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AdTcrtlalMs lB«ez Advertlalma; Index Page TABLE OF CONTENTS. Page A B See Electric Elevator.4th Cover Niewenhous Bros., Inc 699 Ackerly, Orville B., & Son....GS4 Editorials 669 Noyes Co., Chas. F....Front Cover Adler, Emeat N 681 Vehicular Tunnel and Harbor Improvements Ogden & Clarkson Corp 683 Altmayer, Leon S 68rf Provided For 670 O'Hara Bros 684 American Bureau of R. E 684 O'Reilly & Dahn 683 Ames & Co 683 Computing Depreciation of Real Estate for In Orr & Co., John C 895 Amy & Co., A. V bhs come Tax 671 Payton, Jr., Co., Philip A.2d Cover Anderson & Co., ^ames S 668 Pease & Elliman Front Cover Armstrong, John 684 Grand Union Hotel Site to be Sold this Week. 6^3 Aspromonte & SOD, L. S 60;i Pflomm, F. a G BVont Cover Real Estate for the Current Week 675 Poe, James E 681 Atlantic Terra Cotta Co 686 Pomeroy Co., Inc., S. H 693 Automatic Fire Alarm Co 694 Private Sales of the Week 675 Porter & Co Front Cover Purdy & Co 2d Cover Bauer, Millbank & Molloy.2d Cover Real Estate Notes 684 Beale Co., Harry S 681 Rafalsky Co., Mark... .Front Cover Beaumont Co., G. B....Title Page Statistical Table of the Week 685 Ray Willes, Inc 683 Read & Co., Geo. R Front Cover Bechmann, A. G 684 New Office Building to House Export and Im Benznig Co., Jos. H 602 Realty Associates 688 Birdsall, Daniel, & Co.Front Cover port Interests 687 Realty Company of America... .668 Realty Supervision Co 692 Boylan, John J 68:{ Mayor Hylan Outlines Program for Housing Brady, Henry 679 Richardson & Boynton Co 697 Brown, Frederick 682 Committee 688 Ritch, Wm. T 694 Brown Co., J. Romaine.Front Cover Exclusive Housing Development on Avenue L, Roman-Callman Co ..681 Bulkley & Horton Co 684 Ruland & Whiting Front Cover Busher Co., Eugene J 683 Brooklyn 689 Runk, George S 6S3 Butler & Baldwin 683 .Annual Convention of New York Society of Ryan, George J 6V3 Sasse, Geo. W 684 Cammann, Voorhees & Floyd...683 Architects 690 Schindler & Liebler S>H Carpenter, Leonard J 68H New Construction Held in Abeyance for Lack of Schwiebert, Henry 684 City Investing Co 668 Scobie 683 Classified Advertisements 681 Materials 691 Seath, Inc., James 692 Corning Co., Edward... .4th Cover Personal and Trade Notes 691 Seaver & Co., Frank A 68i Corwith Brothers 685 Smith Co., Inc., E. C ••j90 Coughlin, James A G''- Trade and Technical Society Events 691 Spear & Co 663 Coutoucas, Nicholas 2d Cover Spotts & Starr 684 Cox. Nostrand & Gunnison 6US Building Material Markets 692 Steinmetz, john A 684 Cross & Brown Front Cover Current Building Operations 692 South Ferry Realty Co 668 Cruikshank Co Front Cover Straus & Co., S. W 682 Cruikshank Sons, Wm.Front Cover Contemplated Construction 694 Cudner R. E. Co 683 Thompson Co., A. G 685 Cushman & Wakefield. .Front Cover Plans Filed for New Construction 697 Title Guarantee & Trust Co.2d Cover Cutler & Co., Arthur 684 Trageser Steam Copper Works, Cutner, Harry B 683 John 698 Trotta. Inc., D. A 681 Davies, J. Clarence 6S3 Tucker. Speyers & Co t,8a Day, Joseph P 674-83 Tyng & Co., Stephen H., J 668 Dean & Co., W. E 2d Cover Page Page Ullman 6»1 Dike, O. D. & H. H 684 Hecla Iron Works 699 Leist, Henry G 684 United Electric Light & Power Dowd. james A 684 Heil & Stern 2d Cov,;r Level B, Robert 684 Co 677 Duffy Co., J. P 6:i4 Hess, M. & L., Inc....Front Cover Levin, Inc., Jacob & Morris 678 Uris Iron & Steel Corp., Duross Co 683 Holmes Elec. Protective.4th Cover Losere, L. G 684 Abe 4th Cover Hydraulic Stone Corp 69S Dwight, Archibald & Perry 683 Mack Co., James C 4th Covir Vogel & Rotkin 694 Electro Sun Co 694 Jackson, Daniel H 2d Cover Manning & Trunk 683 Martin, H. Samuel 683 Vorndrans Sons, Christian 696 Elliman & Co., Douglas L 66S Kane Co., John P 4th Cover Walsh. J. Irving 683 Ely & Co., Horace S..Front Cover Maurer & Son, Henry 4th Cover Kennelly, Bryan L., Inc 683 Maxwell, J. S 683 Watson Elevator Co., Inc.,.4th Cover Empire Brick & Supply..4th Cover Kerns Co., James F 684 Weld & Suydam 368 English, J. B 683 May Co., Lewis H 683 Kilpatrick, Wm. D 668 Mclnerney, John F 699 Wells Architectural Iron Co... .699 Feuerbach, F. J 6S-i Kloes, F. J 693 McLaughlin, Thomas F 684 Wells Sons, James N u63 Finch & Co., Chas. H &.Xi Knap & Wasson Co 683 Mc-Mahon. Joseph T 676 Welsch, S., Sons 684 Finegan, Austin 683 Kohler, Chas. S., Inc 668 Miller & Co., A, W 683 Wheeler, G. C. & A. E 678 Fischer. J. Arthur 683 Lackman, Otto 684 Mississippi Wire Glass Co 676 Wheeler Realty Corp 184 Fox & Co.. Fredk 683 Lawrence Cement Co....4th Cover Morgenthau, Jr., Co., M 681 White Const. Co., Inc., The. .. .678 Frank & Frank 61(3 Lawrence & Co., Geo 693 Moses & Moses 685 White & Sons, Wm. A 668 Fuller Co., Geo. A 6114 Lawrence, Blake & Jewell *>GS Nail & Parker 668 Whiting & Co., Wm. H.Front Co"er Lawyers' Title & Trust Co 676 Nason Realty Co 2d Cover Winter. Benjamin 2d Cover Gates. Elmer 684 Leaycraft & Co., J'. Edgar Nehring Bros 68^ Wood-Dolson Co Front Covei" Gold. Louis ti82 Front Cover Newins, Harvey B 2d Cover Wyckoff, Walter C 6.S3 Goodstein, Harry 2d Cover Lehigh Portland Cement Co 69;, New York Edison Co.. The 6.93 Zicha Marble Co., A. R 696 Goodwin & Goodwin (JS3 Leonard Sheet Metal Wks 6f'-l New York Title & Mortgage Co.663 Zittel & Sons, Fredk 683
Costly Mistakes in Building May Be Avoided and Many Difficult Problems Connected with Construction Eliminated Y selecting your BUILDER at the time the AKCHITECT and ENGINEEK B is retained. The result wiil be ECONOMY, SPEED and LOW MAINTENANCE cost, G. B. BEAUMONT COMPANY ^',^EW™ORK' 668 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 1920
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15 East 49th Street Capital, $5,000,000 Tel. Plaza 9200 •Memfijifi an »..*H *^-^' aiU... '^'»'' ROBERTE. DOWLING, President May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 669
Seeking a Way Out established that the people will not buy goods at the high prices recently prevailing then retailers either will have to Drastic action has become the order of the day in deal dispose of their stocks at lower prices or else go out of ing with the industrial situation, not only here in the business. That would indicate the beginning of the end of n;ietropoIitan district but throughout the country. Condi the era of high prices. tions which for a long time were disconcerting have Leaders in American industry and finance always have become acute. That often abused but always useful class been equal to solving the nation's problems in the past, of citizens, known as the Captains of Industry, are and it would seem the part of wisdom to assume that grappling earnestly with a situation which, if it is to be they will be able in time to work out the present problems, righted, will require the best thought and planning and serious as they have become. The real difficulty of the energy of which these leaders are capable. present situation, beyond a doubt, is that our industrial and Building construction has been greatly retarded and financial captains did not take hold of the situation sooner. many industries have had to stop through lack of materials. Official incompetence and lack of foresight must prove The railroads, almost completely demoralized when they a very serious handicap to overcome as promptly as were turned back to their owners by the government, have existing conditions call for. been unable to correct with sufficient promptness the de plorable conditions created under government control. Not only were the lines and equipment of the railroads in Realty Values Maintained sorry condition when government control ended, but the Just because the banks are tightening up their purse railroad employes were a thoroughly-dissatisfied lot. They strings when automobile buyers and other luxury seekers insist, despite former increases, that unless they get ask for loans is no reason why those interested in real higher wages their families cannot cope with the high cost estate should join the calamity chorus. The banks have of living. Higher wages means higher transportation been bears on realty investments for several years, so that charges and at the end of the chain there must be further their present reported conservatism in the matter of busi^ additions to the cost of living. ness credits has no new terrors for the building industry But, perplexing as is this phase of the situation, the or for those trafficing in real estate. Tight money has not developments of the last few days have shown that unless had so much to do with holding back a building boom as conditions are to go from bad to worse there must be an have wage troubles, lack of workmen, scarcity and high immediate resumption of shipping even with the unsatis cost of material due largely to transportation difficulties factory facilities available. The managers of the big and threats of unfriendly legislation. Whenever the trunk lines are now engaged in a commendable effort to unions would let the men work, and when there were rush thousands of empty freight cars from points where enough of them, and when brick and cement and steel and they are not needed to other points where they can hi lumber were to be had the money to start work seemed to used for the hauling of steel and coal and other materials come from somewhere. Not that more money would not which must be had without further delay in many im have made things look brighter, but it is still a fact that a portant industrial centers. Embargoes on certain classes considerable amount of building has been done in New of freight are being declared for a short period in the York and its immediate environs whenever conditions effort to ease up this situation. The fact that industrial other than those of financing have permitted. leaders regard such plans as vital merely serves to indicate So it is hardly worth while for men in the building and the extent to which the situation has been allowed to get real estate fields to allow themselves to become pessimistic out of hand. over the future possibilities when there are so many A diverting development has been the wave of price reasons for confidence. reductions in retail stores which has swept over the Notably May 1 has passed without either a widespread country. Suddenly it has become possible to buy clothing rent strike or a gigantic hegira of renters to other localities and shoes and other wearing apparel at very much lower leaving many vacancies in apartments, tenements and prices than have prevailed since the United States en houses. Nobody is sleeping on the sidewalks of New tered the World War. But thus far price reductions have York and no livable room is unoccupied. There is doub not affected the high cost of food. Until food products ling up, uncomfortable crowding, disagreeable incon can be supplied in larger quantities, or at least until such veniences—but a grin-and-bear-it attitude on the part of time as the supply can be transported to the centres of most everybody, because it is apparent that neither land population, the net gain to the public at large must remain lords nor builders nor financiers are entirely responsible a matter of doubt. for the existing state of affairs, and a sane consciou.sne.ss One encouraging sign of the times is the evident exists that, given time, conditions will become better. resolve of the public to buy nothing but absolute necessities Real estate owners were fearful that prohibition would while the present high prices continue. To a lack of destroy values of many pieces of property formerly oc interest on the part of the buying public is attributed by cupied by saloons. Whatever may be said for or against some authorities the sudden decision of retailers to reduce prohibition itself it is a fact that reports received from their prices on wearing apparel. If the fact becomes time to time by the Record and Guide show the contrary 670 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 192C has been more often true, and the probability is that with Labor in the building trades seems, at last, to be in a the experience of the last year to guide them owners of satisfied mood if only materials can be had. And the saloon buildings throughout the city will be able to obtain government and the railroads are working to lift the con greater returns than before July 1, 1919. Certainly the gestion of freight. Meantime, the Mayor, the Governor appearance of the city, where these saloons have been and the legislatures of New York and New Jersey have remodelled into stores and restaurants, has been enhanced, sanctioned the measures necessary to start the vehicular and this cannot but have a helpful influence on realty tunnel under the Hudson and to improve the harbor of values in the neighborhood. New York. The new laws passed by the last legislature to regulate There is so much to be said of things that are moving in rentals have proved to be not so detrimental to the land a way to help the building and real estate situation in the lords as was feared. They must have a deterrent effect on metropolis that it is unwise to worry about the flurry in new building, but it is likely that the demand for new Wall Street or the panicky perturbations of the merchants buildings will be so insistent and the returns from proper of the country. They have been making so much money investments in new buildings so large that the new laws that they can stand a little "healthy reaction," and with will not in themselves prevent construction work on a loans to profiteering speculators curbed there may be large scale when other condtiions are favorable. money for the legitimate business of building and realty. Vehicular Tunnel and Harbor Improvements Now Provided For [Special to the Record and Guide.] Albany, May 20. The New York City Board of Assessors may proceed to MONG the bills accepted by Mayor Hylan and sent make awards for damages growing out of the grading of back to the Governor for final action are the Walters' Atlantic avenue in Brooklyn, under a bill recently accepted by A measure appropriating $2,000,000 for the New York- Mayor Hylan, and signed by the Governor this week. New Jersey vehicular tunnel and the Hamill bill providing Another bill approved by the Governor is the Sutherland that the total expense of widening Elm street, Manhattan, measure amending Section 951 of the Greater New York shall be borne by the city. Charter relative to awards of damages to lands and build Another bill accepted by the Mayor and immediately ings arising from grading of streets. Under this bill the signed by the Governor is the Lynch measure permitting word "lessee" is defined to include only such persons whose the New Vork City dock commissioner to erect warehouses, leases do not expire in less than three years from date of coal pockets and other structures within the lines of any completion of improvement and acceptance by the city, in marginal wharf or street. This bill will permit the dock stead of ten years as at present. Specific provision is made commissioner to lay out and put into effect a railroad ter to exclude from the application of this new law any claims minal with warehouses in connection with the city's $25,000,- for damages resulting from grade changes which are now 000 pier development. pending before the assessors. The New York City Board of Estimate is authorized to Governor Smith has also signed the Karle bill accepted direct the altering and closing of such streets and thorough by Mayor Hylan last week, which provides for the inclusion fares as may be necessary to aid in the construction of the of computations for assessments for city improvements all New York-New Jersey vehicular tunnel and to make such property within the area of benefit, notwithstanding statu streets conform to the grading growing out of such im tory exemptions from such assessments. provement when completed, under the terms of another bill Following ^[ayor Hylan's acceptance of the Cotillo Board signed by the Governor. of Purchase bill, Governor Smith signed the measure this The Governor signed the Dowling bill appropriating $2,- week. The board created by this bill has its counterpart 500,000 so as to enable the state to furnish the United States in the State Board of Purchase, which has been operating with the right of way necessary for the rectification of the now for two years at a saving to the state in the cost of bend in the Harlem Ship Canal. In a memorandum accom supplies estimated by the State Comproller's ofifice at 30 per panying the approval of this bill the Governor declared cent, a year. Sponsors for this bill claimed that it would that the appropriation will warrant the immediate undertak appreciably cut down supply costs for New York City by ing of the work of improving the Harlem River and the systematizing purchase and distribution of the necessities completion of a barge canal terminal at 136th street and the of the various institutions, boards, departments and com East River, provision for which was made in 1911. The missions. work on this terminal is contingent upon the impfovement Under the Cotillo bill the Mayor is directed to appoint of the river. three New York City commissioners or department heads to Dock Commissioner Murray Hulbert recently appeared constitute the Board of Purchase. One of these he shall before the Governor in the interest of this bill and stated designate as chairman. They will serve without compensa that the commerce of the Harlem River is exceeded only tion, but may name a secretary who may be paid as well as by the combined foreign and domestic commerce of one other necessary employees. The board shall make rules and other port on the .Atlantic seaboard, namely, Philadelphia. regulations for the purchase and storage of supplies and Last year it amounted to $1,700,000,000, and when the barge equipment for all city departments, boards, bureaus and canal is put in full operation and the projected improvements commissions. These regulations will be subject to approval are made, it will doubtless greatly exceed this amount, the by the Corporation Counsel. Commissioner said. The board may advertise for proposals or bids for fur Under the Knight bill, signed by the Governor, all varia nishing materials, supplies and equipment under contract at tions from rules or regulations of the State Industrial Com public letting, but when a real emergency exists and the mission affecting construction or alteration of buildings used best interests of the city can be more advantageously served, for manufacturing purposes in New York City will be pub the board may obtain bids without advertising, "and may lished in the City Record. Where such variations affect combine various quantities of similar materials or supples buildings outside of New York City publication will be made requred by two or more departments, boards, bureaus or of in the bulletin issued by the Industrial Commission. fices for the purpose of economical and judicial purchasing." May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 671
REAL ESTATE SECTION
Computing Depreciation of Real Estate for Income Tax Present Methods May Result in Taxation as Income of Receipts from Realty Which Should Be Considered as Return of Investment BY JOHN W. ROBERTS, C. P. A., N. C. [TJic author of this article, after many years of accounting crfiericiwc. served durin;.i the -Mar as Assistant Rczicivcr of E.rccss Profits Taxes in the Bureau of Internal Revenue at Washington, c.vamining returns, • revieiuing the findings of Revenue Agents, and hearing ta.rf^aycrs' appeals. Since then he has been specializing in income ta.x zi'ork, and is now associated isjith the accounting firm of La-jurence Scudder &• Company.\ NDER the present heavy income taxes owners of prop both normal and surtaxes, or, in the case of a corporation, to erty and those contemplating building should carefully normal and profits taxes and to surtaxes on each portion as is U consider whether the usual methods of computing; declared as dividends. How heavy these taxes would be would depreciation are adequate, or whether some other methorl, depend on so m&ny variable factors that each case would have not now generally applied to buildings, is founded on sounder to be determined separately. But in the extreme cases run logic and better adapted to conserve their interest. The ning into the highest profits tax and surtax rates the federal Supreme Court has shown in the stocks dividend case a dis and state taxes might amount to nearly 84.16% of the income. position to limit income taxation to taxation of real income. If they should amount to 60%, the tax on the 40%' profits of The question to be determined here is to what extent the high the first year would amount to 24% of the property cost, rentals of the next few years are real income, and to what leaving only 16% to the investor, so the proposition boils extent they constitute return of capital. down to the prospect of 16% each year for three years, New York and other congested centres are confronted vvith nothing for the next three years and 4% thereafter—2. an unprecedented situation in the real estate markei. The decidedly poor prospect considering the risks involved and demand for apartments and space in other building; is ab the many possibilities of lucrative investment outside of the normal. All of our cities are in need of hous'ng facilities. real estate field. The rise in rentals can only be checked by new construction To make new construction in the present market safe and and every man who promptly builds will be rendering a sub profitable for those who already have large incomes, enormous stantial service to the public which should be well recom immediate returns are essential under existing tax laws. And pensed in the high rentals he may command before construc not only will the public have to pay enormously high rentals tion reaches the point where the demand will be fully supplied. on new buildings, but on all the old buildings as well. This If after it is supplied, a man misjudges fhe situation and con unfortunate condition is only aggravated if any portion of the tinues to build structures that are not needed, he will be rentals which in reality is a return of capital is subjected 'o rendering the public a dis-service in wasting labor and taxation as if it were income. material and will be heavily punished for it by the operation The investor assumed above, to whom the prospect looks of natural laws. favorable, has in mind that the profits of the first three years The law of supply and demand will inevitably work toward will operate partly as a repayment of his investment. The a condition where the contending forces will be equalized trouble is that it cannot so operate unless the atnount which and where the investor in real estate will make only a normal he considers as a return of investment can be taken as a and reasonable profit. But the pendulum never stops still at deduction from his income as depreciation. If his theory is the bottom of its swing; its momentum carries it past the right that a large portion of it is a return of investment, then point of equilibrium. And so with the building problem. It he would be sufifering as unjustly as would a man who loaned is almost certain that the present abnormal profits will in the his money on the understanding that one-half of it should course of a few years turn to sub-normal profit; or even be paid back in three j'ears, if the Government were to take losses. The important thing for every man contemplating the position that the amount received was income rather than building to consider is the time when this change will occur. repayment of principal. It comes down therefore to a ques The risks involved are great, but the immediate outlook is tion of fact as to the amount of his income and this question so attractive that many feel they should be able to recoup is depeivdent mainly on that of depreciation. enough in the first two or three years to cover a large part The Federal Income Tax Law permits "a reasonable allow of the cost of the building. The greatest of these risks is ance for exhaustion, wear and tear of property used in the that after the present building boom has subsided construc trade or business, including a reasonable allowance for tion costs may fall. No one can with confidence predict how obsolescence." The word "depreciation" was not used lest the value of the dollar will fluctuate in the next ten years, nor it might be assumed that fluctuations or even permanent what may be accoinplished by inventions in construction declines in market value of property would be permitted as methods. If construction costs should ever fall to their pre a deduction. The debates in Congress and the resulting word war levels, the values of buildings constructed at present ing of the law make it clear that no such adjustment to costs would also fall, and the rentals thereafter could be market values will be permitted as a deduction from taxable expected to be a fair return, not on the cost but on the income. Although depreciation from the market standpoint reduced value only. A prospective investor might anticipate is excluded, the words "exhaustion, wear and tear" and "ob a net return on his investment of 40% in each of the first solescence" cover depreciation in its ordinary accounting three years, nothing in the next three years and 4% there sense. after, and this outlook might appeal to him as worth while. The theory on which the law is based is that in the absence But here the income tax comes into play. Let us assume of an actual bona fide sale it is difRcut to determine a market that the building is such as should last at least fifty years, value, and that any appraisal is debatable, reflecting, as it and that 2% has been taken as depreciation in making the does, an opinion that may have been influenced by ulterior above forecast of profits. The profits would be subject to motives and at all events is subject to the personal equation 672 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 192 of the appraiser. And an error of 10% in the appraisal may aggregate rentals will amount to $457,700 and the aggregate result in an error of 200% or 300% in the amount of a year's depreciation to $90,000. This would show that for every dollar •deduction for depreciation. Also if a deduction from income of rentals received a provision should be made for $0.1966 of for depreciation were allowed when the appraised value had depreciation. •declined it would only be logical and fair to rule that an in The regulations permit an apportionment of the charge crease in the appraised value should be added to income. It "either in equal annual instalments or in accordance with any is evident, therefore, that the appraisal basis would be un- other recognized trade practice, such, as an apportionment of .-•atisfactory in the administration of the law and the wording the capital sum over units of production." adopted by Congress was supported by the logic of tlie situa Even here, however, the question arises as to whether it is tion. a "recognized trade practice." The Treasury Department may The theory adopted was rather that the cost of any plant be expected to combat it. property is in the long run an expense incurred to produce In the recent stock dividend case, the Supreme Court did the income. If a building is erected that should stand for 50 not permit a possible loss of revenue to influence its decision years and then be worthless, it is evident that to find the net as to the question of fact whether stock dividends are or are income of the 50 years it would be necessary to deduct from not income. The question of depreciation also is a question the total rentals received, not only the total expenses of c;f fact as to what is and what is not income, and the question operation and maintenance but also the cost of the building. whether the public revenue would be increased or diminished Depreciation is merely a plan for equitably apportioning that rhould not enter in. cost year by year so as to cover it during the life of the The principles involved were to a large e.xtent admitted by building. Congress in that the Revenue Act of 1918 contained certain The two methods most frequently adopted are what are provisions for amortization of war facilities that were based known as the straight line and the declining balance method. on the belief that certain kinds of property, though not worn In the first of these the cost less the salvage value at the out, would suffer a sharp decline in value and earning power end of the period is divided by the number of years of useful at the conclusion of hostilities, and that consequently justice life to find the annual instalment for depreciation. The could not be done without allowing something more than amount of this instalment is the same year after year. In the ordinary depreciation. It is interesting to note that the declining balance method a percentage rate is found, which, Treasury Department itself, in .Article 185. of Regulations 45, if applied each year to the cost less the accumulated deprecia chose, as the proper basis for allocating the loss to the respec tion, will, at the end of the useful life of the asset, bring its tive taxable years, the proportion of net income in the value down to salvage value. Under this method the annual amortization period attributable to those years. This may bs depreciation charges are larger at first and gradually decrease. described as a net income unit basis, which is so closel.v Other methods, however, are permissible. The Regulations related to the rental unit basis here advocated in the depre (Regulations 45, Article 165^ state that "the capital sum tobe ciation of rented buildings that the principles claimed are replaced should be charged oflf over the useful life of the strongly substantiated. property either in equal annual instalments or in accordance If the rentals for the 50 years should work out approxi with any other recognized trade practice, such as an appor mately in accordance with the forecasts assumed above, the tionment of the capital sum over units of production. What annual amounts to be taken as depreciation under the differ ever plan or method of apportionment is adopted must be ent methods on an asset costing $100,000. and with a residual reasonable and should be described in the return." value of $10,000 after 50 years life, would compare about -xs The man who builds at present builds primarily for the follows: returns he expects in the next three or four years. It is Annual Amounts of Depreciation. therefore logical to assign against the profits of the first three Straight Declining Rental or four years much heavier charges than against the later Line Balance Unit years. .Assuming again the forecast of profits of 40% per year Method Method Method for the first three years, nothing for the next three and 4Tt 1st year $1,800 $4,500 $9,043 thereafter, and adding thereto the depreciation so as to get 2nd year 1,800 4,297 9,043 the profits before provision for depreciation, then of the 3rd year 1,800 4,104 9.043 total profits for the 50 years 32% would fall in the first three 4th year 1,800 3.919 1.180 and yet agains those three only 6% of the cost of the building 5th year 1,800 3.743 1,180 would be applied under the straight line method and 12.9% 6th year 1.800 3.575 1.180 under the declining balance method If, under the theory 7th year 1,800 3,414 1,966 which the law and regulations adopt, the cost of the building Sth year 1.800 3,260 1.966 is an expense incurred to produce the income of the 50 years, 9th year 1.800 3,113 1,966 it should follow that 32% of the cost should be considered as 10th year 1,800 2,973 1,966 chargeable against the income of the first three years. This 15th year 1,800 2,325 1.966 would make it about 11% per year. Such a percentage is 20th year 1,800 1,880 1,966 unusual, but so are the conditions which are actually faced. 30th year 1,800 1,180 1,966 Although in principle some method like the foregoing would 40th year 1,800 745 seem to oflFer the nearest approach to justice, it is hard'.v 50th year 1,800 470 likely to be permitted by the Treasury Department, on the 60th year 297 ground that if every taxpayer is permitted to estimate for .A word of caution is needed with regard to the figures and himself the total future profits year by year for the life of the percentages used above. They have been assumed for pur asset, his latitude would be almost unlimited and he would poses of illustration only, and have not been based on proved always estimate them in such a manner as to avoid all taxa conditions. They might not apply to any particular case, tion for perhaps ten years. Cannot this diflficulty be overcome since the conditions are bound to vary. The facts in each by reducing the method to one susceptible of better actuarial case would have to be established before any rates could be proof? Let us assume that the building is an apartment house determined. It is believed, however, that the assumptions costing $100,000 with an expected life of 50 years and a residual made are in approximate conformity with the general trend value of $10,000, and that it can be proved that the average of events, and at any rate they serve to point out the weak net return on the investment in similar buildings under ness of the usual methods and the advantages of the produc normal pre-war conditions was 6% after allowing for $1,800 tion unit method. depreciation and $4,000 for expenses including repairs and Construction of buildings in normal pre-war times was property taxes. It is not unreasonable to expect that the about as safe as any enterprise could be. It was then a true future net return will in the long run approximate the same 6%. From this it may be reasoned that for the 50 years the investment. But construction now is more a speculation, (Continued on Page 673.) May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 673 Grand Union Hotel Site To Be Sold at Auction This Week Plot Consists of Eighteen City Lots on Park Avenue from 41st to 42d Streets in the Grand Central Station Zone IX years ago this month, on May 2, 1914, the old Grand surrounding this underground right of way the city has con Union Hotel was closed. Now, on Wednesday, May 26, structed foundations capable of sustaining a 25-story building. S at 12 o'clock noon, in the Real Estate Exchange Sales The Grand Union Hotel was opened in 1868 as the West room, 14 Vesey street, the acre and a fraction of land on chester Hotel, a comparatively small structure, which occu which the old hotel stood—one of the most valuable vacant pied the corner. The original name subsequently was changed parcels in Manhattan—is to be sold at public auction by to the Reunion Hotel and then to the Grand Union. Henry Brady, auctioneer, on behalf of the City of New York, Early in the '70s the father of Samuel T. Shaw, who, with by order of John H. Delaney, Transit Construction Commis Simeon Ford, was one of the two owners of the Grand Union, sioner. bought the property adjacent to the Westchester Hotel, and The Grand Union Hotel site, occupying the block front on later on the hotel site itself. Mr. Shaw, senior, although not the east side of Park avenue, 41st to 42d street, and having a hotel man, kept the Westchester open and from time to time built additions to it. Simeon Ford, who was famous as an after-dinner speaker, a collector of sporting and old New York prints, married a daughter of the elder Shaw in 1883 and became one of the proprietors of the hotel. Samuel P. Shaw, the other proprietor, was an enthusiastic collector of paintings by American artists. It was a tradition of the old Grand Union that the key to the hotel was thrown away the day the house opened. No key was to be found the night of the closing and Simeon Ford said he "never remembered having had one made." In speaking recently of the forthcoming sale and of the sacrifice represented in disposing of the various "subway" properties involved for whatever they may bring over and above the "upset" prices fixed by the Public Service Com mission, Mr. Brady said: "The City of New York simply had to have these properties in order to reduce the time of travel on the subways to a minimum. The real estate had to be purchased at the price fixed in condemnation proceedings and the improvements removed. Interest on the millions of dollars paid out has OLD GRAND UNION HOTEL totaled a big loss ever since, and the remaining land, minus the improvements paid for originally and since demolished, an area of 45,425 square feet, equivalent to about eighteen city must be sold now for whatever amount over and above the lots, is generally conceded to be the most desirable plot of upset prices the bidders on May 26 may be willing to pay. unimproved real estate in the heart of New York, which The sacrifice involved was necessitated by the requirements means the world. The plot extends 197.6 feet in Park avenue, of subway construction and could not be avoided. 230 feet in both East 41st and 42d streets. It is to be sold "The time has come, however, when these properties, hav subject to under-surface easement for city transit lines, the ing served their purpose, must be disposed of without regard area of which is approximately 20,500 square feet. Over and to the sacrifice involved." Computing Depreciation of Real Estate for Income Tax (Continued from page 672) public policy should favor showing consistent moderate profits rather than large profits in fat years ard losses in the lean. offering hopes of large profits and risks of large losses. Tlie There is much truth in his arguments. It cannot, however, straight line method and the declining balance method are be admitted that anyone is justified in making arbitrary pro adapted to conservative investments only. Where the profits vision for depreciation to suit his whim or ulterior motives. are likely to fluctuate widely and the enterprise is more Depreciation is a fact that must be expressed before the net speculative, the rental unit method is much more suitable. It profits can be determined. The determination of it must not should be remembered also that whatever method is adopted be based on the amount of profits it is desired to show, but on should be consistently followed. Those who built in pre a consideration of the purpose for which the cost of the asset war times and who have adopted either of the hitherto well was incurred. recognized methods, would probably not be permitted by the In order that investors may not be restrained from supply Treasury Department to change their method in income tax ing needed housing facilities by a narrow and inequitable in returns now, even if the method were permitted when applied terpretation of the law, two steps should be taken : to new buildings. First, the various associations of real estate owners and For a long time there has been among many business men a builders should study the several methods of depreciation, feeling that accountants are sometimest unreasonable in their and, if they find the arguments here presented sound, endorse insistence on depreciation. It is natural that the busines' the rental unit method for all new buildings, so as to niake.it man has wanted to make provision for depreciation only after a recognized practice of the trade. he has seen what his profits have amounted to, and has Second, a test case, on an income tax return in which the desired arbitrarily to set aside much or little or none, depend depreciation has been carefully computed under the rental ing on how he wanted to juggle his profits. He has argued unit method, and involving, if possible, no other disputable that his plant property was acquired with the knowledge that points, should be pushed through the courts for an authori there would be both fat and lean years, that the only hope of tative decision. Since there is every indication that the getting back his investment lay in the fat years, and that he Treasury Department will oppose the method, the investor was jutified therefore in taking heavy depreciation then, and cannot be safe in starting construction until the question has little or none when times were bad. He also ar.t,'ued that been decided by the Supreme Court. 674 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 1920 Interborough's Necessity— The Public's Opportunity The Interborough's Necessity is the result of increased oper- ating costs and a 50% reduction in the purchasing power of the nickel.
