^*

«'

O LIBRARIES 2

TH5

'♦^

jr

^'r, OP »♦**

AVERY UBRARY

noNS

SECTION ONE

^J

1 POUNDED 1868 V^^REAL ESTATE JPkk BUILDERS Recoup ^•'^ Qm i de 'DEVOTED TO REAL ESTATE, BUILDING MANAGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION IN GREATER NEW YORK AND VICINITY
NEW YORK. JANUARY 7, 1922
GEO. R. READ & CO. Member Real Estate Board, ?J. Y. Real Estate 30 NASSAU STREET 3 EAST 35TH STREET	Established 1853 HORACE S. ELY & COMPANY Real Estate BISHOP BUILDING 76 WILLIAM STREET	J. ROMAINE BROWN CO. Member Real Estate Board, N. Y. Real Estate J. Romalne Brown, Pres. Elliott L. Brown. Treas. Nathan H. Gregory, Vlce-Pres. Morris E. Klnnan, Secy. ESTABLISHED 1856 ID RA.ST 43d STREET
CRUIKSHANK COMPANY Member Seal Estate Board, N. Y. Real Estate Managers of Estates — Brokers — Apprmsers Established 1794 Incorporated 1903 S 141 BROADWAY t	WM. CRUIKSHANK'S SONS Member Real Estate Board, N. Y. Real Estate Brokers. Appraisers, and the General Management of Real Estate 85 LIBERTY STREET	BUTLER & BALDWIN INCORPORATED Member Real Estate Board, N. Y. Real Estate Building Management 15 EAST 47th ST. Tel. Murray Hilf 6632
PEASE & ELLIMAN Member Real Estate Board, N. Y. Real Estate— Insurance Managers of Estates, Brokers and Appraisers 340 MADISON AVENUE 55 LIBERTY ST. 165 WEST 72D ST.	F. & G. PFLOMM Member Real Estate Board, N. Y.. Real Estate Agents— Brokers—Appraisers 1333 BROADWAY Tel. 2127 Fitz Roy	PORTER & CO. Geo. W. Short Chas. F. Porter Real Estate Renting and Collecting a Specialty 159 WEST 125TH STREET
CHAS. F. NOYES CO. Member Real Estate Board, N. Y. Reai Estate Agents and Brokers Downtown Business Property a Specialty 118 WILLIAM STREET	Established 1869 D. KEMPNER & SON, Inc. Real Estate Investments I. H. KEMPNER, President 522 FIFTH AVENUE	J. EDGAR LEAYCRAFT & CO. Member Real Estate Board, N. Y. Real Estate Agents, Brokers, Appraisers Insurance 30 EAST 42D STREET
BRETT & GOODE CO. Real Estate Specialists in Business Properties 582 FIFTH AVENUE	WOOD. DOLSON COMPAN Y IN0(>i:POBATED Member Real Estate Board, N. Y. Real Estate Mortgage, Loans, - Insurance Managemettt of Properties BROADWAY, AT 80TH STREET Downtown Office: 141 Broadway	WM. H. WHITING & CO. Member Real Estate Board, N. Y. Real Estate Rental, Management and Sale of Business Property 41 PARK ROW	j
CROSS & BROWN CO. Member Real Estate Board, N, Y. Real Estate Building Management 1« EAST 4Ist STREET 409 BROADWAY 175 FIFTH AVENUE FISK BUILDING, S7th STREET	M. & L. HESS, Inc. Business Property Rental-Sale-Management 907 B'WAY Stuyvesant Cor. 20th St. 4200	WM. A. WHITE & SONS The Management of Real Estate, Sales, Rentals and Mortgage Loans 46 CEDAR STREET TEL. 5700 JOHN Established 1868

MEMBERS REAL ESTATE BOARD OF NEW YORK

Eatabliahed 1881

AMES & COMPANY

REAL ESTATE

» WEST 31ST ST. Tel. 4810 Longacre

A. V. AMY & CO.

ECONOMICAL AND EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF PKOPERTT

160 WEST 72ND ST. Phone 5809-6810 Columbus.

JAMES S. ANDERSON & CO.

REAL ESTATE

Management — Leasing — Rentals — Insurance

Over twenty-five years' experience in

the management of property.

Offices: 82-84 NASSAU STRIET Jokn 0079

Eatabllshed 1852

ASHFORTH & CO.

Incorporated

REAL ESTATE Agents — Brokers

SOI FIFTH AVE., AT 42nd ST. Murray Hill 0142-0143

JOHN J. BOYLAN

Real Estate Agent, Brolcer and Appraiser

401 WS8T eiST eTBKET 277 BBOADWAT

Clrale TTSe WsRk l>18

EUGENE J. BUSHER CO.

INCOBPOBA'ntD

Real Estate — Insurance

Martgagea, Appraising, Uanagement N. W. Car. East 149tli St. and Cvartlandt

Are., Bronx Pheae: Mott Bavea lill ■stabUaiM* 1««5

CAMMANN, VOORHEES & FLOYD

MANAGEMENT OF ESTATES

84 WILLIAM STREET NKW YORK

BROEBBS, APPRAISERS, AGENTS

FIRM OF

LEONARD J. CARPENTER

Agents Brokers Appraisers

75 MAIDEN LANE

Branch: Comer Third Ave. a.uA 68th St.

Entire Chars* of Property

D. T. BwalDson A. EL Carpenter 0. L. Catveater

THE CHAUNCEY REAL ESTATE CO., Ltd.

BBOOKLYN'S OLDEST

REAL ESTATE OFFICE

187 MONTAGUE ST. BROOKLTN

▲ppralser^—ADCtioncers — Brolsera

CUDNER REAL ESTATE GO.

BROKERS and MANAGERS 3B4 WEST 23BD ST. Tel. Chelsea 127«l

ARTHUR CUTLER & CO.

Real Estate

291 BROADWAY, Suite 1904

Worth 6365

HARRY B. CUTNER

REAL ESTATE

1181 BROADWAY, AT 28TH ST. Tctepbonc: WatMna 4B8t-«

W. E. DEAN & CO.

Specialists in Lower Manhattu REAL ESTATE

3 Coenlies Slip. Nrv Yark Tel. Broad 2582

c:;^^'^^^

Aaetioneer

67 LIBERTY ST. N. y. aTY

Telephone; Cort 0744

0. D. & H. V. DIKE

Specialists in the Management of Lncome-P^roduclng

PROPERTIES

CANDLER BUILDING

220 WEST 42ND STREET

BRANCH: 271 WEST 23RD STREET

DUROSS COMPANY

Real Estate ISa WEST 14TH ST. 2«1 BROADWAY

CHARLES G. EDWARDS CO. Real Estate — Insurance

Specialist in Downtown Dry Goo<ls Distript

321-323 BROADWAY

Phone: Worth 8420

Uptown Office: 425 FIFTH AVENUE

J. B. ENGLISH

REAL ESTATE BROXER

INSURANCI ESTATES MANAGED HENT COLLECTED HOUSES FOR SALI AND TO LIT

1(31-7 Broadway

N. W. earner 45th St.

Astor Theatre Bnllding

Phonal Bryant 4773

J. ARTHUR FISCHER

Real Estate and Mortgagea

LonBacre 7176-7-S 690 SIXTH AVE., near 40tb St.

FRED'K FOX & CO., Inc.

Business BuUding Brokers

297 MADISON AVENUE

Southeast Comer 41st Street

TandertlUt «l4t

793 BROADWAY

Near 11th Street

Stnyreeant 161S

GOODWIN & GOODWIN

REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE Management of EsUtes a Specialty

148 WEST t7TH STREET Near Canwsla Hall Telaphone: Ortle 6095

2(0 LENOX AVENUE

N. ■. Car. UlnJ StrMt TeleplwBi: Harlem «»••

C. BERTRAM HUBBARD

INCORPORATED

REAL ESTATE— INSURANCE

MANAGEMENT

489 FIFTH AVENUE

Tel. Murray Hill 458-3339

HENRY G. LEIST

REAL ESTATE— INSURANCE

APPRAISER— ESTATES MANAGED

M4 East 8(th Street Established 1887

Edgar A. Manning Anton L. Trunk

MANNING & TRUNK

REAL ESTATE 489 Fifth Arenne Phone: Murray Hill 6834

SAMUEL H. MARTIN

Real Estate and Insuranee

Management Specialist 1974 BROADWAY Phone: Columbas e«9«

LEWIS H. MAY CO.

SPBCIAUZINO 23rd to 34th St., Lexington U Seventh Are. 18 WEST 27TH ST. Fboae: Watklu StlS

F. BRONSON MONELL

Real Estate — Insurance MANAGEMENT SPECUUST

71-73 NASSAU ST. Phone: Cortlandt 0001

J. K. MOORS

REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE

MANAGEMENT — LIASINQ — INBUKAlfCB

315 WEST 57TH STREET

Phones Circle 9800-1-2

MORRIS MOORE'S SONS

Incorporated

SPECIALIZING IN WEST HARLEM

AND HEIGHTS PROPERTY

THE KNICKERBOCKER BUILDING

152 West 42nd Street, Suite 923-924

NEHRING BROTHERS

INCOBPOBATED

Real Eatate — Insurance

ST. NICHOLAS AVE. AND 183D STRJUtT

OGDEN & CLARKSON

Corporation

Real Estate and Inauranca

One East 49th St. Plus 6tf5

O'REILLY & DAHN

Real Estate — Msaagemaat

TOBKTILLa SBCTION 124 EAST Seth ST. Phone: Lenox 3M1

GEO. J. RYAN

Qaeens Borongh Real Estate

AGENT BROKER APPRAIBI

Member Real Estate Beard ef New York

4C Jaclcson Avenne, Long Island CHy

Telephone: Hunters Point I45l-i

SPOTTS & STARR, Inc.

Real Estate — Insurance Manacement

TIMES BUILDING Pliona Bryant 4»H

J. IRVING WALSH

BPICIALIST

Washington Square and Greenwich Village 73 WEST IITH STREET

JAMES N. WELLS' SONS

(Jamea P. Eadie) Real Estate and Insurance

Since 1835 at No. 191 NINTH AVENUE Established 1819 Phone: Watkins 5200

WALTER C. WYCKOFF

Real Estate — Insaranee

Management 403 MADISON AVENUE

FRED'K ZITTEL & SONS

Real Estate and Insnranc*

BROADWAY at 79TH STREET THE APTHORP \ SchoTln STtt ■etahllsliel ISSS

Real Estate Record and Builders Guide

Founded March 21, 1868, by CLINTON W. SWEET

Devoted to Real Estate, Building 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; E. S. DODGE, Vice-President; J. W. FRANK, Secretary -Treas.

Entered as second class matter November 8, 187?, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y.. under the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1922, by The Record and Guide Company 119 West 40th Street, New York (Telephone: Bryant '

VOL. CIX NO. 1 (2808)

NEW YORK, JANUARY 7, 1922

25c. A COPY $12.00 A YEAR

Advertising Index

Page A. B: See Electric Elevator 4th Cover

Ackerly, Qrville B 17

Adams & Co 16

Adler, Ernest N 17

American Bond & Mortgage Co... 27

American Bureau of R. E •• 17

American Enameled Brick & Tile

Co 23

Ames & Co 2d Cover

Amy & Co., A. V 2d Cover

Anderson & Co., James S...2d Cover Anderson Brick & Supply Co4th Cover

Armstrong & Armstrong 17

Ashforth & Co 2d Cover

Atlantic Terra Cotta Co..; 24

Automatic Fire Alarm Co 24

Baiter, Alexander 16

Bauer, Milbank & MoUoy 16

Bechman, A. G 16

Bell Co., H. W 27

Biltmore Realty Corp 16

Boyd, James 14

Boylan, John J 2d Cover

Brennan, Edmund M 17

Brensam Realty Corp 14

Brett & Goode Co Front Cover

Brook, Inc., Louis 29

Brooks & Momand 14

Brown Co., J. Romaine. .Front Cover Builders' Brick & Supply Co.,

4th Cover

Bulkley & Horton Co 16

Busher & Co., Eugene J.... 2d Cover

Butler & Baldwin Front Cover

Cammann, Voorhees & Floyd

2d Cover

Carpenter, Leonard J 2d Cover

Chauncey Real Estate 2d Cover

Chesley Co., Inc., A. C 29

City Investing Co 4

Classified Advertisements 15

Coburn, Alfred P 16

Cross & Brown Front Cover

Cruikshank Sons, Wm.. Front Cover

Cudner R. E. Co 2d Cover

Cusack Company 16

Cutler & Co., Arthur 2d Cover

Cutner, Harry B 2d Cover

Dailey, Clarke G 4

Davies, J. Clarence IS

Day, Joseph P 2d Cover

Dean & Co., W. E 2d Cover

Dike, O. D. & H. V 2d Cover

Dodge Co., F. W 10

Dowd, James A 17

Dubois, Chas. A 16

Duffy Co., J. P 24

Dunlap & Lloyd 16

Duross Co 2d Cover

Edwards Co., Charles G. ...2d Cover Edwards, Dowdney & Richart.... 4

Elliman & Co., Douglas L 14

Ely & Co., Horace S... Front Cover

Empire Brick & Supply Co.,

_ ,. , , „ ''th Cover

English, J. B 2d Cover

Finch & Co., Chas. H 26

Finkelstein & Son, Jacob 17

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorials S

Governor Miller Urges Further Economy at

Albany 7

Tax Exemption Little Help to People of Mod- erate Incomes 8

Miss Annie Mathews Nevif York's First Woman

Register 9

Review of Real Estate Market for the Current

Week 11

Private Sales of the Week 11

Statistical Table of the Week 18

Manhattan Building Costs in 1921 Aggregate

$142,448,868 19

N. Y. City Contracts Awarded in 1921 Total

$394,754,400 20

Personal and Trade Notes 20

Recent Awards Indicate Active Building Next

Spring 21

Trade and Technical Society Events 21

Building Materials Markets 22

Current Building Operations 22

Contemplated Construction 24

Plans Filed for New Construction 27

Page

Fischer, J. Arthur 2d Cover

Fisher, James B 16

Fox & Co., Fredk 2d Cover

Goodwin & Goodwin 2d Cover

Grunert, Robert G 17

Gulden, Royal Scott 16

Harris Exchange 17

Hecia Iron Works 26

Hess M. & L., Ins Front Cover

Holmes Elec. Protective . .4th Cover

Holt & Merrall, Inc 17

Home Title & Insuarnce (jo 4

Hubbard, C. Bertram 2d Cover

Jones & Son, William P 17

Kane Co., John P 4th Cover

Keller, Charles G 16

Kelley, T. H 16

Kelly, Albert E 16

Kempncr & Son, Inc., D.,

Front Cover

Kilpatrick, Wm. D 4

Kissling, J. P. & L. A 16

Kloes, F. J 27

Page

Kohler, Chas. S 4

Kopp & Co., H. C 16

Lackman, Otto 16

Lawyers Title & Trust Co 13

Lawrence, Blake & Jewell 4

Lawrence Cement Co 4th Cover

Leaycraft & Co., Edgar, J.

Front Cover

Leist, Henry G 2d Cover

Lesch & Johnson 24

Levers, Robert 16

Losere. L. G 16

Manning & Trunk 2d Cover

Martin, Samuel H 2d Cover

Maurer & Son, Henry 27

May Co., Lewis H 2d Cover

JlcMahon, Joseph T 18

Milner, Joseph 17

Mississippi Wire Glass.. ..4th Cover

Monell, F. Bronson 2d Cover

Moore, John Constable 17

Moore's Sons, Morris, Inc.. 2d Cover Moors, J. K 2d Cover

Advertising Index

Page

Morgan Co., Leonard 17

Muhlker, Arthur G 17

Murray & Sons, Inc., John A. . . 22

Murtha & Schmohl 4th Cover

Nail & Parker 4

Natason, Max N 18

Nehring Bros 2d Cover

New York Edison Co., The 25

New York Title & Mortgage Co.. 4

Niewenhous Co., Inc 13

Noyes & Co., Chas. F.... Front Cover

Ogden & Clarkson Corp 2d Clover

O'Hare, Geo. L 4

Oppenheimer, Fred 16

O'Reilly & Dahn 2d Cover

Payton, Jr., Co., Philip A IS

Pease & Elliman Front Cover

Pell & Co., S. Osgood 27

Pendergast, John F., Jr 16

Pepe & Bro 14

Pflomm, F. & G Front Cover

Phelphs, Albert D 16

Pomeroy Co., Inc., S. H 24

Porter & Co Front Cover

Quell & Quell 16

Read & Co., Geo. R.... Front Cover

Realty Co. of America 4

Rickcrt-Brown Realty Co 22

Rinaldo, Hiram 16

Rose & Co., J 26

Ross, Frank U 24

Runk, Geo. S 16

Ryan, George J 2d Cover

Schindler & Liebler 16

Schwamm, Dr. H , 14

Schweibert, Henry 16

Seaman & Pendergast 16

Shaw, Arthur L 17

Shaw, Rockwell & Sanford 16

Sherman & Kirschner 17

Simberg, A. J 15

Smith, Gerritt, Mrs 18

Smith, Inc., Malcolm E 16

Solar Engineering Co 26

Solove, R 13

Spear & Co 16

Speyers, Inc., James B 17

Spotts & Starr 2d Cover

Sterling Mortgage Co 15

Tabolt, Jacob J 16

Title Guarantee & Trust Co 4

Tyng & Co., Stephen H., Jr 4

Union Stove Works 29

Van Valen. Chas. B 14

Walsh, J. Irving 2d Cover

Watson Elevator Co., Inc. 4th Cover

Weill Co., H. M 14

Wells Architectural Iron Co 29

Wells Sons, James N 2d Cover

West Side Y. M. C. A 12

Westergren, Inc., M. F 4th Cover

White & Sons, Wm. A.. Front Cover Whiting & Co., Wm. H. .Front Cover

Whitney-Foster Corp 16

Williams-Dexter Co -17

Winter, Benjamin 14

Wood-Dolson Co Front Cover

Wolff Gas Radiator Co., A 22

Wyckoff, Walter C 2d Cover

Zittel & Sons, Fred'k 2d Cover

Getting Set for 1922!

1922 is going to be a fine year for business. If we all think so, say so, and ACT so, we can make it so. It is encouraging to see how many far-sighted, long-headed business men have already drafted their plans for an intensive advertising campaign — they are getting set for 1922 and at the crack of the pistol will be off to a lead that their less aggressive competitors can never wear down. And you~YOUR schedule, like theirs, must surely include

THE RECORD AND GUIDE

for more than fifty-three years the recognized authority in Real Estate and Building.

Phone Bryant 4800 and a representative will call.

Title Insurance and Mortgage Loans

for . he Real Estate Owntr

Protection in Placing Loans

for the Broker

Guaranteed First Mort- gages and Certificates

for the Investor

New York Title &. Mortgage Company

Manhattan Brooklyn Jamaica ' Richmond White Plains Mt. Vernon

- 135 Broadway

203 Montague St.

375 Fulton St.

24 Bay St.

163 Main St.

3 South 3d St.

EDWARDS, DOWDNEY&RICHART

REAL ESTATE

AND

MORTGAGE LOANS

156 Broadway, New York

Tel. Cortland 1S71-1572 Member Real Estate Board, N. Y.

