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New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Firm Extends Activities
In Real Estate Field
Builders of skyscrapers in Nee
dleworkers Section to En-
large Their Scnne

new finance company, to be known
as the Lefcourt-Hass Finance Corpora
tion, has been organized by A. +. Lef-
court, a premier in the new garment
trade center, and one of the largest
individual realty owners. Up to the
present time both Mr.. Haas and Mr..
Lefcourt have centered their efforts in
erecting skyscrapers, catering to the
garment and needle trades.
In addition to this, the Lefcourt &
Haas Corporation will specialize ex-
clusively in the buying and selling of
first class properties, the financing of
building loan mortgages, the purchas-
ing of first class second mortgages
and the advancing Of moneys on in
coming rentals.
The plans for the formation of this
new corporation, as we'll as its scope,
have been under way for some time.
Mr.. Lefcourt's realty holdings, con-
sisting of the Aicourt Realty Company,
the Alan Realty Company, the Felcourt
Realty Company, the Landcourt Realty
Company, the Haascourt Realty Conn
pany, the Courtlef Realty Company and
the M. & M. Leasing and Holding Com
pany, have become too large in their
scope to handle fro mthe present Of
fees at 134-142 West Thirty seventh
Street, and new quarters have been
leased in the Knickerbocker Building,
Forty Street and Broadway,
which will be used as the headquarters
for the transacting of all business for
the above mentioned real estate cor
porations.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Plans TO Build
Homes ON Small
Initial PAYMENT
Well known Men i'm Build
ing Field Form Syndicate
to Erect Houses ON a
New Financing Basis

Several we'll known men in the mort
gage, building and architectural fields
have formed a syndicate to assist fam
lies in getting out of the rent pay
ing class and buying homes Of their
own. Sometime this week the syn
dicate will be legally organized as the
Warde- -Landsboro Homes Corporation,
and will be ready TO start building.
William Henry Barnum, Weld NJ. Ste
vens, (. S. Scheu and Cortlandt Kelsey
are among those in the syndicate.
They will build homes costing from
$4,000 upward, not for speculation but
on the applications of homeseekers.
The applicant must own building
site, have at least two per cent of the
cost of the house he wants and way
to pay at least one-haf Of one per cent
and interest on the mortgage each
month. On this basis he will have
cleared his second mortgage within
eighteen months
The field Of the corporation at first
Will be the metropolitan district, which
miles of the city, but it is the aim
TO build homes beyond this area. Ar
rangements are now being made, ac-
cording to a member Of the corpora
tion, to build hundred small homes
of various prices under this plan.
These houses will be from designs
by Cross & Cross and Phelps Barnum
we'll known architects, who have pre-
pared fourteen designs for the corpora
ton. The designs are for one and two
families and of various prices, starting
st $4,000.
The plan OF the corporation provides
for every detail designing, building.
financing and insurance Of title. AS ex-
planned by member Of the syndicate,
the corporation will give service to
the home seeker, attending to every
thing until the house liz completed and
turned over to him. The company will
build only houses which have been all
ready designed for the Wardc- Lands
boro system.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
100000 Interested
I'm WI cd ell Home
Building Program
President of State League of
Saving and Loan Associa-
tions Says 1t Will Decide
ue sti ion for Many