The Public's Opportunity is the forthcoming auction sale of the unused real estate belonging to the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. and which must be sacrificed now to liquidate a loan made as of January 1, 1920, to pay the interest due to bondholders. This means that the many valuable properties to be disposed of must be sold for whatever they may bring, regardless of the sacrifice involved. The Interborough Company must sell properties strategically located along the subways, selected long before the effect of rapid transit had become apparent. The Interborough, today, is not in a position to hold this valuable real estate until its possibilities have been realized, and Interborough Real Estate must be sacrificed at ABSOLUTE PUBLIC AUCTION Valuable Properties—Adjacent to Subway Stations 98 Broadway Lots 92 Broadway Lots On the east side of Broadway at 218th St., 219th On the west side of Broadway at 238th St., 239th St. and 220th St., Ninth Av. and on the Ship Canal. St. and 242d St., and on Spuyten Duyvil Parkway. 156 & 158 East 42nd Street Store and oflice building between Lexington and Long Island City Third Aves. Size 41.8x98.9. With connection to WATERFRONT PLOT all Interborough R. T. and Queensboro Subways. At the Jackson Ave. station of the Queensboro Subway. Bank building and other business struc City Island, New York City tures, apartments, houses. East River waterfront Vacant comer plot, ripe for improvement. and other vacant plots, ripe for improvement.
THE SALE WILL BE HELD ON NEXT TUESDAY, MAY 25th at 12 o'clock Noon, in the Exchange Salesroom, 14 Vesey Street 50% @ 41/2% 60% (S) 5 % Each lot, 25 x 100, 70% @ 51/2% is to be sold separately (Or 2% a month for 40 months) May remain on Hortcatre Send for Bookmaps Title Guarantee & Trust Co. uctioneer Policies free 67 Liberty Street Cortlandt 744 Interborough's Necessity—the Public's Opportunity May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 675 Review of Real Estate Market for the Current Week Large and Vai4ed Dealing Was the Pr onounced Feature of the Week with a Brilliant Move at One Wall Street HE most pronounced feature of the real estate market history, contributed the human interest phase to this week's this week was the variety to the dealing in large proper market activity. No. 1 Wall street, at the southeast corner T ties. Investors and operators, as well as brokers, found of Broadway, was sold by the syndicate of capitalists, who big opportunities in all parts of the city. There were some built it fifteen years ago, to a prominent New York operator. large sales in the Bronx, as well as numerous small ones, and At this time, when the market is at the zenith of strong de all parts of the borough were represented. Notable among mand, it is likely that the temptation to sell this strategic the Manhattan transactions was the sale of a large and holding was irresistible; and it would not surprise us if the choice unimproved plot on upper Riverside Drive and adja buyer soon resold and took a substantial profit. The late cent to a corner. It will probably be the site of a big apart Benjamin D. Silliman, who lived to be ninety-six and who ment house within a year. The other large sale of vacant was the dean of the New York bar and oldest graduate of property was in Long Island City, and that part of Greater Yale, owned this corner, when there was an old four-story New York has for some time been distinguished for the sale building upon it, for more than half his lifetime. When the of large empty plots in an era when the general real estate late John N. Golding then asked him to set a price upon movement is in improved property. The reason is that the it, he said he had no price and no desire to sell. But Mr. vacant tracts in Long Island City are bought in most in Golding persisted. "Well," responded Mr. Silliman, "my stances by large manufacturing concerns for improvement price is the number of dollars it will take to cover the plot with concrete factory buildings for their particular purposes. put side by side." Mr. Golding figured it up and told Mr. Investors and not speculators predominate. Silliman he would find a buyer at that price. "Ah!" ex claimed Mr. Silliman. "I mean gold dollars on edge placed More conspicuous than usual this week was the co-opera side by side." Mr. Golding was dazed at the old gentleman's tive buying of apartment houses throughout Manhattan, and high mathematics, but, if the great paucity of office space one transaction of this character exceeded the million dollar downtown continues and rentals jump again as they have mark. Numerous individual tenants, too, bought their busi jumped during this great real estate year, perhaps Mr. Silli- ness locations, while the buying of private dwellings by ten man's golden dream may be realized by somebody. ants was a marked characteristic. That many hotels south of 59th street will eventually be Another notable phase of the market this week was the remodeled into office buildings, the same as has been planned sale of the old Smith & McNeil property, in the block bounded for the Knickerbocker, would seem to be borne out by the by Greenwich, Washington, Fulton and Vesey streets, at pri fact that the old Hotel Earlington, in West 27th street, and vate sale, after it had been scheduled to be sold at auction. the Hotel Stephens, adjoining the Hotel Albert, in University A similar incident happened with another property. place, are to be remodeled for business purposes. Only a The Battery neighborhood displayed more than its usual short time ago the St. Denis went the same way. History activity, Washington and West streets contributing impor repeats itself. It recalls the era when 23d street was far tant sales; and other parts of that district now susceptible uptown and when numerous hotels on Broadway south of to reimprovement were features. Hth street were altered into commercial buildings. There were numerous large leases negotiated in various Broadway and Wall street, rich in financial and real estate parts of the city.
Excess Profit Tax Opposed. Congress and the President are petitioned to At the next session of the Legislature a 'uill kill this contemplated federal measure. will be introduced providing for the cure of this HAT property owners associations, follow defect in the law which has been a consLaP-t T ing the action of the New York Chamber of menace to real estate dealing, as many valu Commerce and other influential bodies, are fall Real Estate Golf Winners. able parcels of property throughout Greater New ing in line in opposition to the piling of federal HE winners in the Gold Tournament of the York are owned by estates. war taxes on to real estate was demonstrated T Real Estate Board of New York, held at at a recent meeting the United Real Estate Own the Cherry Valley Gold Club, Garden City, ou MERRILL N. GATES, ot Hasten & Nichols, ers' Association, when it adopted resolutions dis May 19, were as follows : is the buyer ot the two old dwellings at the paraging and analyzing the excess profit tax and A. M., CLASS A—Best Gross—Burgoyne Ham northeast corner ot Park av and 75th st, sold the surtax, claiming that they have much to do ilton ; Best Net—Argyle R. Parsons. recently. He will erect a residence. with the high cost of living, high interest rates A. M., Cla.ss B—Best Gross—F. B. Barrett; and the embarrassment of property owners by Best Net—E. Bass, D. G. Scott (tie). the consequent calling of mortgage loans and tbe A. M.. Class C—Best Gross—Anton L. Trunk : PRIVATE REALTY SALES. tightening of new mortgage money. Best Net—H. Lippman. The president of the association submitted for A. M., Guest Prize—R. G. Narelle. the consideration of the meeting a resolution on P. M., Class A—Best Gross—Wesley M. Oler, HE total number of sales reported but not the subject which he had drafted; and, after Jr. ; Best Net, G. H. Conger, H. A. Frey, J. H. T recorded in Manhattan this week was 126, amendment, it was unanimously adopted. The Hallock (tie). as against 135 last week and 90 a year ago. resolution declares that the excess profit tax and P. M., Class B—Best Gross—F. S. Bancroft; The number of sales south of 59th street was the surtax are largely responsible for the pres<;Ut Best Net—Warren Murdock. 50, as compared with 53 last week and 22 a year high price levels, the high cost ot living and P. M., Class C—Best Gross—Jos. L. Ennis ; ago. that they equal 24 per cent, of the retail pric3 Best Net—R. W. Murray. The number of sales north of 59th street was of commodities. It also asserts that they cause P. M., Guest Prize—L, M. Burt. 76, as compared with 80 last week and 68 a year the low market for Liberty Bonds and the l.ii;h ago. Interest rates, averaging from seven to ten per May Pay Part of Transfer Tax. From the Bronx 28 sales at private contrac^ cent. Further, it blames these laws for the were reported, as against 30 last week and 47 calling of mortgage loans and the difficulty of NTERESTING as a legal sidelight on a real a year ago. negotiating new loans : and that the result is a I estate transaction was the final closing of Statistical tables, indicating the number ot re paucity of building and of housing, with coasj the title,to the 4-story and basement dwelling corded instruments, will be found on page 685. quent excessive rents. at the northwest corner ot Lexington av. and The resolution asasils the present federal "n East 64th St., which was sold by the Beekman come tax in so far as it affects buying and sell estate through M. Morgenthau, Jr., to the Stabil Good Sale on the Bowery. ing by including the profit on real estate dealin; ity Realty Co, For some time the State Comp Benjamin Silverflne bought from William within the scope of taxation. It says that rjrofifS troller's offlce has been accustomed to insisting Horrman and others 294-296 Bowery, the first are practically akin to stock dividends whi :h upon the full payment of an entire transfer tax being a 4-story brick store building, on a lot the Federal Supreme Court has declared to be from an estate when It had sold only one of 26.10%x92 and the second a 3-story brick build principal and not income. It argues that sales its many parcels of real property; the estate ing, on a lote 19.5%x92. that are the realization of the potential value had to do so in order to be free from the lien of principal and the real estate business itse-f ot the tax. Such a course by the state at times' are principally mortgages with little cash. . iiH made it practically impossible to effect the Heavy Co-operative Buying. inasmuch as a federal realty tax is proposed, it profitable sale of a given parcel owned by an Schnitzleln estate sold to a tenants' co-opera Is timely to emphasize that real estate in .''11 estate. tive association, under'the management of A. S. cities bears the burden of nearly all municinai Litigation was begun to estop the state from Peters, Robert J. Owens and Simon Meyer, all taxation : and, that there Is in this state a tax the practice and the matter was carried to the tenants In the 5-story apartment houses, 2166 upon mortgages and a state Income tax ; bej d '. Court of Appeals. That tribunal holds that the to 2174 Seventh avenue. Including the southwest there are minor taxes for real estate to pay. It procedure maintained by the commonwealth is corner of West 129th street. The Immediate is argued that a federal tax on realty will throw wrong and that an Individual parcel of an corner house Is on a lot 19.11x75, while the upon it a burden it will be unable to bear and two inside buildings are each on a plot 40x75. that it will he taxed more than any other class estate's holdings need pay only its pro rata share of the total tax asscsspd nnd thnt wlu-n it of property. Tt will mean rnnfisnation nf tlip urt Isidnr Zimmer and Samuel Reznick resold to a inc-omr of real estate. ''J so naid 'hv Comptroller may rt^casi' the parcel for sale. cooperative syndicate, headed by Abraham 676 RECORD AND GUIDE May 2i, 1920 Schafer, S. Berges and J. Fried, the ft-story ele vator apartment house, known as Lido Hall, Activity in Battery Section. Aillad RMI Bctate Interests on a plot 100x71, at the northwest corner of The Broadway-John Street Corporation, Ellas Mwiitiw B^Jrn Board et Real Brtate Brokers Cathedral Parkway and Seventh avenue. It con A. Cohen president, sold 151 and 153 Cedar tains 30 suites. The new owners will occupy street, between Washington and West streets, a the apartments next October. 4-story warehouse, on a plot 44x55,3, to a big Money to Loan on First Mortgages downtown corporation, which will convert the The Morganstern Brothers Syndicate sold to plot into an office building for its own occu a syndicate of tenants represented by Rubin pancy. Cohen, attorney, who will occupy one of the apartments under a co-operative plan, the Man- The Broadway-John Street Corporation bought nados, at 17 East 97th street, at the northwest from John Gregory .'iO Washington street, a 3- corner of Madison avenue, a 6-story elevator story building, on a lot 26x89.7, five doors above 5% the Whitehall Building. apartment house, accommodating 30 familes and containing 6 stores, on a plot 95x100.11. Among those interested in the new ownership are Joseph The Broadway-John Street Corporation, Ellas Joseph T. McMahon F. Cohen, Jacob Bayer and Samuel Lapidus. A, Cohen, president, bought from Harry A. Glover the two old 6-6tory brick buildings, on a Kenilworth Holding Co. sold to the Kenllworth plot 26x180, at 17 West street, running through REAL ESTATE and Associates, Inc., the north corner of Central to 26 Washington street, Park West and West 75th st. a 12-sty apartment MORTGAGE LOANS house, known as the Kenllworth, on a plot 102,2 Whitehall Realty Co. sold to the Broadway- xl23.f)yj. The building was erected in 1908. The John Street Corporation, Ellas A. Cohen, presi 188 and 190 MONTAGUE STRBBT purchasing company was incorporated in Albany dent, IS West st, a 5-sty brick building, on a lot last week for the purpose of acquiring the prop 26.10x8!i.6 ; also, 19 West st, a 3-sty brick build BROOKLYN erty and operating it on a co-operative basis. ing, on a lot 26.10x89 ;6 ; also 20 West st, a 3- The property was held at $1,2,50,000. The offlcers sty brick building, on a lot 25x89.6, together Talaphana: Main SM and stockholders of the buying company are with the abutting property, 32 Washington st, a Charles Curie, president ; Frank L. Montague, 5-sty brick building, on a lot 25x89.6. The BPBCIAL ATTKNTION GITKN TO vice-president : G. H". Williams, secretary, and Whitehall Realty Co. had owned these properties COLLECTING. BKNTINC H. F. Harriman, treasurer; and the remaining 18 years, and they adjoin the parcels bought AVD MANAGKHKNT OP BSTA1 stockholders are E. S. Hughes. Dr. Bryan D. during the week by the Broadway-John Street Sheedy, L. L. Gans. J. H. Wainwright, W. 0. Corporation and mentioned elsewhere in this Horn, O. A. Harbach, A. E. Wing, A. R. Hon. news section. The buyer now .controls a total of 16,000 square feet at this point. U. S. Fidelity Buys Comer. The United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co. Premier Parcel of Realty Sold. bought from the Mutual Life insurance Co. the Long famous as the highest priced piece ot 5-sty offlce building at the southwest corner of real property in the world, the 18-story offlce Liberty and Williams sts, on a lot 21.:txSl.ll, to building known as 1 Wall st, at the southeast be used after remodeling as Its New York home. corner of Broadway, was this week sold by the The executive committee of the Fidelity has rati St. Louis syndicate that had owned it for 15 years to Max N. Natanson, who is understood to fied the purchase. The site abuts the home ofilce have paid $1,250,000 tor It. Occupying a nlot of the Mutual Life, and is opposite the proposed only 20.10 feet in Broadway, 39.10 feet in Waif Federal Reserve Bank Building. st, and ,32.6 feet on the rear line, this property is a rarity In size for such a tall building as McNeil Holdings Sold Privately. occupies It. The structure has been facetiously Promising to be attractive offerings at auction, called the Chimney Building and the Splinter of the various buildings in the block bounded by Masonry. There is in most floors only one offlce Greenwich, Washington, Vesey and Fiilton and each brings a very high rental because of streets, owned by the estate of Thomas R. Mo- superior light and privacy, as well -.i choice lo cation. The ground floor Is under long lease to Nell, have been sold privately through Arthur the United Cigar Stores Co., and it is understood Knox, an attorney, instead of according to auc to be the most profitable of Its numerous chain tion schedule by Joseph P. Day on May 26. The stores, while the rental is supposed to be the properties comprise the buildings for many years highest it pays for any of its stores. At the lime famous as Smith & McNeil's Hotel and Restau the site of the present building was bought fr Arthur Brisbane Again Invests. Riverside Drive Plot Sold. The estate of Herbert B. Turner sold through Woolworth Building taken ttiruut^ Arnold H. E. Schramm, of Santa Barbara, Pease & Elliman to Arthur Brisbane 513-SlS Cal., sola through Pease & Elliman to Anthony Polished Wire Glass Window In the Madison avenue, at the northeast corner ot 53d Western Union Building. New York Clt7 Campagna and Vita Cerabone the vacant plot, street, a 10-story and stone apartment house, 1,52x129.10xl47.3x irregular, on the east side of on a plot 40.!5x8o. Mr. Brisbane also bought 517' Riverside Drive, 133 feet north ot West 158th Madison avenue, adjoining, a 4-8tory and base street. In part payment for the plot the seller ment brownstone dwelling, on a lot 20x85. took 683 West End av, a 5-story dwelling, on a Why not get the bene lot 16x85, which was recently remodeled Into fit of reduced insurance Judge Cardoza Buys His Home. small apartments. The buyers will eventually For the purpose of insuring his permanent oc improve the Riverside Drive plot. rates, together with the cupancy of 16 West 75th st, a 4-sty and base ment brownstone dwelling, on a lot 21x102.2, maximum of Fire and Judge Benjamin N, Cardoza of the New York Six Dwellings in One Deal. Court of Appeals has bought the property from William Herrberg sold to the Moton Realty Breakage Protection? the estate of John A. Roosevelt, which had owned Co 311 to 321 West 139th street, six 3-story and it since 1894. Judge Cardoza has been a tenant basement dwellings, on a plot 102x99.11. They Install Mississippi Pol of the house for 14 years. will be resold. Columbia Trust Buys in Harlem. ished Wire Glass with its Columbia Trust Co. has bought for occupancy Hebrew Kindergarten Buys. by Its Harlem branch 151-153 West 125th st. a The Hebrew Kindergarten and Day Nursery silver white wire and sur 3-sty building known as the Hawthorne, on a purchased for its purposes the group of dwellings plot 50x99.11. The Columbia Trust Co. is at at the northwest comer of West 152d street and face equal to any plate present housed In the building at the southeast St. Nicholas avenue from Ennis & Sinnott, corcnr of Lenox av and 125th st. where its lease operators. The houses are known as 41 to 47 glass, and save money. will expire within two years. St. Nicholas avenue, on a plot 75x100. The houses will be remodelled for the nursery and Write for Catalogue Investor Buys in Greenwich St. were sold through Spear £ Co. The Robert A. Keasbey Co., asbestos, bought and Samples. privately through Joseph P. Day from the Hud son & Manhattan Railway Co. the vacant plot. Paterno Enlarges a Purchase. 25x82x54.6x irregular, at the southeast comer Joseph Paterno, who purchased recently the of Greenwich and West 10th street. This prop- mansion of Nash Rockwood at the northeast eHy was scheduled to be sold at voluntary auc corner of Independence avenue and 2.52d street, MISSISSIPPI tion last Tuesday by Joseph P. Day. Riverdale-on-the-Hudson. enlarged hia property through the purchase of a plot of lots adjoining, WIRE GLASS CO. at the comer of Palisade and River avenues, Buys Upper Fifth Av. Corner. trom William P. Dixon and Henry P. Murray. Estate ot Charles Armour sold to Frank T. Room 1712 Simmons, tenant, 2077 Fifth avenue, at the northeast corner of East 128th street, a 4-story Sale of West Broadway Lofts. and basement brick and stone dwelling, on a lot The estate of Anna E. Leaycraft sold 71-7S 220 Fifth Ave., New York City 24.11x80. It Is the flrst time the property has West Broadway, a 6-story loft building, on a been sold In 35 years. plot 37.6x,50x25xl7.1. May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 677 Colosseum Apartmemts Sold. WASHINGTON ST.—The estate of Mary R. 8TH ST.—^Dr. Samuel H. Johnson mid througli Callender sold to Arthur Miller of the Miller- Pepe & Bro. to a buyer, for occupancy, 51 West The Benenson Realty Co. resold to an invest Cummings Co. 330 Washington st, a 4-sty com* Oth st, a 4-sty and basement brownstone dwell* ing client of Louis Salomon the Colosseum, a mercial building, on a lot 21.11x67x21.7, with a ing, on a lot 16x92.3. 12-story elevator apartment house, on a plot 129 4-sty L to 41 Harrison st, on a lot ZlJ9¥>x. xl03x65.11, at 435 Riverside Drive, southeast 87.10x22. IITH ST.—Maisie Boggs sold through J. Ir corner of 116th street. The aparmtent house was ving Walsh to a buyer, for occupancy, 248 West built about 8 years ago by the Paterno Brothers. 8TH ST.—Cruikshank Co. sold for Leopold llth st, a 3-sty and basement brick dwelling, on A. Camacho and others to Vincent C. Pepe, 21 a lot 16.9x48.7. West Sth St., a 4-story apartment house with IITH ST.