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New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Advance i'm Cost
vi Apartments at
Jackson Heights
Higher Building Material
Prices Make 1t Necessary
to Charge More for Suites
Beginning December Is

Higher prices will be charged for new
Garden Apartments at Jackson Heights
beginning December Is. This announce
mentWas made yesterday by the Queens
ooro Corporation, which gives as the
reason for the advance the increase in
the cost of building materials. The
rate Of the advance, it Is said, will sim
ply cover the increased cost of each
apartment. Commenting on the subject
she Q9eensboro Corporation gave out
the following statement yesterday:
The prices at which Garden Apart
ments st jackson Heights have been
future, are regulated solely by the
cost OF construction, labor and materials
and the value Of the land. These costs
naturally rest on fundamentals beyond
the power Of the Greensboro Corpora
tion. or any other organization TO con-
troll. In fact, the only control exer-
eised over prices by the Queensboro
Corporation has been It's consistent re-
tusai TO pay premiums for anything
that enters into construction work.
Careful Watch on Costs
Had, the Greensboro Corporation
not adhered strictly to the construc.
tion. policy adopted in the beginning. il
would have been impossible to yell Gar.
gen apartments at the prices prevail
Ing during the last three years. at
winch prices apartments valued at
more than S7,000,00O have been soId to
approximately 1000 tenant-owners.
The success of jackson Heights
during the hrst two years Of Garden
apartment building impelled such
prominent builders as the J. 6. White
engineering. Corporation, Dwight p.
Robinson & Co. and the Jackson
Heights Apartment Corporation to
erect these Garden Apartments
equipped with elevators. The demand
Tor these apartments induced other
builders to follow suit, and the latest
operation Of this character is that Of
Stone & Webster, who recently began
the construction OF fourteen new build
ings OF the semi-suburban type and
containing 112 suites.
Tenant ownership Of apartments at
jackson Heights began In 1919. In
which year the first tenant-owne ed
apartments there were sold for occu-
pnncy IN the autumn. This unit con-
sisted Of six buildings containing sixty
apartments. N'''
"The Stone & Webster buildings will
be ready for occupancy on or about
February l, 1923. The chateau type
Garden Apartments were introduced at
jackson Heights by the j. G. White En-
gineering Cooperation, the builders Of
the Ritz and Waldorf, of London. and
known In all parts Of the world as en-
glneers and constructors"
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Possibilities i'm Queens
Far From Exhausted
Values Are Moving Up in Long
Island City, Many Await
House Auction

The full value of the transit az.
tensions to Long Island City and out
through Queens has not been realized
yet. There are great gaps Of unim-
proved property along the transit
routes leading from tbs Greensboro
Bridge: They soon will be put to work,
according to rumors in circulation In
the Long Tsland realty circles. Prices
are moving up. Major William 3.
Aennelly, viee-president Of Bryan L.
Kennedy. Inc, told of parcel in the
vicinity Of the Desmond houses near
the Bliss Street station, which he will
auction, which has increased 100 per
cent In two months. He could have
bought the property for four hundred
and some odd thousand dollars early
In the summer. He was told last week
thar the property was now held at
lonial houses at Heister Street, lust
west Of the Bliss Street station, which
Will be aold at auction by the Kennedy
firm on November s, presages the
structural character OF that general
section. 1t Is said that these buildings
Influenced the purchase by the Metro
politan Life Insurance Company of the
property facing this for Improvement
with model apartment houses to rent
Tor not more than 50 a room.
1t Is said that every apartment in
the Metropolitan company houses In
the Bliss station section has been
rented from the plans, an indication.
according to real estate observers, OF
the future Importance of this district.
Leaders are all that are needed. to
start the intensive development Of
every section in Queens directly on
the rapid transit routes.
There are twenty-nine two-family
houses in the Desmond development
which will be placed under the ham
mer next week. They will 60 to tho
highest bidders. Each buyer will be
required to pay $1,000 Immediately on
the house, $1,000 in thirty days and a
first mortgage within Afteen years.
Ihe mortgage will be held by the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
and the. period payments that wifi be-
required Of house buyers will be within
reach Of every Industrious man, nc-
cording to Mr.. Kennedy.
On the same day and in the Vesey
Street salesroom the Kennedy Arm will
dispose Of twenty eight lots around the
corner from these houses. They front
on the Queens Boulevard and are the
property Of the Caailear Realty Cor
porati0n.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Minister to Lend Aid
In Beautifying Woodside
Pastor, Former Architect.
Will Offer Services Free i'm
Movement Under Wav