TO the Real Estate Editor Of The
Tribune.
Sir: Over 100000 members of saw
ings and loan associations in the
metropolitan district should be great
ly interested in and benefited by the
campaign undertaken by The Tribune
and the Home Owners Service Insti-
tute, Inc, to have several experimental
houses constructed. BY ascertaining
for it's readers the exact cost to-day Of
building small homes of moderate sale
price In the various boroughs and
suburbs, information which our asso-
Citations members and thousands of
other prospective home owners are
seeking will be made available throuph
your news columns. 1t is most
valuable, generous and timely under
taking for which The Tribune is to h.
highly commended.
II the effort succeeds in enlistine the
sincere cooperation of building con-
tractors, manufacturers of materials
and building supply dealers to make
rrices right and ultimate costs conse-
quently fair, it will do much to fix
small house construction standards in
TINS vicinity.
Of course our association knows thai
construction, costs are as high in the
vicinity of the metropolitan district as
anywhere in the United States and
considerably higher than in manv
other sections of the country. Living
costs IN general are higher in New
York. The Tribune and the Home
Owners Service Institute cannot be *
pected to perform miracles, or build
at costs Identical with those possible
in some middle Western or Southern
sections where labor and materials are
lower for good and sufficient economic
reasons.
To arrive at present. just and fair
construction conditions and costs il
as understand it, the objective of this
unique program. If this is done. for
the benefit of the public, it will be
great achievement.
The savings and loan associations
generally desire to loan as large a
percentage as is possible on first mort
gage to aid their members in home
building. Anything the savings and
loan associations can do to mid YOUR
work will be done, so far as is uossi-
BILE. WILLIAM b. CARTER
President New York State League of
Savings and Loan Associations.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

planning should be pointed out. The
big entrance hall room has two coat
closets fanking the vestibule. The
stairs are open up. TO the second floor
at the bsckof shis room
The large living-room has a fireplace
and three French windows open out
onto front and side lawns. French
doors likewise separate living-room
and diEing-roon, giving full sweep
Of the eye through from the front TO
the living-porch at the rear, of the
aining-rocna, reached through French
door.
9la There is a buffers pantry between
Che kitckan and dining-room.
There are large closets off each Of
she three bedrooms on che second floor.
In addition there is 8 linen closet of
the hall, next TO the bathroom.
The hall is SO planned that fourth
bedroom could be built over the din
ing-room wing at the rear. There is
good storage space in the attic. II
would be possible to finish off another
room in the attic also, If desired. In
the plan the attic is reached bv trap
in the ceiling Of the hall. Stairs could
be built in up to this third floor, how
ever.
Working drawings and detailed
specifications can be obtained from the
Home Owners Service Institute, Inc,
81 West Thirty-ninth Street. An out
line Of these specifications follows:
Concrete footings under all walls 8
inches wider than walls above, built be-
tween plank forms at least feet below
finished grade line. Foundation walls
built of common brick laid up with cs-
ment mortar, outside of walls water
PROCEED with pitch coating. (PoureG
concrete or concrete block, at option Of
owner.)
Cellar floor to be OF concrete over a
bed Of clean gravel or cinders.
Area walls to be built OF 4-inch brick
or concrete, bottoms TO be of brick, laid
dry in a bed of sand.
Flagstenes for platforms at front and
rear entrances and facing of grade
course TO be of biuestone, laid with rus
tic joints.
Trap pits in cellar of e-inch brick
walls and concrete bottom, with cast
iron frames and cover.
ChImneys to be built of hard burned
terra Gotta scored for plaster key. lined
With fue lining, capped with cement
and orange colored terra Gotta chimney
pots.
Fireplace to be built as detailed (see
complete blue prints), with FIRE brick
Lining, and brass frame for opening,
with hearth and face of fireplace of
marble, selected by owner.
Porch floor Of concrete over bed Of
gravel. Finished Aoor 10 be of flag
stone set in bed of cement mortar.
Bathroom hoor Of hexagonal vitrified
tile bsdded in cement mortar on a A.
inch bed of einder concrete on wood
defening.
Carpentry Details
Frarning lumber Of yellow pine and
spruce. complete directions sor nrors~
framing, with specifications and work-
ing drawings. sheathing to be Of COED
quality, A-inch thick, free from loose
knots or holes. Ali roofs ID be
sheathed. Exterior trim TO be clear
siin-assed cypress or equal, all as de-
tailed. Porch, cornice, entrance col
umns and blinds 20 be built as aetaiIes
on working drawings. : - :
Interior finish to be Of kiln-dricd
white wood. Stairtreads Of OAK and
risers and halustcrs OF whitewood with
2 moulded handrail OF birch: Interior
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Cheaper to Owrs Home
Than to Rent One
Homeseeker Says 81 500 Viii
Buy Groom House on Terms
Losuer Than Paid Landlord