—Pierre Haubert sold through East Broadway-DiTision St. Deal. stores, on a lot 25x94. Pepe Bros, represented Thomas J. O'Reilly to the Home Mission So Oak Point Corporation sold through M. Mor the buyer. ciety ot The M. E. Church 273 West llth st, a genthau, Jr., Co. to Dr. Samuel A. Moss 266 East Broadway, a 3^-story and basement dwell ing, on a lot 27x103.9, together with the abutting property, 253-255 Division street, two 2^-stoTj and basement brick dwellings, both on a plot 36-42, between Montgomery and Gouverneur streets. Mortgages Park & Tilford Sell Stable. Fiftieth Street Co., J. W. Buckner, president, a holding corporation for Park & Tilford, sold issued on improved metropolitan real estate 106 to 112 West SOth street, a 4-story brick and are almost the only securities that cannot be stone stable, on a plot 75x100.5, running through to 109 West SOth street, on a lot 25x100.5. Park depreciated by industrial disturbances. Our & Tilford are now building a large garage at 537 to 541 West 43d street, near their whole Guaranteed Mortgages on this class of prop sale warehouse. erty are doubly secure. Operator Buys Fulton St. Corner. Malvina H. Cornell and Edith C. Smith sold through Pease & Elliman to the Broadway-John Street Corporation 40 Fulton street, at the north Lawyers Title and Trust Company west corner of Pearl street, a 5-story brick 160 Broadway, New York 367 Fulton St., Jamaica, N. Y. building, on a lot fronting SO feet in Fulton 188 Montague St, Brooklyn 383 E. 149th St., New York street, 29.1 feet in Pearl street and a depth along the Fulton street party wall of 18 feet. 44 Court St, Brooklyn 1354 Broadway, Brooklyn 160 Main St, White Plains, N. Y. Crescent Buys for an Annex. For the purpose of acquiring space to enlarge its club house at the corner of Pierrepont and Clinton streets, Brooklyn, the Crescent Athletic Club has purchased from Dr. T. M. Lloyd his residence at 125 Pierrepont street, adjoining the club house. Pelham Golf Course Purchase Completed Harris B. Fisher has sold to the Pelham Leas ing Corporation, to complete its 18-hole course, 60 acres belonging to the Witherbee Real Estate & Improvement Co. and Mrs. Robert C. Black : also 26 acres belonging to the Edgar estate. These properties. Including the Bonnie Brae plot of 22 acres, already sold to the same organiza tion, together with the acquistion of the club house and grounds of the Pelham Country Club, will give the new golf club an area of about 114 acres. Devereux Emmet has been secured as golf architect. Work has already started on the construction of the course, which will be com pleted and ready for play in June. 1921. Manhattan. lerewasatime* South of 59th Street. BANK ST.—Anna Duttwiler sold through the Duross Co. to William Suizer, a 3-sty and base \vhen electric home ment brick dwelling, on a lot 26x80. It is un derstood that the buyer is not the former Gover nor of that name, although he recently bought wiring was considered a property nearby in West 4th st. BLEECKER ST.—A. Ruthkiewiz bought through W. D. Kilpatrick 390 Bleecker st, a luxury. Now it is con 3-sty brick building with store, on a lot 19.1x50. The new owner will occupy. sidered a vital necessity BOND ST.—Mrs. Theodore W. Myers sold to L. B. Boudin 6 Bond st, a 4-sty mercantile building, on a lot 25x100. to the health, w^elfare BURLING SLIP.—Broadway-John Street Cor poration sold to Herman Conheim 9 Burling SUp, a 4-sty building, on a lot 20.1x56x17.11. and comfort of the adjoining the northeast corner of Water st. The buyer will remodel the premises for his Import ing business. Pease & Elliman were the brokers. average family. JANE ST.—Mrs. Liny Curnow sold through Gustave Britt. to John Halliday, 53 Jane st, a 3-sty and basement brick dwelling, on a lot or you—house iviringon partial pa-^'ments! 19.4x09. / Phone Stuyvesant 4QSO or write for details HOWARD ST.—Harry Aronson bought through the Charles F. Noyes Co., 54 Howard st, at the of hozo we will finance such improvements northeast corner of Mercer st, a 5-sty loft build through your local electrical contractor. ing, on a plot 30.5x58. KING ST.—May Helen Eagan and others sold through the Cruikshank Co. to John d'Anna and Paul Taormina 38 King st, a 3-sty and base ment brick dwelling, on a lot 20x100. t?he United Elecfiie MORTON ST.~WaIter E. McDonald sold through the Duross Co. 50 Morton st, a 4-sty Light '^"'^ Power Co. brick dwelling, on a lot 18.2x100. PARK PL.—Frederick Brown resold to Frank H. Lester, the tenant, the 5-sty loft building 97 Park pi, on a lot 24.8x36. Sherman Creek TENTH AV.—Julia H. Pommerer sold 509 Tenth av, a 5-sty tenement house with stores, Generating Station on a lot 26.4V2X150. West 201st Street THIRD AV.—Sol Cohen and Gustave Kaliske and Harlem River bought from the estate of Joseph Hecht, 349 Third av, a 5-sty building, on a lot 24.8x100. District Offices and VESEY ST.—Cruikshank Co. sold for the Cen Show Rooms tral Union Trust Co., as trustee, 06-98 Vesey st, ?!')th Street and Broadway two old 2Vj-sty brick buildings, the first being 146th Street and Broadway on a lot 20.2x75x20 and the second on a lot 20.1x99x20. Both structures were dwellings In the days of early New York, but are now produce warehouses. Si£j£iSi$£iii$$SSSSSi£i£iSSiS$Sii»iiSiiiiSii;j^iiii£SSt^^ 678 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 102& 4-sty and basement brick dwelling on a lot 25x basement brownstone dwelling, ou a lot 21,4x 102%. 102.2. '•v':'' V ^""" " »..| > '-.• '- V ^^ 19TH ST.—Daniel H. Jackson sold to Schech 77TH ST.—Henry Hesse sold through Albert ter & Kroop 133-135 West 19th st, a 10-sty loft B. Ashforth to Louis H. Nordlinger 29 East 77th F building, on a plot 40,10x92, st, a 5-sty apartment house, on a lot 25xl(X2.2. li)TH ST.—Thomas j. OReilly sold for the 79TH ST.—John J. & Theodore A. Kavanagh Farmers Loan & Trust Co., as trustee, 439 West Bold for the estate of Rosalie Burghelm to a 19th st, a 3-sty and basement brick dwelling, client, for occupancy, 176 East 79th st, 3-sty on a lot 2.'ix72, to Albert E. Straker. and basement dwelling, on a lot 18.9x1(^.2. 21ST ST.—Mildon Realty Co. sold to Mrs. 82D ST.—Henry Block sold to Dr. Samuel Claire Batigne, who will remodel and occupy, 451 Bookman, tenant, 48 East 82d st, a 5-sty Ameri West 21st st, a 4-sty brownstone dwelling, on can basement dwelling, on a lot 16x100. a lot 16.8x98.9, opposite the General Theological Seminary. 83D ST.—Estate of John H. Hall sold 11 West S3d st, a 4-sty and basement brownstone dwell ?-'j3 ITllS 22D ST.—Dwight. Archibald & Perry sold for ing, on a lot 20x102.2. a client to a buyer, tor occupancy. 446 West 87TH ST.—William C. Rhinelander estate sold 22d st, a 4-sty brick dwelling, on a lot 15x72. 310 West 87th st, a 3-sty and basement brown CQNCREfF 2.'!D ST.—Ames & Co. sold for the State In stone dwelling, on a lot 16x100.8%. vestment Co., Bradish Johnson, president, 250- SSTH ST.—Paul T. Von Bernuth sold 315 West 2."i2 West 23d st, a vacant plot 50x75, to B. SSth st, a 4-sty and basement brownstone dwell Prever, for business use. ing, on a lot 20x100.81/2. 2.1TH ST.—Francis Morris sold to Joseph and WHITE Samuel Cohen, 231 West 23th st, a 3-sty and OOTH ST.—Karl Klein sold to Elizabeth Man- CONSTRUCTIOlUCTION COC , INC, fe#'-'-iji basement building with store, on a lot 21x98.9. derworth, tor occupancy, 78 East OOth st, a 3-8ty New Yor•kk l:--'--i'y^ The purchasers own 233 to 243, adjoining, a 1-sty and basement brick and stone dwelling, on a lot garage. 17x100.81/2. Joseph P. Day and Albert B. Ash forth were the brokers. 27TH ST.—Benjamin Menschel sold to a new 92D ST.—Mrs. Clara L. Lacey bought from syndicate, represented by Benjamin I. Shiverts the Mizel Realty Co., Morris Mizel, president, 30 and David Strausman, attorneys, the Hotel Earl West 92d st, a 4-sty and basement brick dwell ington 49 to 55 West 27th st. The property ing, on a lot 17.5x100.81/2. consists of a 10-sty building, containing 200 rooms and occupies a plot 100x100. The new 92D ST.—C. Royce Hubert resold for Charles owner will alter the structure into a mercantile S. Cole the 3-sty and basement dwelling 150 building at an approximate cost of .?200,000. West 92d St. on lot 19x100.8. Mr. Cole recently purchased the property and has disposed of the ;!0TH ST.—Dr. Robert C. Myles sold to the same at a substantial profit to a purchaser who A. H. Investing Co. 59-61 West 36th st, two will occupy. 5-sty buildings remodelled for business, on a plot 4."..\98.9. 96TH ST.—Erlanger, Herman & Gordon sold to a buyer, for occupancy, 36 West 96th st, a .•i.STH ST.—Mrs. Josephine Long sold to a 5-sty American basement dwelling, 17x60x100. buyer, for occupancy, 145 East .'-SSth st. a 4-sty and basement brownstone dwelling, on a lot 99TH ST.—Joseph P. Day sold for the estate l(ix94. of William G. Park to Lloyd H. Smith, jr., the vacant plot. .50x100. in the south side of 99tii st, .'.iiTH ST.—Brunswick Realty Co. .sold to 200 feet east of Fifth av. This property was llaskin & Sells .•i.5-.37 West 39th St. a 12-sty scheduled to be sold at auction last Tuesday by office building, on a plot 44x94.6, adjoining the Joseph P. Day. Mr. Smith purchased the ad Engineering Societies building. The buyers will joining plot, 50x100, at auction last Tuesday for use the property for their executive offlces and 5i35,000. Io allow for future expansion of their business. lOOTH ST.—Charles Wynne and Louis H. Low 44TH ST.—S. M. Williams sold through the resold 61 to 65 West 100th st, three 5-sty apart If criticism of "per Mrown. Wheelock Co. to a buyer, who will re ment houses, on a plot 75x100.11, adjoining the model it for business use. the 3-sty and base northwest corner of Manhattan av. They re ment brownstone dwelling, on a lot 15xl0 ,.^/enJ^^i/jraay Auctioneer AT AUCTION Auction Sale WEDNESDAY, MAY 26 By Order of 12 o'clock noon at City of EXCHANGE SALESROOM, 14-16 Vesey Street New York THE BUSINESS HUB OF NEW YORK Block Front 41st to 42d Street and Park Avenue Fronting on three streets, in the Heart of the Hotel District .\rca 45,425 Sq. Ft.—About ISVz Lots—Site of former GRAND UNION HOTEL BLOCK FRONT Park Place, West Broadway and Murray St. Area 14,583 Sq. Ft.—About 5% Lots S. W. Cor. William and Beekman Sts. (Insurance District)—Area 5,315 Sq. Ft. BLOCK FRONT Canal, Howard and Centre Streets Area 1.3,551 Sq. Ft.—About 5 2/5 Lots BLOCK FRONT Walker, Canal and Centre Streets Area about 4,164 Sq. Ft. BROOKLYN PARCEL West Side Flatbush Ave. Extension, 120 Ft. North of De Kalb Ave. Dimensions 20.5 x 53. By order of HON. JOHN H. DELANEY Transit Construction Commissioner, Acting for the City of New York These arc all vacant parcels, four of which have important Subway Stations thereon, and are to be sold In fee simple, free and clear of all encumbrances, excopling certain easements to be retained for the maintenance and operation of a rapid transit railroad, and Subway Structures. Detailed plans of Subway Structures at Office of Commissioner, No. 49 Lafayette Street, or 139 WEST 33RD STREET rao\ (Opposite Pennsylvania Hotel) Auctioneer 680 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 1920 Annual Number for 1919 of Record and Guide Quarterly Now Ready for Delivery HE Annual Number of the RECORD & GUIDE QUARTERLY contains in this, the final issue of the year, all the data contained in the preceding Tthree plus those of the fourth period, making in one compact volume, a complete transcription of all Conveyances, Miscellaneous Conveyances, such as Re lease of Mortgages and Dowers, Contracts, Agreements, Consents, Assignments of Rents, Power of Attorneys, Designation, Resignation and Appointment of New Trustees and Executors, etc., Mortgages, Extension of Mortgages, Participation and Subordination, Agreements of Mortgages, Assignments of Mortgages, Satisfied Mortgages, Leases, including consents, assignments, cancellations and surrender of leases; Real Estate Appraials, Auction Sales, Wills, New Buildings and Alterations with cross references for the entire year. Borough of Manhattan. These records are arranged geographically, chronologically and alphabetically, so that the subscriber may, at a moment's notice, find the desired information. In order to make these records more Price complete the attorney's name is inserted in all Mortgages and a geographical cross reference to the Real Estate $40.00 Appraisals is given. This permits the user in searching for the appraised value of a given parcel, and not having the name of the deceased, to obtain the information instantly. Years of experience have demonstrated that by using the RECORD & GUIDE QUARTERLY time and annoyance are saved. It is equally valuable to the broker who maintains an elaborate system of keeping records, or the man who must condense his plant. The RECORD and GUIDE COMPANY 119 WEST 40TH STREET NEW YORK CITY Phone, Bryant 4800 May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 681 119TH ST.—George F. Burt sold through Pease & Elliman to Joseph G. Abramson, 140 West 119th st, a 3-sty and basement brownstone dwell ing, on a lot 20x100.11. 120TH ST.—William B. Bond sold through Classified Advertisements Pease & Elliman to Joseph G. Abramson 58 East Want! and oavi. F.r Salt aad For Raat—Rat* lla. »ar IIM; oaaat alx warda ta tka Haa. 120th st, a 5-sty apartment house, on a plot 27x100.11. BmMoytn anruxii to aeonra Halp (alarlcal or gavfaa- No DMdhnn raaehlna real aauta Intoivta aff«* atm- jtonal). or ompiorwa iilaUDg to obula a maltlaB ar „,. brakaia. and axecotort wtabUu to dtaooaa ol dMlr- 120TH ST.—Cruikshank Co. sold for Samuel t>ett«r a preaaot aam wUl Oad thli danartvwnt irf tba .u. . ,,_ __ . , ." • *T ' ' /^^ Wolverton, trustee, 133 West 120th st, a 3-sty B«ord aiS^il. Uie ,oK*,« iSS .SS?SS iSclSd !5^ZX^ ^ .^ .^?*.,?^ l!!!2S!L " and basement brownstone dwelling, on a lot 20 of biliwliu thalr «uu to tke atunuon ct Uie lanaat JJ?"?^ ta taioa tte luclu of thalr ompoattlana lo xlOO.ll. nambar of Intweaiad laadvi. In the l«al aatata or "" atlanllaa of poaalble bivera aa daaa Iba Wat Sala 120TH ST.—Isaac Falk and others sold bulldls:; profMaloiM. *bd For Bent aeoUon of tha Baooitf aad Oaftda. through Bryan L. Kennelly 305 West 120th st, a 5-sty flat, on a lot 25x100.11. The parcel was scheduled to be sold at auction by Mr. Kennelly. PROPOSAL,. WANTS AND OFFERS. 122D ST.—Cruikshank Co. sold for the Fidelity HIGHWAY WORK. EXPERIENCED MAN, SELLING OR Trust Co., as trustee to the Rene Realty Cor OFFICE OF THE STATE COMMISSION RENTING, COMMERCIAL SECTION, poration 218-220 East 122d st, a 6-sty apart OF HIGHWAYS, ALBANY, N. Y.: Sealed SALARY AND COMMISSION. WILL ment house, on a plot 50x100.11. proposals will be received by the under- MAKE LIBERAL ARRANGEMENT. UBIL 126TH ST.—Porter & Co. sold for Martha A. signed at their office. No. 55 Lancaster & STERN, 1165 BROADWAY. Gaines to Astolfo Bartoccin 55 West 126tb st, Street, Albany, N. Y., at 1 o'clock p. m., a 3-sty and basement brownstone dwelling, on a on MONDAY, the 7th day of JUNE, 1S20, AN ESTABLISHED and well known, wide lot 19.3x100. tor the repair ot the following highways: awake real estate flrm wants an active 129TH ST.—Murray Holding Co. sold the 6- Albany (2 contracts: reconstruction) man for renting or selling. Box 653, Bty tenement house, 48.9x09.11, at 152 and 154 Broome (1 contract: reconstruction) Record and Guide. West 129th st, which It purchased last month Chemung. . (1 contract; surface treatment) from the Normandy Realty Co. Dutchess (1 contract; reconstruction) Brie (1 contract; reconstruction) WE WILL PAY 20 cents for the Record 132D ST.—Minnie Stretcher sold through Por Section of Record and Guide of OctobeJ ter & Co. to Leonard Well 65 West 132d st, a Greene (1 contract; reconstruction) 18, 1919, Issue. Record and Guide Co. 4-sty brick flat, on a plot 30x99.11. Jefferson (1 contract; reconstruction) Lewis (i contract: reconstruction) FOR SALE—South Brooklyn—Nine-room 132D ST.—Edward A. Johnson bought, through Montgomery.. (1 contract: reconstruction) Porter & Co., for occupancy, 204 West 132d st, a frame house, near Subway station; good Orange (2 contracts: reconstruction) condition; price $4,000. Box 10, Record 3-sty and basement brick dwelling, on a lot Rensselaer. ... (1 contract: reconstructionj and Guide. 16.8x99.11. St. Lawrence. . (1 contract: reconstruction) 134TH ST.—Gold Realty Co. sold to Warner Sscuyler..(l contract; surface treatment) & Taylor 511 West 134th st, a 5-sty apartment Steuben (1 contract: reonnstruction> house, on a plot 39.3x100. Suffolk (2 contracts: reconstruction) 1.36TH ST.—Charles Wynne and L. H. Low Tioga...(2 contracts: reconstruction JAMES E. POE bought and resold 131 West 136th st. a 4-sty and surface treatment) American basement dwelling, on a lot 15.6x100. Tompkins. . (1 contract: surface treatment) BUYs-acLLS—exsHAHaa Warren.. (1 contract; reconstruction 161ST ST.—L. J. Phillips & Co. sold for the and resurfacing) REAL ESTATE estate of Agnes A. McGIrr to Ennis & Sinnott, Maps, plans, specifications and estimates the 4-sty American basement dwelling, on a lot may be seen and proposal forms obtained IN NARLCII AND VICIHITV 18x99.11, .577 West 16st st st. at the office of the Commission in Albany, 172 West 135th Street 179TH ST.—B. A. Margulies sold 710 West N. Y.. and also at the office of the division ML IfamtBolda UU 176th st, a 5-sty apartment house, on a plot engineers in whose division the roads to 50x92.6. be repaired are located. The addresses of COLUMBUS AV.—The David W. Cromwell the division engineers and the counties of MONEY TO LOAN which they are in charge will be furnished Estate to Adolph Fischer 746 and 748 Columbus SUMS: av, two 5-sty flats, with stores, on plot 50x100. upon request. FORT WASHINGTON AV. — Benenson Realty The especial attention of bidders is Co. repurchased 251 Fort Washington av, at the called to "GENERAL INFORMATION $2,000 to $10,000 northwest corner of West 170th st, an 8-sty FOR BIDDERS" in the itemized proposal, elevator apartment house, known as the Avoca, specifications and contract agreement. on a plot 101.1x95. The buyers sold the proper FRED'K STUART GREENE, D. A. TROTTA, INC. ty some time ago. Commissioner. Tal. Melrooe 41I2.4SI3 391 Eaat USth Btraat IRVING V. A. HUIE. Secretary. MADISON AV.—R. D. Galloway, tenant, bought from James H. Cruikshank 2104 Madi son av, a 3-sty and basement brownstone dwell ing, on a lot 20x80, adjoining tho northwest corner of East 132d st. Bronx. 139TH ST.—August R. Haeuser sold to the C. R. M. Realty Co. 495 East 139th st, a 3-3ty and basement brick dwelling, on a lot 16.8x100. 181ST ST.—Horgenstern Bros. Syndicate sold 945 East 181st st, a 5-sty apartment house, on a plot 62x115. 206 BROADWAy^ CORT. 39GG BATHGATE AV.—Dora Orth and the Bonhag estate sold to Sarah A. Sutter 2378 Bathgate av, a 4-sty apartment house, on a plot 38.5x90: and, 2383 Bathgate av, a 2-sty and basement ——10MO ISLAND CITY—— frame dwelling, on a lot 25x100. HARRY S. BEALE CO. BELMONT AV.—M. Lederman sold to Nicho INDUSTRIAL las DeCrenza 2203 Belmont av, at the north tNCOBPOaATKD west corner of East 182d st, a 5-sty apartment REAL ESTATE PROPERTIES house, known as St. Martin Court, on a plot 89x60. MANAGEMENT BUSINESS PROPERTIES ROMAN-CAUMAN COMPANY CARTER AV.—Albert L. Lowenstein sold the 505 FIFTH AVENUE BRIDGE PLAZA vacant lot. 50x28.1, on the west side of Carter Tel. Vanderbilt 247 Phana: AaUria TSt av, 147.5 ft north of East 174lh st. _LONG ISLAND CITY.^_i CEDAR AV.—Pemberton Hare Powell sold to Joseph VIngiprova 1.890 Cedar av, a detached east corner of Grant av and East lG5th st, a PARK AV.—Charles M. Radice bought from dwelling, on a plot 37x125. vacant plot, .32.7x109. It will be improved with Catharine M. Campbell 4433 Park av. a 2-sty CONCOURSE.—Bergonzl Realty Corporation stores. and basemest frame dwelling, on a lot 29.3x98.8. sold 1215 Grand Boulevard and Concourse, a 5- INTERVALE AV.—George Knauf sold 1230 ROSEDALE AV.—John Pierce bought 1498 sty and basement apartment house, at the north Intervale av, a 3-sty and basement frame 3- Rosedale av, a 2y2-sty frame detached dwelling, west corner of East 167th st, and running I'amily house, on a lot 2.5x75. on a lot 25x95, at the southeast corner of Man through to Grand View pl. on a plot fronting LONGFELLOW AV.—Bdward Polak, Inc., sold sion St. 150.68 feet on the Concourse, 57.10 feet in East for Mrs. Jack Webber to A. Davidson, 1419 Long SHERIDAN AV.—Hedwig Flbel bought from 167th st and 147.11 feet in Grand View pl, and fellow av, a frame 2-famIly house, on a lot 25x the Howe estate 043 to 047 Sheridan av, two an inside line of 89.67 feet. 100. 4-sty and basement apartment houses, each on CRESTON AV.—Alexander Selkin, David Mintz MATTHEWS AV.—Empire City Savings Bank a plot 37.5x07. adjoining the northwest comer and Harry P. Katz sold 2711 Creston av, a 3-sty sold to the Hurtra Realty Co., Louis Schlechter, of East 163d St. dwelling, with garage, on a plot 50x100. president, tbe vacant plot, 125x140, on the east SOUTHERN BOULEVARD.—Sovis Holding CRESTON AV.—Creston Realty Co. sold to a side of Matthews av, 200 feet south of Burke Corporation sold to Joseph 0. Abramson 992 buyer, for occupancy, 2676 Creston av, adjoin av. Southern Boulevard, a 5-sty apartment house ing the southeast corner ot East Kingsbridge MINFORD PL.—Hesan Realty Co., M. Heller, with stores, on a plot 42x107. rd, a 21/2-sty frame detached dwelling. president, sold 1562 Mlnford pl, adjoining the SOUTHERN BOULEVARD.—Hedwig Fibel CRESTON AV.—Schwab & Co. sold for the southeast corner of East 173d st, a 5-sty apart sold 20S5 Southern Boulevard', a 5-sty apart Roseff Building Co. 2403 Creston av. a new 5-sty ment house, on a plot 35x100. ment house, on a plot 37.5x100, adjoining the apartment house, on a plot 74.8x119. It was a MORRIS AV.—Sidney Auerbach sold 2310 southwest corner of East 180th st. cash transaction. Morris av, a 3-sty and basement brick dwell- THIRD AV.—J. Waldron Gillespie sold 3472- CROTONA AV.—Hesu Realty Co.. M. Heller, iiiK. on a lot 18.7x117.5. :t474 Third av. the flrst a 2-sty frame store president, sold 2322 Crotona av, a 5-sty and MORRIS AV.—Armstrong & Carpenter sold to building and the second a 4-8ty brick apartment basement stone front apartment house, on a plot B. P. J. Carpenter. 2019 Morris av, a 2-tamlIy house with store, both on a plot 54.77xl20.02x 50x100. house, on a lot 25x100. 52.54x100.11. FAIRMOUNT PL.—Edward Polak, Inc., sold PARK AV—Kate V. Murray sold 3526-,3528 TIEBOUT AV.—Howe estate sold to Hedwig for Mrs. Rose Steiner 794 Fairmount pl, a Park av, a 4-sty brick double business building, Flbel 2482 Tiebout av, a 4-sty and basement brick 3-family house, on a lot 25x80. on a plot 01 3x105, adjoining the northeast cor apartment house, on a plot 31x100. GRANT AV.—William Rankin sold the north- ner of East leSth St. TOPPING AV.—Dr. Paul Luttinger sold to 682 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 1920 Julius Josephson 1743 Topping av, a 21/2-sty de st, adjoining the Empire Theatre, which was tached dwelling, on a plot 32.5x95. recently leased to the Famous Players-Lasky VALENTINE AV.—Cahn & Cahn sold to J. Corporation. Austin, 2868 Valentine av, a 2-st7. two family ESTATE OP B. F. KENNEY leased through BROKERS house, on a lot 25x100. Thomas P. Burke to David Reeves. Inc., and to Y. Levine the two stores that formerly com WASHINGTON AV.—Mrs. Adele Pollack sold prised a large liquor saloon at the southwest to A. Lucker, 1728 Washington av, a 2-sty frame corner of Tenth av and West 47th st, for a dwelling and store, on a lot 20x100. term of years. The total rental is more than LOUIS GOLD WILKINS AV.—Ella Realty Co. sold 1420- the saloon paid and saloons in their time yielded 1422 Wilkins av, the first a 3-sty and basement bigger rentals than other lines of business. frame dwelling, on a lot 25x100, and the second 44 Court St, Brooklyn, N. Y. a .S-sty brick and frame store and dwelling, on ALBERT B. ASHFORTH, INC., leased to F. a lot 25x100. R. Trlpler & Co. the store, basement and mezza nine In the Yale-Towne Building at 9 and 11 Will erect bnildings containing Brooklyn. anywhere from 10,000 to \OOfiOO Bast 40th St. Trlpler & Co. have occupied the 7TH ST.