Real Estate Record and Builders Guide Founded March 21, 1868, by CLINTON W. SWEET. Devoted to Real Estate, fiuilding Construction and Building Management in the Metropolitan District Published Every Saturday by THE RECORD AND GUIDE COMPANY FRANK E. PERLEY, President and Editor; W. D. HADSELL, Vice-President; J. W. FRANK, Secretary-Treasurer. Entered u leooDd nlaM mBtt«r November 8, 1879. at the Po.t Office at New Tork. N T.. under tbe Act ot March S, 1879. Copyright, 1920, by The Record and Guide Company. 119 West -lOth Street, New York (Telephone: Bryant 4800). toe. A COPT VOU CT t8.00 A TEAB Nu. 18 (2720) NEW YORK, MAY 1, 1920 Adverti.lne Index AdTertlstngr Index Page Pag» Nehring Bros 2d Cover A B See Electric Elevator.4th Cover TABLE OF CONTENTS. Newins, Harvey B 564 Ackerly, Orville B., & Son 564 New York Edison Co., The 591 Acme Service Corp 577 New York Title & Mortgage Co..566 A. J. Contracting Co 595 Editorials 567 Niewenhous Bros., Inc 595 Adler, Ernest N 564 Noyes Co., Chas. F Front Cover Alliance Realty Co 564 May Day Rent Strikes Called Off by Tenant Altmayer, Leon S 23 Cover Ogden & Clarkson Corp....2d Cover American Bureau of R. E 564 Soviets S69 O'Reilly & Dahn 2d Cover Ames & Co 2d Cover Orr & Co., John C 591 Amy & Co., A. V 2a Cover Big Addition to One of New York's First Payton, Jr., Co., Philip A 580 Anderson & Co., James S 564 Skyscrapers 570 Pease Ai Eltiman Front Cover Armstrong, John 564 Pflomm. F. & G Front Cover Aspromonte & Son, L. S 595 Why Rentals Are Higher and What Increases Poe, James E 581 Automatic Fire Alarm Co 590 Pomeroy Co., Inc., S. H 589 Beale Co., Harry S 584 Are Just 571 Porter & Co Front Cover Beaumont Co., G. B Title Page Purdy & Co 564 Bechmann, A. G 580 Real Estate for the Current Week 575 Benznlg Co., Jos. H 594 Rafalsky Co., Mark Front Cover Birdsall, Daniel, & Co. .Front Cover Private Sales of the Week 575 Ray Willes, Inc 2d Cover Boylan, John J 2d Cover Read & Co., Geo. R Front Cover Brown, Frederick 582 Real Estate Notes 583 Realty Associates 584 Brown Co., J. Romaine.Front Cover Realty Company of America.... 566 Bulkley & Horton Co 580 Statistical Table of the Week 583 Realty Supervision Co 588 Busher Co., Eugene J 2d Cover Richardson & Boynton Co 593 Butler & Baldwin 2d Cover Wage Advance in Building Trades Stabilizes Ritch, Wm. T 590 Roman-Callman Co 584 Cammann, Voorhees & Floyd Situations 585 Ruland & Whiting Front Cover 2d Cover Runk, George S 2d Cover Carpenter, Leonard J 2d Cover Personal and Trade Notes 587 Ryan, George J 2d Cover Carucci & Wolpert 592 Chesley Co., Inc., A. C 592 Trade and Technical Society Events 587 Sasse, Geo. W 564 City Investing Co 566 Schindler & Liebler 564 Classified Advertisements 581 Building Material Markets 588 Schwiebert, Henry 580 Consolidated Gas Co. of N. Y...579 Scobie 2d Cover Corning Co, Edward 4th Cover Current Building Operations 588 Seaver & Co., Frank A 580 Corwith Brothers 584 Smith Co., Inc., E. C 586 Coutoucas, Nicholas 564 Contemplated Construction 590 Spear & Co 566 Cox, Nostrand & Gunnison 583 