To the Real Estate Editor OF The
Tribune.
Sir: In the correspondence on home
owning had hoped TO get some opin-
ions on the difference in renting, Most
of the correspondents pronouce it i'm
possible to own home at $1,000 on a
salary of $4,000. / would like to buy a
house at about $500, but as your
writer's say it is not to be had unless
one commutes some distance and
spends the difference saved in railroad
fare.
] know q number of people who are
obliged to pay $50 to $50 month for
four-rooms apartments, salary only
$1,700 per year.
SO, how much difference is these in
cost in paying for home?
! am sending you some figures given
me by builder on tax exempt six
room house: Cash, sl,500; first mort
gage, s per cent of $4,000, $3.50; second
mortgage, per cent of $4,000, $3.50;
water tax, $40; lot tax, $40; insurance,
$40; payment reducing second mort
gage, S240; total, S610.
Payment on second mortgage would
reduce rent 81 each month during first
year. After FIVE years rent would be
about S45 month c. f. E.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10

There are mary unusual points OF
charm and interest about this six-roona
house of stuceo construction, on back
pIsstered metal lath. Both from ex-
texior beauty and excellence Of in
terror planning the design is an arehi-
tectursi gem, winning a group prize in
The recent national architects small
house composition.
With les spacious front hall, which
is room By itself, Plan No. "a in the
Tribune series IL for a sever.room
house. The approximate cost Of its
construction within she twenty-five
mile radius Of New York at prevailing
materials and labor charges is between
Sill 900 aad $4,000, caccording to the
Home Owners Service Institute, Inc.
Living room, 15g22 feet; dining room,
reception hall, kitchen, large pantry,
three bedrooms, bathroom, rear living
porch snd rear entry porch arc all in
dicated on the two floor plans. The
large basement is planned for laun-
dry, boiler room, coal room and stoY-
age room.
The perspective drawing, by j. Ivan
Disc and z. j. Maier. architects, Of De-
troit, Mich, illustrates the srractivc-
ness OF this house. Their suggestion
for che proper orientasion ond planting
about this house is in keeping.
Designed for 40-foot lot, it can be
built either on a corner or an inside
plet. There is plenty of room for 4
driveway from che front and garage in
the rear, as shown.
Some OF the features Of the interior
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Boonton Greatly i'm Need
Of Houses of Small Size
Resident Gives Suggestions for
Constructing Such Houses.
and Their Requirements

To the Real Estate Editor of The
Tribune:
Sir: This town is thirty miles from
New York and is in great need OF small
houses. We are on the d. l.. e. w., and
houses of FIVE and six rooms are n
great demand. The kind of q house ]
would suggest should have a good sized
reception hall which answers for living
room as we'll as dining room. Tie
kitchen should be rather small and a
room OFF for gas stove and storage,
pipeless furnace; three bed rooms and
bath and linen closet up stairs; stucco
is my choice. Bungalows are also very
desirable. everything on one floor. TIE
pipeless furnace, if installed properly,
gives great satisfaction, less expensive
to run. and wood can be used ia place
of coal. A fireplace is necessity IN
all houses at the present time. This
town is five miles further away than
you stipulated, but il is a beautiful
country and healthy--well worth look-
ing into, as land sells for less than anc
place know of the same distance from,
New York. Mrs. B. A. Willis. Boon
ton. N. T.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Need of Ready Money
Causes Estate TO SJ
Property of Late Sir FrederkE
Merrieiees at Bayside II
Be Sold at Auctian