—Henry L. Nielsen Offlces sold for store at the northeast corner of Madison av and square feet of manufactnring space Mrs. Matilda Singles to a buyer, for occupancy, 42d st for 20 years, but are obliged to move for any responsible prospective 461 7th st, a 2-sty and basement brownstone owing to the fact that the present building on dwelling. the site Is to be demolished to make way for lessee. a 22-sty offlce building. Trlpler & Co. will OR 7TH ST.—Henry L. Nielsen Offlces sold for eventually return to the 42d st corner. Essador Wasserstrom to Francis Gottlieb 480 7th will boSM aad aell tba aliuuuiro roc a aoiall eaA st, a o-family house. AMES & CO. leased for a client to Albln & Seilikowitz the two entire 4-sty brownstone oonildaratloa. taklns a moctaMa. to be amoMaad 49TH ST.—Conveyances Holding Co. sold buildings, 59-61 W. 24th st, on a plot 38x98.9, over an acread period, for ttie balance, nka pUn through Tutino & Cerny 543 49th st, a 4-sty for a long term of years. brick double flat. wU] maka It poaalbla tor tba client to ndnoa naaal ABRAHAM ARNDT & BROS., who for 29 years OTorbaad to apiffozliiiatelr one-bair yuaaol ooaL DEAN ST.—Max Bialor sold through the have been in li;i6 Fulton st, have leased through Bulkley & Horton Co. to a buyer, for occupancy, Sol Stern large space in 31-33 B. 27th st. 1477 Dean st, a 2-sty dwelling, on a lot 2"xl07.G. AUTOMOBILES CORPORATION leased from FACTORY BUILDINGS 3TH AV.—Frank A. Seaver Co. sold for J. M. the Silver Lunch Co. the store and basement in Lowe 1122!! oth av, a 3-sty double flat, with stores. af 16G6 Broadway for a term of years. FORT HAMILTON AV—Frank A. Seaver & GEORGE BACKER, president of the Textile REINFORCED CONCRETE Co. sold for J. Crifasi to a buyer, for occu Building, Inc., leased to the Van Raalte Co. the pancy. 9400 Fort Hamilton av. a frame 2-family and second floor, approximately 32,000 square feet, house. in the Textile Building, under construction on MILL CONSTRUCTION JEFFERSON AV.—Bulkley & Horton Co. sold the east side of Fifth av, from SOth to Slst Anywhere in for Mrs. M. Weed to a buyer, for occupancy, 675 sts, tor a term of 10 years from February 1, Jefferson av, a 3-sty and basement brownstone 1921, at a gross rental of approximately $700,000. GREATER NEW YORK dwelling, on a lot 20x100. L. J. Phillips & Co. were the brokers. JOHNSON ST.—Burling Realty Co. sold for R. THE BILTWELL REALTY CORPORATION Phone Main 7050 for Appointment Perlman 107 Johnson st. a frame dwelling. leased from plans the garage at 175th st and KENT AV.—Bulkley & Horton Co. sold for Carter av to Oscar LIcker. for a term of 15 Martin Mctzner 971 Kent av, a 3-sty and base years, at the rental of .fl7.j,500. ment brick dwelling, on a lot 20x70, to a buyer, EDWIN BIRD WILSON CO., advertising for occupancy. agents, leased the entire flfth floor in 9 Han LI.VCOLN PL.—The Berkshire Realty Co., Jos over st, corner of Beaver st, for a term of 10 eph C. Haft, president, resold to an investor .^41 years. to' ,"».*i.'l Lincoln pi, three 4-sty apartment houses, BROWN BROTHERS leased to the National on a lot l.'iOxin. Drug Stores Corporation the 4-sty building, 2 PATCHE.N AV.—R. F. Young sold through the Union Square, at the junction of Hth st, front Burling Realty Co. 118 Patchen av,-'a 2-sty and ing 25 ft. on Union Square. The lease is for FREDERICK BROWN basement brick dwelling. a long term of years. The property was original ly leased to Brown Brothers. Ql'I.VCV ST.—Walter A. Rea sold through the Henry L. Nielsen Offices to Morton D. Greaves CARPENTER FURNITIRE CO. leased from 034 Quincy st. a 2-sty and basement dwelling. Morris 13. Baer 60 to 70 East 125th st. a .3-sty SOCTH ELLIOTT PI..—Clara Matthews sold building, on a plot 7.')Xl0O.ll, for a long term Real Estate Ihrough the Bulkley & Horton Co. to a buyer, for of years, at an aggregate rental of $.300,000. occupancy. 41 South Elliott pi, a 3-sty frame The former tenant was Cowperthwaite & Co. English basement dwelling. CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD, INC., leased space on the llth floor of the Grand Central Operator VAN lUREN ST.—Burling Realty Co. sold Palace for the Merchants and Manufacturers for F. S. Ketcham 40 Van Buren st, a frame Exchange, to the Democratic National Com dwelling: and for Louise Ling 63 Van Buren mittee of Washington, D. C, to be used as their St. a frame dwelling. National Headquarters during the coming presi 217 BROADWAY Queens. dential campaign. JOSEPH P. DAY leased for a term of 4^ years Telephone Barclay 49.t2 GLENDALE—Samuel K. Jacobs, of Walter Emmerich & Co.. makers of ribbons, bought the to the Automatic Straight Air Brake Co. for three large factory buildings and 19 acres of Pasbach-Voide Lithographing Co the three top land at Glendale. Mr. .Jacobs was forced to floors of the Zinn building, at the southeast cor buy the plant to continue his business afti-r tht' ner of W. 2.5th st .and Eleventh av. The lease expiration of his lease. He expects to erect totals about .'i;250,0t)0. HHI houses for his employees. MRS. ALMEE DOUGLAS, head of the firm LONG ISLAND CITY. -Roman-Callman Co. of T. M. and J. M. Fox & Co., dressmakers, sold for the Schley Realty Corporation to John leased to Antoinette C Worrall, gowns, at 734 .\. Camay, of the Camay Body Co.. a plot of Fifth av the 4-sty dwelling on a lot 25x80, at 7.."00 square feet in the east side of Pearson st, 11 East 56th st for 21 years at an aggregate .500 feet south of Jackson av. Long Island City. rental of $252,000. Fox & Co., who own and Do Not Put The buyer will improve the plot with a modern occupy the abutting building at 10 East 57th st. 2-s;y factory. acquired the 56th st realty last November from the Thornbrake Co. Off Building JAMES A. DOWD leased for a term of years RECENT LEASES. 158 to 168 Sixth av covering the north half of the block between llth and 12th sts for a client to the ulster Court Corporation. Construction costs have not yet risen Big Fifth Av. Lease. to a point proportionately as high DUNLAP & CO., hatters, leased for a term of At gross rentals aggregating about $1,000,000 21 years 431 Fifth av, a 5-sty building, 21.10x100, as many other commodities. Ex for a term of 21 years the Shulte Realty Co. has from Walter E. Maynard. The property Is now perts agree that they -will not go secured control of the 11-sty store, offlce and occupied by Dempsey & Carroll .stationers. lower for many years. The shortage apartment building at 21ii Fifth av, extending Dempsey & Carroll have leased the 5-sty build through to 11.32 Broadway. The building was ing. 2.-,xl00.5, at 13 East 47th st from the estate is acute. Build now! originally built by the Hoffman estate for Mark of George D. Smith for a term of 15 years. Cross & Co. and fronts 28.2 feet on Fifth av and 30.2 feet on Broadway. The Shulte Co., DUROSS COMPANY leased for Wm. C. Orr to Money for construction of modern which secured the lease with renewal privileges Hyman Kramer and Harry E. Kessler, the fireproof buildings in amounts of building 201-20.1 William st and 17 Frankfort through Spear & Co., plans to convert the apart St. for a term ot 15 years. The building will be $500,000 or more is available today, ments on the upper floors into offlces and gen remodeled and the store occupied as a lunch as in the past, through the favorable erally remodel the building at an estimated cost of $50,000. Its site was originally occupied room. terms of the Straus Plan of financ bv the homestead of Dean Hoffman, who founded DUROSS CO. leased the 4-aty building 109 ing. Write for our booklet explain the estate. The ground floor of the building West 17th st tor Theresa Browning to Jullua ing this i)lan today. has been occupied by the Shulte Co. for several Ratner tor a term of 15 years. years. DUROSS CO. leased for a client to Nicholas and George Bacalis the store and basement in M. & L. HESS, I.NC, leased for the 255 Fifth the northwest corner of Seventh av and West Avenue Corporation to Josiah Wedgewood & Son 1.3th st for a term of 10 years. SWSTRAUS &:COa the fourth floor in the foregoing address: for DOUGLAS L. ELLIMAN & CO. leased tor ESTABLISHED 1882 INCORPORATED the Wanora Mills to Bernard Bernstein the Mrs. H. K. S. Williams to A. Brolsat for a fourth floor in 26 West 23d st: for the Empire long term of years 46 East 50th st, a 5-sty 150 Broadway, New York Cream Separator Co. to O. C. Schmidt space on American basement dwelling, on a lot 20x100. the sixth floor ot 907 Broadway ; for a client to CHICAGO DETBOIT BIINNEAPOUa E. D. FARRELL Estate leased to the Per A. H. Waterman space on the third floor of 125 fection Products Co. the large store and base SAN FRANCISCO East 23d St. ment in 675 Third av, Manhattan. Thirty-eight Years Without ESTATE OF AL HAYMAN leased to the Walk- DOUGLAS GIBBONS & CO. and William A. Loss to Any Investor Over Shoe Co. at an aggregate rental of ap White & Sons leased for John D. Rockefeller proximately $1,500,000, the building, 25.7x100.9, 14 West 54th st, a 5-sty American basement at the southeast corner of Broadway and 40th dwelling, to Stephen Peabody, who recently May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 683 684 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 1920 MANHATTAN BROKERS ORVILLE B. ACKERLY & SON 0. D. & H. V. DIKE ROBERT LEVERS Real Eatate—Insarance Appralaars •( Lone Island Proparty Heal Estate Specialists 378 LENOX AVE., eor. 129TH ST. Pboaa: Barlem SaTS Phone: Greeley 1760 Management of Improved Real Estate Exclusively 243 West 34th Street. New York City CANDLER BUILDING THOS. F. MCLAUGHLIN 220 WEST t2ND STREET Real Elstate and Insnrance ERNEST N. ADLER BRANCH—271 WEST 23RD STREET 1238 THIRD AVE., NEAR 72ND ST. Upper East Sld« Property a Specialty JAMES A. DOWD GEO. W. SASSE 1M« riBST AVE.. At TSU St. REAL ESTATE—INSURANCB Real Estate—Insurance 2090 EIGHTH AVE., NEAR 114TH ST. Renting—Management Phone: Cathadril 1447 Telephone 396-397 Pvnnarlrmul* 874 SIXTH A,VENUE, above 49tb Street SCHINDLER & LIEBLEP AMERICAN BUREAU Real Eatate and Insurance OF REAL ESTATE F. J. FEUERBACH Bhlselaiular eus 1S»S THIRD AVa. at Ttth tt •1] Aboot Saal KUata Kracrthlns—Xfatrvlun MODERN "AfflBMSE" 8TBTKM Management of Estates and other 18 West S4lh Street properties my specialty. SPOTTS & STARR, Inc. Real Eatate—Insoranee Aatot Court BuUdlns, Naw Tork Manager of the Knickerbocker Co-operation of Rcliabia Brokera Invltad Fu-e Insurance Co. Management Lenox St4t X«7 EABT 84TB ST. TIMES BUILDING JOHN ARMSTRONG Phone Bryant 4000 Real Estate Arent and Broker TeL Hulam 2U 1984 Third Ave.. Cor. 109th St. HENRY G. LEIST WHEELER REALTY CORP. REAL ESTATE—INSUKANCB REAL ESTATE APPRAISER—ESTATES MANAGED ARTHUR CUTLER & CO. BROKERAGE—MANAGEMENT Real Estate «1-S PABK ROW XM Eaat 8(th St. EaUbllahad IMT 299 MADISON AVE., AT 41ST ST. Room (14 Phcna: Baikmaa ITH Fbooa LanoK IMl Phone: Vanderbilt 970 GA NUN & PARSOXS. opticians, now at 13 West 42d st, where they have been located for Bronx Brokers the last -'0 years, have leased the 4-sty building Brooklyn Brokers at W West ."lOth st from the Columbia College Trustees for a long term of years at an ag gregate rental ot $100,000. The tenants will THE RENTING LAWS A. G. BECHMANN remodel the building for their business. make It more necessary that property be majiaged by Real Estate and Insarance an exj)erienced orRanized real eatate flrm. Your Tel. Intervale 556 10«5 SO. BOULBVAHD ADOLPH PICKEN, president of the Coast annoyance ceases and income Increases. OiM block from BlmpioD Street Sotnray 0tatlan wise Warehouses, Inc., leased, from the owner. 1SI81 to lUST Broadway, four 4-sty buildings, BULKLEY & HORTON CO. with stores, on a plot 84.7x80 : and 103 to 107 O. 8. HORTON. Pre*. A. J. HOBTON. 8«v. West C7th st, around the corner, three 4-sty and 685 Nostrand Av0.. nrar Dean St. ELMER C. GATES basement brick dwelling, on a plot 51x7.')..i. The 414 Myrtit Ave., near Clinton Ava. 7520 Third Ave., naar 75tli St. Real Eatate and Insurance term is 21 years with privilege of two re 1214 Flatbuih Ava. naar DItaiat Av*. Phone: Melrose 7587 529 Courtlandt Ave. newals. The combined plot will be reimproved One Block West of Third Ave., at 148lh St. with a building for the Hamilton Motors Co. JAMES F. KERNS CO. OTTO LACKMAN REAL ESTATE NOTES. BAT RIDGK REALTT BPBCtALiaT Management of Properties my Speclaltj 2514 Grand Concourse, near Fordham Road 7109 THIRD AVENUK Pbone: Fordham 6709 ORVILLE B. ACKERLY. who has lon^ made a specialty of Long Island real estate, recently BROOKLrN negotiated the sale of a choice tract of shore front acreage at Bridgehampton for the Hand- Phone: 203 Bay Ridge ley estate. Twice Clerk of Suffolk county, and L. G. LOSERE long deputy clerk, Mr. Ackerly is reputed to REAL ESTATE have the most valuable records extant of Suf FRANK A. SEAVER & CO Entire Charge Taken of Property folk county titles. He is recognized by the 871 Brook Ave., at 161st St. EiUbllatieil 1898 courts as an expert on Long Island real estate BAT KISGB SEAL ESTATE values, and has often been called upon to testify regarding values in Queens. Nassau and Suffolk 3rd Ave near 68th St.. Brooklya O'HARA BROTHERS counties. For many years he has maintained an Ueinl>eT Brooktrn Board cf V*al Bauu Baotan Real Estate and Appraisers office in New York. Uamlm BasT BHata Boanl al tiam Tsi* BRONX PROPERTY FRANK BAILEY, vice-president of the Title Phone: 1474-5 Shore Ro.id Tcl. Fordlmni G15 WEBSTER AVE. & 200TH ST. Guarantee & Trust Co., William H*. Reynolds, William M. Greve and Charles A. O'Malley, who were indicted in New York County, during the HENRY SCHWIEBERT second mayoralty campaign of Mayor Mitchel, S. WELSCH SONS for conspiracy to mulct the city for excessive REAL ESTATE Real Estate—Insurance profits on the sale of certain lands in Brooklyn 8373 3RD A'VE., near IIMTH ST. to it for marginal railroad purposes, have been Management of Property Pttsoe; Ualroae 19 exonerated by the Supreme Court recently dis missing the indictments on the ground that Member Brooklyn Board of the District Attorney had allowed them to lie Real Estate Brokers JOHN A. STEINMETZ dormant for three years and apparently larked 201 MONTAGUE ST. Phone: Main 2738-« evidence on which to prosecute. Tho rourt Established 1889 Real Estate.—MortgaK* Loans intimated that the indictments were found for 1005 E 180TH ST. Phone: Fordham S5M political purposes. CHARLES THORLEY. florist, has had the •Tel. TTT T MA TV Burke st. .Sub. ban against business lifted from the Ipasehold .JACOB J. TABOLT has removed his offlces 36 Olinvllle Ul-iL,l\im> station property fj04 5th av, which was long the resi from 7fil 6th av to 558 Sth av. Real Estate in All Branches dence of Russel Sage and subsequently of his WELD & SUYD.'VM announce the removal ot 3221 \\Tiite Plains Ave.,at Burke St. (207th St.) widow. Mr. Thorley bought this property at their offlces to room 703, 522 5th av. the recent auction of the Sage property at DAVID KRAUS has removed his offlce from holdings conducted by Joseph P. Day and paid ."lj-58 Pine st to ."il Maiden lane. the round sum of $441.00<> for it with a restric leased his holdings at the southwest corner of tion prohibiting its use for business. In other A. H. MATHEWS has removed from 181 Madison av and 54th st to Frank Cassidy. words Mr. Thorley took a chance that the busi Broadway to 14 Maiden lane. THE HAGGSTROM-CALLEN CO. leased In the ness development hereabouts would aid him irf MRS. H. LeROY WHITN'EY is the buyer ot having the restriction removed. The owner of 21,3 East 62d st, a dwelling that was recently Speedometer Building, 119-21 W. 63d st from the leasehold, the Dutch Reformed Church and plans, for a term of years, the entire main Columbia LTniversity. have consented to the lift reported sold. floor and basement, to be used as the New York ing of the restriction. THE BORDEN CO. IB the buyer of 350 Madl"- salesroom by the Combined Motors Corporation. son av and 14 to 20 East 4.5th st. recently sold Eastern distributors of the Denvy truck. MARCUS M. SCHENCK haa removed his real by the estate of Thomas B. Hidden. GALL & LEMBKE, opticians, leased through estate office from 16 Exchange pi, Manhattan, ROMAN-CALLMAN Co. has removed Its offlce Brett & Goode from Augusta Pollfeme the 6-sty to 166 Montague st, Brooklyn. to the ground floor of the Queensboro Corpora building, on a lot 24x100.5, at 7 East 48th n. STEVENSON SCOTT is the buyer of 5.", East tion Building at North Jane and Prospect st. from November-!, 1921. 74th st, a dwelling recently sold. Bridge Plaza, Long Island City. May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 685 REAL ESTATE STATISTICS Record of Conveyances, Mortgages, Mortgage Extensions and BROKERS Building P?rmits Filed in Each Borough During the Week, ATTENTION! (Arranged with flgurec for the corresponding week of 1019. FoUowing MMh weekly table Is a risum< from Jennary 1 to date.) You can sell our property on e«iy terms and receive full commission. Send for our new list of lots, flatg, ILANHATTAN Jan.l to May 18 Jan. Ito May 91 dwellings and business property in Total No 3,663 1,362 all sections of Brooklyn. Amount $25.882813 $9 534 819 1920 1919 To Uaaksft Ins. Cos.. 126 76 May 13 to May 19 May 15 to May 21 Amomrt $2,238,760 $1,098,482 We have just completed 4 comer Total No 360 196 two-family houses on Vista Place^ AiBraaed Value.. S18.744.1S0 $11 124.100 VanrtsaKe B)xt«Balona. Bay Ridge and have 21 gemi- No with conaideratioD1 61 30 1920 1019 detached two-family houses witb Cooaideratioo 12.534 075 $863 620 May 12 to May 18 May 15 Co May 21 AsMaaed Value 12.105.100 $853 000 double garages nearing completion oUI No 21 6 on Sullivan St, Flatbusb. Jan , I to May 19 /an 1 to May 21 Acrount . ...._.... $353000 $98 400 Total No 7 912 3.269 To Banks&Ins. Cos... 10 Aaaaasad Value J663.551 050 $141.045 850 Amount $218,600 '.'. No. with ooneideration. 1.095 461 Conaideration. .. »61 867 433 $18 956 663 Jan. 1 to May 18 Jan. 1 to May 21 REALTY ASSOCIATES Aaeeaaed Value .. $53.775 050 $20,219,550 TotalNo 329 254 Capital and Surplus $6,000,000 Amount...... $7,015,717 $6,630,219 162 Remsen St. Brooklyn To Banks & Ins. Cos.. 163 94 1920 1919 Amount $4,585,500 $2,967,760 Telephone 6480 Main May 13 to May 19 May 15 to May 21 BoUdlac Permits. TotalNo 252 126 '920 1919 Amount 16.809 888 May 13 to May 19 May 16 to May 21 The Leading Agency $3,358 105 NewBuildings 24 13 To Banks & Ine. Cos.. 41 22 Firm EsUblished 1874 Amount $2,426 000 $1,473,250 Cost $298 000 $100 400 No al8« 131 69 Alterations $43,050 151550 Amount $3,882 063 $1,557,000 Jan. 1 to May 19 Jan. 1 to May 21 No.atSHx 68 22 New Building 445 153 CORWITH BROS. Amouat $1,847,215 $395,800 9?"-: $9.240765 14,102 840 No.at 5% 14 21 Amount $468,750 $1,320,500 Alterations $912,680 $514,816 Greenpoint and Long Island City No at tHiC Amount BROOKL.VN. No.at«« 1 OoBTeyaneea. Real Estate Amount $3,834 1920 1919 Unutual Rates 4 2 May 12 to May 18 May 13 to May 19 FACTORY SITES Amount $53,500 $4,996 Interrst not giv«o 35 11 Totnl No 1.326 585 A SPECIALTY Amount $558360 $75 975 No. with oonsideration 55 28 Mortgage Loans, Appraisals, Insurance Consideration $883,175 $165,924 Ian. 1 to May 19 Jan 1 to May 21 Entire Management of Property ToUlNo 5.240 1.631 jas. 1 to May IS Jan 1 to May 19 Am $183.090 009 $43,353 118 TotalNo 25.044 14 318 851 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn To Banks & Ins. Cos... 674 283 No. with consldnation 1,140 815 Corn Eich. Bank Bldg., Bridsre Plaza, L. I. C. Amount $51,899,477 $14,647,650 Consideration $14,733 404 $10,368,713 Mortgrases. iMsrtarase G:xteiul*ii«. 1020 1919 J. CLARENCE DAVIES 1020 1910 May 12 to May 18 May 13 to May 19 Uamkw Real Satste Bsarg. N. T. May 13 to May 19 May 15 te May 21 Total No 1.089 425 TotalNo 69 42 Amqunt $4,446,500 $2,225,014 BRONX REAL ESTATB Amount $5.696 700 $1.627 050 To Hacks & Ins. Coa.. 153 23 To Banks & Ins. Cos. . 44 16 Amount. $808,550 $818,250 ADCTIONKKR—BROKKK Amount $4,671,450 $1,139,000 No.at 6* 963 304 APPEAI8BIU-U0RTGA0H LOANS Jan. 1 to May 19 Jan, 1 to May 21 Amount $3.454 088 $1,034,189 ToUlNo 933 518 No. at5H» 109 99 Main Office: 14*th Bt. an< Third ATSL Amount $69,165,724 $34,027,445 Asnount... $904,762 $432,300 To Banks & IDS. Cos... 586 276 No.atS* s 11 BRANCHES Amonnt... $55,682 541 $27,188,000 Amount $29,600 $28,450 $2 Nassan St si Sast 4tnd St. Umifiixftl rates 4 i Pkeoa Coaneotlons qnlldins Penults. Amoont.... $11,000 $5,760 lntes«at not given 5 xO 1920 1019 Amount $47,050 $724,325 May 13 to May 19 May 15 to May 22 Jan. Ito May 18 Jao ltoM.yl9 New Buildings. 86 13 TotalNo 21,048 9 375 Cost $471,200 $882,650 5^?,"^,-v-v->c- • $100,202,405 $35.829436 A. G. THOMPSON CO. Alteratioos $474,894 $653,210 Jan. 1 to May 19 Jao. 1 to May 22 To Banks ft Ins. Coa.. 2,079 645 Amount $16,678,080 $4,853,560 REAL ESTATE New Buildings. 316 128 Cost $60,600,558 $13,031,550 BalMlaa Permits. BROKERS and AGENTS Alterations $18,594,357 $7,949,005 1920 1919 May 13 to May 19 May 14 to May 19 Bxpert, Economical, Manarement of New Buildings 198 470 Colored Tenement Property BRONX. 9°«' $2,223,730 $3.466375 CovT«yaju»ea. Alterations $417,530 $260 921 Specialists in Harlem and 1930 1919 Jaa. 1 to May 19 Jan. 1 to May 19 Colored Tenement May 12 to May 18 May 15 to May 21 Now H lldlags 3.918 3.451 TotalNo 200 210 9?* . $32,079613 $22960446 2257 Seventh Avenue, at 13Srd Street No. wKh oonsideration. 