A movement is under way in Wood
side, l.: l.. by property owners to make
alterations with view of changing the
front elevation of old houses to add to
and to urge builders Of new construc.
tson to adhere to plans that will make
for beauty.
The Rev. Anthony F. Trice, who 10 a
member Of the Woodside Centre
League and graduate architect and
he will give Woodside property own.
ssrs planning such alterations his serv-
ices free Of cost Mr.. Trice is pastor
Of the First Baptist Church of Wood
side and is now engaged preparing
plans for $4,000 new church. While
pastor Of the Baptist Church in Put
ney, Vt. in 1912, Mr.. Trice organized
q board of trade through which the
whole town was literally reconstructed
under his direction.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Building Tests Under Way II
Will Bring Out Condition,
Three Different House Plans Are Being PM II.
Structural Shape in as Many Sections Of
Suburbs; Jersey Favorable Field

/, "Ail houses in the serie. ss.
supervised by the Home ovns nas Ias, II
ice institute, have been built +, ssis'
erai contractors, who let ont H. fet tss
contracts. In this instance the,s s't
genera contractor-buiIder. M IN
is letting ali sub-contract. and aosfs as,as
| in reality as the contractor. II ,t Elm
oI Inc iriDune this method Of ba,i,'ssf I
home constructed with the a,.hi,ss ,h'ss
supervising is frequently mora s..sss ...s
factory even than employing ! s.ssl. ssAi.
contractor. The difFiculty ia. hersia
that architects who will sunsrvl.'s'e'
| difficult 10 find for ema1l-honse
The results, In comparison Win .sa ssa
construction contract methods ritss is
I interesting. ~
"Ths building plans comnifs..
found 1t difficult to proceed viii = y
building Of Tribune House Ma ss
Ardsiey- on-thc-Hudson, In Wsstels..s
County, because Of the prevaii;na MI
cost Of labor and material in ~. a'l
tion. The contracts have nat vst ~. ~
let. II is a six-room house 80 " ".
orally expensive construction h.. ssh
lowest construction cost es.,rss. 'as
sspP4 - N-ASt'NSStS N-ASt'NSSt 2 19tVvO appears TOO hiss
10 the commlttee. The eonstruetIss
will proceed, the lot having been gs'us NV.
chased, as soon as the BIDS can |.
brought down bit. =
Locations Of Houses
Several weeks will be reoni,.s,.
fore the houses are ofsciailv ss...,
for inspection. The constructjon ~
the finest. Much can be learnss !.
garding good workmanship and ariS,
by making trip TO see either Tribr..
House No. 19 or No. 80, or both ''s
Tribune House No. ls-cone,.4.
block and cement stucco. six ro,r.
and heated living porch; design IL II i
7. Jeffrey jr., architect, Jamaica, /. 1.
is being built by Empire Hor,sbuiT
ing Association, under supervisor i
Home Owners Service Instisu.s i
Thirteenth Street and Rughy Rssd
Bro kiyn. Take B. R. T. subway I'm
Manhattan TO De Kalb Avenue sa.i,s
change there to Brighton Bead III
and get off at Nswkirk Avenue. n
one block from Newkirk Avenus iii
way station.
Tribune House no. So-Dutea i
ioHlal frame mouse; SIX rooms, 6efn
by Arthur j. Berzaghi, architect, NJ
York. and being butt by J. n. XIII
rick, general contractor, is at ft,A
Manor, Teaneck, N. j. Take tR
Street ferry to Fort Lee. By aueap
bile out Fort Lee Road to Leonis,
Teaneck, between Fort Lee Road ii
Cedar Lane, on Queen Anne Road. u
trolley car from Fort Lee on Port d
or Hudson River streetcars TO Quo
Anne Road. House is one block fnr
trolley stop. BY railroad on the Wv
Shore from Forty-second Street tsr
to Teaneck."
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Color Scheme of
Old World Facades
To Be Duplicated
Priest Gives Architect Op.
portuaity to Allow New
York Elevation Similar
to Old Italian Structures

