
seventh street, represented by the Fifty
seventh Street Committee of the Fifth
Avenue Association. realized few
years ago. that the present improve
ment was vitality necessary to the de-
velopment of our street. The widening
proceedings were thereafter energeti-
cally pushed and finally approved by the
Board of Estimate last year, upon the
associations application. Technical and
other difficulties thereafter presented
themselves, but due to the splendid
efforts of Borough President Miller this
needed improvement will soon be an
accomplished fact"
The continuation OF the widening of
Madison avenue north of Sixtieth street,
is another recent example of the high
class development of Madison avenue.
which avenue was widened between
Forty-sixth and Sixtieth streets last
year. Madison avenue already has COM
menced to feel tremendous building
boom and business development.
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SALES IN MANHATTAN
REVEALED IN RECORDS

The two six-story renements and
stores at the southeast corner OF Sec
ond avenue and Fifty-sixth street
4O.5x10Ox1oOx irregular. have been sold
by the sunnyside Holding Co. to Sophie
A. Mayer.
Louis Adler and others sold for $780,
900 the six-story building with stores
at 221-223 East Broadway. southeast
corner OF Clinton street. 47.2x9o, to the
Rothkopf Realty Company.
Henry Feir sold to Anna PER- and
Abraham Cohen a six story apart
ment. 122-124 East 18th street. AK
100.10.
Agnes schramm sold to William
Schmidt the five-story tenement 4o3
East Eighty-ninth street. 25x75.s.
Harris Rosenberg sold to Namen
Namenson the five-story tenement, IL
East 1Osth street. 17x1oo.
Grandon Realty Co. sold TO Elias
Senft the two five-story tenements,
411-413 Grand street, 5ox75.
Mabel II. Taylor sold the two-story
building, 300 Elizabeth street. zoxs1.s.
Annie Luger sold TO Meyer Cohen the
five-story tenement 61S East Sixteenth
street, 25x1O3.3.
The Emma Gillespie estate sold TO
Patrick Dooley the three-story dwelling
22S East Seventy-ninth street. 17.10x
1922.
Josephine l.. Miller sold TO Charles 8.
Sweedy the five story dwelling at IL
West Sixty-eighth street, 1Sx1Oo.5.
Hanover National Bank, trustee. sold
to the Manlil< Realty Company for
s42.00 the four story building, East
Twenty-ninth street. 20x9s6. near Fifth
avenue.
John Mayerhofer sold TO Otto Kutis-
hauser the four-story house 153 East
10th street 17xlOO1l
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MODERN CONVENIENCES
IN APARTMENT HOTEL
NeW Park Avenue House to
Haze Restaurant Service.

The new s3,250,000 apartment hotel
which is to be erected on the east side
of Park avenue between Forty-eighth
and Forty-ninth streets will provide 600
rooms. divided into suites of from one to
six rooms 1t will also furnish for the
tenants and the puolic restaurant a
ballroom and private dining room. Meals
will be served In the apartments from
the kitchen, which will be situated be-
tween the ballroom and the restaurant.
No extra charge for this service will be
made. The rental will cover such items
as maid, valet and lighting service.
Every room will have an outside ex-
posture The entrance will be from Park
avenue, near the Forty eighth street
corner, and the central portion of the
Park avenue facade will be given over
to the restaurant. On the easterly side
will be the ballroom, which will accom-
MEDIATE parties OF from ESQ to 800 per-
sons. six private dining rooms will be
provided on the mezzanine floor.
Maids rooms will be provided in the
larger suites. Single rooms will be
placed on each floor. These will be re-
tanned for rental by guests of the ten
ants of larger suites. A two room suite
will consist OF living room 14x27, a
bedroom 14x21, a bath, two closets and
foyer hall and serving pantry. The
serving pantries In each suite will be
equipped with a refrigerator, a sink
china closet &c.
The building will be built of stone and
brick in harmony with the general arch
itectural character of the buildings ip
the Grand Central Terminal zone. The
architectural style of the building Is
Louis XVI. and the same architectural
style will prevail in the decoration Of
the principal rooms of the structure.
The architects for the building are
Schultze & Weaver. The builders will
be the George A. Fuller Company.
Douglas l.. Gilman Co, Inc. has been
appointed the renting agent.
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as the Tudor the Elizabethan. the Jaco-
bean, the Georgian, &C.. and providing
the individuality of construction for
which people erect homes of their own.
Every unit will be erected on 100 or
200 foot lot. and the units may be sold
to individuals or groups. The first unit
will be ready for occupancy In January.
The buildings will contain suites OF four
to twelve rooms
with, because central refrigerating
plant will furnish refrigeration to every
apartment Garbage cans will not have
to be sent down dumb-waiters. because
incinerators will be connected with
every apartment A central heating
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BRONX TRANSACTIONS.