16 21 Altera Ions $5,553 408 »2,902.366 New York City C Your Building Opportunity HE Atlantic Terra Cotta for the 13-story Apartment House illustrated was made before the war for an out-of-town Tcustomer. The building was stopped by war conditions. We are now permitted to sell at one-half present day prices. As illustrated, the Atlantic Terra Cotta constitutes two complete 13-story facades on a right-angle corner, with a ground plan of 112 ft. X 70 ft. The material can be readily adapted to a larger or smaller building. In any such adaptation our drafting department will co-operate with your architect. The Terra Cotta is Atlantic Terra Cotta, of Atlantic quality and Atlantic service goes with it. It is grey in color, similar to the Terra Cotta used for the Pennsylvania Hotel, New York. Call, 'phone or write. ATLANTIC TERRA COTTA COMPANY 1170 Broadway New York City Telepho-ne Madison Square 5740 May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 687 BUILDING SECTION New Office Building to House Import and Export Interests Sixteen-Story Shucture at Water and Moore Streets, Designed by Deutsch & Polis, Soon to Be Commenced ITHIN the next two weeks active construction will covered that bed rock would most likely be found at dis be commenced on a sixteen-story office building that tances varying from twenty-two to twenty-eight feet below W will be erected at 7 to 11 Water street, through to 8 the curb level. For the foundations of the building, steel to 12 Water street, for the National Park Real Estate Cor piles filled with concrete, carried to bed rock, will be em poration of 32 Union Square. The structure will be built from ployed, and only sufficient excavation below the curb level will plans and specifications prepared by Deutsch & Polis, archi be made to provide for a boiler room. The facades of this tects and engineers, SO Church street. structure will have a granite base with brick and limestone This proposed building will occupy the entire block front employed for the upper floors. Up to the twelfth story the in the east side of Moore street, approximately 140 feet, and front walls are to be carried on the steel skeleton at the var will have frontages of 63 feet 2 inches in Front street and 72 ious floor levels. Above the eleventh floor the outside walls feet 7 inches in Water street. The site is located at a dis will be constructed as bearing walls carried on steel girders tance of less than two blocks from Fraunce's Tavern, two in the ceiling of the eleventh story. As a result of several original ideas used in the design and construction of the structural steel framework and floors a very considerable saving in cost over previous designs will be affected. It is because of these economies in design and construction, worked out by the architects, who are also engi neers, that the owners were encouraged to proceed with the construction of this operation, notwithstanding the abnormal ly high cost of both labor and materials. The first floor is designed for stores and will have a total rentable area of 5,600 square feet. The second to and includ ing the eleventh floors the total rentable area will be 74,360 square feet. From the twelfth to and including the sixteenth floor there is an additional 25,970 square feet of space to be rented as offices. This structure will be equipped with six high speed electric elevators, each with a capacity of 2,200 pounds. Apai'tment Dwellers Buying Houses Amid the housing crisis there is a number of apartment house tenants who, caught in the maelstrom of house shortage, are buying old private dwellings in Yorkville, Harlem, Wash ington Heights, the Bronx and Brooklyn. The daily records show enormous dealing in private houses. Many old tenants of these houses are buying them in order to make sure of a permanent abode. Besides, many of those who are buying dwellings feel that apartment rentals will be maintained at a high level for a long time to come and that, therefore, it Deutsch & Polls, Architects. is well worth while to buy an old two or three story and PROPOSED WATER STREET OFFICE BUILDING. basement private house, which they feel is a better return on blocks from South Ferry, and is diagonally opposite the the investment than renting an apartment for some years United States Army Building. The building is ideally located hence on a steadily rising rental power. for the export, import, steamship and chemical industries. In Brooklyn the cooperative apartment house movement As there are but few tall buildings in the vicinity of this is gaining momentum. It is appealing strongly to the apart new structure the tenants will be assured of unusually good ment house tenant who is paying fifty dollars and upwards facilities for ventilation and natural light. The structure monthly for an apartment. The sale of dwellings in Brook has been designed so that every office will have an outside lyn is constant. Old frame houses that were considered to exposure. By reason of the requirements of the Zoning Law, be passe are now being bought and overhauled at prices that this sixteen-story structure could not be carried to its full were deemed impossible of realization one year or more ago. height without a set-back. This set-back occurs at the level This back to the private house movement in Brooklyn is of the twelfth floor and another at the level of the fifteenth solving the question of remodeling them into multi-family floor. These set-backs give to the facade a pleasing and ef apartments that had long agitated the real estate mind iu fective appearance. that borough. Heretofore but little has been known of the actual ground In certain parts of Queens borough new private dwellings conditions in this neighborhood owing largely to the fact that of medium size, and many two-family houses, are being no very tall structures have been erected as yet. When te.st bought by middle-class investors who can live in one part borings were made upon the site of this project it was dis- and rent the other part. 688 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 1920 Mayor Hylan Outlines Program for Housing Committee Appoints Chairmen of Committees to Take Up Various Phases of Shortage and Plan Relief Measures AYOR HYLAN has announced the appointment of an erence to housing construction of all kinds, including altera Executive Committee of the Housing Conference Com tions. Retarding, wherever possible, the alteration of houses M mittee and outlined the functions of the sub-commit used for living purposes into buildings for commercial pur tees of the larger committee. The Executive Committee con poses. sists of Henry H. Curran, Robert P. Brindell, Walter Stabler, "Interesting city employes in the purchase of homes, gen E. A. MacDougall, Preston P. Lynn, Edward P. Doyle, Wright erally, singly or by the co-operative plan. Arranging for the D. Goss, Laurence McGuire, Burt L. Fenner, James H. Post, formation of building loan associations among employes, Ralph Peters, Victor F. Ridder. where some plan might be devised for those who may be The Mayor's statement follows: willing to invest from their earnings. "Each member of the Executive Committee will act as "Arranging for the gathering of weekly or monthly instal chairman of the particular group or interest he represents on ments by which a considerable fund could be collected every the general committee. Each of these representative groups few months, and applications and requests for loans be con of sub-committees into which the general committee is divided sidered and acted upon in the order of priority to enable such will endeavor to bring about a plan of action within its sphere applicants to build or purchase the houses which that money that will fit in harmoniously with the plans to be submitted would buy. by the other sub-committees, in order to carry out efltectively "Inquiring from the Sinking Fund Commission or the Comp the object of the general committee, namely, to facilitate and troller as to the available lots owned by the city or State expedite the necessary increase of housing. within the confines of the City of New York, that the city or "Each member of the Executive Committee, by virtue of his State might be able or willing to lease out for twenty years, designation as Chairman of a particular sub-committee of with a privilege of another twenty, for building sites. the general committee, will be asked to take up the following "Discussing and considering any legislation that may be questions and report the findins of his sub-committee to the required to meet the necessities of the present housing con Executive Committee: ditions with respect to existing houses, as well as new con "Instructing the superintendents of buildings to give pref struction." Ready to Start Work on New Broadway Office Building INAL plans have been prepared by George and Edward made of quite a number of large building projects located in Blum, architects, 505 Fifth avenue, for a new six-story, this section of Manhattan and although the majority involve F semi-fireproof office building, with stores on the ground the alteration of old structures the movement is indicative of floor, that will be erected at 321 to 323 Broadway, near Worth new commercial activity in this neighborhood. street. The structure wil! occupy a plot having a frontage of 50 feet 6 inches on Broadway, with a depth of 105 feet 5 inches. The owners and builders are Crystal & Crystal, 47 West street. •f > This project is located in the heart of the white goods district and will replace the structure formerly occupied by Dodd's Restaurant. Some months ago plans were prepared for extensive alterations to be made to these premises, chang ing the building into a modern loft, but a disastrous fire, occurring during the blizzard that tied up the city and hampered the arrival of fire apparatus, made a change in the plans. The basement of the proposed new building will be par ticularly adapted for receiving and shipping dry goods. A sidewalk lift will be installed and the large basement will be lighted by vault lights. The first two floors will be divided into two large stores and the third, fourth and fifth floors, '''^^M with ceiling heights of 11 feet 6 inches, will be subdivided as offices, showrooms and lofts. The top floor has exceptional head room and in addition receives direct light on three sides i: which will make it especially desirable to some firm requiring the best possible natural illumination. The facade of this building has been designed along se verely plain lines, with a large amount of the space devoted to windows in order to obtain the best possible lighting. The windows on all floors extend from the floor to the ceiling '^^•rsi?!!!?!- and practically gives the effect of an entire glass front. The limited amount of masonry that will be visible in the con struction of the front of this building will be of imported Travetine stone; the lack of embellishment emphasizing the natural beauty of the material employed. The base course will be of polished pink granite. The entrance has been de signed in the Gothic style and the materials employed will be similar to that used in the front. The main entrance cor ridor will receive a similar architectural treatment, where the Travetine stone will reach to the ceiling height. This Wl. ceiling will be valued in mediaeval style. The floors will be miMm JQtl^: of marble mosaic. During the past week or so announcements have been NEW STRUCTURE AT 321 TO 323 BROADWAY May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 689 Exclusive Housing Development on Avenue L, Brooklyn Carucci & Wolpert, General Contractors, Start Work on Project Representing Investment of About $500,000 LTHOUGH the operation of the recently passed laws gin of profit to the builders. There are at present indi designed to prevent profiteering in rents by unscru cations that the house building movement in Brooklyn, while A pulous landlords has slowed down the demand for not quite so extensive as it was last season, will be extremely private dwellings to some degree, the market for buildings active during the remainder of this year and the dwellings of this type is still remarkably active and builders are ex to be constructed between now and October 1, will be of ma periencing no difficulty in disposing at excellent prices of terial assistance in reducing the famine in living accommo all the residential structures they are able to complete. dations that has been so troublesome for many months past. Everyone at all familiar with real estate conditions in the Announcement has just been made of a large building Metropolitan district, and more particularly that phase of operation that involves the construction of a group of nine the situation pertaining to housing accommodations for the teen handsome one and two-family houses in one of the rapidly growing population of this city, are of the opinion finest residential sections of Flatbush. The site selected Carucci & Wolpert, Builders. James A. McCarroll, Architect. VIEW OF AVENUE "L" DEVELOPMENT FOR THE LAND IMPROVEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION. that the present falling off in buying interest caused by the for these dwellings is easily accessible to the rapid transit action of the State Legislature is but a temporary condition lines and is in close proximity to high class shops, churches, that certainly will be reflected next autumn in a demand for schools, theatres, etc. dwellings that in scope and intensity will greatly surpass This project, including both the value of the land and the that of the past. cost of construction for the nineteen dwellings scheduled Builders who are alive to this situation are now making will represent an investment of more than $500,000. The every effort, notwithstanding the existing scarcity and con owner is the Land Improvement & Construction Corpor stantly increasing cost of materials, to get their scheduled ation, 99 Nassau street, Manhattan, and the houses are to be erected under a general contract by Carucci & Wolpert, builders, 186 Remsen street, from plans by James A. Mc Carroll, architect, 200 Montague street. These houses will be located on the north and south sides of Avenue L, from Kenmore place to Delamere place. The plot layout calls for two-family dwellings to occupy the seven corners, and the twelve interior lots will be improved with one-family houses. The buildings will be of frame and stucco construction and each will vary in design so that as a whole the development will present an artistic and pleasing appearance. In the plans for these houses the architect has spent con siderable time and study with the especial idea of minimiz ing housekeeping effort and the elimination of the servant problem as far as possble. The rooms are all spacious and PLOT PLAN OF FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT. well arranged in their relation to each other, and in their equipment the dwelling will be models of modern house residential building operations underway just as fast as pos keeping efficiency. Large built-in closets abound and ample sible, so that when the demand reaches its maximum next trunk storage space is provided in the basement and attic. fall they will be in a position to take full advantage of The overall dimensions of the one-family dwellings are 22 the situation and have their buildings completed and ready feet front with a depth of approximately 41 feet, exclusive for occupancy. of front and rear porches. The front porches are fully en Throughout the past year Brooklyn led the way lor the closed and will be equipped with radiators so as to heat them Metropolitan district in the construction of new homes. during the winter. In these houses the living room and hall One and two-family dwellings have been erected singly and extends across the full width of the house and has a depth in large groups in various parts of the borough, and all (Continued on page 690.) were readily sold at prices which allowed a very f.-iir mar- 690 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 1920 Annual Convention of New York Society of Architects James Riley Gordon for Fifth Consecutive Term was Unanimously Re-Elected President at Enthusiastic Meeting At the annual convention of the New York Society of most effective safeguard against oppression and other evils too Architects held at the United Engineering Society Building numerous to mention. Lastly the speaker urged full and on May 19, James Riely Gordon was unanimously re-elected free representation of the various schools of thought or for the fifth consecutive term as president; Adam E. Fisher, types of practice, included in the practice of architecture, re of Brooklyn, first vice-president; Edward W. Loth, of Albany, gardless of race distinctions, or of any other consideration of second vice-president; Frederick C. Zobel, of New York, sec a secondary nature. retary; Henry Holder, of Brooklyn, treasurer, and Walter H. Others who delivered addresses included Vice-President Volckening, of New York, financial secretary. The serious Loth and Adam E. Fisher. ness of the building, housing and labor situations were dis cussed at length. Many committees reported and many others were appointed to investigate these conditions. Exclusive Brooklyn Housing Project This meeting was one of Jhe most notable and enjoyable (Continued from page 689.) gatherings in the history of the society, now entering upon of 16 feet. A large open fire place is the dominating feature the fifteenth year of its e.xistence. About forty members were of these rooms. The dining rooms are approximately 15x15 present, out of a total of two hundred and forty, scattered feet. The kitchens and pantries are large and one of the un over the United States and Canada. Among the speakers usual features of this operation are the breakfast porches, called upon by the president was the society's former secre fully enclosed, that are accessible from the dining room tary, C. Whitley Mullin, who in a brief address mentioned through casement doors and also from the butler's pantry. the fact of his being the only member present of the original The second floors have three master bedrooms and bath, seventeen who started the organization in Brooklyn in the with the main bedroom extending across the full width of year 1906. the house. In the attic are two bedroms and an extra Mr. Mullen took occasion to urge the necessity of adher hath. Laundries and a servant's lavatory are located in the ence to a few fundamental principles, if the society was to basement of each dwelling. continue to progress as it had done in the past. These prin In connection with these houses the owner has planned ciples were, first, loyalty, whether of individual members to to build one and two-car garages. The one-family houses the organization as such, regardless of personal preferences ; will have a one-car garage located at the rear lot line and or loyalty to a sound code of ethics ; or, lastly, loyalty to the the corner houses will each have a two-car garage subdi public generally, which is synonymous with public spirit. In vided by a brick partition. According to the present building the next place Mr. Mullin urged the importance of giving ade schedule it is expected to have these houses fully complete quate publicity to the Society's proceedings, as affording the and --eady for occupancy before the end of the summer. LUMBER Timber, Factory Flooring, Boards, Finish Flooring Siding, Roofers, Sash Material, Trim and Moulding Concrete Form Lumber a Specialty Shipped to All Points in the METROPOLITAN DISTRICT 27,000,000 Feet in Stock for Immediate Shipment By AUTO TRUCK, LIGHTER or RAIL Complete Milling Facilities E. C. SMITH CO., Inc. H. L. MOORE, Manasrer of Sales OAKLAND AND BOX STREETS, PAIDGE AVENTJE AND NEWTOWN CREEK BROOKLYN, N. Y. Greenpoint 198-9 May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 691 New Construction Held In Abeyance for Lack of Materials Large Volume of Projected Building Reported by F. W. Dodge Company Is Unable to Start Because of Freight Congestion LTHOUGH building material shortages, brought The list of 479 new operations reported as being planned about by the railroad freight congestion, have slowed during the week of May 8 to 14, inclusive, included 114 busi A ness buildings, such as stores, offices, lofts, commercial down building construction to a marked degree, the condition has but slightly affected the planning by architects garages, etc., $6,651,500; 17 educational projects of various and engineers of new structural projects that will be com types, $1,659,100; 6 hospitals and institutions, $837,000; 22 fac tory and industrial projects $1,544,000; 3 public buildings, menced just as soon as the material situation is readjusted. $71,000; 29 public works and public utilities, $2,552,500; 8 re During the week of May 8 to 14, inclusive, architects and ligious and memorial structures, $565,000; 267 residential oper engineers in New York State and New Jersey, north of Tren ations, including apartments, flats and tenements and one and ton, reported plans in progress for 479 new building and two family dwellings, $4,485,600, and 13 social and recreational engineering projects that will call for an outlay of approxi projects, $539,800. mately $18,905,500. During the same week contracts were Among the 253 operations for which contracts were awarded awarded for 253 operations, valued at $12,604,500. during the week of May 8 to 14, inclusive, were 55 business According to these figures, which were prepared by the projects, $3,120,500; 10 educational operations, such as schools, F. W. Dodge Company, a vast amount of new construction colleges, libraries, etc., $301,500; 23 factory and industrial is piling up pending the arrival of building materials and buildings, $2,497,000; 2 public buildings, $10,400; 23 public supplies, and it is certain that the industry will be taxed to works and public utilities $2,643,300; 4 religious and memorial its full capabilities throughout the balance of the year in projects, $180,000; 129 residential operations of various types, order to get caught up with its structural program. $3,733,200, and 7 social and recreational buildings, $118,600. Hamilton, C. B. .4. L,. Stevenson will have fice of the T. S. Desmond Company, at charge of the designing department and 105 Newington street. Work on this proj PERSONAL AND TRADE C. H. Hamilton the concrete detailing de ect will be started at once and dwellings NOTES. partment. An associate structural steel will be ready by early autumn. detailing company has been formed under the flrm name of Seelye & Tarbell. Chas. The Batavia & Xevr York Woodworking E. Tarbell, for a number of years, was TRADE AND TECHNICAL Co. announces the removal of its offices connected with the Westinghouse. Church to 348 West 14th street. Kerr Co., and during the war was struc SOCIETY EVENTS. Roas & McNeil, architects, have moved tural engineer on the $60,000,000 Govern their offices from 30 East 42a street to ment nitrate plants at Toledo and Cincin nati. American Society of Mechanical Engi the Monolith Building, 45 West 34th street. neers.