An effort Is to be made to dupIi-
cate In new school building in Bay
Ridge the interesting color effect seen
in the facades of buildings in southern
France and many parts of Italy. The
building is part Of the Byzantine group
which Ia to be erected by the Rev.
Matthew Flynn for the congregation
of the Holy Angels parish on Fourth
Avenue, Seventy-third and Seventy
fourth streets. A fifteen story free
standing tower which will serve as a
landmark for navigators OF incoming
ships will be one Of the outstanding
structural features of this building
development. The group will cost
$l,o00,000 to complete and take sQse-
raj years to finish because the build
ings are to be erected one at a me-
The school which has just been started
Will cost 100000. according to the con-
tract awarded to Peter Cieary.
Architect Given Opportunity
Encouraged by Father Flynn. who Is
an admirer of the centuries-old struc-
lures OF Mediterranean countries, Rob-
ert j.. Kelley has designed a bu lding.
IN tact group OF buildings, which it 10
expected will attract wide attention.
Although many architects have wanted
to give to this part Of the country
ment Of these old foreign structures,
they have not found clients who would
allow them suffic ent freedom to do
anything worth while. For this rea-
SON there are not many buildings in
and about New York which have mors
than two tones in the facade. The
second tone Is usually the trim
around the windows, pilasters far up
on the wall or some other concrete
feature.
In the Bay Ridge school warm toned
marble and colored tile Of various
sizes will be scattered through the
facade, which will be go feet hi.h
and ls6 feet. long Mr.. Kelley has
ngurad out the percentage Of color:
that Is, the amount Of tile and mar
BILE to be used with tho brick so as not
to overdo the effect. The brick also
VIII not be uniform in size or color.
On top OF all will be salmon tinted
Iile root which ID to be brought here
from California.
Old Builders Were Artists
The old builders Of France and rtaly
did not have the range Of materials to
call upon that builders have to-day.
iney useo what the local neightbor-
hood had to offer. Shape, size or color
did not matter so long as the material
could be utilized. They overcame these
disadvantages by the most painstaking
work They carefully matched colors
and shapes and sizes. II was very
tiring,. but II was the only way suc-
cessfuily to use the limited materials.
they did not labor without result for
they have left behind structures which
ara among the most attractive relics
in the world. the work of men who
knew color.
The Bay Ridge school will be four
stories high and will contain thirty
classrooNis, each with seating capac ity
for fifty pupils. A push-button elevator
Will be Installed for tha use Of infirn,
children and as means OF connecting
with the gymnasium and promanade on
the roof, The promenade will be IL
feet wide And about 500 feet long.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Sells One Of Every
Three Parcels Offered

Since last November che Board
Of Realtors Of Orange and Maple
wood has sold 260 Of 900 parcels
which were placed In the hands
Of Its members for sale during
the last twelve months. This Is q
very creditable performance, for
1t indicates that the board sold
one out Of every three properties
1t was commissioned 20 sell. A
total Of s2,s0o,000 was secured
for the properties. The board has
been operating under the multiple
listing system since November,
1921.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Home Building Will
Be Shown ON Screen
Picture Will Explain How a
Man of Small Salary
Went About II