The five story apartment. 31x100. at
1860 Sheridan avenue has been sold by
Simon Levy for S. Kaplan to Jacob Free
man. a client of Philip e. Shapiro. 1t Is
near the Grand Concourse and was held
at s125,000. The property was resod by
s. Rosen for Mr.. Freeman to Charles
Charcow.
Leonard J. Carpenter sold for New
bold Morris to James r. Ashley plot
of about eleven lots at the southwest
corner of Webster avenue and 16sth
street.
S. Ullman sold for NJ. c. Soule to an
investor TT East 175th street, four
story, eight family house, 30x9o. held
at $40 600.
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0LEVELAND is laying claim to the
most artistic solution of the apart
ment house question reached in
the. country. Out in Shaker Heights,
east of the congested districts Of the
city, a development for the housing of
5000 persons. which Clevelanders de-
clare will be the show place of the world,
is under construction.
Col. Alfred w. Harris. an architect.
who had previously devoted himself to
individual houses has adopted for the
Moreland Development Company of that
city, a plan of embodying history of
English architecture in Moreland Courts.
working into it period treatments. such
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$500. 900 BRooKLYN LEASE.

The block front on Broadway. be-
tween Lafayette and Patchen avenues,
Brooklyn, has been leased for a long
term by the Jenkins estate to Samuel
Ageloff and Harold Il. Witteman at an
aggregate rental OF more than 100000
The lessees plan to remodel the building
on Lafayette avenue and to erect a pub
lie market on Patchen avenue when
current leases expire. A. Simon nego-
tiated the transaction.
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plant, nearly two miles away. will sup
ply heat through asbestos-covered mains
IL tunnels to every apartment. doing
away with dust, dirt and noise, so
closely affiliated with the hauling of
coal and ashes. Every apartment viii
have it's own electric laundry, in addi-
ton to the large laundries in the base
ments.
Fairgrounds have been provided for
the children and a garden expanse, 800
feet wide, will lie between the buildings.
A community guild hall and community
garages are arranged for and the archi-
lecture of the business buildings. to be
included in the development, will carry
out the style of the apartment houses.
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SUBURBAN TRADING.

+. M. Crawley & Bros. sold for Mrs.
T. b. Reynolds her residence on the west
side of Elm street near Lincoln street.
Montclair. ". j., 10 Paul e. Lamarche.
The residence contains ten rooms and
two baths. The grounds comprise about
a half acre, with three car garage.
r. Franklin Hull sold for David d.
Mercer plot 50x100 on Alexander ave-
nue.. near Chase street, White Plains. to
A. ID. Duffie. and for Bessie b. Angus
a plot 50x125 on Waller avenue, near
Carhart avenue. TO B. Smith.
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contrnc, for Hampstead Building.

The contract for the construction of
the three story Haskin building. south
side of Fulton avenue, 100 feet south
OF Main street, Hampstead. L. l., has
been awarded o the Altman Construc-
ton Corporation. Gail II. Brown is the
architect. Harold L. Haskin. an at
torney of Hampstead, the owner, will
occupy the second floor for his offices.
The ground floor will probably be oc-
cupied by a savings bank now being
formed.
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JERSEY FACTORY SITE SOLD.

Cupra. Inc. Robert p. Dicks presi-
dent. newly formed Industrial organ
ization. purchased a factory site of
about six acres on Clifton boulevard at
Athena Station, D., l.. e w. r. r, Cliff
ton, ". j. The sale was negotiated by
Louis Schlesinger. Inc, and the Frank
Hughes Company for Phillip Fischer
and Adrian D. Sullivan.
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The West Shore Garage, at II and 10
Railroad avenue, Kingston. ". Y, has
been purchased by Peter c. Baisley Jr
of Saugerties. through /. Paradies,
broker The same broker sold to DR..
John Blake. Echo Hill Park in Kingston.
The buyer Will erect fifty bungalows. A.
Trlolo of this city has purchased the
Tenbroeck farm at Saugerties through
the same broker
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BUYS CooPERATIvE FLAT.

Pease & Gilman sold to Mrs. Charles
Cothren a cooperative apartment in
1s5 Park avenue. northeast corner OF
Fifty-eighth street, a new building be-
ing erected by Dwight w. Robinson
Company.
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TO BUILD At GEDNEY FARM.

Ford II. Dow treasurer of the Dow
Service Daily Building Reports. New
York. will start erecting next spring a
residence and garage for his occupancy
on Sherman avenue, Gedney Farms.
White Plains. n. r., from plans by King
& Campbell. architects.
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BROOKLYN MARKET.

BULKLEY & HORTON Company sold
the northwest corner OF Ridge boulevard
and Eighty-sixth street. Bay Ridge. The
buyer will improve the site.