—Monthly meeting the second Tues James A. Henderson, general contractor, day of each month. recently moved his offices from 30 East Marbleloid Co. Executive Dies. 42d street to 103 Park avenue. F. Maxwell Page, vice-president and New Jersey State Bnildlne Trade* secretary of the Marbleloid Co., contrac Council will hold its annual meeting at Herman A. Weinstein, architect, an tors for composition flooring, died after a Atlantic City, N. J., May 24 to 26, inclusive. nounces the removal of his office from 32 short illness of pneumonia, at his home in South Orange, N. J., Sunday, May 16. He Joint Committee on Standard Specifica Court street to 375 Fulton street, tions for Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Brooklyn. was born in Brooklyn forty-one years ago and was educated in the public schools of will hold its next meeting at Asbury Park, H. W. Miller, In*., plain and ornamental that Borough. After his graduation from N. J.. June 22. Secretary, D, A. Abrams, plastering, announces the removal of his the Boys' High School he entered the fur Lewis Institute, Chicago, III, office and shop from 654 West 51st street niture business in which he was engaged National Retail Hardware Association to 410 Eleventh avenue. for some years. In 1905, in partnership will hold its annual convnetlon at Buffalo, with his father and brother, he established H. A. Yarlsh. architect, formerly chief N. Y., June 22 to 25, inclusive. Head the composition flooring business through quarters will be located at the Hotel draughtsman for Shampan & Shampan, which during recent years he became has established an office at 367 Fulton widely known throughout the building in Lafayette. Herbert B. Sheets, secretary. street. Brooklyn, for the general practice dustry, not only in the Metropolitan dis American Society for Testing Materials of his profession. trict, but in practically every part of the has practically completed its plans for the I. Bloom and R. Kleinman, both recent United States, where the product of the annual meeting to be held at the Monterey ly connected with a prominent lighting Marbleloid Co. has been installed. The Hotel, Asbury Park, N. J., June 22 to 25, fixture corporation in this city, and who success of the product and its growing Fifty-nine papers and committee reports use in building operations of the highest are scheduled on the program. have had many years' experience in this character has been largely brought about line, have formed a co-partnership, to be by the untiring energy and devotion of National Lime Association will hold Its known as the Bozart Lighting Co., for the Mr. Page during the fifteen years he has annual convention at the Hotel Astor, New sale and installation of lighting fixtures been associated with the business. Mr. York City, 17-18, inclusive. At this meet and have established offices and show Page is survived by his father and brother, ing the heavy demand for lime for numer rooms at S Warren street. who continue active in the business, a ous uses, the critical car supply, and edu widow and three children. cational publicity will be discussed The William E. Cash, formerly vice-president program as now outlined will Include ad and New York manager of the American dresses by men of national prominence in Luxfer Pri.sra Co., and James H. McKee, this rapidly growing industry. New York agent of the Zouri Drawn Contract for T. C. Desmond Co. Metals Co., now located at 312 West 34th The Hartford Home Building Associa street, announce the formation of a part Urges Tax Reform. nership incorporated under the name of tion, Inc., has just awarded a general con Cash & McKee, Inc., with office and shops tract to the T. C. Desmond Company, en ADICAL reform in the mode of federal at 349 West Broadway, at Grand street. gineers and contractors, 31 Nas.sau street. taxation was the keynote of a meet The new firm will act as sole distributer New York City, for the design and con ing of the National Association of Manu of the products of the Zouri Drawn Metals struction of two hundred and fifty private facturers, which held its twenty-fifth an Co. and of the International Store Front dwellings in Hartford, Conn. According nual convention, this week, at the Wal Co., in Greater New York. Connecticut to the present schedule there will be one dorf-Astoria. More than 1.000 industrial and the metropolitan district of New hundred frame dwellings, seventy-flve of leaders of the nation attended, represent Jersey. brick and seventy-five of stucco and half- ing every state. timber construction. These residences will Urging the abolition of the surplus Elwyn E. Seelye, consulting engineer, range in cost from $6,000 to $8,000 each profits tax, the Association declared that 101 Park avenue, announces the formation and the entire operation will represent an the economic welfare of the country de of a partnership to be known as Seelye & investment of more than $1,750,000, All mands its abolitfon. It asserts that the Fraser. The new partners will be Edwin of the work in connection with this pro law discourages new business ventures A. Fraser, Assoc. M. A. S. C. E., formerly ject will be handled direct and all ma and it suggests in its place a well thought with the Truscon Steel Company; A. L,. terials and supplies will be purchased out gross sales tax. S1ich a tax, it as Stevenson, Assoc. M. A. S. C. B., and C. H. under the supervision of the Hartford of- serts, would be more evenly distributed. 692 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 1920 CURRENT BUILDING OPERATIONS EPORTS of the past week indicate that situation and the material supply situa quite a large amount ot brick left over R the local building industry is in rather tion is further complicated by a lockout from last season, however, that is avail a pessimistic frame of mind. The condi of the sand truck chauffeurs and a strike able for any sudden demand from New tion is wholly due to the fact that there of the harbor towing men against bar.ges York builders and the opinion has been is a tremendous volume of new construc that have been loaded in .yards where tne expressed that no matter what the demand tion in prospect that would have meant switchmen and yardmen are still out on throughout the remainder of the year prosperous times for the building trades, strike. there will be sufficient brick easily avail but work on these operations cannot be One of the serious aspects of the pres able. commenced bCjCause of the famine in ent building situation is the falling off in Summary.—Transactions in the North building materails brought about by tne house building activity in all boroughs of River common brick market for the week railroad freight congestion. It was hoped Greater New York. In Brooklyn and ending Friday, May 21, 1920. Condition of early th'is week that some improvement Queens this is most apparent, but activ market: Demand fair, prices flrm and un would take place, but at the present writ ity in other parts ot the city has also ing no change has occurred in the freight changed. Quotations: Hudson Rivers, $25 slowed down to a great extent. Builders a thousand, to dealers in cargo lots along are ready to proceed with their projected side dock. Number of cargoes arrived, operations, but are afraid to start work 22; sales, 25. Distribution: Manhattan, 9; in the face of the material famine .^nd Bronx, 2; Broklyn, S; New Jersey points, the doubt that maintains as to when con 4; Astoria, 1; Flushing, 1. ditions will become normal again. -H-LUMBER^ Building; Stone—The demand is dull ow The building material and supply deal ing to the fact that practically all large ers in New York City are now practically structural operations in the Metropolitan Joseph H. Benzing & Co. cleaned out and are refusing any new district have been forced to slow down (Incorporated) business. owing to the scarcity of essential mater While and N. C. Pine. Flooring, Common Uriek.—Owing chiefly to the CeilinE, Partition, Whitewood, ials and supplies. Quotations on certain Redwood, Oak, Cedar, Cypress, continued scarcity- of cement, lime and kinds of stone have recently been ad Spruce, Chestnut Posts, Pickets, other building essentials the market for vanced because of uncertain labor condi Monldinzs, Etc. Scenery Material Hudson River common brick has been tions and steadily increasing cost of sup For Theatres a Specialty rather quiet during the past week. The plies at the quarries. On May 1, Ken demand is fair and would be much bet Cornell Wall Board tucky Limestone, Brier Hill Stone, Buff ter provided the railroad freight situation Wakeman and Buff Mountain Stone prices could be improved. Common brick prices were advanced 10c. per cubic foot. Special Attention Given to are holding firmly to the $25 a thousand Retail Trade level, wholesale, plus the usual charges Lumlier—Demand for lumber products is for profit and delivery, and there is no strong and there would be intense activity Tel. 1012 E. N. T. 44-4«-48 Janias »t. indication at this time of a change in in both wholesale and retail branches of either direction. During the past week the business were it not for the intolerable shipments from the Hudson River plants freight congestion that is holding back the have been light and it was this fact that supply. In this respect the lumber market has prevented the accumulation of a large is no greater sufferer, however, than other ELECTRIC METERS amount of unsold in the New York mar lines affiliated with the building industry, INSTALLED TESTED ket. For the most part the Hudson River and as a result building progress in the RENTED HAINTAINSS manufacturers are now engaged in mould Metropolitan district is slowed down al ing brick, but in no instance is a yard most to the point ot inactivity. Local lum working to its full capacity. Generally Sub-MeterinE for Owners on ber stocks in some lines have been great speaking, the district is operating now at ly depleted during the past few weeks and Percentage or Gnarantees approximately twenty-five per cent, of dealers are uncertain as to when they will capacity, with some of the small plants be able to refill. Meanwhile building above this rate and the larger ones not operations are halted for badly needed ma Estimated Annnal Saving quite so active in comparison. There is Disconnted in Advance terial and prospective builders are holding Realty Supervision Co. BUILDING COMMODITY PRICES VIVIAN GREEN, Preslltsot 46 WEST 34TH STRKET URRENT prices for buildlnsr materials Hollow TUe— Phone: Oreeler SM« NEW TCI C and supplies as quoted by leading; Exterior—not used in Manhattan; quo dealers and jobbers In the city for delivery tations only on specific projects. In New York: Interior—Delivered at job site in Man hattan, south of 125th street. Note—Price changes are Indicated by 2x12x12 split furring.. $ per 1,000 sq. ft. bold-face type. 3x12x15 per 1,000 sq. ft. Briclc (Wholesale, on Dock, N. Y.), per 4x12x12 per 1,000 sq. ft. thousand: 5x12x12 per 1.000 sq. ft. Good Plumbing For delivered prices In Greater New Note—For deliveries north of 125th street, York, add cartage, handling, plus 15 per Manhattan, and in Brooklyn, Bronx and means permanent satiifaction to the cent. Queens, prices job site are slightly higher, Hudson River, best grades..$25.00 to according to location of work, which property owner. Our knowledf* amd Hudson River, "oft loads".... to varies trucking charges. experience are at yonr coiiiiiuod. Raritan No quotation Second-hand brick, per load Lath— of 3,000, delivered to Eastern Spruce delivered at Face Bricli—Delivered on job in New job site in Manhattan, JAMES SEATH, Inc. York: Bronx. Brooklyn and Rough Red $44.00 to $50.00 Queens $20.00 per 1,000 PLUMBING CONTRACTOBS Smooth Red 44.00 to 50.00 Lime— Rough Buft 46.00 to 52.00 Delivered at job site in Manhattan, 113 Seventh Ave. Brookljrn. N. T. Smooth Buft 46.00 to 52.00 Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens: Rough Gray 51.00 to Finishing Lime (Standard in Phone: Sterling 1996 Smooth Gray 51.00 to 300-lb. barrel) »5.00 per bbl. Colonials 38.00 to 4o.00 Common Lime (Standard SOO- Cement—Delivered at job site, in Man lb. barrel) 4.80 per bbl. hattan. Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens: Hydrate Finishing, in cloth TELEPHONE: AUTOMOBILE bags 30.00 per ton AUBUBON 964-2034 DELIVERY Domestic Portland cement, per bbl. . 94.60 Rebate for bags, 25c. each. Rebate for bags, 20c. per bag. Gravel—Delivered at job site In Manhat plaater— tan and Bronx: Delivered at job site in Manhattan, JAMES A. COUGHLIN IV.-in., Manhattan deliveries, per cu. Bronx. Brooklyn and Qu eens: yd J3.50 Neat Wall Cement, in cloth Bronx deliveries 3.50 bags ^S-I.-IO per ton LUMBER AND ?4-in.. Manhattan deliveries 3.50 Lath Mortar, in cloth bags. . . 18.50 per ton Bronx deliveries i>.50 Brown Mortar, in cloth bags. 18.50 pe-- ton MOULDINGS Finishing Plaster, in cloth Note—Prices for deliveries in Brooklyn bags 28.00 per ton Amsterdam Avenne and 154th Street and Queens are approximately the same Rebate for returned bags 25c. per bag as for Manhattan, except where job is lo Finishing Plaster {250-lb. cated at a great distance from the water barrel !M.75 per bbl. NEW YORK front, in which case prices will be slightly Finishing Plaster (320-lb. higher. barrel) e.OO per bbl. VENEERED PANCLS BOOR* COMPO BOARD Grit—Delivered at job site in Manhattan Plaster Blocks— and Bronx: •ASH SAND 2-in. (solid) per sq. ft $0.14V4 BLIND* CEMENT Manhattan deliveries |-n Bronx deliveries 3.o0 3-in. (hollow) per sq. ft 0.14% May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 693 MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES their projects in abeyance pending an eas little new material coming in at present dull with demand light, but prices quite ier condition in the material supply situa owing to the serious freight tie-up. The firm. Rail conditions are hampering ship tion. Lumber prices are exceedingly firm, potential demand, however, is exception ments ot this material and at the present and although there has been some talk ot ally heavy and it is likely that the in writing no great supply is available in this slight recessions these have in no manner dustry will be flooded with orders just as city for immediate delivery. affected the general market stability and soon as the situation is readjusted, as Lime—Many important building proj it is very doubtful if any decrease from there is a vast amount ot important con ects have been forced to stop because no the existing high price levels will occur struction for which plans are completed, lime is to be had. Dealers are entirely for many months to come. At the present waiting for the arrival of materials. Ac cleaned out of stock and have no possibil time the demand for lumber products is cording to the report from the secretary ity of getting this commodity until rail considerably in excess of either the avail of the Bridge Builders and Structural So road freight conditions improve. able or potential supply and certainly no ciety it is shown that during the month price concession is possible while this con of March. 1920. eighty-three and one-half dition maintains. per cent, and in April, sixty-eight per Portland Cement.—During the past week cent, of the entire capacity of the bridge IF YOU ARE the cement supply situation has improved and structural shops of the country was to some extent, but the condition is still contracted for. BUILDING OR ALTERING serious and will remain so until the rail Electrical Supplies.—The building in road freight congestion is relieved. Some dustry is confronted with a shortage of Alterations, properly planned and exe- cement is coming into New York from the electrical supplies that is likely to hold oatsd, will transform those old bvUdlBCs Hudson River district and the Lehigh Val back a large number of important projects Into modem struoturet paying divldsiuls ley Railroad is moving a few cars, so from flnal completion and there is no that will cover the expenses of altsrsUaa that the most urgent demands are being proapect of improvement until radical In a siuprlslngly short time. Rntanraitt cared for by local dealers. During the changes are made in the railroad freight eonstmetion a specialty. week an announcement of an advance in condition. Some of the local jobbers have freight rates was responsible for an in resorted to motor trucks to bring in mate crease of 10c. per barrel on Portland ce rials that are in greatest demand, but as FRANK & FRANK ment making the current quotations $4.60 trucking charges are excessively high, it CONTRACTING CO., INC. per barrel, with $1 rebate for returned is doubtful if complete relief is possible bags. through this channel. The scarcity of Bnlldsrs and Genaral Centraatsrs supplies and equipment has been respon 244 W. 42nd St. Pbsne: BirmM lUT Rooting: and Building Papers.—Although sible for a tightening in prices and the building activity throughout the metro market is likely to remain uncertain for politan district has fallen off to some ex some time to come. tent during the past few weeks the de mand tor rooflng and building papers is Nails.—The -scarcity that has existed well sustained and dealers generally re for some time still maintains and for port good prospects for future business. the most part jobbers are inclined to be The supply has been somewhat curtailed pessimistic. Conditions at the mills have SAVE by the freight situation, but jobbers have improved somewhat, but the local sup stocks on hand suflicient for all current plies have not been strengthened because TIME AND WORRY demand. Prices are fluctuating somewhat of the inability to get freight through the When Heady to Balld and range from $2.10 to $3.45 per roll for congested yards in the metropolitan dis 1 ply tar paper; $1.60 to $2.S5 for 2 ply trict. Meanwhile builders are suffering BUILD RIGHT and $2.00 to $3.35 for 3 ply. Rubber roof through a lack of nails required to com plete the projects now under construction. « We are equipped to handle mason ing paper is quoted at $1.95 to $3.15 for 1 work and general contracting of every ply and $2.95 to $4.40 for 3 ply. Prices are very firm and altogether de description. Consult ui when ready for Structural Steel.—Locally the fabricated pendent upon the supply available. estimates on new construction or altcrs- steel market is quiet, as there is very Linseed Oil.—This market is extremely tiun work. George Lawrence & Co. IN THE METROPOLITAN MARKETS 1412 Herkimer St., Brooklyn, N. T. Plaster Board— base price, per M 57.00 to Deliveerd at job site in Manhattan, Hemlock, W. Va., base price, Bronx, Brooklyn & Queens. per M 57.00 to 27x48x^4 in $0.45 each 32x36x>4 in 0.33 each (To mixed cargo price add freight, $1.50.) 32x36x% in 0.34 each Spruce, Eastern, random car 32x36x^4 in 0.40 each goes, narrow (delivered). —— to Wide cargoes to —— POMEROY Sand— Add $1.00 per M. for each Inch In width Delivered at job in over 12 inches. Add $1.00 per M. for every FIRE RETARDANT Manhattan $2.50 to per cu. yd. two foot over 20 ft. in length. Add $1.00 per M. for dressing. Delivered at job in Cypress Lumber (by car, f. o. b., N. Y.): WINDOWS WhitBrone xSand ^ $2.60 to per cu. yd. Forst and seconds. 1-in..$140.00 to Bailt In th« belief that the BEST hollow Delivered in Manhattan. . .»5.00per cu. yd. Cypress shingles, 6x18, No. •letttl Ore retardant window la the only Broken Stone— 1 Hearts to •AFE flro retardant window for a bolldor lV4-ln., Manhattan dilevery.$3.50 per cu yd Cypress shingles, 6x18, No. lo Qse or for a manafactarer to aoU. Bronx delivery 3.50 per cu. yd. 1 Prime to %-in., Manhattan delivery. 3.50 per cu. yd. Quartered Oak 315.00 to Bronx delivery 3.50 per cu. yd. Plain Oak 236.00 to S. H. POMEROY CO.. he. Building Stone— Flooring: m BssI «2nd Street NEW TOBK Indiana limestone, per cu. ft $1.55 White Oak, quart'd, select.— -to $235.00 TsUpbwu: Mnrray BIH S1IS8 Kentucky limestone, per cu. ft 1.86 Red Oak, quart'd, select...— to 230.00 Brier Hiil sandstone, per cu. ft 1.76 Maple No. 1 195.00 to Yellow pine, No. 1, common Gray Canyon sandstone, per cu. ft. . . . 1.50 flat 110.00 to Buff Wakeman, per cu. ft 1.76 N. C. pine, flooring, Nor SHADES, AWNINGS Buff Mountain, per cu. ft 1.65 folk 120.25 to North River bluestone, per cu. ft.... 1.50 AND CANOPIES Seam-face granite, per sq. ft 1.25 South Dover mabrle (promiscuous Windo-w Glass— 47 years in making window shades, awn- mill block), per cu. ft 2.25 Official discounts from manufacturers' Ins:%, canopies, etc., has placed us in a White Vermont marble (sawed) New lists: piisilinn where we can guarantee satis York, per cu. ft 3.00 Single strength, A quality, first three faction. Structural Steel— brackets 79% Agpnt nnd owner aMke And our service Plain material at tidewater; cents per B grade, single strength, flrst three prompt, qualitv fulh' satisfactory, and pound: brackets 79% wnrknianslilp of the best. Beams and channels up to 14 Grades A and B. larger than the flrst Estimates cheerfully supplied, withoot in 2.72 to three brackets, single thick 78% obligatlnn to owners, agents, etc. Beams and channels over 14-in.2.72 to Double strength, A quality S0% Angles, 3x2 to 6x8 2.72 to Double strength, B quality 82% Zees and tees 2.72 to F. J. KLOES Steel bars 2.10 to Linseed Oil— City brands, oiled, 5-bbl. lot..$l.TOto Established 1872 Lumber— Less than 5 bbls 1.75 to Wholesale prices, New York. 243 Canal St.. New York Yellow pine, merchantable 1905, f. o. b., Turpentine— N. Y.: Spot in yard. N. Y., per gal. .. .$2.45to Telephone: Franklin 221( 3x4 to 14x14, 10 to 20 ft $66.50 to $82.00 Prices are fluctuating somewhat. Hemlock. Pa., f. o. b., N. Y., 694 KECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 1920 CONTEMPLATED SPRINKLER CONSTRUCTION. Geo. A. Fuller SUPERVISORY SERVICE Manhattan. AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER APARTMENTS, FLATS AND TENEMENTS. WEST END AV.—G. Ajello, 1 West 34th st, VALVE ALARM SERVICE Company will prepare plans for a 13-sty brick, limestone and terra cotta apartment, on plot 100x103 ft, INTERIOR FIRE ALARM at .505-509 West End av for Anthony A. Paterno, Building and 601 West lloth st, owner and builder. Cost, about ,fl,,j00,000. Details will be available later EQUIPMENT Industrial Construction 5TH AV.—George & Edward Blum. 505 5th av,^ have plans under way for alterations to the 4- Installed as a Local System sty brick and stone residence, on plot 30x125 ft, or for Central Office Service at 40 5th av into apartments for the McReynolds Realty Corporation, 26 West Slst st, owner. Cost, about .$25,000. AUTOMATIC DWELLINGS. 7STH ST.—George F. Pelham. 150 Lincoln pl, FIRE ALARM SERVICE Brooklyn, has prepared plans for alterations tc the 4-sty brick and stone residence, lSx76 ft. at 115 East 78th st for Joseph Polstein. 115 East SPECIAL BUILDING 78th st, owner. Cost, $12,000. 72D ST.—F. Burrell Hoffman. Jr., 120 West SIGNAL SERVICE 32d St. has completed plans for alterations to six 4-sty brick and stone dwellings, 16x50 ft. at 241 New Tork Chicago to 251 East 72d st for Francis B. Hoffman. 58 Philadelphia St. Loais East 70th St. owner. Total cost, about .flS.O'iO. AUTOMATIC Boston Cleveland STABLES AN'D GARAGES. Baltimore pittsbargb Detroit Buffalo 67TH ST.—Sidney Daub. 217 Broadway, has FIRE ALARM CO. Washinffton New Orleans prepared plans for a 4-sty brick garage, 75x100 Montreal Kansas City ft, at 242-246 West 67th st for Philip Libermau, 2 West 2Sth st. owner. Cost. ?100.IIOO. Owner 416 Broadway will take bids on general contract soon. SHIPTARD: JUMEL PL.