The estate Of the late Sir Fresss.
Nirrlelees, of England. is to s.ll s
lots at Bsyside. L. J.. on Satasa
September %. The properly is III
disposed of. according to Jaseps /
Day, the auctioneer. because os hst
taxation IN England and the aecssa1
for prompt payment.
The Mirrieiees estate has an els
ton Of about 125 fecs above the i
level and is located on the Little M
Bay waterfront in one Of the best n
Dental sections Of Bsyside. It's b.
ton IS short distance from the ~
side Yacht Club and within ! H
blocks of many professional rslsts&s
The lots are located nesr Ben Asvsst
on Thirty-third Vista Avenus. TaiisF
fourth Maxwell) Avenue AID Thisg
fifth (Croeheronl Avenue. TIE ssussE'
extends from 2i4th Place d vitsia .
few feet of Little Neck BeqlHsFs
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Can You S0lve f. e. It's
Home Building Problem?
Builder Has Disappeared, Leau.
ing House Partly Finished;
Funds All Tnrested

To the Real Estate Editbr OF The
3 Tribune.
Sir: am writing in hopes that you
can be of service to daily reader Of
The Tribune for the last seven years.
My case is somewhat different than
most of those desiring a home who
have written to The Tribune. Last
December 1 gave a general contract TO
an architect and builder. The plans
called for two-family house, After
investing S1,700 the building stands
to-day with rough sidings and part of
the roof on. The contractor has dis
appeared, leaving twenty-five or more
homes partly completed. ! have tried
to borrow sufficient money to get the
building to a point where loan can
be placed. have also tried to dispose
OF the property without success. /
would appreciate any advice toward a
solution of the difficulty we find our
selves in. F, E. 7.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
S<eo~p Zoo 81 2x AN
Homeseekers Use Plane
To Find the Place

George Sherwood Eddy, inter
national secretary of the Young
Mems Christian Ashociation, and
Mrs. Eddy went home hunting
last week in an aeroplane and
found what they wanted. Travel
ling over the suburbs they re-
duced the entire country to
comprehensive measure which
made it possible for them to
select location where they
would like to live. Flying over
jackson Heights this apartment
house development looked to the
aerial home hunters like a won
derful painting spread on top of
knoll just at the door of the
great skyscrapers of New York.
1t appeared like miniature VIII
lage, the dream place of an ideal
ist, with its lawns, interior
courts, gardens, walks, peaks
and gables. The hunters came
down from the sky landing in
Flushing Bay and went back to
the pretty village which they had
passed. Before they had left
they had purchased an apart
ment in Hawthorne Court, a new
garden group, and will make it
their home when they return
from an extensive tour in foreign
lands. 1t might be we'll for
apartment owners to place "To
Let signs on the roofs of their
buildings to attract the attention
of bird men or women who may
be wandering about in The air,
like Mr.. and Mrs. Eddy, looking
for homes.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
5 Make Interesting Suggestions for Model Homea
Little Dwelling That Has
Won Favor. lin Many Par,
Hes Six Rooms and Can BE Built i'm Mero....
District for About S12, 900; Interior = S4's a
Spacious and Well Planned