BrtiJilUhed 1887

CHAS. S. KOHLER. Inc.

Real Estate Insurance

Broker and Manager of Estates

MAIN OFFICE : MI Golonbtu Ave.— Comer ie4th SL

BRANCH OFFICE !

14a St. Nicholas Ave.— Near ISlit St.

NEW YORK

Lawrence, Blake &JeweD

Mortgage Loans

115 Broadway

Tel. 4080 Rector

Member Real Estate Board, N. Y.

GEORGE L. O'HARE MEMBER REAL ESTATE BOARD OF N. T. REAL ESTATE EXCEPTIONAL mVESTMSNTt BBLUNCI— RENTING— BUSINESS AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS SPECHALIZING IN LEASEHOLDS MORTGAGE LOANS FULL EQUIPPED DEPT. FOR EXCHANQINa 489 FIFTH AVE. TEL. VANDERBILT S092— 8441		Specialists in Harlem and Colored Tenement Properties NAIL & PARK£R REAL ESTATE 145 West 135th Street New York City JOHN E. NAIL Telephoo. ( 7M1 HENRY C. PARKER MomliuBlA) { TM»
William D. Kilpatrick REAL ESTATE OPERATOR 149 BROADWAY SAMtlEL KILPATRICK		BROADWAY STORE FOR RENT Located in Breslin Hotel, East Side of Broadway, near 29th St. Size: 15x50. For details apply to CLARKE G. DAILEY lis BROADWAY Rector 4300 Full Commission to Brokers
The Finest Investment for 1922 Guaranteed First Mortgages of the Home Title Insurance Company yield 51/2%, payable semi-annually. They are the finest investment for the new year. Principal and interest guaranteed. HOME TITLE INSURANCE CO. Willoughby and Jay Streets Post Office Building Broolilyn Jamaica |

I STEPHEN H. TYNG H. OAKEY HALL |

SteplienH.TyDg,Jr.,&Co.

Incorporated Member Real Estate Board. N. Y.

REAL ESTATE

MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESS PROPERTY

41 Union Square West

22 EAST 17TH STREET Telephone: Stuyvesant 4090

Exceptional Security

We do all that we can for our banking customers. This in- cludes advice on investment, finance and general business.

We are, however, pre-emi- nently a safe bank, our re- sources being very large in pro- portion to our deposits.

For every million dollars de- posited with us, we have half a million of capital and surplus of our own in addition — all for the protection of our depositors and clients.

Tliis is a wealth of security of- fered by very few banking institu- tions.

JiTlE guarantee & TRUST C9

Capital Surplus

$6,000,000 $11,000,000

176 Broadway, New TorK

175 Bemsen St., 196 Montaeue St., Brooklyn

350 Fulton St., Jamaica 67 .Tackson Ave.. I/. I. City

QTlje

Eealtp Companp of America

FRANKLIN PETTIT

President TRANSACTS A GEN- ERAL BU8INE68 IN THE PURCHASE AND BALE OF NEW YORK CITY REAL ESTATE

2 WALL STREET, NEW YORK CITY

Rector OiTS-OtyS

City Investing Company

61 Broadway, New York

Telephone: Bowling Green 8530

Capital, $5,000,000

r'^BERT E. DOWLING, President

January 7, 1922

RECORD AND GUIDE

Mayor Hj'lan's Second Administration

Mayor Hylan was in happy mood last Monday when he entered upon his second term as Chief Executive of this great city. Much can fairly be said in praise of, and less in criticism of, his second inaugural address. In most respects Mayor Hylan put his best foot forward and un- questionably he pleased the great majority of New Yorkers by his call to everyone to "Boost the Metropolis." Mr. Hylan contends, and undoubtedly he is right, that there has been too much knocking of this imperial city by some of its residents. It would be a great deal better, as he points out, if the knockers would turn boosters and thus make unani- mous the effort for a greater and better New York.

Mayor Hylan talked good common sense to his heads of departments and to all other city employees. "Our plain duty to the people," he said, "is to see to it that taxation is reduced to the minimum expenditure required for an eco- nomical operation of government. This is common hon- esty. With this in mind, every item of departmental ex- penditure must be limited to the lowest point consistent with effective service ; all unnecessary positions should be abolished and the employment of any individual whose services are of scant or doubtful value should be discon- tinued forthwith." These are laudable sentiments and the Record and Guide hopes that the Mayor will enforce them.

Mayor Hylan's inaugural address would not have been complete, of course, if he had failed to utter a new protest against the heavy burdens imposed upon the people of this city by the State rulers at Albany. His demand for a greater measure of Home Rule in the metropolis undoubt- edly is backed by a large majority of our citizens. This fact was amply attested at the recent election and it seems reasonable to expect that the Mayor's desires will have due consideration, because the commission recently appointed to revise the charter gives evidence of its purpose to pro- vide genuine Home Rule for New York City. Public in- terest in this matter has been so thoroughly aroused that New Yorkers will be satisfied with nothing less. Mayor Hylan expressed the belief that if New York had enjoyed heretofore the same right to govern itself as prevails in second and third-class cities up the State, it would have been possible for the city administration to effect econo- mies and to make more efficient the transaction of city business.

On the same day that Mayor Hylan began his second term in the City Hall, another well-known Mayor, Mr. Edwin W. Fiske, entered upon his ninth term as Mayor of Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon adjoins New York City on the north and conditions there are not dissimilar from those which prevail in the metropolis. It is interesting to note, therefore, that Mayor Fiske started out by reducing- his own salary ten per cent, along with that of several other important city officials, at the same time abolishing several positions which he considered useless. Reference is made to this action of the Mount Vernon Mayor because it illus- trates one wa}' in which Mayor Hylan can give that moii-

economical government of which he treated in his inau- gural address. No one would suggest, of course, that May- or Hylan should set the example of reducing his own salary, but he could accomplish a great deal for the taxpayers of the city if he would emulate that other feature of Mayor Fiske 's action and have stricken from the city pay roll the name of every unnecessary employee. Along that line lies one method of cutting the city budget down to a figure well

within the legal limit.

Ambitious Boston and the Census

Boston has been importuning the Census Bureau to re- vise its count of population, which was given out as 748,000. What the civic authorities of the Hub want is for the cen- sus officials to include,, in their enumeration of its citizens, all the inhabitants of its numerous suburban colonies within a radius of about fifteen miles from the State House. If this were done, Boston would have a population of 1,772,254 and rank as fourth city in the country, being outnumbered only by New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, instead of seventh in line, below, Detroit, Cleveland and St. Louis.

That there is merit in the contention of the Mayor and other citizens of the municipality having a codfish on its C' cutcheon is borne out by the action of the National Geo- graphic Society, which has gone on record as favoring the measurement of population by the group method rather than according to the strict demarkation of municipal boundary lines.

For a community that had the enterprise and hardihood to successfully bring off a certain celebrated Tea Party, it is inconceivable that Boston will not eventually find a way to get itself higher up in the census scale. Chicago, it may be certified, took in the whole of Cook County in its mad endeavor to minimize New York's supremacy. Other cities have gradually garnered voters and their dependents by an- nexation. New York, it may be admitted, welcomed Brook- lyn to more intimate civic association.

Why then should not Boston take into its municipal Ijosom Wellesley Hills, Newton, Somerville. Maiden, Duxbury, Roxbury, Lynn, Brockton and other out- lying but closely linked communities? Probably this com- jiaratively easy way to become the fourth city in point of population has never appealed to the conservatism that is figuratively set forth by a century or more of addiction to brown bread and beans for Sunday Morning Breakfast.

Miss Mathews Becomes Register

New "S'orkers in general, and those having realty inter- ests in particular, felt a special interest in the induction into office of Miss Annie Mathews as Register of New York (,"ounty on New Year's Day. Register Mathews is the first woman chosen to an elective office in New York County or New York City, which is a notable distinction in itself. Any woman who attains to an outstanding position in so- ciety, business or public affairs becomes an interesting per- sonality from the public viewpoint. To be the first of her sex to gain high ofificial position makes the case of Miss

RECORD AND GUIDE

January 7, 1922

Mathews especially interesting. And, it must be admitted, the special touches of femininity which attended her inau- guration furnished a good sign in themselves, adding as they did dignity to the occasion and expanding the new spirit which was reflected in the adoption of equal suffrage. The office of which Miss Mathews has just assumed con- trol is a very important one, and its successful manage- ment calls for executive ability of the first order. The Record and Guide, while appreciating fully the impor- tance of the Register's office to the realty owners which it represents, does not share in the old-fashioned belief of some that the business of the office can be handled properly only by a man. On the contrary, there seemed no occasion for uneasiness during the recent campaign because of the fact that each of the leading political parties had nominated as its candidate for Register a woman. Miss Mathews, who

won the election, and Miss Boswell, who was defeated, were both recognized by well-informed citizens as women of unusual capabilities, either of them very well qualified to conduct successfully the important office to which they aspired.

Register Mathews enters upon her new duties with the cordial good wishes of all who favor competent administra- tion of public affairs. The Record and Guide is confident that she will prove entirely equal to her new opportunites, and that her administration will give satisfaction to all having business in the Register's office, and at the same time reflect credit on her sex. New York City has many women of high character and ability filling important executive po- sitions and making good in them, just as Miss Mathews, who happens to be the first of them to assume an important public office, will make good in it.

William L. De Bost Clears Up Facts About Macy Site

Editor of the Record and Guide:

I have read with much interest the article on page 807 of the Record and Guide:, issue of December 24th, on the new records set for land rentals in the Metropolis. Referring especially to that portion of the article regarding the renewal of the R. H. Macy & Co. leaseholds on Broadway, West 34th and West 3Sth streets, I should like to take this opportunity of correcting in your next issue some errors in this article, especially in respect to the ownership of the properties.

The firm of R. H. Macy & Co. are the lessees of the whole property occupied by their store and this large plot is divided into twelve individual plots, each one covered by different leases. Mr. Frederick Brown is the owner in fee of the Plots Nos. 1317 Broadway and 109 West 34th street and 115-121 West 34th street, and also owns a one-quarter interest in the Plots Nos. 1323 Broadway and 113 West 34th street, 141-147 West 34th street and 134-138 West 3Sth street. The balance of the property, with the exception of minor interests which have been acquired by R. H. Mac}^ & Co., the tenants, is owned by the Hegeman, Aycrigg, Grinnel, Lillibridge families and others

Under the terms of these twelve leases, the first twenty-one year term of which expires May 1st, 1922, it was necessary to fix the rentals for the next term of twenty-one years by arbi- tration and the arbitrators were instructed to fix this rent at the fair rental value of the property.

Mr. Frederick Brown appointed Mr. Frank D. Ames to rep- resent him in the two plots which he owned in fee and all of the other owners of the balance of the property, including Mr. Frederick Brown, owning a one-quarter interest in certain parcels, appointed Mr. William L. De Bost, vice-president of Cruikshank Company, to represent them as their arbitrator and R. H. Macy & Co. appointed Mr. Lawson Purdy to repre- sent them as tenants in the arbitration.

As Mr. Ames and Mr. De Bost could not agree with Mr.

Purdy as to the fair rental value, by mutual agreement, they appointed Mr. Clarence H. Kelsey, president of the Title Guarantee & Trust Company, to act as third appraiser or um- pire and by this process an agreement was finally reached, fixing the rents as mentioned in your article, at $395,000 per annum net for twenty-one years, commencing May 1st, 1922, or a total rental for the term of $8,295,000 net, that is, the tenants paying taxes and all other charges.

From the intensive study which it was necessary for me to give to this property during the arbitration, and which lasted for a period of over six months, I concluded that the site of the R. H. Macy & Co. store is, without doubt, the finest loca- tion for a retail store. There is no other section of New York which is reached by so many transit lines; the Pennsylvania Railroad station is within a block of the property and it is within the great hotel centre, accommodating thousands of people who come to New York daily to shop.

You have covered in your article the activities now going on in the neighborhood, that is, the new lease of the Saks' sto;e and the old Herald Building, but an inspection of the location will show that there are many other smaller improvements now actually in progress or in contemplation, both on 34th street and adjacent streets.

I was prompted to write this letter to you especially for the reason that your article gave the impression that R. H. Macy & Co. were practically the owners of the balance of the prop- erty not owned by Mr. Frederick Brown.

The following law firms were active in the arbitration: Charles M. Bleecker, 49 wall Street, and Eraser & Speer, 16 Exchange Place, representing the majority of the owners; Messrs. Marks and Marks, of 358 Fifth Avenue, representing Mr. Brown ; Wise & Seligsberg, 15 William street, representing R.-H. Macy & Co. Laurence McGuire and Charles F. Noyes Co. sold the interests in the property to Mr. Brown.

New York, Dec. 27, 1921. William L. De Bost.

Joseph P. Day Reviews Auction Market of Past Year

Joseph P. Day, in discussing the reiuarl.able interest shown by the public generally during 1921 in the sale of building sites, declared that the year just closed will go down in history as a record-breaking auction period.

"Since last Spring," said Mr. Day, "I have sold more lots and houses and at better prices than ever before, and the totals of my sales aggregate a volume of business larger by many millions of dollars than in any other corresponding year.

"After one of the most strenuous lot sale years in the his- tory of the market, it seemed a fitting climax to hold the record breaking auction sale of all time and sell 1,898 houses for the United States Government.

"Tlie auction lot market is in a healthy condition, the hous- ing shortage being a large contributing factor. Today, the de- mand is far from satisfied. The "Build Your Own Home" move-

ment is well under way, and, in my opinion, many more thousands of lots will be purchased on the auction block for the erection of new homes.

"Since last May I have sold about 13,000 lots, located in every section of New York City and surrounding territory — Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Nassau and Westchester counties, and New Jersey. These lot sales have totaled about $28,000,000. In addition, I have sold about 2,500 houses for almost $7,000,000.

"1920 was a record year in the auction market and few peo- ple thought that the 1921 totals would even equal it. That they were mistaken is now a matter of history, and 1921 will cer- tainly go down as a banner year. The home and lot buying movement is in full swing. The demand is far from satis- fied and I look to see great activity during the next year."

January 7, 1922

RECORD AND GUIDE

Governor Miller Urges Further Economy at Albany

In Annual Message to Legislature of 1922 the State Executive Outlines Plan to

Lessen Burden on Real Estate by $22,500,000 i

(Special to the Record and Guide)

Albany, Jan. 4.

IN the longest annual message sent from the Executive Chamber in recent years, Governor Miller today advised the Legislature of 1922 as to the condition of state affairs and his suggestions for their management during the next fis- cal year. Adhering to the policy which he outlined in his message to the Legislature of 1921, Governor Miller urged fur- ther economies in state expenditures and the consolidation of various state departments not effected during the first year of his administration.

The Governor followed an established custom in opening his message with a summary of the state's financial condition. His statement showed a surplus of $43,613,077.85, as of July 1, 1921, adding that this greatly exceeded the estimates of a year ago. After pointing out that the departmental requests for the next fiscal year total about $145,000,000, as against $201,000,000 a year ago, the Governor continued:

If the appropriations can be kept within approximately $125,000,000 it will only be necessary to levy a direct tax of $12,181 895.49 for debt service, thus relieving real estate of the burden of the direct tax of $22,500 000 for teachers' salaries. That result can be obtained without impairing the efficiency of any activity of the State, provided no new or unusual expendi- tures be undertaken, and if attained the public business will then be upon such a basis that it can reasonably be expected that under normal condi- tions the present sources of revenue, with the direct tax for debt service, will be adequate to meet the expenses of the government and that the normal increase in such revenue will adequately provide for the inevitable expansion in the needs of the State government.

It is not just to the taxpayers to accumulate an unnecessary surplus, and it is sound policy to use the existing surplus to tide us over the present period of lean revenues. The total amount of appropriations requested by each State department will be transmitted as requested with- out revision. The departmental studies made by the newly created bureau set up by the Board of Estimate and Control were not completed in time to be available for a revision of the requests before submitting them to the Legislature. Indeed, those studies are still incomplete. Detailed reports of examinations, with the comments thereon by department heads, are available for the information of the Legislature.

The requests as compiled total $145,019,665.08. which is $56,624,627.35 less than the requests submitted last year, totaling $201,644,292.43, and not including requirements which had to be met of $4,621,545.61.

That comparison is the best evidence of the new spirit which pervades the public administration and demonstrates that notwithstanding the drastic reductions made last year the actual needs of the State were amply provided for.

"A significant absence of the usual requests for deficiencv appropriations for adijninistrative expenses will also be noted. Department heads and institutions have administered theii* functions within the appropriations, and instead of asking for deficiencies, many will show surpluses at the end o fthe year.

Governor Miller's message contained many recommenda- tions of importance, not only as to the consolidation of state departments, but urging the establishinent of a central pur- chasing body to buy all supplies for every state department and institution; open competition for state printing; a com- prehensive welfare program; obligatory use of voting ma- chines in cities of the first and second class, better distribution and regulation of the water power of the State; reforms in the operation of prison industries, and the sale of 1,600 parcels of non-revenue producing State lands.

Governor Miller gave considerable attention to the subject of taxation, declaring:

With the task of reducing the expenditures of the State government to a point where its revenues may be expected to keep pace with its expendi- tures nearing completion we should now seriously address ourselves to the problem of removing the inequalities and injustices nf ou-- tax laws b\ a careful revision of them. This is a task which must be .7,)proached wiih caution and worked out by degrees so as to produce no serious deranur- ment of the State's revenues. We arc not confronted with the necessity of seeking new revenues. The construction of a just and equitable I x system is our problem. The report paves the way for such a piece of constructive work, which I trust will be accomplished as soon as tl-e subject has received the consideration which its importance and intricacy demand.

Although the direct State tax was reduced this year $12,802,815.94, there was tn many counties little net reduction in taxation and in some counties

there were actual increases, the saving effected by the State administration being thus in whole or in part absorbed by the increased cost of local governmentis. The great burden from direct tax resting upon real estate results from the cost of local, county, town and municipal governments, and that cost has been increasing at a time when it has been demonstrated to be practicable to reduce the cost of government. The demand for a change in methods of local administration led to the adoption of a con- stitutional amendment at the last election relating to only two counties in the State. It may be that the need was greatest in those two counties because of developments incident to their proximity to the City of New York, but I have no doubt that there is some need, though possibly of varying degree, in every county in the State. I recommend that provision be made for an inquiry into the causes of the excessive cost of local governments and the remedies therefor. The Joint Committee on Taxation is well organized to conduct such an inquiry.

Governor Miller urged the Legislature to postpone action on all local legislation aflfecting the City of New York, explaining:

The New York Charter Commission recently appointed by me is now engaged in the work of revising the Charter of the City of New York. I hope that it will be able to report to the present Legislature, in which case I shall convene it in extraordinary session. In view of that work I recommend that, except to provide for emergencies, all proposed local legislation affecting the City of New York be held for consideration together with the report of the Charter Commission.