A moving picture showing how TO
build brick home is now being made
just outside Of Chicago, according to
Ralph P. Stcddard. secretary Of tho
Common Brick Manufacturers Asso-
citation OF America. 1t will show how
man with small salary went about
raising money for erecting home,
getting his plans, the building and the
furnishing Of 1t,
"More can be learned in an hour or
two from the pictures" says Mr.. Stod-
dard, "to solve the problem OF home
building than could be learned In three
or four days study Of technical books
It will show the modern house put to-
gether. The film will DO shown by
real estate boards and by other inst.-
tutions throughout the country inter.
estede in the. encouragement Of home
building, 1t is said"
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Two Large Montclair Plots
ID BE Improved With Homes

r: M. Crawley Bros. sold for Ellis
+. Earle OF Edgewood Terrace. Mont
clair, N. j., two tracts situated on the
vest side Of Highland Avenue near
Edgewood Terrace. to Martin T. Flana-
gan. Inc. The plots are in the heart
OF the residential mountain coIony and
command an extensive view Of this
city and the Palisades, and have
frontage Of 400 It. on Highland Ayenue.
and are 800 feet in depth. The uur-
chaser plans the erection Of four resi-.
Immediately. - sSAA
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Artistic English Cottage
Largest of Series So Far
House Selected by Plans Committee Contains Eight
Rooms and Two Baths; Requires Frontage cf at
Least 50 Feet; Costs Sl2, 500 TO $l3,5OO

With eight rooms and swc baths ths
charming English cottage design No, 81
In The Tribane Small House Plan Sc
xies is the largest thus far presented
10 che series. There have been nunaer.
Gus requests for plans OF seven and
eight room houses. and In response she
Home Ownersa Service Institute is Sc
curing q number from well known
architects specializing In small hou.e
designing throughout the country.
n. T. Morris, who planned House No,
", has designed many attractive houses
built within thu last few years along
the seund, on Long Island, In Flushing
College Point, Bayside and that vicin-
ity. This house has been selected by
The Tribune Building Plans Commit
$ee a. one TO be constructed In ita
small house construction cost-findina
campaign.
II is designed for stuceo cons.ruc-
tion, but would be pleasing In brick
though more costly. 1t is estimated
BY the Home Owners Service Institute
that IL can be built to-day for between
si2,bo0 and $1S,5o0, depending upon To-
cation within the twenty ty-fve-miie ra-
d!us Of New York and the type and
grade Of fixtures selected by the owner.
Steam heat Is specified.
EAtJ u CSs r FUHtdkc &NScGcO
4 frontage Of at least fifty feet is
required for this house. 1t should
front on the street with living room
and porch overlooking the front lawn.
The house is 89x2T.6 deep, not tnclud-
Tag the rear sntry, which projects four
fset further out at the rear, The
eubical content is 31,z15 cubic feet.
Though Mr.. Morris originally de.
signed the house with the ordinary
method Of laying the shingles specified
putting them on in English thatched
effect would add much to the effective
ness Of the house ard enhance its Eng
lish cottage atmosphere. The new
type Of copper shingle would be pleas
Ing also. Metal lath' is called for in the
stueco work.
The first foor plan is laid out around
the large living room, II by 1873. II
will be q light room, with four win
dows at the front, the French doors
onto the living porch and wide trimm ed
openings from the reception hall and
dining room. A cheerful open fire-
pisce 10 provided.
Entrance vestibule, coat closet and
reception hall, with the partly open
staircase to the second floor. are well
planned. Tho dining room. ID by 1873
and bay with three windows, Is ample
size. Two windows at the rear over
look the back yard. A door allows of
direct access to the living porch also.
There Is q large, light kitchen. with
built-in dresser, broom closet, white
enamel sink and drain board, range
connected directly with the main
chimney fues and composition foor
for cleanliness. The rear entry hall,
by 3, provides space for the icebox
The cellar stairs are off the kitchen.
can be used used as @ a study. nursery se s''or OF
maids room. There is toilet OFF this
room.
Laundry trays ara In the basement
The cellar is excavated under the en-
tire house excepting the living porch
Preserve closet, trunk platform, laun-
dry platform, built-in coal bin, instan-
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05