—Frank J. Schefclk, 4168 Park av, New York City WILMINGTON, N. C. has plans in progress for a 2-sty brick and con crete garage, 151x153 ft, at 51 jumel pl for John FRANKLIN 4188 Brown. 614 West 146th st, owner. Cost, about $60.nno. STORES. OFFICES AND LOFTS. .-,TH AV.—Harry Allen Jacobs. 320 5th av, ft west of Sheffield av. for Andrew A. Wemmell, has completed plans for a 6-sty brick and stone 8.33 Sterling pl, owner. Cost, $35,000. store and showroom building. ooxlOO ft. at 448 5th av for Avedon & Co.. 448 5th av, lessee of WYCKOFF AV.—B. W. Dorfman, 20 Court st, land and owner of the building. Cost, .$200,000. has prepared plans for a 1-sty brick garage, 50x William T. Ritch Architect is about ready for estimates on general 100 ft, at the southwest corner of Wyckoff av and Stockholm st for Combe & Wilson. 32 Court -INC.— contract. st, owners and builders. Cost, $30,000. BROAD ST.—Ludlow & Peabody. 101 Park av, Fire Accident have completed plans for a 12-sty brick and WARREN ST.—McCarthy & Kelly. 16 Court limestone office building. (>0xl."^5 ft. at 43-47 st, have plans underway for a 1-sty brick Compensation Automobile Broad SI for the Alliance Realty Co.. 115 Broad garage, lOUxlOO ft, in the south side of Warren way, owner. Lessee. Combustion Engineering st, 80 tt west ot 4th av, for J. Slater. 1404 Liability Marine Co.. 11 Broadway. Cost, ,$.500.0(10. Architects Eastern parkway, owner and builder. Coat, will take bids on general contract soon. $25,0a). MUNICIPAL. Bronx METROPOLITAN AV.—Henry Bacon, 101 Park INSURANCE APARTMENTS. FLATS AND TENEMENTS. av, Manhattan, has started sketches for a 3-sty GRAND CONCOURSE.—Plans have been pre stone and reinforced concrete public bath house, pared privately for a 6-sty brick and concrete with lockers, showers, pool, etc., at the corner 29 WEST 34th STREET tenement. 25x114 ft. on the east side of Grand of Metropolian and Bedford avs for the City of New York, Borough of Brooklyn, owner. Coat, Phone: Greeley 6794 Concourse. 218 ft south of 183d st, for the Havens & Degenhardt Corporation. Wm. W. about .>i50.000. Details will be available later. Havens, president, 2231 Grand Concotirse. owner and builder. Cost, $50,000, Queens. DWELLINGS. DWELLINGS. For Quickest and Best Blue HARRISON AV.—Moore & Landsiedel. 148th HOLLIS, L. I.—Wm. C. Winters, 106 Van =t and 3d av. have completed plans for two 2V^- Siclen av, Brooklyn, has completed plans for Prints and Photo Prints sty frame dwellings, 22x41 ft, on the -west side three 2M2-sty frame dwellings, 22x28 ft, on the of Harrison av, 631 ft north of Morton pl, for west side of Hollis av, 100 ft north of Prospect Wm. L. Phelan Co.. 2045 Ryer av. owner anil av, for George Schmidt, 10 Highland pl, Brook THE ELECTRO SUN CO. huildcr. Total cost. $20,000. lyn, owner,' Cost, $21,000. STORES, OFFICES AND LOFTS. ELMHURST, L. I.—Wm. S. Worrall, Jr., 134 27 THAMES ST. NEW TORK CITT WALTON AV.—Charles Kreymborg. .300 East 4th St. Long Island City, has prepared plans for Tel. Reotor 272S-5288 AL. WKn.. Ucr. Kingsbridge rd, has flnished plans for a group six 2V,-sty frame residences, 20x38 ft, on the ot 1-sty brick stores, 00x04 ft, at the southwest east side ot Baxter av, 40, 90, 119, 148 and 177 corner of Walton av and Fordham rd for A. W. ft south from the corner of Judge st, for Louis Phone: RIvenlde 10437 Bowman. 30 East 42d st. owner. Total cost, Fagnant, 45 54th st. Corona, owner and builder. .«7(i.O0O. Cost. $8,000 each. Brooklyn. FOREST HILLS, L. 1.-Grosvenor Atterbury, VOGEL and ROTKIN 20 West 43d st, Manhattan, has finished plans DWELLINGS. for three 2t^-sty brick dwellings, 25x37 ft and WEST 6TH ST.—Frank V. Laspia. 525 Grand 1S.\37 ft, in the west side of Ingram st, 203 ft Painters and Decorators st, has completed plans for a 2-sty brick dwell south of Ascan av. for the Sage Foundation Painters' Sapplles ing, 18x48 ft. In the east side of West 6th st, Homes Co., Mr. Polton, in charge, 27 Greenway Offloea and Lofti a SoeelBlty 160 ft north of Av U, for Pietro Spataro, 175 Av terrace. Forest Hills, owner and builder. Coat, 703 AMSTERDAM AVE, NEW YORK C. owner and builder. Cost. $7,000. $98,000. FACTORIES AND WAREHOUSES. MORGAN AV.—Moore & Landsiedel. ItSth st ELMHURST, L. I.—H. W. Johnson. 60 Hunt and 3d av. the Bronx, have completed plans for st, has completed plans for two 2M>-sty frame a 1-sty brick and concrete factory. 100x100 ft. at dwellings, 20.x50 tt, in the north side of Bode the southeast corner of Morgan av and Lom- st, 100 ft east of Van Dine st, for Thomas Daly, bardi st for the Builtwell Auto Body Co.. B. Corona, owner. Cost, $9,000. Stillwell. president. 50 Jackson st, Brooklyn, CORONA, L. I.—A. Schoeller, Way av, Corona, J. P. Duffy Co. has prepared plans for two 2-sty frame dwell owner. Cost. $25,000. Owner is ready for bids on separate contracts. ings. 20x50 ft, on the west side ot Alburtis av, BUTLER ST.—Ballinger & Perrott. 1328 2,50 ft north of Sackett st, for Bertha Krauss, Broadwav Manhattan, have plans ne.iring com Martense st, Corona, owner. Cost, $14,000. pletion for a 3-sty brick and reinforced con FLUSHING, L. I.—W. J. McKenna, 6 Taylor crete bakery and garage, on plot 225,v100 ft. at st, has finished plans for a 2-sty frame resi Fire Clay Flue Pipe the southwest corner of Butler and Nevins sts dence, 21x35 ft, on the north side of Franconia for the New York Pie Baking Co.. 82 Sullivan st, av, 120 ft east of Central av, tor Patrick J. Manhattan, owner. Cost, $300,000. Reilly, Myrtle av and Murray st. Flushing, STABLES AND GARAGES. owner. Cost. $8,000. 30TH ST.—Ebling. Magnusen & Kltinert. 52 FACTORIES AND WAREHOUSES. Partition Blocks Vanderbilt av, Manhattan, have completed plans LONG ISLAND CITY, L. I.—Eugene DeRosa, for a 1-sty brick garage, 250x100 ft, in the north 110 West 40th st, Manhattan, has plans in prog side of 30th st, 100 ft east of 3d av. for the ress for a 6-sty reinforced concrete film studio Princess Construction Co., Louis Principe, building, 200x600 ft, on the plot bounded by president, 52 Webster av, Brooklyn, owner and Pierce av, Washington av, Sth and Oth sts. Long 138th Street and Park Avenae builder. Cost, about $70,000. Island City, for the Municipal Studios, Inc., Phone 281-2S2 Melrose ATLANTIC AV,—J. J. Millman, 26 Court st, Times Building, Manhattan, owner. Details will has completed plans for a 1-sty brick garag_e, be announced later. Architect will take bids on 75x133 ft, on the south side of Atlantic av. (5 separate contracts when plans are finished. May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 695 STORES, OFFICES AND LOFTS. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. JAMAICA, L. I.—Louis Dannacher. 328 Fulton TENAFLY. N. J.—Ernest Sibley. Palisade. N. st, Jamaica, has plans under way for a 3-sty J., has plans in progress for a 3-sty brick and CONTRACTS AWARDED. brick and stone and offlce building, ,53x90 ft, in stone grade school at Tenafly, N. j., for the AU items following refer to general the south side of Fulton st, 100 ft east ot Church Board of Education of Tenafly. owner. Cost, contracts, except those marked"sub." st, for owner and builder to be announced later. about $300,000. Details of construction will be Cost about $65,000. announced later. No date for taking estimates. Nassau. RIDGEFIELD PARK, N, J.—Ernest Sibley. APARTMENTS, FLATS AND TENEMENTS, DWELLINGS. Palisade. N. J., has plans under way for a 3-sty FREEPORT, L. I.—C. E. Kern, 55 East ay, brick and stone grade school, containing sixteen MANHATTAN.—Wm. Henderson. Jr.. 1170 Freeport. has plans in progress for a 2%-sty class rooms, auditorium, etc., at Ridgefield Park Broadway, has the general contract for altera frame and stucco dwelling at the corner of Ber for the Board of Education, owner. Cost, tions to the 5-sty brick and stone residence, 40x gen and Pine sts for Walter C. Hallinan. 1761 $.300,000. r>0 ft, at 662-664 Lexington av into apartments, East 12th St. Brooklyn, owner and builder. Cost, THEATRES. with stores on the flrst floor, for Paul S. Bolger, about $7,500. 606 Lexington av, owner, from plans by A. M. WEST HOBOKEN, N. J.—Henry Baechlin. 665 Githens, 52 Vanderbilt av, architect. Cost, FREEPORT, L. I.—R. Dwyer, Freeport, has Broad st, Newark, N, J., has plans in progress $25,000. the general contract for a l-sty frame and stucco for a brick, limestone and terra cotta theatre in dwelling, 32x54 ft, at the corner of Elm pl and Cortlandt st. West Hoboken, for the Roosevelt MANHATTAN.—Hughes Brothers, 1123 Broad Smith St. for John T. O'Melia, Milton pl. Free- Corporation, G. A. Robinson, president. 527 way, have the general contract for alterations port, owner, from plans by B. D. Roman, Long Charles st, West Hoboken, owner. Cost, about to the 4-sty brick and stone residence, 25x100 ft, Beach av, Freeport, architect. Cost, $13,000. $300,000. Owner will probably be ready for es at 712 Madison av into apartments and stores Westchester. timates on general contract by June 15. for Frank C. Barter, 323 Madison av, owner, DWELLINGS. YONKERS, N. Y.—Arthur Boohmer. 2001 Arthur av, the Bronx, has completed plans for a 2%-sty frame dwelling. 24x28 ft, on the south side of Belmont av. 154 ft south of Yonkers av. for Thomas F. Mahoney, 418 Mott av. New York' THE JOHN C. ORR COMPANY City, owner and builder. Cost. $10,000. PELHAM MANOR. N. Y.—Wm. Heapy. 288 LUMBER AND TIMBER, FLOORmG AND CEILING Hawthorne st. Yonkers, has plans in progress for three 2%-sty frame and brick veneer dwellings OF ALL KINDS at Pelham Manor for the Pelham Manor Homes Co., 505 South Broadway, Yonkers, owner and INDIA, JAVA, WEST AND HURON STREETS builder. Cost. $13,000 each. BORO OF BROOKLYN Y'ONKERS. N. Y.—Wm. Dewsnap. 344 Sth av, Manhattan, has plans in progress for a 2%-sty frame residence, 34x39 ft, with garage, at Colo nial Heights, Yonkers, N. Y., for Charles Blau- velt, owner, care of architect. Architect will sooii call for estimates on general contract. MT. VERNON, N. Y'.—J. T. Sibley. Jr.. 101 Park av. Manhattan, has completed plans for a 2%-sty frame and stucco residence, 42x28 ft, on Columbus av, Mt. Vernon, for Frank Stark- man 262 Primrose av. Mt. Vernon, owner. Cost. $15,000. MT VERNON. N. T Plans have been pre The lighting of the prize ring pared privately for a 2%-sty frame and stucco residence. 22x.?0 ft, on the east side of 10th av. between 4th and .5th sts, for C. G. McKenzie, 38 South 7th av, Mt. Vernon, owner and builder. Cost. $8,000. of the new PELHAM MANOR, N. Y.—William Heapy, 288 Hawthorne st, Y'onkers, N. Y., has plans in progress for a 2%-sty brick veneer and stucco residence, 23x50 ft, at Pelham Manor, tor the International Sporting Club Pelham Manor Homes Co., 505 South Broadway, Yonkers, N. Y., owner and builder. Cost, $18,000. 521-37 Lexington Avenue HASTINGS, N. Y.—The Rosseau Co., 2 East 23d st, Manhattan, has plans under way for a 2%-8ty stone and frame dwelling, 48x33 ft, at Hastings, N. Y., for C. B. Maddock, owner, care of architect. Cost. $15,000. Architects will involved a number of changes from the usual take estimates on general contract. FACTORIES AND WAREHOUSES. methods of interior illumination. It was nec YONKERS. N. Y.—H. Lansing Quick, 18 South Broadway, Yonkers, has prepared plans for a 3-sty brick and hollow tile warehouse, essary to concentrate the light on the ring in 40x72 ft, at 11 School st, for the Yonkers Fruit Co., School st, owner and builder. Cost. .$38,000. such a way that there should be no glare in STABLES AND GARAGES. YONKERS. N. Y'.-J. W. Kirst, 221 McLean av, Yonkers, has completed plans for a l-sty the eyes of the spectators. The solution of brick and concrete garage, 90x100 ft, at the corner of Bruce av and Lawrence st, for A. this problem was possible only because of Lockwood, 45 Warburton av, owner. Cost, $25,000. recent developments in the illuminating art SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.—Tooker & Marsh, 101 Park av, Manhattan, have plans in progress for a 3-sty brick and limestone high school, 125x60 The building will have an electrical installa ft, at White Plains, N. Y., for the White Plains Board of Education, owner. Details of con- strucflon will be announced later. tion of 3,000 lights and 65 horsepower in New Jersey. motors. The current will be supplied by APARTMENTS. FLATS AND TENEMENTS. GARWOOD. N. J.—C. C. Bell. 8 South av. West Cranford. N. J., has prepared plans for a The New York Edison Company 3-sty frame and stucoc flats. 35x40 ft. at Gar-' wood for E. Betz. Garwood, owner and builder. Cost. $15,000. CHURCHES. NEWARK. N. J.—Ackerman & Seider. 45 Clin ton St. Newark, have started preliminary plans for a brick and stucco church and Sunday school The New York Edison Company building at Hawthorne av and Osborne terrace for the Morton Street Presbyterian Church. Her bert C. Peters, minister. 417 14th av. Irvington. <^/ Tour Service N. J., owner. Details of construction will be available later. General Offices DWELLINGS. SOUTH ORANGE, N. J.—H. M. Fisher. 483 Bloomfield av. Montclair. has prepared plans for Irving Place and Fifteenth Street five 21'^-sty frame dwellings to be erected in Meadowbrook lane for Charles R. Piper, 149 Telephone Stuyvesant 5600 Montross av. South Orange, owner and builder. Cost, about .$9,000 each. MAPLEWOOD. N. J.—E. V. Warren, 31 Clinton st, Newark, has prepared plans for ten 2V2-sty frame dwellings, 22x25 ft each, in Milton st, Rowland st, etc.. for Max Gray. 2 Shanley av. Newark, owner and builder. Cost. $8,000 each. 696 RECORD AND GUIDE May 22, 1920 from plans by David M. Ach, 1 Madison av, for a 2-sty frame residence, 30x40 ft, in Grove eral contract for a 4-sty reinforced concrete fac architect. Cost, $20,000. rd. South Orange, for J. H. Strange, 111 Milligan tory building, 100x100 ft, at the corner of Kent pl. South Orange, owner. Plans prepared pri av and North 1st st for the Charles Fisher Spring PARK AV.—Fred T. Ley & Co., 19 West 44th vately. Cost, $25,000. Co.. 88 Walker st, Manhattan, owner, from pri st, have the general contract for a 16-sty brick vately prepared plans. Cost, about $200,000. and limestone apartment (co-operative). 200x YONKERS, N. Y.—Nlnian Jamieson, 243 South 125 ft, on the plot bounded by Park av, Vander Broadway, Yonkers, has the general contract for BRONX.—Joseph M. Brody, 103 Park av, has bilt av, 48th and 40th sts, from plans by War a 2V4-sty frame and stucco residence on Park the general contract for a group of brick and ren & Wetmore, architects. Hill for C. F. Gelling, Park Hill, owner, from reinforced concrete factory buildings, on plot privately prepared plans. Cost, $16,000. containing approximately 122,000 square feet, DWELLINGS. FACTORIES AND WAREHOUSES. fronting 373 ft on the east side ot Southern blvd, GREENWICH, CONN.—George A. Shedden Co., between 156th st and Leggett av, through to 62 West 4oth st, Manhattan, has the general con BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Rufus H. Brown, 350 Ful Whitlock av, for V. Vivaudau, Inc.. Times Build tract for a 2iA-sty brick and limestone resi ton st, has the general contract for a 1-sty brick ing, owner, from plans by Sommerfeld & Steck dence. 70x125 ft. garage and gardner's cottage at machine shop, 47x100 ft, in the south side of ler, 32 Union sq, architects. Cost, $1,000,000. Round Hill rd, Greenwich, for F. G. Achelis, Plymouth st. 288 ft east of Bridge st. for .^ames 430 Park av, Manhattan, owner, from plans by W. Kent, 39 Gold st, owner, from plans by Clar BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Turner Construction Co., Harrie T. Lindeberg, 2 West 47th st, Manhattan, ence E. Hildebrand, 350 Pulton st. architect. 244 Madison av, Manhattan, has the general con architect. Cost, $175,000. Cost. $15,000. tract for a 2-sty brick and reinforced concrete factory building. 260x200 ft, in the west side of MANHATTAN.—Cauldwell-Wingate Co.. 381 BROOKLYN, N. Y.—W. H. and F. W. Cane, 4th av, has the general contract for alterations 2R?j Broadway, Manhattan, have the general con Bogart st, between Scholes and Meserole sts. for to the 4-sty brick and stone residence, 2.5x66 ft. tract for a 1-sty brick storage building, 200x200 the Hudson Bag Co., Inc., 77 Washington av, at 20 East 64th st for Frederick T. White. 50 ft, at the southwest corner of 54th st and 2d av owner, from plans by Louis Allmendinger, 20 John st, owner, from plans by Harry Allen for the E. W. Bliss Co., owner, trom privately Palmetto st. architect. Cost, $150,000. Jacobs, 320 Sth av, architect. Cost, $40,000. prepared plans. Cost, $200,000. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—The Gibbons Co.. Columbia SOUTH ORANGE, N. J.—G. W. Lithgow. 79 BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Gretsch Engineering Cor st, near Hamilton av. has the general contract poration. 103 Park av. Manhattan, has the gen- for a 1-sty brick warehouse, 100x100 ft, in Hal King st, Manhattan, have the general contract iett St. near Court, for the Coastwise Lumber Co., 17 Battery pl. Manhattan, owner, from privately prepared plans. Cost, .$23,000. STORES. OFFICES AND LOFTS. LONG ISLAND CITY. L. I.—Realty Associates, "BILTRITE" 162 Remsen st. Brooklyn, has the general con tract for a 2-sty brick and limestone offlce building. 47x75 ft. at tbe northeast corner of Skiilman and Hunter avs, L. I. City, for the Hollow Metal Fire Door Title Guarantee & Trust Co.. 67 Jackson av. Long FOR PARTY WALL OPENINGS Island City, owner, from plans by Severance & Made up in both black and galvanized Van Alen. Ill East 40 st. Manhattan, archi iron, for exterior and interior use. tects. Cost. $100,000. Sturdy construction and light weight MANHATTAN.—Bernard Golden. 101 Lafayette without sacrifice of efficiency makes st, has the general contract for a 6-stv brick it adaptable for general use. and stone ofHce building. 24x130 ft, at IIS Wil This door may be teen at the Architects Sample liam st for Charles F. Noyes Co.. 92 William st, Corporation. 101 Park avenue. N. Y. C. owner, from plans by Clinton & Russell, 32 Lib erty st, architects. Cost, .$.iO,000. Manujactured by RICHMOND HILL. L. I.—Perry-Reid Co.. Inc., 348 West 14th st. has the general contract for LEONARD SHEET METAL WORKS, Inc., Hoboken, N. J. alterations to the 2-sty brick and stone offlce NEW YORK OFFICE: 1270 BROADWAY building. 20x40 ft. at Richmond Hill, L. I., tor the Borden's Farm Products Co.. owner, from plans by A. Ullrich, 373 Fulton st. Brooklyn, architect. Cost, about $22,000. MANHATTAN.—Frank & Frank. 246 West 42d St. have the general contract for alterations to the 4-sty brick and stone store and loft building, 16x00 ft. at 146 West 44th st for James A. Campbell, 50 West 67th st, owner, from plans INTERIOR MARBLE by, Edgar A. Moeller, lO.S Park av. architect. Cosf. .$18,000. Lessee. Abraham J. Rosenberg, 2687 Bedford av, Brooklyn. S specialists for many years in fine interior MANHATTAN.—Weprin & Glaser, Inc.. 22 East 105th st, have the general contract for a A^ marble work, we have unusual facilities for 5-sty brick and stone offlce building, 25x90 ft, at 117 West 33d st for the 121 West 33d Street executing contracts both promptly and to the entire Corporation, owner, from plans by B. H. and C. N. Whinston, 2 Columbus Circle, architects. satisfaction of builder, owner and architect. We BROOKLYN, N. Y.—Richard Von Lehn Sons, 2701 Av G. have the general contract for a 1- have on hand an exceptionally large stock of fine sty brick and terra cotta public market. 250x350 ft. at the corner of Flatbush av and Duryea pl. marble, both imported and domestic, and will be through to East 22d st. for the Public Market of Flatbush. Inc.. owner, from plans prepared glad to prove our scope and capacity by sending you privately. Cost, about $.500,000. a list of prominent structures on which we have been selected to execute the marble work. STANDARDS AND APPEALS MAY WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK Calendar WITH YOU ON YOUR NEXT UNDERTAKING? BOARD OF APEALS. Tuesday. May 25. 1020. at 10 a. m. .\ppents^ from- Adviinistrative Orders. 43-20-A—80-06 1st St. Long Island City. Queens. 024-10-A—Review av and Thomas st. on north A. R. ZICHA MARBLE CO. erly side of Newtown Creek. Bliss ville. Queen.=!. 42-20-A—Premises bounded by West av. East 813 Vernon Avenue Long Island City River. Nott av and Sth st. Long Island City, Queens. Telephone, Astoria 1930 .100-20-A—1048 OSth St. Brooklyn. 301-20-A—212-216 East 54th st, Manhattan. ;{02-20-A—1631 East l3th st. Brooklyn. .W3-20-A—).521 17th St. Brooklyn. 305-20-A—304-300 Fulton st. Brooklyn. 307-20-A—West side Gravesend av and 22d st, Brooklyn. 412 East 147th St. Under Buildinfi Zone Resolution. 238-20-BZ—East side Harlem River terrace. 203 Tel. 456 Melrose ft. 6 in. south of Fordham rd. The CHRISTIAN VORNDRAN'S SONS, Bronx. 2.54-20-BZ—24.3-245 Manhattan av. Brooklyn. 226-20-BZ—.542-546 Herkimer st. Brooklyn. HOUSE MOVERS and SHORERS BOARD of APPEALS. House Moving, Shoring and Jobbing Promptly Attended To SPECIAL MEETING. Tuesdaii, May 25, 1020, at 2 p. m. .308-20-A—2-8 East 38th st. 3-7 East 37th st, TELEPHONE: MANSFIELD 230a Manhattan. 311-20-A—tOS-410 4th av, Brooklyn. 312-20-A—.362-.378 7th av. Manhattan. 313-20-A—654 St. Marks av, Brooklyn. Under Buildino Zone Resolution. RETAIL LUMBER 240-20-BZ—4513-4517 '.5th av. Brookl"n. 2.81-20-BZ—717 East 140th st, n w c Jackson av. The Bronx. 285-20-BZ—.506-510 West 181st st. Manhattan. CHARLES H. FINCH & CO. 291-20-BZ—1108-1170 Southern blvd, s e corner -THB ACCOMMODATING HOUSE" Coney Island Ave. and Ave. H, Brooklrn, N. T. Home st. The Bronx. May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 697 PLANS FILED FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION IN ALL BOROUGHS OF NEW YORK CITY Manhattan. CARTER AV, e s, 15 s 176th, 1-sty bk shop, 78x23.6, slag rf; $2,000; (o) Wm. A. Cameron, MISCELLANEOUS. 1901 Bathgate av ; (a) Chas. S. Clark. 441 Tre WEST END AV, 109-111-113, 2-sty bk garage mont av (29i). & service station, 100x100, plastic slate rt; $60.- 000; (o) N. Y. Central R. R. Co., Grand Cen SOUTHERN BLVD, e 8, 50 n 167th, 1-sty bk Honest tral Terminal; (eng) Fredk. Meister. .534 W 56th shop, 30x50, tar & gravel rf ; .$5,000; (0) Ruben (176). Greenberg, 1128 Southern blvd; (a) M. J. Har rison, World Bldg (289). STABLES AND GARAGES. S W C OF 186TH ST & LAUREL HILL TER, Brooklyn. 80-1-sty bk garages, 10x18, 24 gauge steel rt; $16,000: (o) Mark Ash, 100 William ; (a) James MANSFIELD PL, 1069-73, e s, 175 n Av K, Rating 2-2y2-sty fr 1 fam dwgs, 20.2x42.8, shingle rf; R. Ashley, 345 Edgecomb av (177). $20,000: (o) Edw. S. Nielsen, 826 Caton av ; (a) AMSTERDAM AV, 1976. 1-sty bk garage, lOx Slee & Bryson, 134 Montague (5648). 14, corrugated iron rf; $200: (o) Jos. Burker, 1976 Amsterdam av: (a) August Merkle. 