The Governor also recommended various election reforms and the equal participation of men and women in party man- agement. Taking up the State's institutional problem Gover- nor Miller groups this in three sections, (1) the hospitals, (2) the penal institutions and (3) the asylums for mental defec- tives. The message said that housing, food and clothing con- ditions in all classes of State institutions are good. Concern- ing hospitals the Governor holds that the chief problem lays with the curative side and advances the belief that the num- ber of discharged and paroled inmates should be increased. In 1921, the increase in the number of patients in State hos- pitals was 1,337, as against only 299 in the preceding year.

Regarding the assembling of ex-service men in the new Kings Park Hospital the Governor declared:

There are within the metropolitan district 530 ex-service men in the .State hospitals, excluding paroles. The Federal Government makes com- pensation for the care of 257 of them. There are at Kings Park two units admirably suited for the care and treatment of the ex-service men. One hundred and seventy-two are now being cared for in one of such units. There is nearing completion at Kings Park a reception hospital which is believed to embody the last word in modern psychiatry. It is desirable, if possible, to assemble the ex-service men from the metropolitan district at one place, so that the assistance in therapeutic work and occupational training which the Federal Government is willing to render may be utilized to the maximum. I am advised by the officers of the State department of the American Legion that the executive committee of that organization, after a thorough investigation, approves of the bringing together, if possible, of the ex-service men in tlie metropolitan district at Kings Park Hospital, and at my request the Hospital Commission now has under consideration the method of effecting the necessary transfers to make that possible.

Governor Miller did not discuss in his annual message the plans of the New York Port Authority, but informed the Leg- islature that he would treat this subject in a later communica- tion to that body.

"The State," says the message, "is the owner of tax titles to 1,600 parcels of real estate; it has acquired title to 113 parcels by foreclosure of United States loan mortgages; it is the owner of 607 mortgages on real estate and has other miscellaneous holdings not devoted to public use and not within the forest preserve counties. It receives from all of its real estate an annual rntal of about $1,400. The land acquired at foreclosure sale has been owned by the State from sixteen to seventy-live years. It owns mortgages which are more than eighty years old, many of them for small sums.

"The Commissioners of the Land Office have the power to sell real estate owned by the State not within the forest preserv and not devoted to public use, but it i.s obvious that that power is inadequate to deal with the situation.

"I recommend the adoption of some simple procedure to have the State- owned property appraised and sold with as little formality and red tape as possible. I also recommend that the Comptroller be authorized to accept transfers of title to mortgaged property with the approval of the Land Board."

After the reading of the Governor's message, both houses of the Legislature adjourned until next week.

8 RECORDANDGUIDE January 7, 192-'

Tax Exemption Little Help to People of Moderate Incomes

Measure Stimulated Building, Says Frank Bailey, But New Construction Has Been Almost Entirely of High Priced Apartments

FRANK BAILEY, vice-president of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, discussing the housing situation in its relation to high prices generally, declares that the ex- emption from taxation of new houses for ten years hase not relieved the people for whom relief was most necessary.

"Tax exemption," said Mr. Bailey, "has stimulated building to a great degree, but the new construction has been entirely of that class which is not available because of its cost to the people of moderate incomes.

"In Greater New York at the present time those having moderated incomes are under greater pressure for rent than ever before, and as incomes decrease the high rents of cheaper apartments will day by day oppress more people. At the pres- ent time it is absolutely impossible to produce a house which can be occupied by a tenant who can afford to pay a maxi- mum of $12 a room, and when one remembers that the great- est number of people are in the class that can pay $12 or less a room, then it is perfectly obvious that the poor man is not approaching cheaper rents, but is approaching higher rents.

"There has been immense relief in the construction of houses where the rent is from $20 a room up, and the peak of prices of that class of apartment has long since passed.

"The exemption from taxation has produced so much con- struction that the labor unions have been able to work their

will with the builders, until the cost of construction is but a little under the so-called war prices. As long as this enormous construction of buildings for the more wealthy continues and is stimulated, prices for materials and for labor will probably continue and the poor man will receive no relief.

"Relief of housing will be worked out in two ways, and in two ways only, in my judgment. One is by stopping the stimulation of construction which is no longer in great demand, to wit, the higher priced apartments. Second, by the Ameri- can people rising superior to the domination of people who work as little as they can for wages away beyond those they are entitled to earn, and thereby inflict upon the people of Greater New York almost a calamity.

"Eighteen dollars a day for plasterers with the wage scale of $10; bricklayers handling from 600 to 1,000 brick a day against a capacity of over 2,000 for a good workman ; electricians pay- ing a gang for the privilege of working, with the ability of a builder to employ only one man to put on his lath and at any .old price that man may ask; with the persistent strikes for no reason whatsoever — the poor people and those who can pay moderate rents can hope for no relief.

"There is just one old-fashioned rule which can help, and that is for 5,000.000 people to assert their independence against pos- sibly 40,000 people.

Bryan L. Kennelly Sees Bright Outlook for 1922 Auction Market

BRYAN L. KENNELLY, president of Bryan L. Kennelly, Inc., and vice-president of the Harriman National Bank, when asked about the outlook for the real estate auction mar- ket for 1922, declared that it promised to be the brightest in the annals of New York realty.

"I am as confident of this," said Mr. Kennelly, "as I am of the ultimate results of the Washington disarmament con- ference. The auction market was never better than during 1921 and the market for 1922 promises to overshadow it, par- ticularly in the volume of vacant lot transactions. And there is good reason for believing this. Civilization has begun to put its house in order again. It is recovering from the moral slump which has kept the world in a state of paralysis for almost a decade. It is turning to peace and is making its po- sition more stable and secure. It is getting rid of disorders and restoring confidence. It is reviving trade everywhere, setting in motion all its industrial looms and creating a de- mand by one nation for the wares and goods and good will of another. It is extracting the dross from credit, restoring currency to its real value, and checking the sinister fluctua- tions of foreign exchange. A world-wide awakening to sanity is developing; unity of purpose and endeavor is being re- kindled; doubts and discouragements are being dispelled; false prophets and their vicious and misleading prophecies are being thrown into the discard.

"Other things upon which my confidence is founded is the amazing shipment of gold to the United States by foreign capitalists for investment here — a sum almost totalling a billion dollars; the enthusiastic response of the world's leading gov- ernments, rulers and statesmen to President Harding's invita- tion to meet in Washington and discuss ways and means to end wars and their causes; the attitude of the whole American public toward the proposal to scrap navies and eliminate fur- ther danger of general economic disaster and forestall another conflagration of anarchism; the universal joy over the pros- pect of the establishment of a super-government; the uniting of nations by unbreakable treaty or agreement, or by bonds of sound and unalterable friendship, so as to permanently guarantee peace and good will between all peoples whatever their race, their color, or their creed.

"That the world will some day be united in some way as the result of the epoch-making conference in Washington I am certain of as I am of the wave of prosperity that will sweep over America and the rest of the world before another year is past. With the coming of this wave of prosperity there will naturally eventuate a great business boom, wide- spread good times, and an unprecedented outpouring of home- seekers, investors, speculators, developtrs, operators and builders to absorb vacant land in New York City and all other sections in the metropolitan area.

"Added strength is given to my faith in the future of the real estate auction market in the return of investors to the field of realty and their active participation in most of the im- portant transactions. For several years past they have held aloof, devoting most of their attention to stocks and bonds and other securities. They lost sight of the solidarity of New York real estate and of real estate as a source of constant and steady income. Having sustained tremendous losses in other fields, which they had been led to believe offered fabu- lous profits, the truth has dawned upon a large number of investors that the safest kind of an investment is improved real property which produces substantial returns.

"Let me say that investment in the real estate market during the 1914-1918 conflict against militarism and during the post- war period to date has meant the conservation or saving of fortunes for many American citizens, because of the soundness of real estate and its ability to stand up against even so great a catastrophe as the World War. It is truly remarkable that while everything else virtually went to smash, real estate, es- pecially New York real estate, stood the shock without once feeling it.

"When one considers Manhattan real estate by itself, what equals it from an investment standpoint? There is no spot on the Island whose value of the moment is not fixed and whose greater value of the future is not assured, than ever before, and they realize more than ever before the

"My confidence in the future of the real estate auction mar- ket is also strengthened by the increasing number of women investors, operators and speculators at all my sales.

"What is the outlook for real estate? I say, all signs point to an unprecedented volume of business in 1922."

January 7, 1922

RECORD AND GUIDE

Miss Annie Mathews New York's First Woman Register

Elected by a Decisive Plurality the First Representative of Her Sex as Head of

a Department Takes Important Office

THE first woman to be the head of an important branch of the local government took office on Monday, when Miss Annie Mathews became Register of New York County, as a result of her election thereto last November. When interviewed about the duties of the office. Miss Mathews said that necessarily she could say little, as she had not been in office long enough to fully acquaint herself with its rami- fications and to become fully acquainted with the entire working force.

"I do not care merely to express vague phrases about my duties," she said. "When I can say something tangible about this place I hold that is of personal interest to every property- owner and builder in town then I will be heard from. Wait until I get over the brand newness of the position. I am begin- ning to settle down to business. The first day or two were days of congratulations, bouquets and kind words, as they are for all new incubents in oflfice.

"There is this much that I can say with some sense of state- ment : I am deeply appreciative of the great honor which the voters of New York conferred on me by the splendid plurality (86,000) given me in the recent election. I am assuming office with a full determination to prove to the voters that they made no mistake in their choice, and that a great public office can be administered by a woman.

"I count myself fortunate in taking over from my predecessor a competent and experienced staff and feel sure that I can count on their full co-operation in the effort to make our office record, if possible, even better in the future.

"One of the most urgent problems of our day is the making of democratic institutions efficient and thus economical. I believe that at least one vital factor in the solution of this problem is the awakening in each official of a department a sense of his importance to and responsibility for the success of "the whole. If we can work in this spirit, as I sincerely believe we can, I am confident we can be happy in our work, and promise the public good service with courtesy and promptness."

The new Register is a native of this city, a daughter of John and Elizabeth Gillespie Mathews. She was educated in the New York public schools. Her further education has been obtained by travel, by keen observation, by long business

experience and as an ardent advocate of woman suffrage be- fore it became a reality. Since it has been in effect Miss Mathews has been Democratic leader of the Nineteenth As- sembly District of Manhattan. She was such a good cam- paigner that she ran ahead of some others on the Democratic ticket as much as 5,(KX). Miss Mathews has traveled abroad extensively during her vacations, and she believes that is the best finishing off process that any one's education can get. As a result of her travels and her political experience she has met all kinds of persons, so that she comes into oflfice with her powers of observation well developed.

The retiring Register, James A. Donegan, on Monday posed with his fair successor for a picture. And in turning over the office to Miss Mathews, Mr. Donegan said: "From my ac- quaintance with you I know you are capable and competent to discharge its most responsible duties. I know you will dis- charge those duties as economically as I have. The office has become self-sustaining since I came here."

Responding to the compliment, Miss Mathews said that the important thing now to do was to demonstrate to the New York public the success of good municipal principles and to prove by action in office that the era of the Czar and boss rule are over.

All of Register Mathews' immediate assistants are new in- cumbents, except the cashier, who was promoted from the place of assistant cashier. They are, in order, as follows: Edmund P. Holahan, Chief Deputy Register; Mrs. Josephine Flynn, Secretary to the Register; Thomas F. Murray, Cashier, and Miss Loretta Bonner, Assistant Cashier. Two of this staflf reside on Washington Heights, one in Harlem and one on the West Side.

Regarding the Torrens Law confirmation of titles and the work of title insurance companies. Miss Mathews said that she would be perfectly impartial so far as the Register's office is concerned, that it is up to the property-owner affected to have any kind of search desired, without any attitude being taken in favor of the Torrens Law or against it.

Former Register Donegan is now County Clerk, succeeding William F. Schneider; while Martin Hoffman, formerly cashier to the Register, is head of the Naturalization Bureau of the County Clerk's office.

Real Estate Board to Hold Monthly Dinner Meetings

THE Real Estate Board of New York has decided to hold monthly meetings for its members. The first of these meetings will be held on the evening of Thursday, Janu- ary 12, at which time the proposed development of the Port of New York will be presented by members of the Commis- of the Commission, former Governor Alfred E. Smith and Mr. sion including, it is expected, Mr. E. H. Outerbridge, Chairman Lewis H. Pounds. The proposed development of the port will be illustrated with motion pictures.

The dinner will be held at Delmonico's. It will begin prompt- ly at 6.30 and it is planned to conclude the meeting not later than 9.30. Members have been asked to reply promptly and informed that reservations cannot be made later than Tues- day, January 3. Referring to these meetings which the Board plans to hold monthly from now on, Mr. Charles G. Edwards, President of the Board, says:

"It is the purpose of the Board of Governors to make these meetings entirely of an educational character. There are so

many important public projects of vital interest to members of the Real Estate Board that it should not be difficult to select su'jjects upon which our members will be glad indeed to be in- formed. The success of these meetings will depend entirely upon the reception by the members but it seems to me that these gatherings should prove successful from the very first

"The development of the Port of New York, for instance, is of greater importance even than our transit problem, and yet I doubt very much whether the public generally and even members of the Real Estate Board, who are supposed to follow matters of this kind, know very much about it.

"It will probably be necessary to omit a meeting in Feb- ruary because of the annual banquet which the Board will hold on the evening of February 4. But the Board of Gov- ernors is determined to try out this method of interesting its members in the great business affairs of-the city and they feel sure that the members will respond to the call for the meeting on January 12 and on succeeding occasions."

Improvement in Gvpsum Plaster

Manufacturers of gypsum wall planter announce that a new manufacturing process has been adopted. The statement is made that this is the first radical change in 4,000 years. The new product is known as syanizcd plaster. The process sc.ils each minute particle of gypsum against atmosphere moistii e.

The plaster loses none of its sand-carrying capacity, even whea stored for many months. It does not go "dead" while in stor- age, and, being always "fresh," assures full coverage. Other economics of this plaster are the rapidity with which it takes the water in mixing, and its unusual plasticity under the trowel.

10

RECORD AND GUIDE

January 7, 1922

Covers 27 States

DODGE REPORT SERVICE —Established January 1, 1892

$2,500,000,000

is the average annual volume of construction contracts awarded in this company's territory since the war.

Last year did not quite reach this figure. This year may surpass it. The large volume of building contracts let in recent months is most encouraging.

Subscribers to Dodge Construction Reports re- ceive daily advance information on the indi- vidual projects -which roll up this enormous total.

Advance information enables you to get your share of the business in the highly competi- tive markets of today.

THE F. W. DODGE COMPANY

Have your stenographer fill out this form and mail to our New York office

WE ARE NOT OBLIGATED BY MAILING THIS FORM

THE F. W. DODGE CO.

,1922

Gentlemen: — We are interested in learning more about your Daily Construction Report Service for the increasinsr of sales in our line of business.

We operate in the following states :

Name. . . Address. Business.

Offices of The F. W. Dodge Company

Boston 47 Franklin Street

New York - - - 119 West 40th Street Buffalo - - 409 Niagara Life Building Philadelphia - - 1821 Chestnut Street Pittsburgh - . . . Bessemer Building Cleveland - 920 Citizens Bank Building Cincinnati - - . . 301 Gerke Building Detroit - - - 860 Penobscot Building Chicago - - - 131 No. Franklin Street St. Louis - 600 Title Guaranty Building Minneapolis - 407 South Fourth Street

January 7, 1922

RECORD AND GUIDE

11

Review of Real Estate Market for the Current Week

Several Large Sales in Manhattan Added Tone to Dealing There, While Sales of Apartment Houses Shared Honors With Plots in Bronx

THE New Year, in real estate, started well. The week shows transactions closed of substantial size that indi- cate that the market is likely to show greater strength as it progresses toward Spring. All parts of town were repre- sented in the dealing this week. Even an old tenement house in Market Slip, a part of the city that seldom figures in the trading, changed hands for improvement. The Corn Exchange Bank acquired an improved West Bronx corner which will house a new branch of that widespread financial institution. An old builder bought another West Bronx corner for im- provement with a taxpayer containing stores. One store has been leased, on the plans, to a chain grocer. This reflects the neighborhood growth steadily going on in the Bronx, es- pecially in the western half of it, where new rapid transit routes are making themselves felt. The New Year witnessed a continuity of general buying and selling of vacant plots in the northerly borough, for improvement with apartment houses.

A new feature was the sale of some large new apartment houses, showing that investors are interested in these modern properties.

Giving impetus to this year's dealing in Manhattan was the sale of a large mercantile building at West S7th street, ad- joining the Hecksher building at the corner of Fifth avenue, the sale value approaching $1,500,000. Among other notable transactions were the sale of a large West Side plot for re- improvement with a 17-story building; the sale of the old Hotel Grosvenor, on a lower Fifth avenue corner, and the ' enlargement, by purchase, of a plot near Madison avenue, owned by William R. Hearst.

The 12-story Strathmore apartment house, on an upper Riverside Drive corner, again changed hands. This, together with numerous recent sales of vacant corner plots on this

famous river front thoroughfare, shows that the Drive is in steady demand as a residential center and that it is not so remote from traffic routes as many suppose. The fee to a large loft building on a Fourth avenue corner was bought by the owners of the building, who are the tenants. A large site for a 12-story loft building in the Garment Center was bought. This, together with other site sales in that zone recently, in- dicates that the sky line of that new business section will be materially changed by next year and that the concentration of cloak and suit makers there will be stronger and rental values better and fee values higher.

The Sydenham Post Graduate Hospital bought a block front in West Harlem, which means that that institution will re- move from the East side of the city eventually to a new million dollar structure to be built on the new site. It is not believed that this semi-fashionable part of town welcomes the coming of the hospital. But, institutions of this character must neces- sarily follow trend of population and settle in accessible neigh- borhoods.

The march of trade northward, in Madison avenue, was shown by the purchase of two fine dwellings there for the pur- pose of remodeling them into mercantile buildings. There was considerable dealing in fine dwellings elsewhere in town. Apartment house dealing was fairly active. Some mercantile buildings, downtown, changed hands. An old mansion on Washington Square was bought to remodel for trade.

That large summer hotel properties are still doing business, in spite of the travel by automobile, is indicated by the sale, for about $1,000,000, of the Hotel Kaaterskill, in the Catskill Mountains, together with 600 acres of mountain land. The new State highway, along the west bank of the Hudson River, undoubtedly had much to do with the determination to ac- quire this large property and remodel it.

PRIVATE REALTY SALES.

T^HE total number of sales reported, but not -^ recorded in Manhattan this week, was 81. as against 69 last week and 88 a year ago.

The number of sales south of 50th st was 26. as compared with 29 last week and 41 a year ago.

The number of sales north of .50th st was 55. as compared with 40 last week and 47 a year ago.

From the Bronx .35 sales at private contract were reported, as against 39 last week and 24 a year ago.

Statistiral tables, including the number of re- corded instruments, will be found on page 18.

the partnership, received many congratulations and looked back on their silver jubilee, at a successful and gratifying business career.