doors to be stock doors ~ -.
detailed and specified ''rehs al
Underfeoring TO 10 ID Il
laid at right angles 10 ias..a issa itd
second snd third loers 'ss 81, p ~
ing in living, dining Al '''saes sssss
rooms shall be Of frs, snteif Es
oak; ID other places hrst essI,ss "a, aa
carolina pine, 30 Be nls,y9s sss's
scrapsd; dressers. drain $500 hsssso n
ware, etc, 70 be So esllsA a,eat ~ asts
tailed specification. SN sof p Il
Glazing is to be done ,,,.t
double thick glass, free fy,,, s.sAs y
tied. NNsa sae rs
hoon"E and Metal Wofk
Roof to be Of green and n.,..,
ated sizes Of slate Or evns..t r.'pas I, Ssses
stained variegsted brosn Ps s,s sa'''s.'
green shades, Flashing b h. ~ y asii
or zlnei leaders and gus,ss, y sepSF'
or zinc, all as detailed. ere
Lashins, plsstering and g..
All interior work 70 i. 80
two coats on wood .ath .ss'is'ss
lath for firsproofisg s@5 60 as'sl
vention- All exteTior Val ,.1.ss sSs<s y.
be lathed with exrssSsS -...ls. -..sss' 7
IN accordance with a. a.. 80 ista
Associated Messi I.ask Hsn,sss..s sss ~. . sa' Z.
Chicago. Ill, ard plasssred .,'s.. aSsatsr ,l
cement, and ssnd as ssl,aS -. w \
detailed specifieatian. Tbs sv.t ~ &
20 be finished wish fimst. 7as -
lated or foated surface : essas
tone, slightly reddish IN yniov @s
How to Decorate Hau.s
All exterior woodvork -.
cutters etc 20 be painted thrss - ~ I
OF lead, zinc and oil All es,.s
wood work white. guttsgs ass Isss
also white. Blinds to be bIus.s,~'.
in color.
All interior wood siniss ~
kitchen and pantrv to be palntsa s,
coats. Trim in kitchen ard nsrss
De stained and vanished tp, So,
Woodwork in bathroom tbree .ss. y
white paint and two coats Of srx,
white enamel. Birch venees ls~ !.
be stained tobacco br0Hn. ssk,s'
rubbed and given two coats os M.
shellac. Floors 20 be stained and ~
two coats of liquid granite. OIL -.
to be rubbed and waxed.
A complete plum mbing system .ese,,
as per plans and specification 4,
lures to be as selected By the ovsu
Hot Air System suggestst
Hot air system Of type ssle.b.
owner, installation TO be in accurs.,
with standard Requirements Il
tractor to guarantee instalIssiss
heat every room IN which . raS,,.
or outlet Is specified at the sare 4
20 10 degrees Of heat, under ssx,,
local weather conditions.
Complete standard instailatiou !
outlets as indicated. All wors !,
be done 10 the entire satisfsss;,.
the Board OF Fire Underwritsx /,
local service company sapplyins
current.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
East and West Side Private
Homes Pass TO New Owners

The Emma Gillespie estate sold to
Patrick Dooley the three-story dwell
ing at 228 East Seventy-ninth Street.
17.10x1022
Louis Schrag has sold for Abraham
Stern d32 West 22d Street. three
story dwelling, 19.5xs3, to Louis Saint
Lanne.
The Duross Company sold for N.
Garvey the ree-story dwelling 3s7
West Nineteenth Street, 2i.10x64, to
Michael limbs.
Josephine L. Miller sold to Charles
s. Sweedy the five-story dwelling at
II West Sixty-eighth Street, 18xloo5.
Mary Mullin sold the three story and
dwelling at AIT West f4sth Street, 18x
99.f1.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
10 the Res Essaa aitos q