Speilman Electric Co 581 Cross & Brown Front Cover Plans Filed for Newf Construction 593 Spotts &Starr 564 Cruikshank Co Front Cover Steinmetz, John A 580 Cruikshanks Sons, Wm..Front Cover Structural Waterprooflng Co... .585 Cudner R. E. Co 2d Cover Thompson Co., A. G 582 Cushman & Wakefield. .Front Cover Title Guarantee & Trust Co 566 Cutler & Co., Arthur 564 Trageser Steam Copper Works. Cutner, Harry B 2d Cover John 590 Page Page Davies, J. Clarence 584 Gold, Louis 582 Trotta, Inc., D. A 581 Day. Joseph P 2d Cover Goodstein, Harry 584 Lehigh Portland Cement Co 595 Tucker, Speyers & Co 2d Cover Dike, O. D. & H. H 564 Goodwin & Goodwin 2d Cover Leist, Henry G 564 Tyng & Co., Stephen H., Jr 566 Dowd James A 564 Levers, Robert 564 Duffy Co., J. P 594 Hell & Stem 580 Ullmann 580 Hecla Iron Works 590 Levin, Inc., Jacob & Morris... .680 Uris Iron Works, Inc., Harris H. Duross Co 2d Cover Losere, L. G 580 Dwight, Archibald & Perry.2d Cover Hesse, M. & L., Inc Front Cover 4th Cover Holmes Electric Protectlve.4th Cover Eastern Gas Appliance Co 592 Mack Co., James C 4th Cover Vogel & Rotkin 594 Eberle, Edward F 5S1 Jackson, Daniel H 564 Manning-Bernhard Co 580 Electro Sun Co 594 Kane Co., John P 4th Cover Manning & Trunk 2d Cover Walsh, J. Irving 2d Cover Elliman & Co., Douglas L 565 Kelly, Albert E 564 Marbleoid Co 588 Watson Elevator Co., Inc..4th Cover Ely & Co., Horace S Front Cover Kennelly, Bryan L., Inc. .2d CoTer-57 Markham Realty Corp 566 Weld & Suydam 566 Empire Brick & Supply...4th Cover Kerns Co., James F 580 Martin, H. Samuel 2d Cover Wells Architectural Iron Co....595 English, J. B 2d Cover Kilpatrick, Wm. D 566 Maurer & Son, Henry 4th Cover Wells Sons, James N 2d Cover Maxwell, J. S 2d Cover Welsch, S., Sons 580 Feuerbach. F. J 564 Kloes, F. J 589 May Co., Lewis H 2d Cover Finch & Co., Chas. H 592 Knap & Wasson Co 2d Cover Wheeler Realty Corp 564 Kohler, Chas. S., Inc 564 McLaughlin, Thomas F 564 White Const. Co., Inc., The 578 Finegan, Austin 2d Cover McMahon, Joseph T 576 White & Sons, Wm. A 566 Fischer, J. Arthur 2d Cover Lackman, Otto 580 Miller & Co., A. W 2d Cover Whiting & Co., Wm. H.Front Cover Fox & Co., Fredk 2d Cover Lawrence Cement Co 4th Cover Mississippi Wire Glass Co 576 Winter, Benjamin 564 Frank & Frank 589 Lawrence & Co.. Geo 589 Moses & Moses 582 Wood-Dolson Co Front Cover Fuller Co., Geo. A 522 Lawrence, Blake & Jewell 566 Mural Floor Covering Co 577 Wyckoff, Walter C 2d Cover Fuller Co., Geo. A 590 Lawyers' Title & Trust Co 583 Gallin & Son, John 588 Leaycraft & Co., J. Edgar Nail & Parker 566 Zicha Marble Co., A. R 583 •Gates, Elmer 580 Front Cover Nason Realty Co 580 Zittel & Sons, Fredk 2d Cover 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 will be ECONOMY, SPEED and LOW MAINTENANCE cost. G. B. BEAUMONT COMPANY, ^^^E'X\"O^^' 564 RECORD AND GUIDE May 1, 1920 MANHATTAN BROKERS ORVILLE B. ACKERLY & SON 0. D. & H. V. DIKE ROBERT LEVERS Real Estat Insarance Appr«U«r* of Lonr Island Proparty Real Estate Specialists 378 LENOX AVE. cor. 120TH ST. Phone: Greeley 1760 Management