The firm, during all these years, has been located in the Yorkville section, of whose real estate values it is a recognized authority- It has not fontined its operations to this locality alone, but has done an extensive business throughout the entire city, making a specialty of management of estates. It still retains, as clients, a number of large estates with which it began business 25 years a^o, the most im- portant of which consists of the large real es- tate interests of the Hoguet family.

Real Estate Lecture Next Week

Harry Hall, vice-president of the old and prominent brokerage firm of William A. White & Sons, will deliver the first lecture in the real estate course for 1022 of the West Side Y. M. C. A., at 318 West 57th st, on Tuesday evening. January 10.

Mr. Hall's subject will be: "As New York Grows. A Survey of the Development of New York City During the Past Century."

An open forum follows the lecture.

Monthly Dinner By R. E. Board

The Real Estate Board of New York will hold a series of monthly dinners during the winter and spring months. The first dinner will be held at Dnlmonico's next Thursday evening at 6:30 o'clock, and it is planned to conclude the meeting at 9:30 o'clock. Tickets are .$2.50 each and dress is informal.

The subject of discussion is the proposed de- velopmnnt of the Port of New York, and the speakers will be the Commissioners of Port Authority, E. H, Outerbridge. chairman of the commission ; former Gov. Alfred E. Smith and Lewis H. Pounds, of Brooklyn. The proposed devnlnnnvnt of the port will be illustrated with motion pictures.

Taxpayers' Association Officers

At a meeting of the Greater New York Tax- payers' Association, held on December 20 last, the following were elected for the year 1022 : Elias Diamond, president ; Louis Roossin, first vice-president; Karl Shapiro, second vice-presi- dent; Julius Feinberg, treasurer; Samuel S- Isaacs, secretary.

Harlem Firm Opens a Bronx Branch

Shaw. Rockwell & Sanford, who for many years have maintained a general real estate office on West 12.')th st, have opened a Bronx branch office at 1972 Jerome av, which is fully equipped to offer complete real estate and in- surance service for all parts of both the Bronx and Manhattan. The firm, until during the last ypar, was known as Sliaw & Co., its Manhattan office being at 1 West 12.5th st.

Real Estate Firm Celebrates Anniversary

Lpst Monday the well known real estate firm of Schindler & Liebler. of 1303 Third avenuf. celebrated the 25th anniversary of Its establish- ment. Each, personally, still active, Philip A. Schindler and Jacob P. Liebler, who comprise

Architect Member of Budg-et Guard

Goodhue Livingston, of Trowbridge & Living- ston, has accepted appointment as Commander of the Architects' Division in the mobili-iation of New York business men in the "Budget Guard" being organized by the National Budget Committee, of 7 West Sth st. under direction of Sam A. Lewisohn, weil-known banker and city chairman, to support the movement for national economy and lower tuxes. Every trade a"'' ■■'- dnatry in New York City is being mobilized with the most prominent men in their respec- tive trades as division commanders.

Columbia Stadium Site Assured

A donor, whoso nain" is. for the present, with- held, has given the .$700,000 necessary for Col- umbia ITniversity to acquire a large trnct of vacant land in the northern part of Manhattan as the site for a university stadium for all kinds

of athletic events. Fronting on the south shore of Harlem Ship Canal and the west shore of Harlem River, the tract embraces 26 acres. Broadway and 21Sth st are the other boun- daries. A short distance away is Isham Park. Its acquisition will mean that New York City will offer the greatest facilities for intercolleg- iate tests of every kind and for such public spectacles as the Horse Show, brigade reviews, etc. The action to acquire the tract was the result of the study of the university stadium propect made by a committee consisting of rep- resentatives of officers, alumni and students appointed by President Butler on March 17 last to take up the whole question of a Stadium and athletic field, to plan how best to carry the mat- ter forward and to recommend to President But- ler for transmission to the trustees such steps as they might think desirable.

A committee of alumni and students under the chairmanship of Archibald Douglass, gradu- ate of Columbia Law School of the class of 1S07. has been working since May, 1921, to raise the needed amount. At the Columbia holiday luncheon on December 29, Dr. Butler announced that up to that time the efforts had been un- successful. The raising of the money by Dr. Butler at the last minute came to Columbia and to the city in the nature of a New Year's surprise.

Steps will be taken at once to develop the tract in accordance with the plan which has already been mapped out in detail. Dr. Butler made the announoeraent of the gift, which comes from a personal friend, in the following state- ment :

"It is with profound satisfaction that I am able to announce that a warm personal friend, who wishes for the time being to remain anony- mous, has made a princely gift of the sura needed to enable Columbia University to acquire for an athletic field and stadium the Dyckman tract of more than 26 acres, which has been held under option since May last.

•'The total cost of acquiring the property will be about $700,000. The option to purchase was to expire at noon Saturdav, December 31. and the generous donor, who bad been greatly in- terested in the project from the time it was first brought to his attention, made his gift on Friday.

"Tt !s difllcult to exaggerate what possession of this property will mean to the health and the enjoyment of generations of Columbia Uni- versity students and alumni. When developed as we plan to develop it, it will be as notable an addition to the resources of New York as a

12

Real Estate

LECTURES

Cooperation of Many

Weil-Known Authorities on Real

Estate and Related Subjects

Endorsed by the Real Estate Board of New York

MR.

WILLIAM C. DEMAREST

President, Realty Trust HONORARY CHAIRMAN

While tliese fifteen lectures, for which a nominal charge is made, are intended for real estate men, they will also be of prac- tical value to property owners and managers of real estate.

An open forum follows each lecture, offer- ing a splendid opportunity for securing sound counsel and advice on real estate problems from these experienced men.

SCHEDULE OF LECTURES

Tuesday Evenings, Jan. 10 to Apr. 18 Auditorium, West Side Y. M. C. A.

January 10 — As New York Grows. A Sur- vey of the Development of New York City During the Past Century. Harry Hall, Vice- President, William A. White & Sons.

January 17— Real Estate Mortgages— What They Are, How They .A.re Made, How They Are Collected. VValter Stabler, Comptroller, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Vice-President, Real Estate Board of New York.

January 24— Practical Real Estate Law. John M. Stoddard, Board of Governors, Real Estate Board of New York, and of the law firm of Stoddard & Mark.

January 31— Legislation As It Affects Real Estate. Edward P. Doyle, Manager, Bureau )f Information and Research, the Real Estate Board of New York.

February 7 — The Brokers' Point of View. Francis Guerrlich, Secretary, Horace S. Ely & Co.

February 14 — The Selling of Real Estate at Auction. Joseph P. Day, real estate auc- tioneer,

February 21 — Modern Building Construe- tion. Arthur S. Lukach, engineer, George Backer Construction Company.

February 28— The Operators" Point of View. Robert E. Simon, real estate operator.

Marcb 7 — The Appraising of Real Estate. William L. DeBost, Vice-President of the Cruikshank Company.

March 14— The Selling of Apartment Houses and Residences. Lawrence B. Elli- man. President of Pease & Elliraan.

March 21— The Revision of the Greater New York Charter As It Affects Real Es- tate. A. C. MacNulty, Counsel, the Real Estate Board of New York.

March 28— Why Real Estate Should Be Highly Organized. Charles G. Edwards, President, Charles G. Edwards Company; President, Real Estate Board of New York.

April 4— Development of Property for In- dustrial Use. Martin Dodge, Manager, In- dustrial Bureau, The Merchants' Associa- tion of New York.

April 11 — The Examination and Insurance of Titles to Real Estate. George L. Allin, Counsel, Title Guarantee and Trust Com- pany.

April 18— The Management of Apartment Houses. L. H. Moore, Manager, Manage- ment Department, Douglas L. Elliman & Co.

Details on Request

WEST SIDE Y. M. C. A. 318 West 57th St., N. Y.

Telephone Circle 2560 KINDLY U<E This COUPON

WEST SIDE Y. M. C. A.,

318 WEST 57TH STREET, N. Y.

Send me. without obligation, complete details of Real Estate LLTture Course and pass to oi>enlng lecture.

RECORD AND GUIDE

metropolitan city as has been made in many a day."

Dr. Butler stated that the committee o( alumni and students who have been at work on the plans since last spring have before them a complete scheme for developing the property prepared by Eugene Klapp, engineer of the Columbia class of 1912, and Henry F. Horn- hostel, architect, of the Columbia class of ISai.

Speaking of the plans for athletic fields, Dr. Butler said that they provided for a football stadium with a seating capacity of 56,000, cost- ing $ToO,000 : a separate baseball field with a capacity of 10,000, costing %\2i>fi00, and an ath- letic field with three tracks and a 220-yard straightaway with a capacity of 8,000 or 9,000, costing $450,000.

A field boulevard 200 feet wide that will park from 1,000 to 1,500 automobiles will be built across the property at a cost of $120,000. This road or boulevard will look down over the foot- ball and baseball fields on the one hand and look out on the athetic fields on the other. Dr. Butler explained.

A boathouse and rowing headquarters will be built in the extreme westerly part of the prop- erty in a cove protected from the tidal currents of the Harlem River. A sea wall costing .$135,- 000 is also provided for in the plans, which further contemplate the erection of a war me- morial, whose cost, like that of the boathouse and a clubhouse, has not yet been estimated.

January 7, 1922

Madison Av. Dwellings for Trade

Pease & Elliman sold for Miss Cornelia Will- iamson, Mrs. Alice F. Bodwell and Mrs. Mary E. Bodwell to George C. Camas 6S3 Madison av, a 4-sty and basement brownstone dwelling, on a lot 18x80. It is the first sale of the parcel since 1870. The buyer will remodel the structure and use it for his lingerie business.

•Xegotiations are pending for the sale of CSl 3Madison av, adjoining, a dwelling on a lot 21 .Tfx^'y.

Sells Fee to Fourth Av Corner

A tenant syndicate, in which Herring Bros, and J. I, Granowitz, silk and woolen merchants, are interested, has purchased from Esther B. de , P. Hosmer the land, 98.7x75, at the northwest corner of Fourth av and 21st st, which it leased a few years ago and improved with a 12-sty building. Title has been acquired under the name of the Leah Realty Co.

Papers have also been recorded in which the seller allows a mortgage for JS.S'.oOO to remain for 10 years at 5 per cent, and a further loan of .$225,000, payable in installments and bearing 6 per cent, interest is advanced by Paul Herring and others.

Evening Post Sells Its Uptown Site

It is understood that the New York Evening Post has sold the site for a contemplated new building, at 2.m to 265 West •S.'^d st, which it bought about two years ago. The name of the buyer is not disclosed. The plot is 125x980 and. with the exception of a 25-foot front apartment house, the site is vacant. It adjoins the north- east corner of Eighth av and is opposite the Pennsylvania Station and close to the General Post Office.

Last May the Post borrowed $2.50.000 on the property from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. The loan becomes due in June, 1926, and bears interest at the rate of fi per cent.

The Post has been on Vesey st tor a decade or more. Soon after the paper was purchased by Thomas W. Lamont the uptown site was ac- quired, presumably with the intention of utiliz- ing it tor the plant when the Vesey st lease expired.

Sale of Big Broadway Corner

The 16-sty Merchants Building at the south- west corner of Broadway and 4th st, has been sold for Morris P. Altman and the Broadway Fourth Street Corporation to Joseph & Zeamans. representing a syndicate of investors- The price was reported to be in the neighborhood of .«;i .000.000. William Sussman, Inc., were the brokers.

The structure, which covers a plot 80.5x110, was erected about 15 years ago by the late Philip Braender, one of the pioneer builders of steel and masonry structures in the city.

Sells Dyckman Block Front

Bernard Smyth & Sons sold to Gustavus L. I nwrenee for the estate of Frederick Mead the plot of more than 21 lots, comprising the entire block front on the enst side of Broadway, be- tween Dyckman and Thnyers sts, in the Dyck- man section, having a fi-ontaee of 202 feet on Broadway 2,82.7»4 feet on Dyckman st and 2.50.10 feet on Thayer st. The plot will probably be divided and sold to builders for improvement.

West Side Sale Involving Old Lane

Another loft operation is indicated in the jiur- chase of the vacant plot. 67x95. at 146-152 West STth St. 75 feet east of Seventh av. by Frederick Brown thr-^ugh Hnrry B. Cutner. as br-^ker. from the M. Cohen Sr Bros. Realty Corporation.

Mr. Br-^wn also purchased the rear gore plot, size ."..9x07, from Jefferson M. Levy, making the t"til denth 98.9. Mr. Levy has owned this gore plot, which was formerly an old lane running

from Broadway to Seventh av, for more than 40 years and it is the last of his holdings of this strip.

Negotiations are pending for the resale of the property by Mr. Brown to a prominent builder for the erection of a 12-sty loft building.

Sell a Cooperative Apartment

Douglas L. Elliman & Co. sold a large co- operative apartment, containing 15 rooms and 5 baths, in 290 Park av, for Edward H. Everett, of Washington, D. C, to Mrs. George S. Dear- born, who now resides at the Carlton House, 22 East 47th st.

Mystic Shriners Buy West Side Plot

The Masonic Order of The Mystic Shrine bought through Clarence H. Kelsey, president of the Title Guarantee & Trust Co., the plot lol West 55th st, extending through to 130 West 50th st, at present covered by a 3 and 4-sty brick building, the plot 200.10 feet in depth and fronts 101 feet on 55th st and 99.6 feet on 56th St. Yale University was the seller. The pur- chase price is understood to be $400,000,

The site chosen for the elaborate temple of the local organization of Shriners has recently been used as a moving picture studio by the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation. The old buildings will be razed to make room for the mosque, which is to be of the finest execution, as befits the mother of all Temples of the An- cient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. With the cost of the plot, the new home of the Shriners of Mecca Temple will cost them nearly $2,000,000, and it will represent one of the most expensive as well as one of the most striking works of architecture ever erected in this country for the exclusive use of a fraternal order.

Work on the Temple will be begun at once, and it is to be completed and opened in connec- tion with the jubilee celebrating the fiftieth an- niversary of the order, to be held in this city the latter part of 1922, when 12,000 representa- tives of the 160 Temples in North America, in- cluding Canadians and Mexicans, are expected ►o be present and parade through the streets of New York in their picturesque Oriental cos- tuines.

The consummation of the real estate deal was the occasion of a quiet celebration in the even- ing by prominent Shriners at Mecca Temple in West 45th st, where the details of the under- taking were explained by Louis N. Donnatln, Recorder of tUe Temple.

"Originally we had planned to combine the new home for Mecca Temple with an office building, so that the expenses might be partly defrayed by rentals," explained Mr. Donnatin. "But we now find that our finances are in ex- cellent shape, as is indicated by the fact that our surplus is $i 5,000 in excess of that of last year, and we feel that we have an organization than can carry out the undertaking.

"We have nearly $1,000,000, and what addi- tional funds we may need we will raise through the Mecca Temple Holding Co., recently or- ganized to do the underwriting. The holding company will raise additional funds by selling bonds to the members of the Mecca Temple. We have 11.080 members, and it is apparent that the cost of the mosque when pro-rated among this number represents an insignificant sum. However, we cannot expect every member to furnish his theoretical share of the cost.

"We are going to build a mosque without asking help from any other temple. It is purely an affair for the local organization and Mecca Temple will take pride in the fact that it alone built the home for the mother temple.

"Several sketches have been submitted by nobles who are skilled architects and are in- terested in the type of mosque that is to be constructed. But no decision has been reached as to the exact plan. The only definite decision has been that we are to have a building of our own here where the mother of all temples nay be properly housed.

"Our great drawback has been the comp.ra- tively limited number of plots offered. We luust build for the future. It has been the historj of every temple that the original plans have proved too small by the time that the building was completed.

"Take Syria Mosque, in Pittsburgh, for in- stance. At the time this work was started it was declared that it would meet all require- ments tor years to come. Two or three months a.gn the trustees were empowered to purchase an additional plot on one side for the purpose of building larger foyers. It will not be possible to enlarge the auditorium, but they want to make at least standing room for those nobles who cannot gain admission to the ceremonial itself. Meriinah Temple, in Chicago, with her great membership is in even worse condition They cannot enlarge.

"We do not want to make the same error and this in part accounts for the magnitude of the undertaking. We want an auditorium that will meet the demands of the members. We will have not only an auditorium with a suitable ca- pacity, but we will have smoking rooms, a ban- quet hall, committee rooms, executive offices club rooms and a limited number of rooms foi- visiting Shriners."

The bonds by which it is planned to rnioo fi,p necessary funds to carry out the construction of the mosque are offered to the members of Mecca

January 7, 1922

Temple iu denominations of $50, IflUO, $oOU and $1,U(X), by the Mecca Temple Holding Company, which inchldes Robert D. Williams, Charles A. Benedict, William J. Matthews, Louis N. Don- natin, Henry C. Arthur, Paul Jones and R. A. Mansfield Hobbs.

Mecca Temple was founded in this city 50 years ago by William J. Florence, an old actor, who came to this country from England. The first home of the Temple was at the Old Cottage, 464 Sixth av, now occupied by Mouquin's Restau- rant. In the lUO temples on the North Ameri- can continent today there are oO0,0U0 members, each of whom is assessed $2 a year, which is to be devoted to hospitals, charities and other worthy purposes.

Robert Levers was the broker in the sale of the new Temple site. The order has long occu- pied a converted dwelling at 107 West 45th St.

Hearst Adds to Holdings

E. K. Van Winkle and Huberth & Huberth sold I'J East 57th st. a U-sty apartment house with store, on lot 2u.xl(i0, for the Itl East Fifty- seventh Street Co. to a client tor investment. It was held at $300,000.

The property is just west of Madison av and is understood to have been purchased in behalf of William Randolph Hearst. Last April Mr. Hearst leased through his representatives, Huberth & Huberth, the former Wilson residence at 15 East 57th st. a 43-toot parcel, for 21 years at an annual rental of $:;0.000, and with an option of purchasing the property for .f.jDO.OOO.

Subsequently he purchased the adjoining altered dwelling at 17 East 57th st from Stephen O. Lookwood. The latest purchase will give Mr. Hearst control of a frontage of 82 feet at this point.

Hotel Grosvenor Acquired

The old Hotel Grosvenor at the northeast cor- ner of Fifth av and 10th st has been sold by Leonard D. and Arthur J. Baldwin to John A. McCarthy, the building material dealer who recently bought the adjoining vacant plot, 24. Ox 94.9, on East 10th st, which is to be utilized for a 12-sty annex to the old downtown apart- ment hostelry. The Grosvenor is a 7-sty struc- ture, on a plot 80.8x100. E.xtensive alterations will be made to the building. The transfers have been recorded.

Valuable Dreicer Holding Sold

Dreicer Realty Co., of which the late Michael Dreicer was the head, sold to Isaac D. Levy, head of Oppenheim, Collins & Co., the 11-sty mercantile building 6-8 West 57th st, on a plot 65.6x100.5, adjoining the Hecksher building at the southwest corner of Fifth av and 57th st. The new owner has not announced his purpose in buying the property. The price was about $1,500,000.