TO the Heas EssAs kdttoF q Ire
Tribune.
Sir: Inasfnush NJ We aTe coas tlss
talking and working NTH ~ le Slas
are interested in forbidainK u edo se~
priced homes, thought that same of
the things we have learned E1lght be of
interest and help 30 yeu aga fEae ex-
csllens program that you have under
way. Following are some OF the gen
erai conclusions that we have arrived
at in dealing With the smi3l house field:
/. The six-roon1 house is the most
popular size. Five and seven-room
houses are second in demand in about
equal proportions.
q Frame and stucco construction are
most cfsen specified, with cement and
brick growing in popularity.
5. Nearly every one wants fireplace.
4. Location of business and comn,ut-
ing convenience are the most important
factors in determining the location OF
honss The average size lot is from
forty 20 sixty feet in suburban dis
t1icts, with depth of 100 to 125 feet.
s. Two-story and wo-and-one-half-
story houses are the most popular.
Bungalows are not in great demand
because of the high price of land.
Perhaps some of the reasons why
psopie do not build homes or why the
cost Of homebuilding is increased or
why BODYBUILDING ventures end in dis
sster would be of interest to your
readers. Some of these reasons are as
follows:
A great many people fail to build
their homes because Of inertia and
dread Of starting the venture. The
average pan does not know how to
finance the operation and has had lit
tie experience in selecting competent
builder.
Changes in the plans and speciica-
tiens after the home is once under
way are sure to result in a greatly
Increased cost.
find that enthusiasm for the pros
peetiye home often results in unwar-
ssntsd extravaganza. Very often the
person who starts out to build $500
home finds that when he has included
in it all the ideas of himself and
friends the price has risen to $4,000
or $4,000. 1t is best to keep within
the range of one's pocketbook.
Under present building conditions
tho inexperienced homebuilder has to
deal with too many "middlemen." The
result is an increased cost of home
building, and often confusion and dis
couragemcnt. By the time that the
home owner has finished his transac-
tians with the real estate man, the
architect, the financier, the contractor
an3 ashers, he is ready to quit the job.
Ef this could be simplified and an easy
s.ethoi devised whereby the prospec-
tive home owner could deal with one
person or one organization, who would
look after all the details OF home
building for him, many hundreds of
people would build their homes who
are now deferred from so doing be-
cause OF the complexity of the opera
tion.
Many building projects are
spoiled because of the ill-advised selec-
ton of lots. A home building site
should be selected only with the aid OF
some authority competent TO advise the
home builder as to such important
! things as excavation, drainage, orien-
tation, transportation, etc; also, it is
we'll to remember that the house must
be adapted TO the lot.
ALTON L. WELLS,
! President Empire Home Building AS
sociation, Inc.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Leased TO Restaurant Company

Henry Shapiro & Co. negotiated the
recently reported lease to the st. Regis
Restaurant Company of the southeast
corner of Broadway and Fiftieth
STREET. 1t was three-cornered deal.
Shapiro & Co. rented for Meltzer &
Medoye store at 1928 Broadway; for
the Paramount Shirt Shops store at
1880 Broadway, and for the Hartford
Lunch Company store at 204 West Fif-
tieth Street The restaurant previous
iy took twenty-one-year lease
through the same brokers on 754-756
Seventh Avenue. When alterations are
completed, the restaurant viii have
three frontages and floor area of
4,o0o square feet, The total rentals
aggregate $700,0 600.
New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Six-Roonl House Most
Popular, Says Builder
sAsneSiean Home Builders Prefer Frame and stucco
AoTne of Two and Two-and-a-Half Stories;
SsaaaII Horaes Are Wanted Inn New Jersey

ihouae, preferably one-story and attic.
IN the suburbs of New York; detached
and frame, costing between $4,000 and
$1,000; initial payment $1,000 20
$4,000, the balance so be taken care of
by monthly payment of $50 to 500.
We prefer New Jersey, because ii is
more accessible to downtown New
York
We have no desire to live among peo-
pie whose incomes are $4,000 or bet
ter neither do we wish TO live among
unskilled laborers and foreigners. We
would like TO be in a community conf
posed of more or less professional peo-
pie. whose incomes would be between
$4,000 and $4,000 year We would
want to be within fifty minutes COM
muting distance of New York.
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New-York tribune., 1922-09-10
Cleveland Is City of Few
Apartment Dwellers
Estimate Says Only 5 Per Cent
of Population Lives i'm Flats:
More Tenemanfs Canine

1t IS said that only per cent Of the
population Of Cleveland lives in apart
ments or flats. 1t 10 bent on increas- !
ing it's percentage, however, and within
a few months an apartment deye,ep-
ment for 1000 families will be com.
pleted in the Shaker Heights section
of the city.
The Van Sweringens, who built the
Union station in Cleveland and bourhs
several railroads in the last few years.
are back of the big apartment house
development. They are building sir
houses of English architecture. It is
expected that the Moreland Courts. "a
they will be called, will have the effect
Of encouraging apartment house CON
struction.