1976 E 23D ST. 1052, w s, 360 n Av K. 2^-sty fr 1 It is quite possible for a 2- Amsterdam av (175). fam dwg, 20x44, shingle rf; $15,000; (o) Wm Bordlield, 2801 Av N; (a) Robt. T. Schaefer ton truck to carry a 4-ton WEST BWAY, ,344-354, 1-sty bk garage. 120x l.")26 Flatbush av (.5634). 68, plastic slate rf; $15,000; (o) Wendel Est, load. But it is still only a 175 Bway; (a) Sam Cohen, 32 Union sq (174). E 35TH ST, 767-71, es, 135 s Farragut rd, 2- 2-sty fr 1 fam dwgs, 16x42; $16,000; (a) Saml. 2-ton truck. The extra load STORES, OFFICES AND LOFTS. Kobie, 2 E 120th; (a) S. Millman & Son, 26 42D ST. 420 W, 5-sty bk str & loft, 25x98, Court (5993). is a strain. It is equally slag rt; $65,(XI0; (o) Oscar o Dennis. 422 W 42: (a) Geo. H. Van Auken, 1269 Bway (179). AV T. 1321-23, n w c E 14th, 2-2y2-sty fr 2 possible to develop a higher fam dwgs, 16.4x60.4, shingle rf; $16,000; (o) rating on a boiler than the 7TH AV, 218. 2-sty bk bank & ofHces, 98x25x Chas. Rosseli, 1969 E 17th ; (a) Chas. G. Wes 75. slag rf; $30,000; (o) Peter Doelger Realty sell. 1399 E 4th (5663). natural capacity. But this Co., Inc., 405 E 55th; (a) Geo. Fred Pelham, 200 W 72 (178). COLONIAL RD, 8223, nee 83d, 2-sty Ir 1 does not change the real rat tam dwg, 20.2x50.6, slag rf; $15,000; (o) ^ohn THEATRES. E. McAuliffe, 50 Columbia Hgts; (a) C. L. ing of the boiler. lOTH ST & 7TH AV, sec, open air moving Seifick, 206 W 76 (5744). picture theatre, 134x50; $300: (o) Fredk H; Comstock, 150 W 4th. & Harris Mandelbaum. LENOX RD, 103-9, n s, 224 e Bedford av, 150 W 4th; (a) Joseph Mitchell, 332 W 24th 2-2-sty bk 2 fam dwgs, 22x70. shingle rf ; $36,- Boilers are purchased ac (173). 000; (0) Right Cont. Co.. 1933 Bedford av ; (a) Edw M. Adelsohn, 1778 Pitkin av (.5643). cording to the rating. You Bronx. IITH AV, e 3, 43.2 s SOth. 2-2-sty bk 2 fam cannot distinguish a rating APARTMENTS, FLATS AND TENEMENTS. dwgs, 20.6x57, shingle rt; $.30.000; (o) Marne GRAND CONCOURSE, e s, 218 s 183d, 6-sty Constn Co., 1334 48th; (a) M. A. Cantor, 373 by looking at the boiler. concrete tnt, 25x114.4, felt & pitch rf ; $50,000; Fulton (5777). You have to take the manu (o & a) The Havens & Degenhardt Corpn, Wm. STABLES AND GARAGES. W. Havens, 2231 Grand Concourse, Pres (288). 12TH ST, 432-54, s s, 97.10 w 8 av. 1-sty b facturer's word for it. DWELLINGS. garage, .TOxlOO, slag rf; .$25,000 ; (o) Ben]. 210TH ST, s s. 318 e Barnes av, 1-sty tr Martin, 22 W 27th; (a) J. M. Falson. 1123 dwg. 19x25; shingle rf; $800; (o) Catherine Bway, Manhattan (5775). RICHARDSON & BOYNTON McCormack, 614 E 13Sth; (a) John J McCor- 40TH ST, 237-59, n s, 200 w 3 av, 1-sty bk mack, 614 E 1.38th (283). garage, 200x100.2, gravel rf; $60,000; (o) Lava CO.'S Boilers are honestly BAINBRIDGE AV, e s, 100 s 204th, 2-2-sty bk Realty Co., Inc., 321 E 16th ; (o) Louis Kasoff, rated to deliver continuous dwgs, 19.8x45, plastic slate rf: $16,000; (o) 1441 Bryant av, Manhattan (5845). John McNulty, 1945 Prospect av: (a) Chas. 65TH ST, 912-22, s s, 111.8 w Ft. Hamilton av, warmth with the least effort Schaefer. Jr.. 150th & Melrose av (300). 1-sty bk garage. 100x100. gravel rf; $30.000; and fuel. Under pressure, HERMANY AV. n s. 180.6 w Castle Hill av. (o) Robt. A. Hall. 6518 Ft. Hamilton av; (a) IVi-sty fr dwg. 21x28. rubberoid rt: $4..500: (o) Thos. Bennett, 7876 o av (5759). this rating can be greatly en Gustav Johnson, 2239 Story av; (a) Fredk C. 66TH ST. 913-17, n s. 95.6 w Ft. Hamilton av, larged. But that is not the Genz. 2111 Story av (287). 1-sty bk garage, 60x100. gravel rf ; $15,000; (0) WALLACE AV, w s, 150 s Astor av. 1-sty fr & a) same as above (5760). way you want to run a heat dwg, 21x32, shingle rf; $3,000: (o) Dominick EMPIRE BLVD. 2.33-43. n 3. 64.4 w Rogers ing plant. Guarino. 2242 Cruger av; (a) Moore & Land av. 1-sty bk garage, lOOxlOO; $25,000; (o) siedel, 3 av & 148th (290). Paradox R. E. Corpn., 34 Nassau, Manhattan; FACTORIES AND WAREHOUSES. (a) S. Millman, 26 Court (6047). 187TH ST. n s, 80 w Beaumont av, 2-sty bk PUTNAM AV, 19-29, nee Grand av, 2-sty bk Write us for heating man str, storage & dwg, 3.5x.59, plastic slate rt: $20.- garage. 15x100; $150,000; (o) F. & S. Co., 507 uals which show you how to 000; (0) Pasquale Ferranti. 2424 Arthur av; 3 av. Manhattan ; (a) A. L. Grosse, 47 W 42d, avoid mistakes in installing (a) M. W. Del Gaudio, 160 W 45th (294). Manhattan (6035). WHITLOCK AV. w s, 49.98 3 149th. 1-sty steel STILLWELL AV. 1259-67, nee Neptune av, an adequate heating plant. factory. 50x100. steel rf: .$8,000; (o) Walter 1-sty bk garage. 140x70; $30,000: (o) Morris Gregory, 405 Cherry; (a) Blow Knox Co.. 165 Fine. 2783 Stillwell av ; (a) P. Caplan, 16 Court Bway (284). (3771). STABLES AND GARAGES. WYCKOFF AV, 24-28, s s, .50 w Starr, 1-sty 184TH ST. nwc Marion av, 1-sty t. c. garage. bk garage. 75x06. gravel rf: .$30,000: (o) L. & 40x20, slag rf ; $2,.500 ; (o) Valhalla Corp.. Jacob C. Bldg. Co.. 192 Riverdale av: (a) S. Mill- Pedersen, l-iiSth & 3 av; (a) Moore & Land man. 1780 Pitkin av (.5940). siedel. 3 av & 14Sth (286). HEAT STORES, OFFICES AND LOFTS. DAVIDSON AV, w s, 147.72 n Fordham rd. 1- JORALEMON ST, 186-92, 5 s, 135 w Court. sty bk garage, 20x22, asbestos shingle rf: $1,- 12-sty bk str & offlces, 62.10x124.4. slag rf: 000: (o) Tazzaro P. Faccine. 47 Franklin; (a) .$600,000: fo) Pincus Glickman, 44 Court; (a) M. W. Del Gaudio, 160 W 4.">th (295). B. W. Dorfman, 26 Court (5884). GRAND AV. e s, 100 s 192d 1-sty & attic fr THEATRES. garage, shingle rf; $1,500: (o) Cohn & Singer, SUTTER AV, 505-17. nwc Hinsdale. 4-sty THEM 2.j40 Grand av ; (a) Irving Margon, 355 E x4yth bk str & theatre, 100x100, gravel rf: $500.000; (298). (o) Langdon Holding Co.. .309 Bway. Manhat GRySND AV. w s. .50 n 192d, 1-sty t. c. garage, tan: (a) Chas. A. Sandbloom. 19 W 43th, Man 18.4x20.8. rubberoid shingle rf : $500; (o) Louis hattan (5670). Rosenbaum, 2.595 Grand av: (a) Wm. Shary. WYCKOFF AV. 329-.39. nee Myrtle av, 2-sty 22 E 17th (2S5). bk motion picture theatre. 104x1.37. gravel rf; RIGHT McCOMBS RD. w s. 150 s 176th. 1-sty con $130,000: (0) Herman Newint. 108 Bergen; crete garage. 20x24. slate rt: $1..500; (o) H. (a) H. A. March. .367-73 Pulton (3828). Himmelstein. 1084 McCombs rd ; (a) H. F. Koch, MISCELLANEOUS. Richardson & Boynton Co. 5 Columbus Circle (296). SHEEPSHEAD BAY RD. e s. & right of way, 3D AV. w s, l.'iO s 1.83d. 1-sty stn garage. 85x 1-sty bk cafeteria. 100x140. gravel rf; .$25,000; 258-260 Fifth Avenue 12:1. plastic slate rf: $18,000; (o) S. & B. Bldg. (o) Brighton Beach Park Co. 07 Liberty. Man New York, N. Y. Co.. Saverio Scalza. 3011 Barnes av. Pres; (a) hattan : (o) Nelson K. Vendebeck. 67 Liberty, Lucian Pisciotta. 3(111 Barnes av (299). Manhattan (.5678). STORES. OFFICES AND LOFTS. WASHINGTON AV. 57-59, e s. 210 s Flushing BROADWAY, c s. 290 n 2.30th. 1-sty bk & av 1-sty bk power house, 40x100. gravel rf; hollow tile oflice * dwg. 25x2.5. slag rf: $2.,500; $40,000; (0) Bklyn Edison Co.. .360 Pearl; (a> (o&a) Oie A. Targesen, 2058 Baisley av (293). owner (5.804). WALTON AV. swc Fordham rd, 1-sty bk Queens. strs, 90.3x94, slag rf : .$70,000: (0) A. W. Bow man, 30 E 42d: (a) Chas. Kreymborg. 309 E DWELLINGS. Kingsbridge rd (292). BAYSIDE.—6th St. swc Montauk av. 2-sty fir .MISCELLANEOUS. dwe. 30x38, shingle rf. 1 family, gas. steam PILOT ST 11 s. 109.47 e City Island av, l-^ty heat: $12,000; (o) George W. Jackson. 4.51 2 steel lookers. l.Sxloo: $4,000: (o & a) Robt. av, Manhattan : (a) Thomas Patterson, Jr.. X V .lacob. City Island (291). Madison av, Manhattan (2531). 696 RECORD AND GUICE May 22, 1920 BEECHURST.—28th st, s e c 16 av, 2-sty fr 2-2yi-sty fr dwgs, 23x45, shingle rf, 1 family, steam heat: $10,000; (o) R. Johnson, Spring dwg, 32x32, shingle rf, 1 family, elec, hot water elecr steam heat; $16,000; (o) Geo. C. Johnston, field, L. I. (1649-1630). heat: $13,000; (o) Alexander Arnold, 152 E 83d, Kingsland av. Corona; (a) W. S. Worrall, Jr., L. 1. CITY.—7th av, e s, 100 s Grand av, 10-2- Manhattan; (a) Ralph R. Clark, 395 Washington Bridge Plaza. L. I. City (1114-15). sty bk dwgs, 20x45, tin rf, 1 family, elec, steam av, Manhattan (2544). GLENDALE.—Ford av, w s, 255 n Myrtle av, heat; $120,000; (o) Rickert Brown Realty Co., EDGEMERE.—Beach o5th st, w s, 120 s Boule 2-sty bk dwg, 21x38, slag rf, hot water heat, 1 .52 Vanderbilt av, Manhattan; (a) Phillip vard, 2-2-sty fr dwgs, 16x36, shingle rf, 1 fam family, gas; $8,000: (o) Carl Keiser. 126 Brush, Resnyk, 131 W 39th, Manhattan (2582). ily, gas; $8,000; (o) Eliz. Kopolor, 754 Flush Glendale: (a) L. Berger Co., 1696 Myrtle av, L. I. CITY.—12th av, e s, 125 n Grand av. 2- ing av, Bklyn ; (a) P. Caplan, 16 Court, Bklyn Ridgewood (2631). sty bk dwg, 20x30, gravel rf, 1 family, gas. hot ...1(10-7). HOLLIS.—Farmers av, w s, 100 s Maple av, water heat; $6,000; (o) Frank Alessi, 578 Stein ELMHURST.—Cornish st, s s, 350 e Queens 2-2-sty fr dwg, 16x38, shingle rf, 1 family, gas ; way av, Manhattan; (a) owner ((2539). av, 2-sty fr dwg, 22x55, shingle rf, 1 family, gas, $9,000: (o) H. Neisless, Farmers av, Hollis; (a) L. I. CITY.—18th av, e s, 31 s Grand av, 7-2- steam heat; $6,500: (o) „. F. Johnson, 93 Cor Edw. Jackson, Herriman av, Jamaica (1490-91). sty bk dwgs, 25x33, slag rf, 2 families, gas, hot nish, Elmhurst ; (a) A. F. Brems, S3 Corona aVj HOLLIS.—Hollis av, w s, 100 n Prospect av, water heat; (o) R. H. Traux, 27 William. Man Corona (2503). 3-2y2-sty fr dwgs, 22x28, shingle rt, 1 family, hattan ; (a) Stephen D. Bowes, 371 E 16th, ELMHURST.—Baxter av, s e c Judge, 2-sty gas. steam heat: $21,000; (o) George Schmidt, Manhattan (2529-2530) ; 13 dwgs, $120,000. fr dwg. 18x39, shingle rf, 1 family, elec. steam 19 Highland pl, Bklyn; (a) Wm. C. Winters, 106 MORRIS PARK.—113th st, w s, 350 n Bway, heat ; $8,000; & Baxter av, e s, 40 s Judge, 2-sty Van Siclen av, Bklyn (2551-52-53). 2-sty fr dwg, 18x54, shingle rf, 1 family, gas, fr dwg, 34x21, shingle rt, 1 family, elec. steam JAMAICA.—Chapin av, e s, 40 s Glenn. 1-aty steam heat; $7,000; (o) Stephen Keele, 1111 heat; $8,000 ; & Baxter av, e s, 90 s Judge, 4-2- fr dwg, 72x55, shingle rf, 1 family, gas. steam Church st, Richmond Hill; ja) W. B. Wills, sty fr dwgs, 18x39, shingle rf, 1 family, elec, heat; $9,000; (o) Frank L. Ferguson, 66 Orange, 1181 Myrtle av, Bklyn (2642). steam heat; $32,000; (o) Louis Fagnant, 45 Bklyn: (a) L. Berger & Co., 1606 Myrtle av, QUEENS.—Fillmore av, e s, 260 n Queens .54th, Corona; (a) W. S. Worrall, Jr., Bridge Ridgewood (877). pkway. 2V<2-sty fr dwg, 25x2;^, shingle rf, 1 fam Plaza. L. I. City (2.569-70-71-72-73-74). JAMAICA.—Degraw av, n s, 320 e Alsop, 2- ily, gas, steam heat; $6,000; (o) Grace R. Stew FOREST HILLS.—Colonial av. s e c Euclid, 2%-sty fr dwgs, 20x29, shingle rf, 1 family, gas. art. Bellaire Gardens; (a) Louis Dannacher, 328 Fulton, ..amaica (2490). QUEENS.—Hollis av, s w c Fillmore av, 2-2- sty tr dwgs. 2.'>x23, shingle rf, 1 family, gas, steam heat; $12,000; (o) Grace R. Stewart, Bellaire Gardens; (a) L. Dannacher, 328 Fulton. Jamaica (2649-2650). QUEENS.—Hollis av, s s, 50 w Fillmore av, 2- sty fr dwg, 2.5x23, shingle rf, 1 family, gas. steam heat; $6,000: (o) Grace R. Stewart, Bel laire Gardens; (a) L. Dannacher, 328 Fulton. Cox, Nostrand ^ Gunnison Jamaica (2645). Incorporated RICHMOND HILL.—lllth st, e s, 28 n Roa noke av, 14-2y2-sty fr dwgs, 20x32, shingle rt, 1 family, gas, steam heat; $97,000; (o) Stenberg ILLUMINATING ENGINEERS Bros.. Inc.. 10434 lllth, Richmond HIU; (a) DESIGNERS AND owners (1597 to 1610). MANUFACTURERS RIDGEWOOD.—Woodbine st, n e c Doubleday. OF 2-2-sty bk dwgs, 20x55, slag rf, 2 families, gas, hot air heat: $24,000 : (o) Stier & Bauer, Inc., 651 Fresh Pond rd, Ridgewood; (a) L. Berger LIGHTING FIXTURES Co.. 1696 Myrtle av, Ridgewood (2636). AND BRONZES SOUTH OZONE PARK.—Birch st, e s. 145 n Central av, 4-2-sty fr dwgs, 14x34, shingle rf, 1 FOR family, gas, hot air heat; $12,000; (o fia) BANKS Thomas F. Malone, Fulton st, Jamaica (2390- CHURCHES 91-92-93). HOSPITALS SPRINGFIELD PARK.—Rosedale av, a a, 180 ^ HOTELS Foster Meadow rd, 2-sty fr dwg, 24x25, shingle rf. 1 family, gas, steam heat; $6,000 ; (o) Chas. OFFICE BUILDINGS Carter, Rosedale: (a) L. Dannacher, 328 Ful STORES ton, Jamaica (2647-2648) ; two bldgs, $12,000. RESIDENCES WESTMORELAND.—Bayview av, e s, 171 n Bway, 3-2-sty fr dwgs, 40x28, shingle rf, 1 fam s% ily, gas, steam heat; $27,000; (o) Rickert Brown Realty Co., o2 Vanderbilt av, Manhattan; (a) Phillip Resnyk, 131 W 39th, Manhattan (2556- FACTORY AND SALESROOM 57-58). 335-337 ADAMS ST. WOODHAVEN.—Woodhaven av, w s, 125 s Beaufort av, 2-2y2-sty fr dwgs, 20x39, shingle BROOKLYN N. Y. rf. 1 family, gas, steam heat: $14,()00: (o) Ne&r Borough Hall Henry Vehling Corp., 1st National Bank Bldg.. Ozone Park: (a) owner (1615). FACTORIES AND WAREHOUSES. JAMAICA.—Rockaway rd, s w c Archer pl, 2- sty bk factory. 2.5x75, gravel rf, steam heat ' $10.CK)0; (o) Joseph Barry, 24 Rockaway rd, Ja maica ; (a) Edw. Jackson, Herriman av, .la- Unlike otber Building Units, Artiflcial 8t«B* is a NON maica (2606). CONDUCTOR of DAHPNB8S, COLD and KKAT. It JAMAICA SOUTH.—210th st, e s, 200 s Siw.t- Artificial Stone reduces building costs and expedites construction. A. fleld av, 1-sty bk factory, 40x190, slag rf : $20,- wide variety of facing effects produced with crushed 000: (o) Attilis Pierini, 8.17 Bedford av, Bklyn: granite, marble, broTs-nstone, mdlana limestone, car (a) Louis Dannacher, 328 Fulton, Jamaica is growing borundum, etc., makes It a sightly stone f«r erery type (2489). of structure and its durability insures the lowest pas L. I. CITY.—Wilbur av, see Ely av, 1-sty bk in popularity sible maintenance cost. factory, 54x109, slag rf; .$35,000; (o) Howard We court investigation of the most searching kind, Printing Co.. 1926 Bway. Manhattan ; (a) Wm. and are always pleased to go over the subject in greater Sprosser, 211 12 av, L. I. City (2592). detail with anyone interested in building for perma L. I. CITY.—Vernon av, w s, 108 s Bnglis, 6- nence, beauty and economy. sty bk factory & bakery, 92x400, slag rf. steam heat: $575,000: (o) Atlantic Macoroni Co., 295 Vernon av, L. I. City; (a) King & Campbell, 36 W 40th, Manhattan (2567). HYDRAULIC STONE CORPORATION STABLES AND GARAGES. L. I. CITY.—5th av, w s, 92 s Washington av, East 57th Street and Beverly Road Brooklyn, New York 1-sty bk garage, 125x100, slag rf, steam heat; $:!0.000; (o) Woodridge Realty Co., 44 Court, Bklyn: (a) M. A. Cantor, 373 Fulton, Bklyn (2.-.941. STORES. OFFICES AND LOFTS. FOREST HILLS.—Austin st, s w c Conti "Britin" Metal nental av, 1-sty fr offlce, 55x32, tile rf, elec, steam heat; $8,000; (o) Thomas F. Swain, Inc., Forest Hills: (a) F. B. Colton, Forest Hills ^ Drainboard i2008). MISCELLANEOUS. J For the Kitchen FLUSHING.—Bayside av, s w c Bradley, i- sty fr platform, 471x23; $20,000; Rainier MolT Is covered with a bright soft Co.. prem; (a) Barney Ahlers Cont. Co., 110 metal not affected by acids W 40th, Manhattan (2487). No plating to wear off JAMAICA.—Rockaway blvd, nwc Baisley av, No polishing required to keep it clean 1-sty bk comfort station, 24x30, slate rf, steam heat: $13,000: (o) Park Dept., Richmond HUl; AX,L SIZES AND SHAPES MADE I a) L. Berger Co., 1696 Myrtle av, Ridgewood 126.33). L. I. CITY.—Barclay st, n e c Hoyt av, 1-sty bk comfort station, 25x32, slate rf, steam heat • JOHN TRAGESER STEAM COPPER WORKS $13,000: (o) Park Dept.. Richmond Hill; (a) 447 WEST 26TH STREET NEW YORK CITY L. Berger & Co., 1696 Myrtle av, Ridgewood (2634). May 22, 1920 RECORD AND GUIDE 699 PLANS FILED FOR ALTERATIONS HECLA IRON WORKS Manhattan. BANK ST, 30, alter partitions, raise beams, rf. new plumbing in 3-sty bk dwg ; $2.000; (o) ESTABLISHED 1876 Elizabeth Hanley, 23 University pl ; (a) Rich ard Berger & Son, 309 Bway (1491). BANK ST, 74-76. overhaul bldg throughout, remove porch, stoop, rearrange partitions, new Architectural Bronze and Iron Work bathrooms in 2-3-sty bk dwgs; $13,000; (o) Flora Haggard, 261 5 av; (a) Raphael Prager. 37 Liberty (1540). CHERRY ST, 26. remove partitions, wall, new Office, 118 North llth Street, BROOKLYN, N. Y. ext, flre-escape, &c, lower floor in 3-sty bk garage & factory: $20,000; (o) Sam Schango, care archt; (a) Harold L. Young, 253 W 42d (1507). t HOUSTON ST, 242-244 E, remove wood bins, stairs, str fronts, partitions, &c, new openings, doors, front, stairway, elevator in 2-5-sty bk str & tnt: $12,000; (ol Benj. R., Egerton L. & Bronson Winthrop, 102 1st; (a) Chas. B. Mey NIEWENHOUS BROTHERS, Inc. ers. 1 Union sq (1487). BUILDING CONSTRUCTION FRONT ST, 91, remove posts, girders, piers, new steps, gratings, piers, partitions, alter S. H. NTEWENHODS. President H. S. NIEWENHOUS. Secretary front in 4y2-sty bk office bldg; $5,000: (o) M. M. NIEW'ENHOUS. Treasurer A. W. TREAT. General Manager Levy's Sons, 90 Front: (a) Emilio Levy, 331 316-318 EAST 161ST STREET NEW YORK Madison av (1315). FRONT ST, 145-7, MAIDEN LA, 134-8, new tank, beams on 2-6-sty bk warehouses & stor ages; $6,200: (o) Powers. Weightman. Rosen- garten Co., 143-7 Front: (a) The Rusling Co., PHOKE: ASTOBIA 2984 ESTABUSHBD 2S YEARS 90-92 West Bway (1482). PEARL ST, 289, remove 2 stys, new toilet room, elevator & shaft, front, wall, flooring, rf. ^Reliability, Durability and Efficiency" skylight, elec in 4-sty bk offlce bldg: $10.000: (01 Ella B. Emet, St. James, L. I.; (a) A. F. L. S. Aspromonte & Son, 21 carrer st.. Lone I>l>i>d atr. N. T. Gilbert, 80 Maiden la (1495). RIDGH ST. 28. remove wall, partitions, raise CONTRACTING PLASTERERS beams, openings, new beams, partitions, stairs in 4-sty bk tnt; $7,000; (o) Torah Society of the People of Wisoke Mazoviezke, 73 Allen; (a) Louis A. Sheinart, 194 Bowery (1516). UNIVERSITY' PL. 122. remove posts & gird ers, str front, new str front, entrance, beams & girders, stairs in 4-sty bk strs & lofts: $9,000: (01 Shelbourne Lunch Co., Inc., 28 E 14th; (a) WELLS ARCHITECTURAL IRON CO. Morris Whinston. 63 Park Row (1.546). IITH ST, 70 E. remove stairs, walls, parti Manufacturers of Ornamental Iron Work tions, new ext. add sty, stairs, wall in 3-sty bk strs & dwg: .$9,000: (o) Lewis Kay. 70 E llth: (a) Harold L. Young, 253 W 42d (1551). phoB*—Md'ue \llll Office and Factory, River Are. aad East 161st St 24TH ST, 116-120 E, 4TH AV, 1.50 E. remove Iiartitions. stairs, new entrance steps, windows, v^nts, skylights, fire-escapes, flooring in 4-sty hk offlces: $15,000: (o) Mrs. Anne Guth, 120 IJ 24th; (a) Geo. Butler, 30 Church (1311). 26TH ST, 146-148-130 W, remove walls, new ext, floor, columns, posts, girders in 2 & 3-sty JOHN F. McINERNEY bk strs & lofts; .$2.3.000; (o) Leopold Realty Co.. Inc.. 156 W 26th; (a) Jacob Fisher, 23 Av A Iron and Steel Scrap, Cast Iron, Metals, Machiner> (1470). 29TH ST. 29 E, 40TH ST. 30 E. remove rf ext, Second-Hand Pipe, Beams and Channels a Specialty new wall, windows, partitions, bathrooms, wash basins in 12-stv bk hotel: .$22,000: (o) Martha 72-74 TENTH AVE., NEW YORK CITY TeL Chelsea 6874 Washington Hotel Co., .10 E .30th: (a) Harry B. Mulliken, 609 W 48th (1490). 29TH ST, 141 E. remove front, partitions, new front, partitions, heating, elec, plumbing, plas tering, f. p. material, stairs, doors in 3-sty bk offices & dwg: .$9,.-)00; (o) Maurice Corp.. 2 W 62d: (a) Harris V. Hartman, 123 W 16th (1.554). 31 ST ST, 110 E, remove partitions, stoop, cornice, new ext. show window, stairs, parti tions, cornice in 4-sty bk str & studios ; $13,000 : (o) M. Jos. Harrison, World Bldg: (a) owner (1477). :13D ST, 213 W. remove wall, partitions, stairs, LEHIGH new ext, wall, partitions, stairs in 4-sty bk str & offlces; $7,000; (o) Wm. F. Inslee, 6 Medina pl. Elmhurst, L. I. ; (a) Louis Brooks. 162 W 34th (1548). 37TH ST, 232-234. remove partitions, stairs, wall, beams, columns, stairs, partitions, f. p. doors, toilets, floors, sidewalk, skylight in 2-3- sty bk offlce bldg; $20,000: (o) 232 W 37th St.. -fAe National Cement James A. Ottley. care McCall Co.. 236 W 37th ; (a) Chas. H. Gillespie, 1123 Bway (1503). ;^8TH ST, 110 E. rearrange stairs, partitions. &c. new bathrooms, partitions in 4-5ty bk dwg : IS Mills from ^' $10,000; (o) Dr. Warren S. Adams, 110 E 38th'; (a) Butler & Rodman. 56 W 43th (1484). 38TH ST. 49-.33 W. remove partitions, stairs, Coast to Cosist new stairs, toilets, front in Z, 4 & 5-sty bk offlces, showrooms & strs; $10,000: (o) Claridge Roaltv Corp.. 13 Broad: (a) Sommerfeld fr Stockier. 31 Union sq (1553). LEHIGH PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY 39TH ST. .19-41 W, raise floors, new floor ext, ALLENTOWN, PA- CHICAGO, ILL. SPOKANE, WN. beams, columns, ext on 2-4-sty bk dwgs: $35,- 000: (o) Albrecht. Rudolf. Gustave Pagcn- New York. N.Y. Jacksonville, Fla. Omaha, Nebr. stecher, Jr.. 30 E 42d : (a) Maynlcke & Franke, Boston, Mass. Pittsburgh, Pa. 23 Maiden la (1483). Kansas City, Mo. Philadelphia, Pa. Minneapolis, Minn. Mason City, Iowa 40TH ST. 24 W, remove wall, rearrange par titions, new 2-sty ext. bathrooms, toilet rooms Buffalo. N. Y. Newcastle, Ptu EUchmond. Va. in 4-sty bk str, showrooms & dwg: .$9,300: (o) Stella S. Cochran, .16 W 40th ; (a) Jacob Ges cheidt, 142 E 43d (1324). iniuwniiiiitniiimwa John P. Kane Company TROWEL MASONS' PORTLAND CEMENT BUILDING MATERIALS MAIN OFFICE: 103 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK FOOT EAST 14TH ST., NEW YORK FOOT M'EST 96TH ST., NEW YORK DISTRIBUTING YARDS; 145TH ST. AND HARLE.M RIVER, NEW YORK 6TH ST. AND GOWANUS CANAL, BROOKLYN Edward Coming President Charles F. Berger, CJL EDWARD CORNING COMPANY, BUILDERS Vice-President Edward P. Corning Treasurer 145 EAST 45th STREET, NEW YORK Clinton L. FrobUber Secretary Empire Brick & Supply Co. ^ARDS 12th Ave., 47th to 4gth Sts., Manhattan OF BRIvxK IN 138th and Exterior Sts., Bronx WORKS Morgan Avenue and Newtown Creek MASONS' BUILDING MATERIALS STOCKPORT. N. Y. (near Stagg St.). Brooklyn Executive Offices: 103 PARK AVE., NEW YORK GLASCO. N. Y. Regular Post Patrol and Special Watch. High Grade Day and Night. Capable, Sober, Reliable, Watchman's Service HOLMES PATROL Efficient. Day Tel.: Cortlandt 10 rrar Hill 3030 26 CORTLANDT STREET Holmes Electric Protective Company ^'fi'*El^;id EAS^T ^^33R D STREET JAMES C. MACK The Lawrence COMPANY ^fk ll ll tt Lawrence Building Construction ^^TLAS<3«MENT Cement Company Reinforced Concrete Work 302 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 103 PARK AVENUE Phone: Murray Bill 292 WATSON ELEVATOR CO. inc. UENRY MAURER & SON Manufacture, ELECTRIC ELEVATORS ^^ Fireproof Bolldlnc HsUrimU OP EVERY DESCRIPTION Repair—Alterations HoUow Brlek made of Clay for Flat Arches, Partitions, Furring, Etc., Poroiu Terra Cotta, Fire Brick, Btc. 407 WEST 36th ST. Phone Longacre 670 Offleo and Depot, 42* EAST X3SD STREET Works: Maurer, N. J. NEW TORK ABE URIS ELECTRIC Iron and Steel Corp. ELEVATOR 400 plates 3/16: 34x59—30x60—30x72— 36x72—30x84—36x84—30x95—36x96 .nn