Site for Big School Bought

An important step toward a large head- quarters and resident school building was taken this week when the National Bible Institute of 214 and 216 West 35th st (Don O. Shelton, president, Hugh R. Monroe, treasurer) acquired title to the property at 330 to 348 West S.jth st. On this site are 10 dwellings with an aggregate frontage of 200 feet, located about 500 feet west of Broadway.

The building to be erected will be a 17-sty fireproof structure and will be divided into two sections, providing for the general offices of the institute and for a library, study rooms, class rooms, social rooms, dining room, an auditorium on the main floor that will seat approximately 1,200 people, and 550 rooms that will accommo- date between 600 and 700 students- The site and the buildings will involve an aggregate ex- penditure of approximately $1,.500,000. The architects are McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin. The sale of the property was negotiated through the Manning-Bernhard Co.

Operator Buys Dwellings

Frederick Brown purchased as a site for an apartment house operation the three 4-sty and basement brick dwellings 147-140-151 West 74th St. covering a plot 64.6x102.2. The sellers were Alice C. Phelps, the C A. Miunt estate and Caroline K. Burr. The Brown, Wheelock Co. were the brokers. Negotiations for a resale to a builder are pending.

Riverside Drive Corner Plot Sold

Slawson & Hobbs sold for the Liberty & Church Street Corporation, Robert E. Dowling, presi- dent, to the 610 West 110th Street Co., Benjamin P. Walker, president, the north corner of River- side dr and 109th st, a vacant plot fronting 74 feet on the drive and 151.7 on the street.

The buyer will Immediately Improve the plot with a 14-sty fireproof apartment house to be ready for occupancy on October 1, next. The plot is one of several Mr. Dowling bought from the estate of Russell Sage.

Former Owner Buys Back a Parcel

Resale of the Linlithgow, a 7-sty elevator apartment house at the southeast corner of Riverside dr and 12nfh st. has been made by the West Heights Realty Corporation fSol Le- Tine president and Jacob Granat secretary and

RECORD AND GUIDE

treasurer). The purchaser is Joseph Shenk, who formerly owned the property. The house rents for about $70,000 annually and was valued at $100,000. It fronts lOO.S feet on the drive and 157.6 feet on 13Uth st, and accommodates 00 families, who occupy suites of from 4 to 0 rooms each.

Mr. Shenk disposed of the structure last March to the Ardsmore Estates, Inc., from wuicu the present selling company acquired it. The grounds of the St. Regis Convent are di- rectly opposite.

An East Side Investment

Maurice Werthoim sold for Dennis J. Mc- Donald, of Yonkers, N. Y., to Patrick Coughlin and John Ryan, for investment, 155 East 30th st, a 5-sty stone apartment house, on a plot 27.3x98.2 ; and 157 East 39th st, a 5-sty stone apartment house, known as the Edgewood, on a lot 19x91.3. The first is a double apartment building and the second a single one. The sales have been recorded.

Garage To Supplant Factory Building

S. & H. Realties. Inc., or the Herman Lumber Co., sold to Isidor Friedman 196-204 Mulberry st, northeast corner of Kenmare st, a 6-sty and basement brick factory building, on a Dlot front- ing 118.2 feet on Mulberry st and 100.2% feet on Kenmare st.

On the site the buyer will build a 4-sty fire- proof garage, with stores and showrooms on the Kenmare st side. It is the first sale of the property in more than 50 years. Shaw, Rock- well (& Sanford were the brokers.

13

Markeen Apartments Resold

Charles Galewski purchased from Matilda Susamaii the Markeen apartments at 570 West loGth st, a 6-sty brick elevator semi -fireproof structure containing 9 families on a floor, with trom 2 to 5 room suites. It stands on a plot lliuxlOO, located 100 feet east of Broadway. The property was held at $425,00iJ and returns a rental of $50,000 per annum.

Company Buys Tiffany Arms

The newly formed Tiffany Arms Realty Cor- poration (.A. M. Bloch, A. J. Shapiro and H. Uann) purchased the 6-sty elevator apartment house, on plot 100x108, at the southeast corner of Tiffany and IGod sts, Bronx. The house is known as Tiffany Arms and shows a yearly rent roll of $40,0U0. It was valued at $225,000 and contains 51 suites of from 3 to 6 rooms each and 7 stores. The Great Northern Apart- ments Corporation, the seller, acquired the prop- erty last June. The buying company is reprt sented by C. Diringer, attorney. It is capital- ized at $50,000.

Builders Buy Large Heights Plot

The 615 West 164th Street Corporation, com- posed of Theodore Klein, Abraham Bricken, Isidore Friedman and Leo Schloss purchased from the Waunegan Realty Co. the vacant plot, lT5xl40x irregular, on the south side of 165th st, 200 feet west of Broadway. They will im- prove the property with two 87-feet front 5-sty and basement walk-up apartment houses, which will be ready for occupancy October 1, 1922.

This is the fourth block front which the pur- chasing company has acquired from the Waune- gan Realty Co. in the last year.

Ardshane Apartments Bought

Michael J. Connaughton, of Flynn & Con- naushton, sold for Max Gold and Henry Bern- stein the 5-sty and basement brick apartment house known as "The Ardshane," 562 and 564 West 191st st, on a plot 51x9S.Ti4x irregular, to the Ginkenna Realty Co., Inc.. Michael Mc- Kenna, president ; John Ginnity. secretary and treasurer. The property was held at $100,000.

Hospital Goes from East to West Harlem

Leon S. Altmayer sold for Elizabeth Mc- Dougall the bloik front on the west side of Manhattan av, from West 123d st to Hancock ;>! and West I24th st. The purchaser is the Sydenham Post Graduate Course and Hospital, who will immediately erect a 10-sty fireproof hospital on the plot. The hospital will be non- soctarian in character and upon its completion will be one of the most modern and up-to-date hospitals in this country.

The location is unusually accessible, as it is but one block from the elevated railroad sta- tion on Eighth av and is but one block from all (Tosstown lines on 125th st and the Fifth av bus and St. Nicholas av electric carllnes pass the door. It has unusual light and air advan- tages, having frontages on four streets. It is but a short distance from the new Rockefeller School being erected on West 123d st.

One of the features of the new hospital build- ing is the elimination of wards, as every patient, whetlLer charity or pay, will have a separate room, and this privacy tends to hasten re- coveries. There will be five operating pavilions.

The Sydenham Post Graduate Course and Hos- pital has been functioning for the last 18 years in the nine old buildings at 331 to 347 East 110th St. which location it has outgrown and which buildings have recently been sold for the hospital by Mr. Altmayer to the American National Red Cross of Washington, D. C, and other institutions and private parties.

When completed, the new building, land and equipment will represent an outlay of about $1,000,000. The plot is 116.11x101.5x163.7x90.

Great Expectations

Do your January dividends sometimes call to mind other stocks that no longer pay? Or still others, where per- haps you had the greatest expectations, that never paid at all? No such disappointment is possible with our Guar- anteed Mortgages. They are paying their 51/2% interest as regularly as the half year comes around, and until their principal matures and is paid off.

UWYERS TITLE & TRUST CO.

160 Broadway, New York 367 Fulton Street, Jamaica, N. Y.

188 Montague Street, Brooklyn 58.3 East 149th Street, New York

44 Court Street, Brooklyn 1354 Broadway, Brooklyn

160 Main Street, White Plains, N. Y.

NiEWENHOus Company, Inc.

We specialize in Financing, Planning and Erect- ing Legitimate Building Operations on a 60% Loan Basis. Commission Moderate. 316-318 East i6ist Street

Telephone: Melrose 1694-1695 New York City

PAINTING AND DECORATING

GENERAL CONTRACTING

HIGHEST WORKMANSHIP BEST MATERIALS

REDUCED PRICES ESTIMATES FURNISHED

im W. 96th St., New York R. SOLOVE Riverside 3419-7490

14

HOMES IN GREENWICH VILLAGE

New York City has restricted a large part of Old Greenwich Village for residential purposes only. Many of the fine old homes are now available. You Can Buy a Splendidly Built Residence, Renovate it at Little Cost, and Have as Fine a Home as you can Find in New York City.

We Have Satisfied Many Families — Let Us Help You.

PEPE & BRO.

40 South Washington Square

Douglas L.Ellinian£[o.

Real Estate Brokers

Fifth and Park Avenue Districts

Efficient Property Management Plaza, 9200 15 East 49th St.

JAMES BOYD

Member Real Estate Board, N. Y.

Real Estate — Mortgage Loans

135 BROADWAY Phone: Rector 8658-S65(

SPECIALISTS IN

PENN. TERMINAL SECTION

REAL ESTATE

AGENTS— BROKERS— APPRAISERS

H. M. Weill Co.

TeL Longacro 2290-2817 221 West 33rd St.

BENJAMIN WINTER

BUY AND SELL HIGH-CLASS

MANHATTAN PROPERTY

BROKERS ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT

PROPOSITIONS — Quick Decision GIvm.

Lansing Building

229» BROADWAY, AT a2nd STREET

Suite 6 Phone: Schuyler 2897

BRENSAM REALTY CXDRP.

SAMUEL BRENER, Pres.

REAL ESTATE OPERATORS

50 EAST 42n<» STREET

Vanderbilt 3918-19

DR. H. SCHWAMM DENTIST

Knickerbocker Building

152 West 42nd Street

Phono Bryant 7475

Including X-Ray Serric*

BROOKS & MOMAND

Member of Real Estate Board

Real Estate Mortgages

1 15 BROADWAY Phone 22?J Rector 2268

Charles B. Van Valen. Inc

Member Real Estate Board of N. Y.

REAL ESTATE

MORTGAGii. LOANS— INSURANCE

110 WILLIAM STREET

Phone: 6000 Beekman

RECORD AND GUIDE

Sells Fine Park Av Residence

William D. May & Co. sold lor Adele Q. Brown iSy Park av, a 5-sty stune American basement dwelling, on a lot 25x;.t>. The house is Well-known in art circles tor its remarKable interior, puituus of which are in Gothic, Ital- ian and Louis XIV. Illustrations ot the im- portant rojms have appeared in all the leading art magazines.

Madison Theatre in New Hands

The Madison 'theatre, a two-story building, on plot lUO.ll.NlliU, at the northwest corner of Mad- ison av and lii2d st. has been conveyed by the Chain Amusement Co. to Louis Myers- It is suuject to mortgages for $91,0uO.

Sells Strathmore Apartments

Strathmore Real Estate Corporation, David B. K. Chapman, president, sold to Newbold Mor- ris the southeast corner of Riverside dr and 14Uth St, a lli-sty elevator apartment house, known as the Strathmore, on a plot 101.4,xll7.U.

Builder Buys Bronx Corner

Henry Acker, pioneer builder of taxpayers in the Bronx, has, after an absence of 10 years, again re-entered the market and purchased from the Jupiter Realty Corporation the plot 50x120, on the northwest corner of Burnside and Uni- versity avs, upon which he will immediately erect a high-class taxpayer. This is one of the best locations in the West Bronx and one of the stores has already been rented from the plans by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. Her- man A. Acker was the broker.

Bank Buys a Bronx Corner

Shaw. Rockwell tt Sanford sold lor the Hatfen Realty Co. to the Corn Exchange Bank the 4-sty apartment house with stores at the northeast corner of Burnside and Jerome avs. The bank will establish a branch at this location as soon as alterations have been completed.

Sell Numerous Bronx Plots

Douglas & Gettell sold the plot, 50x100, at the southwest corner of Davidson av and lS3d st to George Hastings ; a lot on east side ot David- son av, 200 feet south of Pordham rd, to Harry Douglass, who owns two adjoining lots ; a plot, 7.JX2IG. on east side of the Concourse, extending to Valentine av, 2S9 feet south of I'JOth st. tor Louis Urstrung to a builder who plans three j-sty apartment houses ; also a 115-toot frontage on the east side of the Concourse, north of Bed- ford Park Boulevard, to Anne Wasser, who plans a $25,000 home ; a lot on east side of Morris av, near 197th st and facing Jerome av, to Henry C. Glaser ; and an adjoining lot to S. Aginsky for immediate improvement with homes for their use.

Big New Apartment House Sold

Harry H. Cohen sold for Peter Sinnott the southeast corner of 199th st and Valentine av, a G-sty 54-family apartment house, on a plot l.oOxlOO, to M. Blutman, an investor, for about .$250,000. The house has just been completed and the rental is about ,$46,000. Samuel Bitter- man, attorney, represented the buyer.

Brown Resells Maxwell Mansion

The stately stone and brick mansion of the late J. Rogers Maxwell at the southwest corner of Eighth av and Union st, Brooklyn, on a plot 134x171, which Mrs. Maxwell recently sold to Frederick Brown, operator, has been resold by him to Charles Laue. builder, who will raze the house and improve the plot with three 6-sty ele- vator apartment houses. J. T. Miller was the broker. When the property was purchased by Mr. Brown the sale was made on the condition that the house be demolished and the site re- improved.

Comer Plot In Borougli Park Sold

Realty Associates sold to the Casino Building Corporation the vacant plot, 100x.S4.1x irregular, at the southeast corner of Twelfth av and 55th st, in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, which the purchasers will improve with semi- detached 2-family houses with driveways and private garages.

Hotel Kaaterskill Sold

The Lewis H. May Co. sold for the Girard Trust Co., George J. Harding, and William Pitt Mason, trustees, the Hotel Kaaterskill property at Catskill, N. Y., to Harry Tannenbaum, of Oak Court. Lakewood. N. J., and formerly of the Hollywood Lodge. Highmount, N. Y.

This property covers an area of 600 acres, comprises a township and contains main build- ing, anne.x and outbuildings, with several lakes. The main building contains 1.000 bedrooms, ex- clusive of other rooms, also bowling alleys, bil- liard rooms, and numerous recreation "rooms. The outbuildings consist of garage, stables, car- riage houses, dormitories, po^er houses, etc. Property also includes a 9-holp golf course, which will be extended to the regular 18-hole course.

Property was originally constructed by day labor in the year 1.SS2 by George Harding,* lead- ing patent attorney of his time, and cost more than .$1,000,000 to complete. It was necessary to cut roads through and level mountain tops

January 7, 192?

in its erection. Its altitude is 2.800 feet, which is believed to be the highest point of habitation in New York State.

It is historical as the summer capitol of General U. S. Grant in the year 1S82, at which time Mr. Harding deeded to the General what 1- Known as Boulder Rock, one of the highest points in the Catskill Mountains, it again be- came the summer capitol ot President Arthur in 1884.

Tile Kaaterskill is the largest mountain hotel in tile United States, is the highest point in the Catskills, and is one of the famous sights of the tourists up the Hudson, comparative to the castles built along the famous rivers of Europe,

Mr. Tannenbaum has contracted for extensive changes and alterations, including private baths throughout, running water and electricity, also general remodelling. The larger lake will be dredged and steam coils will be installed for tempering the water. Upon the lake shore will be constructed a large Casino and bathing pavil- ion.

The Kaaterskill is 100 miles from New York on the State road, recently completed, and is now one of the famous rendezvous for auto- iii'ibilists. The total cost of the improvements will exceed $200,000.

Brooklyn Apartments Traded

The Buick Realty Co. sold to Joseph F. Mus- selman its property, known as the Grosvenor and the Berkeley, on Montague st, two 8-sty elevator apartment houses, opposite the Bossert Hotel. The plot is 75x100. The property was valued at $350,000. The sellers took in part payment one 4-sty brick double apartment house and two 4-sty single apartment houses at 235 to 241 Quincy st, on a plot 100x100 ; also a plot on the east side of Howard av, between Sutter and Pitkin avs, 2(¥ix78. The purchaser is the 726 Ocean Avenue Co.. Inc., ot which Mr. Musselmah is president. George L. Long, Maurice G. Straus and I. J. Riker were the brokers.

William Rockefeller in Two Deals

William Rockefeller is the purchaser of the Anna Enders property of 4S'^ acres at Scarbor- ough, N. Y., and ot the Abel Weeks property of 22 acres at North Tarrytown, Westchester County, N. Y., sold recently through William A. White & Sons.

Mortgage Loans

Waddel & Martin placed the following loans : .$325,000 on 148 to 156 West 23d st ; .$100,000 on 142 West .34th st ; $60,000 on 260 West .34th st ; .$•10,000 on southeast corner of Mount Hope pi and Morris av ; $45,000 on southwest corner of Boirton rd and Jefferson pi ; $45,000 on 290 West End av ; $00,000 on 1010 Rogers pi : $29,000 on northeast corner ot Amsterdam av and 14Sth st ■ .$.30,000 on 457 East 174th st : $12,500 on south- west corner of Grand Boulevard and Concourse and 197th st : $14,000 on 811 East 169th st ; $49,000 on 265 East 181st st : $14,000 on 548 Grand st ; $37,000 on 2110 Vyse av : $60,000 on southwest corner of Madison av and 97th st : $37,000 on southeast corner ot Willis av and 1.34th st : $18,000 on 142 West 24th st ; $39,000 on 1038 Southern boulevard : $40,000 on 96'> Southern boulevard : $70,000 on .3044 Kings- bridge aT, and $30,000 on 1429 Bryant ay

Galveston Building Co. obtained a first mort- gage loan of $86,000 on the new 5-sty and base- ment apartment house at the southeast corner ot Walton av and 184th st.

The Kamtun Realty Co. obtained from the Lawyers' Mortgage Co. a loan ot $108,000 on the property,- 80x100, at the southwest corner of Pinehurst av and 179th st, improved recently with a 5-sty apartment house.

Sharp & Co. placed a first mortgage loan of $1.80.000 for the Agra Holding Co. on the 9-sty apartment house, on a plot 62.6x100. at 144 East 3Gth St.

A mortgage loan of $93,000 has been placed on the two 6-sty apartment houses with stores at the northwest corner of First av and 57th st.

Title Guarantee & Trust Co. loaned, on first mortgage. $5.50.000 to the 95th Street and Broad- way Corporation, on the 2-sty fireproof building known as the Healy Theatre and stores, at the southwest corner of Madison av and 68th st a plot 125x164. for a term of 3 years, at 6 per cent, per annum.

A formal contract was filed with County Clerk James A. Donegan Tuesday, for the advance- ment bv the Metrnnolitan Life Insurance Co of the $S50,ono building loan, which is to make possible the erection of a 14-stv building ex- clusively for lawyers, on the north side of West 43d St. 342.4 feet east of Sixth av and extending through to 44th st. The structure is to be built bv the Bar Association of the City of New York and will adjoin the latter's present home at 42 West 44th st.

Oninlan & Leland placed a first mortgaee loan of $93,000 on the two 6-sty apartment houses at the northwest corner of First av and 57th st.

January 7, 1922

RECORD AND GUIDE

IS

Quintan & Leland placed for the Claire Build- ing Corporation, Adolph Blumenthal, president, a building and permanent loan of $270,000 for the erection of two ."j-sty apartment houses on the west side of Valentine av, 200 feet north of Fordhani rd, Bronx, size 120x100 each.