Eve believe that We are beginning
to discover what houses Tribune read
ers desire built" said Henry Atterbury
Smith, chairman of The Tribune Build
Ing Plans Committee.
"In Plan No. 80 we have selected q
Dutch Colonial exterior. AS illustrated
last Sunday on the Small House Page,
the perspective showed the same plan
as conceived by Arthur j. Barzaghi, in
simple English Colonial farmhouse
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Insurance Man Buys
Lummis House at Summit

The estate Of Charles A Lummis has
sold 1o7 Boulevard, Summit, N. j., a
fourteen-room house with three baths,
stable, garage and other outbuildings,
on plot of three acres, to James W.
Shirley, superintendent Of agencies for
the southern department. Of the Ameri-
can Insurance Company. Mr. Shirley
is now occupying the property, which
owner OF over S45,0o0. Eugene Jobs
H. F. Beck Company negotiated the
deal.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Well known Newark
Corner Changes Hands
Newark Maternity Hospital
Buys Part of Property as
Site for Annex

Feiat & Fsist have sold for Mrs.
Louise s. Holzhauer 7so-'4o High Street
southeast conner Of Spruce Street,
Newark, N. ]. This property has q
frontage on High Street Of 21A feet
and on Spruce Street Of 2so feet, run
ming to an alley.
Plot 50x26o. at the south end Of the
property, has just been purchased BY
the Newark Maternity Hospital, which
adjoins this parcel. 1t will be dcvei-
oped at an early date with q three
story building, containing about 100
rooms.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Maplewood Concern to Spend
SJO,OOO ON Factory Annex

Inc Orange Screen Company, of Ma
plewood, has filed plans for two-story
and basement addition to Its plant.
which will give it $4,000 square feet Of
hoor space. The contract was AWARDED d
20 u. M. Waldron & Co, of South Sixth
Street, Newark, N. j., Operations will
begin at once and will be completed
February i, 1923. The cost Of the addi-
ton will be approximately $50 900.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05

cirollng the roof Just back Of the
cornice. Facing the aerial parade,
which will be so feet above The
street level, will be the gymnasium
and community center. Theatricals and
parish meetings will be held here. On
summer nights chairs will be placed on
the promenade for the use of members
Of the parish, who may want to look
down on the section and the Bay.
1t will take about year to complete
the building. In the mean time, work
will have been started on the new
church at the corner of Fourth Avenue
and Seventythird Street, directly back
of the school.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Music Director TO Build
ALI Year Home af MaIba

George 3. Brown, director OF the
Music Lesgue of America, purchased at j
Malba-on-the-Sound. L. l., from the
Malba Estates Corporation, through
Champ 4 nasey, sales directors, al
large building site on North Drive, ad-
Joining the residence Of Ralph White
and extending to tho golf course, on
which he will erect a "reminiscences
dwelling for all-ycar occupancy.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
ZOning Cases Will Be Heard
Wednesday, Instead of Tuesdav

The Board Of Appeals will hold two
public hearings on Wednesday instead
of Tuesday. the regular day. The
hearings will be held in the boards
rooms in the Municipal Building. The
morning hearing will start at 10
o'clock. The afternoon hearing will
be at 2 o'clock.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
f. Edebohls Awards Contract
For New Great Neck Home

The Patterson King Corporation has
been awarded contract for the design
and construction Of a residence on
Arleigh Road, Kensington, Great Neck.
for Frank Edebohls. for completion in
the early spring. -
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05