of Phone: Harlem 3670 Improved Real Estate Exclusively 243 West 34th Street. New York City CANDLER BUILDING THOS. F. MCLAUGHLIN 2'20 WEST 42ND STREET Real Estate and Insurance EliNEST N. ADLER BRANCH—271 WEST 23HU STREET 1238 THIRD AVE., NEAR 72ND ST. Upper East Sidd Property a SpeciaM^ JAMES A. DOWD GEO. W. SASSE ItM F7B8T AVK., at Tttk St. Real Estate—Insurance REAL ESTATE—INSURANCB 2096 EIGHTH AVE., NEAR IMTH ST. IMt T^ama'. WIIMIMWW eut Renting—Management Phone: Cathedral i44T Telephons 396-39T PamuylTsnla 874 SIXTH AVENUE, above 49th Street SCHINDLER & LIEBLER AMERICAN BUREAU Real Bstate and Insarance OF REAL ESTATE F. J. FEUERBACH BhlueUadar «in 1393 THIRD AVB,, at 79th tt AO Abont Rest Eii>t« Bm7thlB>—Bratrwha* Management of Estates and otber UOOEILN "AfflBHSE" SYSTEM 18 West 34ih Street properties my specialty. SPOTTS & STARR, Inc. AjtOT Court Building. New Tork Manager of the Knickerbocker Real Estate—Insnrance Co-«peration of ReliBble Brokers IiiTltcd Fire Insurance Co. Management Lenox 294* 1(7 EAST S4TH 8T. TIMES BUILDING JOHN ARMSTRONG rhone Erjant 4000 Real Estate Asent and Broker TsL Harlem 211 1984 Third Ave., Cor. 109tb St. HENRY G. LEIST WHEELER REALTY CORP. REAL ESTATE—INSURANCK REAL ESTATE ARTHUR CUTLER & CO. APPRAISER—ESTATES MANAGED BROKERAGE—MANAGEMENT Real EsUte 204 East 8(th St EiUblUhed lUT 299 MADISON AVE., AT 41ST ST. <l-3 PAKK BOW Phone: Vanderbilt 970 Boom OU Plwna: BMkxuB ITM rbon* l«Dos IMl HARVEY B. NEWINS FOR SALE INCORPORATED ALBERT E. KELLY Member of Real Estate Board. N. T. Saceeoior to No. 140 West 87th Street Frederick A. Booth Choice Inrestmenta in Manhattan and Four-story private dwelling, on Long Island Properties. Real Estate and Insurance plot 20x102. Thoroughly modern­ CONSULT US ized. Possession October 1, 1920. BROKERS PROTECTED BPBCIALIST IN THB HANAGEUENT Terms to suit. OP PROPERTIES APPLY TO 522 FIFTH AVE. 41 UNION SQUARE The Alliance Realty Co. NEW YORK NEW YORK CLARKE G. DAILEY PHONE: Vanderbilt 2962-2963-2964-2965 Tel. StcyToaant 112S Tel.: Rector 3350 115 BROADWAT EstabUshed 1887 CHAS. S. KOHLER. Inc. James S. Anderson & Co. 252 West 47th Street REAL ESTATE W»t of Broadway, 25x100 Real Estate 5H-Story Tenement—Rents |6,000 Insurance Management—Leasing Bottom Price, $52,500, Free and aear Broker and Manager of Terms to Suit—Monthly Tenants Rentals—Insurance BROKERS PROTECTED Estates Over twenty-flve years' experience in the MAIN OFFICE: management of property. 901 Columbus Ave.—Comer 104tb St. Daniel H. Jackson BBAMCH OFFICB: Offices 82-84 Nassau Street 142S St. Nieliolas Are.—Near 181st St 135 RKOADWAY Phone: John 79 NBW TORK Saite 911 Phone; Rector 36t* LIBERTY BONDS Manhattan Real Estate BOUGHT and SOLD BENJAMIN WINTER Managed, leases; purchas­ All Issues and Denominations IN TBE MARKET FOR ing; selling; exchanging; Bought and Sold for Cash at Stock WELL-LOCATED INCOlfC- Exchange quotations and full Inter­ PEODUCING PROPKBTm APPRAISALS est to date. BROKERS Call or send by registered mail. COLLECT RENTS NVITCD TO SUBMIT PROPOtlTIONS PURDY & CO.