Edwards, Dowdney & Richart secured a build- ing and permanent loan of .$40,000 on the prem- ises on the west side of Grand av, ISO feet north of 180th st, Bronx. They also placed loans of $28,000 on premises on the south side of ITGth St, 185 feet west of Grand av ; $4."i,000 on premises 464 Eighth av : $54,000 on premises at the northeast corner of Crotona av and 179th st-

Title Guarantee & Trust Co. loaned to the Barclay Holding Corporation $000,000, for a term of 5 years, at the rate of 0 per cent, per annum, on the parcel 1317 Broadway, part of the leasehold of the R. H. Macy Co. building, as well as on 115 to 121 West ^Mth st, another i part of the Macy leasehold. The holding com- pany represents Frederick Brown, operator.

South of 59th Street

GOUVERNEUR ST. — Anzonetta B. Knappa sold to Moe Torgow the 6-sty brick tenement house with stores at 46 Gouverneur st, on a lot 25. 4x101. 6x irregular.

7TH ST. — The Lawyers' Mortgage Co. sold to Baruch Hornik two 5-sty brick tenement houses with stores at 215 and 2151/™ East 7th st, each on a lot 16.8x97.6.

WHITE ST. — Minnie Long purchased from the Wilton Holding Corporation !55 and .57 White st, southwest corner of Franklin pi, a 5-sty stone and brick business building, on plot 59, 7x lOOx irregular.

12TH ST. — The Co-operative League of America, now at 2 West 13th st, is to have a new home for its exclusive use at 167 West 12th st, between Sixth and Seventh avs. The prop- erty has been purchased through William A- White & Son from the estate of Ellen E. Lord. The building is a .j-sty and basement brick dwelling, on a lot 21x103.3, which will be altered for the use of the league. The league is a member of the National Association for Co- operative Unity and Education and a member of the International Co-operative -Mliance. It collects information and promotes knowledge of history, objects and practical methods of the Consumer Co-operative Movement. J. P. War- basse is president.

17TH ST. — H. M. Weill Co., in conjunction •with the John P, Peel Co., sold for a client 58 West 17th st, a 5-sty brick mercantile building, on a lot 22x92.

lOTH ST.— Bridget O'Neill sold to Edward Fast two 3-stv brick tenement houses and a 1-stv brick stable at 243 and 245 West inth st. 30x62x irregular x3O.10x75.

20TH ST.— Maud Van B. Holmes sold to Tillie Teitlebaum 1.53 West 20th st, a 2-sty brick loft building, on a lot 22x02.

24TH ST.— H. V. Mead & Co. sold for a client to Millie Rosenberg 2.30 West 24th st, a 5-sty and basement stone apartment house, on a plot 26.8x98.9.

4.5TH ST. — Irving Bachrach sold 229 East 45th st, a 5-sty and basement brick tenement house with store, on a lot 25x100.5.

.53D ST. — Through the Herman Arms Co. and George W. Mercer & Son, Millie Rosenberg pur- chased 432 West 53d st, a 5-sty brick tenement house, on a lot 25x100.5.

EIGHTH AV.— H. M. Weill &. Co. sold for the Silver Lunch Co., Inc., 402 Eighth av. adjoining the northeast corner of 33d st, a 4-sty brick building, the store of which is occupied by the seller. The new owner has leased the store to the former owner, for a term of years. The building covers a lot 24.81/4x100. It was held at $125,000,

MARKET SLIP.— William A. White & Sons sold for the Ella L. Murphy estate, Charles H. Paddock, executor, to an investor 89 Market Slip, a 3-sty brick tenement house with store, on a lot 20x51. The propertv has been owned by the selling estate since 1835.

WAVERLY PL. — Williams Dexter Co. resoM to the Mattakeunk Cabin C''lony, Inc., two 3-stv and basement brick dwellings, 176 and 178 Waverly pi, on a plot 33.6x85.6.

FIRST AV.— Frederick Flaccus sold to Mollie and Abraham Herzfeld the two 5-sty brick ten- ement houses with stores, at 102 and 104 First av. each on a lot 21. 3x70. adjoining the north- cast corner of East 6th st.

SECOND AV.— Simon Karp sold to Jacob Klein and Louis Glickman the 4-sty brick tene- ment house with store, at 832 Second av, on a lot 18x70.

North of 59th Street

ir.TH ST. — Frank L. Crocker resold to Henrv A. Alexander the 4-stv and basement stone dw»lling 130 East 65th st, on a lot 20x 100. .5. adjoining the southwest corner of Lex- ington av. Mr. Crocker bought the house re- cently from William H. Hamilton.

GOTH ST.— The newly formed Betax Holding Corporation, of which Betty C. Axelrod is pres- ident, purchased from the Underwood estate the 5-sty brick American basement dwelling, on a lot 25x11)0.5. at 20 West 60th st, through Slaw- son t^I' Hobbs, Inc.

74TH ST.— Schindler & Liebler sold for Car- rie Altman to Julia Vayda 2+2 Bast 74th st, a 4-sty and basement brick dwelling, on a lot 10.9x102.2.

70TH ST. — Irving Bachrach sold to Domenico Arcuri 355 East 76th st, a 4-sty brick tene- ment house with store, on a lot 25x102-2.

7STH ST.— Cusack Co. sold for a client 150 West 7Sth st, a 4-sty and basement stone dwell- ing, on a lot 20x102.2. The furnishings were in- cluded in the sale.

7STH ST.— William P. Dixon sold to George A, Phelps 127 East 78th st, a 4-sty stone dwell- ing, on a lot 17-4x102.2.

79TH ST.— The Brown, Wheelock Co., Inc.. sold for Henry H. Abbott 115 East 79th st, a 3-sty and basement stone dwelling, on a lot 20x102.2. It was held at $85,000.

80TH ST. — Leon S. Altmayer resold for How- ard A. Raymond 155 East 80th st, a 3-stv and basement stone dwelling, on a lot 16.8x100, to A. M. Bing. Through this resale Mr. Altmayer has completed for Mr. Bing the assembling of a plot of land having a frontage of 100 feet on Lexington av and a frontage of 79.4 feet on East 80th St. On this plot Mr. Bing will im- mediately erect an 11-sty apartment house.

83D ST. — Thomas Stone sold to Elizabeth B. Hendrick 128 West 83d st, a 5-sty brick apart- ment house, on a plot 32,4x102.2.

8:!D ST. — Maurice B. Blumenthal sold to Myra E. Williams the 3-sty and basement brick dwell- ing 224 East 83d st, on a lot 16.11x102.2.

S4TH ST — Anna A. Schaffer sold to Louis Kahn 517 East S4th st, a 3-sty stone dwelling, on a lot 19.5x102.2.

80TH ST.— Morris H. Rothschild bought from Henry D. Brewster, Joseph W- Sanford and William G. Green, respectively, 230 to 240 East 86th st, six old 4-sty brownstone apartment houses, each on a plot 26.8x102,2, adjoining the southwest corner of Second av. On the com- bined site the new owner will erect a 5-sty modern apartment house containing suites of 3 and 4 rooms each, all of which will face on a large Italian garden in the central court, thus giving each stiite the advantages of light and air. There will be eleven stores on the street grade. The plans, for this operation are being drawn by Rosario (".'andela. The project will be one of the largest undertaken recently in the Yorkville section. Leon S. Altmayer was the broker.

89TH ST. — John J. Meenan, Inc., sold tor Dr. Thomas F. Reilly 74 West 89th st, a 5-sty

brick walk-up apartment house, known as the Daylesford, on a plot SOxlOO.SMi, adjoining the southeast corner of Columbus av.

95TH ST.— Pierre & Golden Co. sold for Car- rie Isarr to C. Dreyfuss 4 West 95th st, ad- joining the south corner of Central Park West, a 3-sty and basement stone dwelling, on a lot l6.8xlOO.Sy2.

llilST ST.— G. Tuoti & Co. sold for Bochicobie Bros. 327 East lolst st, a 6-sty and basement brick tenement house with store, on a plot 2S.6x 100.11.

109TH ST.— Sherman & Kirschner sold for the estate of Charlotte Brinckerhoff to a builder, for improvement 19-21 East lOoth st, a vacant plot, .50x100.11.

122D ST.— George W. Brettell & Son sold for Mrs. John Velders to Henry Mott Brenuan a 3-sty dwelling, 22x100, at 158 East 122d st. This is the first sale of the property in more than 30 years. The same brokers resold the prop- erty to the present tenants.

133D ST.— Porter & Co. sold for the estate of James Milliken to the Reyvan Realty Co. 1.50 West 13.'Jd st, a 3-sty and basement brick dwell- ing, on a lot 12.6x99.11.

138TH ST.— Charles B. Van Valen, Inc., re- sold for Joseph Sheak 029 West 138th st, a 5-sty and basement brick apartment house, known as the Annett, on a plot 50x99.11.

177TH ST. — Isaac Lowenfeld and William Prager purchased from the estate of Edward S. Schaeffler the two 5-sty and basement brick apartment houses 605-009 West 177th st, ad- joining the northwest corner of St. Nicholas av, each on a plot 50x90, housing 40 families. The property was held at $150,000. The broker was Joseph Keenan of Charles Berlin's office.

AMSTERDAM AV.— The 501 West 133d Street Corporation (S. Gerber, B. R. Stein and H. Vogel) has been formed to take over the 6-sty brick apartment house with stores, 40x100, at the northwest corner of Amsterdam av and 133d St. It is represented by Morrison & Schiff, at- torneys.

AMSTPRDAM AV,— Ryan & Co, sold for Emily Beerman to Peter Fay, restaurateur, 2132 Amsterdam av, a 0-sty apartment house with 2 stores, on a plot 30x101. 3x irregular.

ARCHITECT

A. J. SIMBERG

1133 BROADWAY, NEW YORK Phone: Watkins 8832

P

MONEY TO LOAN

JBuilelJnvf Alter'SL ±ioixs

L & £t S G II oJtIS

Slerlinsf Mortcfacfe Compaivy Inc.

135 Biroa,<i-w<^a,"y. Ne-wYoi-Kj

TELEPHONE PtECTOe^ /Sza-3-^'^7

mmn^

Classified Advertisements

WanU and Offers, For Sale and F*r Rent — Rate 2Sc. per line; count lut word* to the Uaa.

Employera anxious to secure help (clerical or professional), or employees wishing to obtain a position or better a present one will find the Record and Guide the quickest and most direct method of bringing their wants to the atten- tion of the largest number of interested read ers, in the real estate or building professions.

No medium reaching real estate interests af- fords owners, brokers, and executors wishing to dispose of desirable property (in or out 01 the city), so farorable an opportunitr to bring the merits of their propositions to the atten- tion of possible buyers as does the For Sale and For Rent section of the Record and Guide.

SITUATION OPEN BROKER experienced in commercial properties in Grand Central district. In business de- partment prominent real estate office. Bos 855, Record & Guide.

SITU.^TrONS WANTED

OPEN FO;: ENGAGEMENT BTTILDING SUPERINTENDENT 18 years' experienn' on new and alteration work (10 years in New York): fully quali- fied in all branches of construction; best cre- dentials. Box 850, Record & Guide.

ENGINEER-ARCHITECT, good appearance, long experience, wishes position as superin- tendent and representative with contracting firm ; salary expected reasonable. George Mul- ler, 1526 North 5th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

WANTS AND OFFERS WANTED: .$7,000 first mortgage loan; quick; will pay .fSOO bonus. lacolina, 178 H. 118th St. Telephone, Harlem 8909.

T)¥S\s. ROOM to let to real estate man in at- torney's office. Room 214, 147 Fourth Ave- nue. Stuyvesant 9433.

16

RECORD AND GUIDE

January 7, 1922

MEMBERS REAL ESTATE BOARD OF NEW YORK

ADAMS & CO., INC.

Real Eitata

170 STH AVE. lei. Gramercy 3854

SPECIALIST IN BUSINESS PKOPERTV

ALEXANDER B ALTER

REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE

Management of Property a Specialty 152 VV. 42nd St.. Knickerbocker BldE. Bryant 2042-3

BAUER, MILBANK & MOLLOY, INC.

REAL ESTATE

51 East 42nd Street Murray Hill 1936

BII.TMORE REALTY CORPORATION

REAL ESTATE — COMMERaAL LEASING V ,' MANAGEMENT

TIUfES BtlTLniNG PHONE: BRYANT 6868-6869

ALFRED P. COBURN

Real Estate — Appraisals — Insurance Management of Estate a Specialty

159 W. 72nd ST. Phones: Columbus 4356-2548

CUSACK COMPANY

Real EsUte and Insurance Brokar*

Specialists in West Side Propertiei 176 WEST 72nd STREET Telephones: Columbus 6947 8179

CHAS. A. DUBOIS

REAL ESTATE

ROYAL SCOTT GULDEN

REAL ESTATE, FIFTH AVE. SECTION 6«0 FIFTH AVENUE Phone: Circle 8315

CHARLES G. KELLER

Real Estate and Insurance

109 WEST 23RD STREET Watkins 5336

ALBERT E. KELLY

Successor to Fredk. A. Booth REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE

50 Union Square Tel. Stuyyesant 1125

J. P. & L. A. KISSLING

Sales — Management — Appraisals

896 STH AVE., NEAR 54TH ST. Established 1870 Circle 0591 to 5

H. C. KOPP & COMPANY

Specialists in Retail Store LocatitHis

MANAGEMENT and BBOKSBAOB 402 Madison Avenue Vanderbilt 4900

ROBERT LEVERS

Real Estate — Insurance

THE KNICKERBOCKER. 152 W. 42(1 StTMt. Phone: Bryant 7945. Uptown Offlco: I7« Lenoi A»e. Phone: Harlem 2675.

HIRAM RINALDO

Specializing in the Sale and Leasinj: mt

East Side Property 230 GRAND ST. Bowery Bank Bldg.

l-lfith St.

3551 BROADWAY

Eitsblished IJM

DUNLAP & LLOYD

INCORPORATTD Real Estate— Insura»ee

GROVE STREET Phoii. Eprtni 551 «

GEORGE S. RUNK

REAL ESTATE BROKER Mortgage Loans — Management

1252 LEXINGTON AVENUE

SCHINDLER & LIEBLER

Real Estate and Insurance

Rhlnelander 6122 1393 THIRD AVE., at 79th St

SEAMAN & PENDERGAST

Member Ri-al Estate Board of New York

RENTALS— SALES— MANAGEMENT

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES

542 FIKTU AVENUE Vanderbilt 1309

Nfanhattan Office Bronx Office

1 WEST 125th STREET 1972 JEROME AVENUE

Tel. Harlem 8400

Tel. Connection

SHAW, ROCKWELL & SANFORD

REAL ESTATE— INSURANCE

Successors to

SHAW & CO.

MALCOLM E. SMITH, INC.

Real Estate Agents and Brokers

185 MADISON AVE. Vanderbilt 7393

COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

MANAGEMENT

Rentals — Sales — Appraisals Insurance

MO BROADWAY NEW YORK

Stuyvesant 0627

JACOB J. TABOLT

REAL ESTATE 558 EIGHTH AVE. Phone:

Above 37th St. Fits Bo» 1366

WHITNEY-FOSTER CORP.

Real Estate Administrator

150 WEST 72nd ST. Columbus 6409

EAST END AV.— James Kyle & Sons resold for Frederick Brown the southwest corner of East End av and SSth st, a 5-sty stone apart- ment house with stores, on lot ^o.S'/axUS. This is the second of the corners that the same firm has resold for Mr. Brown recently.

MADISON AV.— Herzig-Ernst Realty Co. sold to Herman Schwartz 1724-1728 Madison av. three 5-sty brick tenement houses with stores, on a plot 50.6x100.

SHERMAN AV. — Sherman Arms, a 5-sty apartment house at 248 Sherman av, west of Isham St, has been sold by the Ardsmore Es- tates, Inc., Barnet Klar president, to the newly- formed Joe-Hen Realty Corporation. It occu- pies a plot 75x1.50. and was sold subject to mortgages for $86,000.

SHERMAN AV. — David Stewart sold for Miss Rose E. Cardani the vacant plot, 50x110. on the south side of Sherman av, 50 feet east of Acad- emy St. for Immediate improvement.

SECOND AV. — Folsom Bros., Inc.. sold for Mrs. Wilhelmina F. Muller and Mrs. Wilhel-

Brooklyn Brokers

DON'T "SHOP" FOR REAL ESTATE

It doesn't pay. When you want to buy. take ad- Tantsgo of our four ofncM, 50 years' eirerlenc©, and thorouch ort-anlzatlon and get WHAT YOU WANT. AT THE RIGHT PRICE. PONTENIENTLT. "Established Over Half a Century"

BULKLEY & HORTON CO.

Member of Beal Estate Board of New York Member of Brooklyn Real Estat« Board. G. S. HORTON 585 Nostrand At©., near Dean St.

Prea. 414 Mynle Ave., near Clinton Ave.

A. J. HORTON 7520 Third Afe., near 75th 3t.

Secy. 1214 Flatbush A?e, . near Dltmaa Ave.

JAMES B. FISHER

Member of Brooklyn Real Estate Board

REAL ESTATE

174 MONTAGUE ST\ Main 7267

QUELL & QUELL

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS

MANAGEMENT

918 Patchen Avenue Brosltly*, N. V.

Telephone: Decatur 4981

mina L. Miunerly, the two 4-sty brick tenement houses with stores, on a plot 52x105, at 1511- 1513 Second av, to the 79th Street Amusement Corporation.

THIRD AV.— George W. Brettell & Son sold for Anfleur Frankenthaler to Julius Reich the 5-sty brick double tenement house with stores, on a lot 25x100. at 2177 Third av. This is the first sale of the property in 30 years.

THIRD AV. — The Hermitage Company sold to Antoinette D. Vermeulen the 4-sty brick tene- ment house with store at 1870 Third av, ad- joining the northwest corner of 103d st, on a lot 25x65.

SEVENTH AV. — Albert F. Brugman sold to Louis Klein and Harry Bernstein the north- west corner of Seventh av and 14Sth st. a 5-sty brick flat with stores, on a plot 59.11x100.

EIGHTH AV.— Bermax Realty Co. sold to Ephraim and Louis Simon the o-sty brick flat with store at 2379 Eighth av, on a lot 25x84, adjoining the southwest corner of 128th st.

Bronx

HORNADAY PL.^Morris Eosenfeld sold to Nathan D. Rosen 851 Hornaday pi, a 5-sty and basement brick apartment house, on a plot 50x 100, adjoining the northwest corner of Mohegan av.

139TH ST.— Mary C. Hanrahan sold the 2- sty and basement brick dwelling 417 East 130th st, on a lot 16.8x100, to Simon Tobasnik.

176TH ST. — John T. Kelly sold to Beatrice Edelman the 2y2-sty frame detached dwelling, on a plot 40x100.10. at the northeast corner of 176th st and Prospect av.

CONCOURSE. — Israel Feinberg sold to the Marwald Realty Co. (Samuel Markel. Joseph Wald and Isidore H. Levey) the property. fi4.10x 44x irregular, at the southeast corner of Grand Boulevard and Concourse and Weeks av.

CONCOURSE. — Thomas K. Cruse sold to Mil- dred H. Ballow the vacant plot, .50x72.10. on the east side of Grand Boulevard and Concourse. 315.6 feet north of lOSth st.