Buyer for Newark Dwelling
Feist 4 Feist have sold for Hanaii &
Moriarty 70 and 75 Goodwin Avenue,
Newark. N. j.. The property has a
frontage Of go feet and a depth Of 126
feet, and is improved with q two-fan,-
lily dwelling containing fourteen rooms,
three baths and two sun parlors, and
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Sells New Pelham Manor Home

Chauncey B. Grsffen sold for Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Murthey. her newS English
stueco home ON Nyack Avenue. Pelham
Heights. on large p OF. to Mira w. b.
Aldrich. The property was held at
S31, 900.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Parts With Yonkera T.nfs


Thomas S. Burke sold for M-s. e.
=. Thorne, of Bronxviile. the two lots at
fh
Road and Agar Street. Yonkers, 6ox
1i1 w., to Ii. a. skinner.
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05
Cofta@e I'm Verona Sold

Samuel Marion has sold to Henry T.
Taylor one OF fifty cottages, now being
erected on Forest Avenue and Marion
Street, Verona, N. j.,
New-York tribune., 1922-11-05

600 Eln,l1urst Lots Up for Sale
Joseph 2, Day announced yesterday
sllst he will sell at auction on Election
v, November 4 600 lots al Elmhnrst
Tbs sale will be held at Eimhurst.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-06-01
"The Well Of Montezuma."

Among the many natural curiosities
of Arizona, one that is not often Wis
tied by tourists, is the singular bowl
shaped depression in Yavapai county,
called 1.-The Well of Montezuma." 1t
is nearly circular and between 900
and 900 feet in diameter at the brim.
Ii lies in the midst of nearly-level
area. The sides are vertical to n
depth OF 80 or 40 feet Below that
they merge into a sloping shape, which
extends down TO a circular pool Of
water, alleged by popular tradition,
as are so many other not very deep
areas Of water, to be bottomless.
This remarkable formation has usu-
ally been described as pit crater"
of volcanic origin, the result of the
falling of the roof of a cavern, formed
IN the limestone strata by running
water The water of the pool, 1t is
said, flows out through a subterra'
mean channel into the valley Of Bea
yer creek.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1922-06-01
SUPERSTITION IN THE CONGO
Natives Invariably snake Charms"
Before They Set Out on
a Hunting Expedition.

Nearly everything Congo native
stition. Witch doctors and their
strange and somewhat horrible "medi-
cine" are in demand for all sorts OF
curious things. Their charms are
worked" for everything from curing
sickness TO bringing bad fortune upon
an enemy. There may be n demand
that a curse be removed from a whole
town, or perhaps a curse is TO be laid
upon a single enemy.
One OF the least unpleasant and
is worked" 10 invoke good luck in
hunting. 1t has certain picturesque
quality that is engaging.
The Lower Congo is not sports
mans paradise, says writer. Game
ia not always 10 be easily found.
Therefore, when hunter whose Prov
ess Is admired and envied is about TO
die a curious thing happens. Just
before he expires few threads are
drawn from his loin cloth. These
threads are tied about the arms Of a
young man. This young man then has
a specific duty In life and certain very
definite obligations.
He superintends the burial Of the
mighty hunter. Then, whenever the
hunters of his neighborhood are about
To set out the young man goes with
them TO the mighty hunters grave.
He kneels with his face toward the
hunters and his back to the grave. The
hunters approach on hands and knees
until close, then they dance about the
young man and the grave to the rub-a-
dub of a charmed" drum. Palm wine
is poured over the grave, while each
hunter drinks 10 the departed.
A bit Of the mud formed of the wine
and the earth on the grave Is rubbed
on the forehead, the arms and the in
steps OF each hunter. This is sup
posed 10 give the hunters keenness,
sureness of aim and swiftness in the
chase.
AT last the charm Is completed. The
hunters sing a song in praise of the
mighty departed. Then off they go,
assured they will have success In the
field.