BELMONT AV. — Harry Cahn sold to Serafino Porcelli the 5-sty and basement brick apart- ment house, on a plot 50x80.5, arranged for 20 families, at 2159 Belmont av. Nicola Paraggio was the broker.

BOSCOBEL AV. — Thomas A. Wilson sold tor Theresa P. Tautier to Hyman Berman the va- cant plot, 116x80x Irregular, at the southwest corner of Boscobel and Shakespeare avs. The new owner will either resell the site or Im- prove it with a taxpayer.

BROOK AV.— Ararat Realty Corporation sold to Katie Merk 098-1000 Brook av, two 5-sty and basement brick apartment houses, each on a plot 26.5x114.

Bronx Brokers

A. G. BECHMANN

Read Estate and Insurance

Tel. Intervale 556 1065 SO. BOULEVARD

One block from Simpson Street Subway Station

T. H. KELLEY

Speciedist in Fordham Heights Property

158 East 188th St., at Grand Concourse I'hone: Fordham 2509

OTTO LACKMAN

Management of Properties my SpecisJty

2514 Grand Concourse, near Fordkam Kead FboM: rsrdhan IfX

L. G. LOSERE

REAL ESTATE

Entire Charge Taken of Pro|)erty «71 Brook Ave., at 161»t St. aitsbiisiMil 1»«8

FRED. OPPENHEIMER

Real Estate — Mortgage Loans

640 Bergen At., corner 14!>tb St-, one block east tt 149th St. "L" and Sub Statton*.

Phone: MSLR08B 69 07

JOHN F. PENDERGAST, Jr.

Real Estate — Estatas Managed 340 WILLIS AVENUE

Phone Melrose T22t

ALBERT D. PHELPS

BRONX REAL ESTATE

554 Melrose Ave., near 149th St. and 3rd Ave. PHONE MELROSE 4371

HENRY SCHWiEBERT

Real Estate — Insurance

261 EAST FORDHAM ROAD

Near TalAntlne Avenue Fordbaa 9141

January 7, 1922

BRYANT AV.— Louis Chustek sold to Hilda Lundeluma the 3-sty aud basement brick, dwell- ing 1448 Bryant av, on a lot 20xlU0.

HUNT AV.— William Peters & Co. sold for Maria Domnisch to Louis M. Marschhauser the 2^-sty and basement frame 2-family house 1711 Hunt av. on a lot 25x^0.

JEROME AV. — Abbey Garage. Inc., sold to Meyer S. Albert the vacant plot. 220.11xl02.7x irregular, at the northwest corner of Jerome av and ITTth st.

MORRIS PARK AV.— William Peters & Co. sold for Johanna Habeck to Johanna Kuver 727 Morris Park av. a 3-sty frame store and loft building, on a lot 25x!)3, adjoining the north- east corner of Hunt av.

OGDEN AV.— Nehring Bros, sold for a client to Joseph J- Lese 1435 Ogden av, near the junction of University av, a 5-sty and base- ment brick apartment house, on a plot 75x100.

SHERMAN AV.— Schwab & Co. resold for Mrs. Louise Bauer 1167 Sherman av, a 5-sty and basement brick apartment house, on a plot 45x 100.

SOUTHERN BOULEVARD.- Alexander Selkin and David Mintz sold to an investor 1222 and 12l.*4 Southern boulevard, two 4-sty apartment houses with stores, on a plot 00x105, renting for .^7.600, and held at $60,000.

STEBBINS AV.— Harry Cohen sold through Richard Dickson to Mrs. E. Callahan 965 Steb- bins av, a 2-sty and basement frame 2-family house, on a lot 20.8x118.

UNIVERSITY AV.— George Coburn Construc- tion Co- sold to Anna M. Neff 2471 University av, a 5-sty and basement brick apartment house, on a plot 50x100.

UNIVERSITY AV.— Herman A. Acker sold for the Occidental Holding Corporation, Nathan Wilson, president, the new taxpayer, on plot 100 xl50, on the west side of University av, between Burnside av and 179th st. The S stores in the building have been rented from the plans at a yearly rental of about $14,000. The property was valued at $125,000.

UNIVERSITY AV.— Ennis & Sinnott pur- chased from the Nagion Holding Co. the plot 101.0x114, on the west side of University av, 131 feet south of 179th st. Morris I. Strunsky, Harry J. Rogers and A. D. Phelps were the brokers. The plot adjoins the taxpayer sold recently by Nathan Wilson.

VALENTINE AV.— Regina Karlstadt sold to George Friedrick 2024 Valentine av, a 2-sty and basement frame dwelling, on a lot 25x90.8.

VYSE AV.— George Steinman. Inc., sold for Charles Schnabel 2064 Vyse av, a o-sty and basement brick 20-family apartment house, on

RECORD AND GUIDE

a plot 42x103.3, renting for $11,000, and held at $60,000.

WASHINGTON AV.— Tiffany Realty Co. sold through Julius Trattner 1647 Washington av, a 5-3ty and basement brick apartment house, on a plot 40x140.

WEBSTER AV. — Richard Dickson sold tor George Schwind, 13.VJ Webster av, a 4-sty and basement brick double apartment house, on a lot 2.5x90.

THIRD AV — Julius Trattner sold for Elkan Kahn to Adolf Reich 3780 Third av, a 5-3ty brick flat with store, on a lot 25x100.

Brooklyn

CHURCH AV.— The newly organized Benalax Building Co., represented by Alfred W. Norck, attorney, bought from the Matthew Smith es- tate the plot. 102.6x118.6, at the southeast cor- ner of Church av and East 32d st. which it will improve with five 2-sty buildings with stores, plans for which have been drawn by Cohen Brothers, architects. The property was held at $25,000. Dr. Bencil Hoffman Is president of the new company, which includes A. Sokolow and I. Nathanson.

REMSEN ST. — Webb estate sold to Robert O. Deyer 28 Remsen st, a 3Mi-sty brick dwelling.

EAST 14TH ST.— A. Mishkin sold tor Silver- man & Fuchs to H. Licht, for occupancy. 96;5 East 14th st, a 2-family house.

EAST 38TH ST.— Bulkley & Horton Co. sold for the Harwin Construction Co. to a buyer, for occupancy, !)04 East 35th st, a new detached dwelling, on a lot 26x100.

EAST 38TH ST.— Knox Realty Co. sold tor Michael Noonan 786 East 38th st, a stucco dwelling in course of construction.

PLATBUSH AV— The Realty Associates, Inc., sold the five 6-sty apartment houses with stores at 307 to 321 Flatbush av, extending through to 126 to 132 Prospect pi, fronting 161 feet on each thoroughfare, to a client of E. A. Goldstein.

ROGERS AV. — Alfred Norek bought the va- cant plot, 99.6x122, at the southwest corner of Rogers av and Winthrop st. He will improve it with a 4-sty apartment house to contain 44 apartments and 8 stores.

AV X. — Meister Builders, Inc., sold the dwell- ing at the northwest corner of Av X and East 12th st, which they recently completed, to Lorenzo D'Ambrosio, for occupancy.

THIRD AV.— Bulkley & Horton Co. sold for Isador Blum 7.522 Third av, Bay Ridge, a 2-sty brick flat with store, on a lot 18x80.

SIXTH AV. — Realty Associates sold to A. Van Brunt 6740 Sixth av, Bay Ridge, a new 2i4-sty brick and stucco semi-detached dwelling with garage.

17

Queens

EDGEMERE.— Lewis H. May Co. sold for the Edgemere Crest Co., M. Morgenthau, president, to Schnurmacher & Levy the plot of 14 lots at Lincoln av, Cheever av and Camp pi, Edge- mere.

PAR ROCKAWAY.— Lewis H. May Co. sold for the Banister Realty Co., M. Morgenthau, president, at Ostend, Far Rockaway, to Martha M. Nathons the plot on the south side of Sea- girt pi. corner of Beach 13th st (formerly Neil- son av) : to Samuel Levy. Jr.. a plot on the west side of Beach loth st (formerly Fulton st). The sale of these two plots completes the dis- position of all the property held by the Banister Realty Co. north of Seagirt av (formerly South st).

PAR ROCKAWAY.— Lewis H. May Co. sold for the Banister Realty Co., Maximilian Mor- genthau, president, the southeast corner of Sea- girt av (formerly South st) and Beach 13th st (formerly Neilson av), consisting of 7 lots, at Ostend. Far Rockaway, to Edward Cohen, tor immediate improvement with summer homes ; also 3 plots on the west side of Beach 14th st (formerly Rue de St. Felix) and the south side of Heyson rd (formerly Seagirt pi), comprising 11 lots, at Ostend, Far Rockaway, to the Dorcoe Realty Co., Jacob Dorf, president, who will im- mediately improve with 4 dwellings, for all year occupancy.

FLUSHING. — Halleran Agency sold for Wll- mot Y. Hallock, of Brooklyn, to Harry Klein the vacant plot, .50x100, on the north side of State St. .50 feet east of 14th st. Flushing. The buyer will improve the plot with a 7-room Colonial dwelling for his own occupancy.

FLUSHING.- James Callin. builder, pur- chased through the Halleran Agency the vacant plot. 60x100, on the west side of 18th st, SO feet north of State st. Flushing. Mr. Callin will im- prove the plot with a Colonial dwelling to con- tain 11 rooms and 3 tiled bathrooms, built in fixtures, sun parlor and sleeping porch. The plot adjoins the residence of Robert Culhane. Corporation Counsel for Queens Borough. The seller was Charles H. Canner, of East Strouds- burg. Pa.

FLUSHING.— Halleran Agency sold tor John U. Ferris to Henry L. Des Anges. in charge of the marine division of the Long Island Railroad, the 7-room Colonial dwelling, on a plot 60x100, with garage, at 80 North 22d st. Flushing.

JAMAICA. — Among the recent sales ot lots in the Country Club district of Jamaica by the M. Morgenthau, Jr., Co. were the following : 4 lots to D. M. Lay. of this city ; 4 lots to William Petchler, of Brooklyn, and one lot to Miss Frederica De Wolfe, of this city.

MANHATTAN BROKERS

ORVILLE B. ACKERLY

Appraiser of

LONG ISLAND REAL PROPERTY

Phone: Long^acre 2280

243 West 34th Street, New York City

ERNEST N. ABLER

Upper East Side Property a Specialty

ISM FIRST AVE., at 79th St.

■atkbllslLad IMS Phone: BMnelHsdw H2S

Telephone; Pennsylvania 0396-0397

AMERICAN BUREAU OF REAL ESTATE

All About Eeal Estate Everything — Everywhere

MODERN "AiiliBlIfflic" SYSTEM

18 West 34th Street

Aster Court Building, New York

Co-operation of Reliable Brokers Invited

ARMSTRONG & ARMSTRONG

Real Estate Agents and Brokera

212 ST. NICHOLAS AVE.— Kmt Hehth Ave. und 121st Stre«t Phona: Momicgside 1376

EDMUND M. BRENNAN

INCORPORATED Baal Eatata— Inaoranee

11 KAST -Wfh ST. PI»i« 7694

JAMES A. DOWD

Real Estate — Insurance

Renting — Management

874 SIXTH AVENUE, above 49th Street

JACOB FINKELSTEIN & SON

Real Estate— Mortgages Specialists in the Bowery Section

42 BOWERY Phone: Franklin 1810

ROBERT G. GRUNERT

SuccesBor to the

O. A. CUSHMAN REALTY CORPORATION

Real Estate — Management

173 Ninth Ave., at 21st St. Phone: Chelsea 2841

HARRIS EXCHANGE

Real Estate — Mortgages

Renting and Leasing of Stores and Lofts

Times Building Broadway at 42d Street

Phono: Bryant S10-H24

HOLT & MERRALL, Inc.

Industrial Real Estate

342 MADISON AVE. Tel. Vanderhilt 4699

WM. P. JONES & SON

ESTABLIS lED 1835

Real Estate & Insurance

1358 BROADWAY

Compr afith St, Phone : Fits Roy aiftT

JOSEPH MILNER

Real Estate EAST 41st STREET, NEW YORK Murray Hill 2619

JOHN CONSTABLE MOORE

REAL ESTATE

15 EAST 40th ST. Vanderbilt 8189

LEONARD MORGAN CO.

Real Estate^Insurance — Estates Managed

Gotham Bank Building, Columbus Circle Suite 504-5 Phone: Columbus 1646

ARTHUR G. MUHLKER

Real Estate — Insurance

YorkTllle Section

1112 PARK AVE.. NEAR 90TH ST.

Phone: Lenox 2S35

ARTHUR L. SHAW

Washington Heights Specizdist

4032 BROADWAY, ABOVE 169TH STREET Wadsworth 4150-4151

SHERMAN & KIRSCHNER

Real Estate and Insurance

54 E. 109th STREET NEW YORK

Tel. Harlem 9028-5863

JAMES B. SPEYERS, INC. Real Estate

CANADIAN PACIFIC BUILDING 342 Madison Ave. Suite 814-SlB

WILLIAMS-DEXTER CO., INC.

Greenwich Vlllass RmI Estat* InstiraBce

72 GREENWrrH AVE. rh.I«,-a WW

18

RECORD AND GUIDE

January 7, 1922

REAL ESTATE NOTES.

JAMES E. LINTON has removed his office from 2324 Seventh av to 2123 Fifth av.

ALFRED OLENICH has removed his real es- tate and insurance office from 3 West 116th st to 121 West lltith St.

HOLLLN'GS C. RENTON has removed his real

estate and insurance office from 3 East 44th st to the Canadian Pacific building, 342 Madi- son av.

THE RECENTLY REPORTED lease to the Star Co. of the 7 -sty industrial building 55-.j7 Frankfort st also carries an option of purchase at :|;l3ll,uuii prior to June 30. i;i22. A rental of .flO.OUO is being paid annually. The Star Co. is the corporate name of William R. Hearst's pub- lications.

REAL ESTATE STATISTICS

MANHATTAN

CONVEYANCES

BRONX

BROOKLYN

1921-1922

Dec. 2S to Jan. 3

1920-1921

Dec. 29 to

Jan. 4

Total No

Assessed Value

No. with consideration

Consideration

Assessed Value

Total No

Assessed Value

No. with consideration

Consideration

Assessed Value

Total No. tor yr. . . Total Amt. for yr..

1S3

$11,225,800

20

$775,425

$955,500

Jan. 1 to

Jan. 3

251

$15,135,100

22

«669,763

$515,000

Jan. 1 lo

Jan. 4

37

$2,392,500

5

$317,.500

$313,500

1921

10,713 $65,325,692

90

$6,890,000

4

$303,500

$154,000

1921-1922	1920-1921
Dec. 28 to Jan. 3	Dec. 20 to Jan. 4
219	121
21 $161,685	15 $130,122
Jan. 1 to Jan. 3	Jan. 1 to Jan. 4
27	34
11 $32,050	7 $63,395

1921 Dec. 27 to

1920-1921

Dec. 28 to

Jan. 3

499

503

27 $323,350

61 $214,949

Jan. 1 to Dec. 31

Jan. 1 to

Jan. 3

78

$50,714

1920

1921

1920 1921

15,721 10,969 12,069 40,067

$108,771,094 $10,159,702 $9,321,536 $22,802,712 $28,811,06

1920 51,00

MORTGAGES

MANHATTAN

BRONX

BROOKLYN

1921-1922

Dec. 28 to

Jan. 3

1020-1921

Dec. 29 to

Jan. 4

1921-1922

Dec. 28 to

Jan. 3

1020-1921

Dec. 29 to

Jan. 4

1921 Dec. 27 lo Dec. 31

1920-1921 Dec. 28 to Jan. 3

lOLeli AU.

10 u,iiii^;3 & iuo. ^y

AiUOUUC

iNo. at OVo

AUIOUUL

Jsio. at UV2V0

Amouui

No. al 0%

Amount

No. at 4y2Vo

Amount

No. at 4%

Amount

Unusual Rates

Amount

Interest not given. . Amount

149

$8,018,128

22

$3,179,500

lis

$5,124,628

1

$60,000

3

$370,250

149

$9,624 460

IS

$6,523,000

109

$7,471,960

9

$635,000

5

$110,000

l.W

$2,448,988

7

$29,700

128

$1,079,613

2

$12,500

1

$5,000

59

$557,698

6

$95,900

38

$393,518

6

$66,905

4

$15,200

488

$3,210,019

86

$605,350

473

$3,130,369

13

$77,250

2

$2,400

377

$1,723,268

71

$372,147

320

$1,530,401

38

$133,040

4

$5,750

$2,000

1

$1,700,000

24

$861,250

Jan. 1 to

Jan. 3

3

$120,750

23

$1,286,750

Jan. 1 to

Jan. 4

1

$1,500

22

$1,350,375

Jan. 1 to

Jan. 3

11

$82,075 Jan. 1 to Jan. 4

Jan. 1 to Dec. 31

$4,777 11 $39,300 Jan. 1 to Jan. 3

Total No

Amount

To Banks & Ins. Co. Amount

24

$1,973,325

2

$64,000

58

$3 506,670

4

$438,000

13 $98,190

$8,500

16 $148,000

$6,500

64

$296,935

8

$39,300

Total No. tor yr. .. Total Amt. for yr. .

1921

8,377 $303,575,520

1920 10,724 $351,904,762

1921

1921 1920

9,222 8,417 35,315 $66,347,008 $53,952,556 $186,819,731

1920 42,157 $195,208,405

MORTGAGE EXTENSIONS

MANHATTAN

BRONX

1921-1922

Dec. 28 to

Jan. 3

1920-1921

Dec. 29 to

Jan. 4

1921-1922 Dec. 28 to

Jan.

1920-1921 Dec. 20 to Jan. 4

Total No

Amount

To Banks & Ins. Companies. Amount

29

$2,056,900

19

$1,918,850

Jan. 1 to

Jan. 3

53

$3,266,750

34

$2,839,750

Jan. 1 to

Jan. 4

19

$381,250

11

$171, .500

Jan. 1 to

Jan. 3

15

$365,000

10

$249,500

Jan. 1 to

. Jan. 4

3 $14,150

2 $10,600

1921

Total No. tor yr 2,197

Total Amt. for yr $164,590,843

Total No

Amount

To Banks & Ins. Companies. Amount

20 $606,500

15 $466,500

1920

2,285 $149,614,164

4 $90,500

4 $90,500

1921

744 $17,698,491

1 $7,000

1920 800 $17,345.82J

MANHATTAN

BRONX

BUILDING PERMITS

BROOKLYN

Member Brooklyn Real EiUte Bmt4

Money to Loan on First Mortgage

Joseph T. McMahon

REAL ESTATE and MORTGAGE LOANS

188 and 190 MONTAGUE STREIT

BROOKLYN

Main •S34

SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO

COLLECTING, RENTING AND MANAGEMENT OF ESTATES

MAX N. NATANSON

BUYS AND SELLS

IMPROVED

MANHATTAN

PROPERTY

170 BROADWAY

Suite 915-919

Cortlandt 7637-7S3S

MRS. GERRIT SMITH

Member Real Estate Board of I\'ew York

42 EAST 40th STREET

CITY DEPARTMENT

APARTMENTS AND HOUSES

SOUND SHORE PROPERTY A SPECIALTV

J. CLARENCE DAVIES

Member Real Estate Board, N. T.

BRONX REAL ESTATE

AUCTIONEER— BROKER APPRAISER— MORTGAGE LOANS

Main Office: 149th St. and Third Ave.

BRANCHES:

32 Nassau Street 51 East 42nd Street

Phone Connections

Philip A. Payton, Jr., Company

REAL ESTATE AGENTS AND BROKERS

New York's Pioneer Negro Real Estate Agents

127 West 141st Street

Between Lenox and Seventh Avenues Telephone: Audubon (MS

QUEENS

RICHMOND

1921-1922

Dec. 28 to Jan. 3

1920-1921

Dec. 29 to

Jan. 4

1921-1922

Dec. 28 to

Jan. 3

1920-1921

Dec. 29 to

Jan. 4

1921-1922

Dec. 28 to

Jan. 3

1920-1921

Dec. 29 to

Jan. 4

^ew Buildings. . .

Cost

Alterations

9

f891,063

$246,470

Jan. 1 to

Jan. 3

6 $526,500 $457,650 Jan. 1 to Jan. 4

78

$1,527,275

$84,750

Jan. 1 to

Jan. 3

4 $.30,200 $7,900 Jan. 1 to Jan. 4

1921-1922

Dec. 28 to

Jan. 3

1920-1921

Dec. 29 to

Jan. 4

1921-1922

Dec. 28 to

Jan. 3

131

$3,245,470

$95,900

Jan. 1 to

Jan. 3

34

$437,850 $133,175 Jan. 1 to Jan. 4

1920-1921

Dec 29 to

Jan. 4

New Buildings.

Cost

Alteraflona . . . .

3

$55,300 $72,950

1921 Total No. for yr. 841

Total Amt. for yr $128,477,974

$51,500 $77,400

1920

11 $155,400

1 $2,000

457 $1,721,521

$146,785 Jan. 1 to

Jan. 3

112 $733,128 $322,480 Jan. 1 to Jan. 4

78 $242,540

Jan. I to Jan. 3

5

$119,250

$18,100

58 $177,400 $9,706 Jan. 1 to Jan. 4

53 $77,370

$91,034,456

1921 1920 1921 3,408 1.012 9,414 $72,186,729 $18,562,200 $100,994,655

1920 1921

7,645 14,639 $58,593,453 $80,109,923

12

$19,000

$5,125

1920

6,715 $35,591,624

1921

2,811 $8,868,648

1920 1,915 $3,860,749

January 7, 1922

RECORD AND GUIDE

19

Manhattan Building Costs in 1921 Aggregate $142,448,868

Rudolph P. Miller, on Relinquishing Office of Superintendent of Buildings, Reviews Condition of Business, Only Once Before Exceeded in Amount

RUDOLPH P. MILLER, for the last two years Superinten- general reorganization in the city government under the pres-

dent of Buildings in Manhattan under Borough President ent Greater New York Charter, by which the present bureau

Henry H. Curran, upon turning over the office to his sue- of buildings with the superintendent as its head was given

cessor points out the great increase in the magnitude of build- jurisdiction in the borough of Manhattan alone,

ing operations that have taken place although there has been "Previous to 1902, a real comparison with the present condi-

an almost steady decrease, in recent years at least, in the tions is possible only for the period including the first six

number of building erected each year. years of the table (1868-1873) when the City of New York still

"With the close of the year 1921," said Supt. Miller, "the consisted solely of the island of Manhattan. In 1874, a portion

several bureaus of buildings of the city close the second decade of what is now the Bronx, was annexed to the City of New

of their existence as separate administrative bodies under the York, as the 23rd and 24th wards. From that time on, the

direction of the respective presidents of the five boroughs. figures in the table include the operations of Manhattan Island

It would seem interesting, therefore, to consider the present and such portions of the present borough of the Bronx as

activities of the bureau of Manhattan in comparison with were at these different periods a part of the City of New

those of the' past. York.

"The building operations for the year 1921, up to and in- "The second period of eight years, (1874 to 1881) brings us

eluding December 24th, may be briefly stated as follows: up to the time when a general revision of the building laws

Application Building Estimated '^f. f ^."^^ ^^ "^« Legislature. From that time on, the periods

Filed Contemplated Cost which have been selected are each ten years long and repre-

Ah:ra?ionf'"^::::;:::::;;:;;:;:::::3.^8 3,!^' ^'^'.S ^^^^^t successive decades of building operations fitting in with

■ ■ the time when the activities were transferred to the department

■^°'"' '■'"' "'2^" $142,448,868 ^f buildings in 1892 and when the reorganization creating the

"For the purpose of comparison with the activities of pre- separate borough bureaus was effected in 1902. vious years, I have prepared a table, divided into periods of "Only once before in the history of the bureau was the total ten years with the exception of the first and second periods cost of building operations for 1921 exceeded by that of any which are respectively six and eight years, of the building op- other year. That was in 1909, when the total operations for erations of the past so far as we have any official knowledge. the borough of Manhattan were $144,332,212. The nearest ap- This table is largely based on a statement in the annual report proach to the 1921 figures were thoie of the year before, 1920, of the bureau for the year 1910, showing the building opera- at $139,199,563. These statements apply even considering the tions for each year since 1868, prepared by Mr. William H. years preceding 1902 when the figures for the entire city Class, for 45 years a faithful employee and, at the time of (Manhattan and the Bronx) are included, his death at the close of the year 1909, chief clerk of the bu- "Taking new buildings apart from the total operations, to find reau. Unfortunately, the record for the years 1862 to 1867 is an excess over 1921, we must go back to the year 1909 again, missing and no longer available. The following table shows the most active year the borough of Manhattan or the former the periodic annual averages of building operations of the city ever experienced, when the estimated cost of new build- borough of Manhattan and the former city of New York: ings amounted to $131,246,483, and to 1905, the year just fol- NEW BUILDINGS lowing the opening of the first subway, when they totalled Applications Approx. Av. "^io"*' Total $124,746,552. Once during the period when the Bronx opera- Period Filed Cost per Bldg. Cost Cost tions were included, the new building operations exceeded 1868-1873 2,089 $34,157,589 $16,300 $3,308,301 $37,465,890 fl,r,=<. «f 1051 r,orr,oKr ;^ 1QQQ tU^ «„,. • u- u ..u c ,. u -u

1874-1881 1,784 2i;807,il5 Vaoo 3:438,566 25;245;680 those of 1921, namely, in 1899, the year m which the first build-

M821891 3,354 54,981,181 16,400 6,184,628 61.165,809 ing code as a city ordinance was enacted and to anticipate

1892-1901 3,157 79,401,1(>1 25,000 7,113,856 86,514,960 f. , ,/ ^. r, , r r^ .,j. ••" <'_"'• ^ P<i^c

1902-1911 1,179 94,988,348 80,000 12,710,719 107,699,067 vi^nicn many applications were hied for buildings which were

"l^'92i 438 74,027,572 140,000 18,555,923 92,583,496 never actually constructed. Another comparatively active year

"The history of building inspection in the borough of Man- was that of 1901, when the operations were increased to a

hattan dates back to 1862, completing with this year sixty great extent just preceding the enforcement of the present,

years of activity. When first inaugurated, building inspection but then new, tenement house law.

-was under the jurisdiction of a bureau of the fire department "Generally speaking, there had been a gradual advance in

and the enforcement of building requirements continued under the value of building operations as shown by the figures of

such direction until 1892 when by the enactment of Chapter the 1910 report. In the 70's there seems to have been a slump,

275, Laws of 1892, a department of buildings was created, to which is reflected in the average for the period, and not till

which was transferred the jurisdiction of the matters relating the recent war period, when there was a drop which left its

theretofore administered by the bureau of inspection of build- impress on the ten-year period, has there been any marked

ings of the fire department. At the same time all matters retrogression. While the cost of new buildings has increased

under the control of the board of health in regard to light, during the history of the building department, there has, on

ventilation, plumbing and drainage were delegated to the new the other hand, been a very decided decrease in the number

department. This arrangement prevailed till 1898 when the of buildings erected, at least in recent years. The slump in

consolidation of the five boroughs into the City of New York building operations already referred to as occurring in the

was eff^ected. With this change came a new department of 70's, showed itself also in the number of buildings erected at

buildings, headed by the board of buildings, consisting of that time. After that there was a gradual increase in the

three commissioners, one of whom had jurisdiction over the latter part of the '90's, since wlien there has been a steady

boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. In 1902, there was a (Continued on page 20)

20

RECORD AND GUIDE

January 7, 192?

N. Y. City Contracts Awarded in 1921 Total $394,754,400

Amount of Construction Work Undertaken by Builders 25 Per Cent. Greater Than 1920 and 41 Per Cent. Over

IN 1921 New York City carried through the largest con- struction program on record for many years, according to the F. W. Dodge Company. The total amount of con- tracts awarded during the year was $394,754,400; This figure is 25 per cent greater than the total for 1920, which was $315,- 048,650; it was alo 41 per cent greater than the total for 1919, which was $279,478,200. The actual volume of construction, distinguished from the dollar cost, was very considerably greater in 1921 than in either of the two previous years.

Residential construction, greatly stimulated by the Tax Ex- emption Act, has been largely responsible for this record vol- ume of building. This class of construction accounted for $262,184,400, or exactly two-thirds of the total.

In 1921, there were 56,356,700 square feet of residental floor

tlie Figure for 1919

space contracted for, compared with 15,142,000 square feet in 1920, and 38,179,500 square feet in 1919.

Second in importance to residential construction in 1921 was the construction of commercial buildings, which accounted for $70,062,200, or 18 per cent of the year's total. Although this was considerably les's than the 1920 volume pf construction of this class, it was greater than the corresponding amount for 1919.

The total amount of contracts awarded in December was $44,071,500, an increase of 17 per cent over the November fig- ure. This increase, unusual for the closing month of the year, taken with the fact that there is still a great quantity of con- struction planned which has not yet been started, is an indi- cation of a healthy volume of activity during the coming year.

Comparative	Table Showi 1919— New Floor Space in Sq. Feet 13,288,900 1,082,000 557,900 7,314,500 • 74,700 20,300 117,500 580,100 38,179,500 1,690,200 62,905,600	ing Number i Valuation $62,791,420 7,391,759 3,239,265 25,730,235 3,382,380 303,700 25,334,388 10,393,600 134,492,180 6,419,300	and Va lue	! of Contracts Awarded in	New YorL	: City.
Number of Classification Projects Business Buildings 1,325 Educational Builidings. 85 Hospitals, Institutions.. 47 Industrial Buildings . . 351 Military and Naval Buildings 34	Number of Projects 1,121 13 90 283 24 46 307 41 1,736 111 3,890	New Floor Space in Sq. Feet 15,778,800, 1,767,000 836.200 7,435,200 34,000 738,500 545,500 163,100 15,142,000 1,545,800 43,985,500	Valuation $104,219,500 14,293,400 7,199,200 26,224,500 1,657,700 7,475,400 59,793,450 2,256,500 81,650,200 10,278,800'	Number of Projects 1,150 90 48 208 8 14 91 76 4,89i 137 6,721	New Floor Space in Sq. Feet 11,979,000 2,475,000 1,304,900 2,051,900 11,600 130,600 257,700 659,700 56,356,700 1,734,000	Valuation $70,062,200 12,359,400 8,265,800 10,386,100 . 107,700
Public Buildings 22 Public Works and Pub- lic Utilities 237 Religious and Memo- rial Buildings SO Residential Buildings . .4,275 Social and Recreational Buildings 110	1,329,500 13,575,600 4,563,800 262,184,400 11,919,900
Total 6,536	$279,478,227	$315,048,650	76,961,200	$394,754,400

Federal Census Shows Industrial Growth of Queens

THE industrial importance of Queens Borough can be best gauged by the facts disclosed in the figures re- cently published by the United States Census, showing the amount of manufacturing in each State in the Union for the year 1919," Ray Palmer, Chairman of the Industrial Pro- motion Committee of the Queensboro Chamber of Commerce stated today. "These figures show that Queens Borough ex- ceeded nineteen different states in the amount of capital in- vested in manufacturing, fifteen states in the total value of products and eight states in the number of industrial estab-

lishments. Moreover, there were fourteen states which had a less number of industrial employees and sixteen states in which a less amount was paid for salaries and wages of industrial employees."

The states which Queens Borough surpassed in the amount of capital invested in manufacturing are Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Wyoming, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah and Ver- mont.

Manhattan Building Costs in 1921 Aggregate $142,448,868

(Continued from page 19) drop to 1906 from which time on the number of new building operations were about the same each year till the war broke out.

"On the other hand the average cost of new buildings has proceeded in the other direction. It kept fairly steady from the beginning to early in the '90's, when it began to rise. At the end of that period, the average cost of a new building was about $60,000. This condition continued along until about 1907 when quite suddenly the average cost of a new building nearly doubled, remaining in that condition for a period of about 10 years, when it rose again, due to high building costs.

"For 1921 the estimated cost of alterations constituted about WAfo of the total value of building operations. Comparing this with previous periods, there is indicated a gradual rise in this proportion; in other words, and generally speaking, as new building operations decreased in number, alterations in- creased. Looking back over the table of the 1910 report, it appears that there has been always a considerable reconstruc- tion going on in Manhattan. The earlier years of the table

show that the numbers of alterations are not much diflferent from the numbers of new building operations. Since the record of building operations has been separately kept for the borough of Manhattan, it appears that the number of altera- tions far exceeds that of new buildings; that is, Manhattan is being steadily reconstructed."

Figures of the United States Geological Survey show that the production of cement for the first eleven months of 1921 amounted to 91,734,000 barrels, and shipments to 91,354,000 bar- rels. This latter figure is about 1 per cent, under the record shipments for the first eleven months of 1920, and about 9 per cent greater than the average for the first eleven months of years 1917 to 1921. Production of cement during Novem- ber, amounting to 8,921,000 barrels, is a falling off from the record figure of October, 10,506,000 barrels, but is about 17 per cent higher than the average November of years 1917 to 1921 inclusive. Production for eleven months was only one-half per cent below the high record of 1920, and is 11 per cent greater than the average.

January 7, 1922

RECORD AND GUIDE

21

Recent Awards Indicate Active Building Next Spring

statistics of Final Week of 1921, Tabulate. Improvement in Commercial

MAINTAINING the high average of the past four or five months the building year closed with a record of achievement much better than w?as anticipated during the early weeks of 1921. The final week of the year just closed was noteworthy for the number of new building projects being planned by local architects and also for its record of opera- tions actually placed under contract during the last few days of the old year.

Building statistics for New York State and New Jersey, north of Trenton, for the closing week of 1921, show that architects and engineers had reported work on 342 plans for new structural projects, at an estimated value of $13,373,000. These figures, as tabulated by the F. W. Dodge Company also show the award of 261 contracts, the total value of which was approximately $14,236,300.

Despite the fact that residential construction continues as the dominating factor in local building there has recently been a very decided improvement in the general building outlook and as a result the future is considered bright for all depart-

1 by F. W. Dodge Company, Show Steady and Industrial Construction

ments of the industry throughout the coming year

Among the 342 operations for which plans were announced during the final week of 1921 were 57 business and commercial projects such as stores, lofts, office buildings, banks, commer- cial garages, etc., $1,420,500; 10 educational buildings, $1,247,- 000; 1 hospital, $7,500; 10 factory and industrial buildings, $568,- 000; 8 public works and public utilities, $87,000; 7 rehgious and memorial buildings, $391,000; 242 residential projects such as apartments, flats and tenements and one and two-family dwellings, $9,360,000 and 7 social and recreational buildings, $292,000.

■ The list of 261 projects for which contracts were awarded during the last week of 1921 included 36 business buildings of various types, $1,080,500; 11 educational projects, $1,122,800; 10 factory and industrial buildings, $597,000; 2 military and na- val structures, $15,000; 1 public building, $700,000; 5 public wor'<s and public utilities, $170,500; 1 religious edifice, $13,000; 192 residential buildings, $10,413,500, and 3 social and recrea- tional projects, $124,000.

PERSONAL AND TRADE NOTES.

■Walter F. Plcuthner, architect, an- nounces the removal of his office from 599 Fifth avenue to 132 East 40th street.

AIl-Metal Sales Company has moved from 70 Roger savenue, Broolilyn, to 3fiU Broadway. Manhattan.

Clinton & Russell, architects, have moved their offices from the Mutual Life Building to 100 Maiden Lane. Trade & Tech Soc Events Heller Uf

Robert D. Snod^rass has been made vice-president in charge of engineering of Hamilton & Chambers Co., Inc., steel, 29 Broadway.

Metropolitan Electric Appliance Com- pany, 246 Third avenue, electrical jobbe:-. announces a change of name to tli.i Metropolitan Electrical Distributors.

William F. McCtilloch, architect, an- nounces that he has become associated with the firm of Godwin & SuUivant, with offices at 350 Madison avenue.

Holopliane Glass Company. Inc., hd.s moved its New York office and showroom from 340 Madison avenue to the Canadian Pacific Building, 342 Madison avenue.

J. Artliiir Olson, former purcliasing agent for the Fred P. French Company, has formed a partnership- with his brother, "W. O. Olson, and will do a general con trading business under the firm name of N. O. Olson & Bro., 210 Westervelt avenue, New Brighton, Staten Island.

Apex Metal Weather Strip Co. and the Roebuck AVeather Strip tfc Wire Screen Co. have moved their offices from 503 Fifth avenue to better equipped and more com- modious quarters in the Astor Trust Building, 501 Fifth avenue.

Bullock Manufacturing Company, manu- facturers of lighting equipment and fix- tures, has moved its plant from 408 West 13th street to 35G-358 West 40th street, where there is approximately four times the amount of manufacturing space.

Charles R. Leo, formerly general mana- ger of the Palmer Lime & Cement Co., 103 Park avenue, has been elected vice-presi- dent of the company, taking the place of Carlton PI. Palmer, resigned. C. G. King, formerly .superintendent of the plant, was elected general manager.

Structural AVaterprooflng Company. Jo- seph Rose, president, announces the form- ation of an allied company, the J. Rose Concrete Co.. Inc., to engage in cement flnish and plain and reinforced concrete work. Offices are at 17 East 42d street.

Principles for Standard Contract Approved

General principles for the formulation of one standard form of contract, to supplant the 200 various styles of contract now in common use, and which can be made uni- versally practical for all branches of the construction industry, were approved at the final session of the recent joint confer- ence of engineers, architects and contrac- tors at the Department of Commerce.

Gen. R. C. Marshall, Jr., presented a plan for this standard form and a list of sub- jects w^hich would cover ground common to all construction projects.

A sub-committee consisting of Gen. Marshall for the Associated General Con- tractors of America; W. S. Parker, for the American Institute of Architects, and W. D. Faucette, of the American .Railway En- gineering Association, was appointed to write out the first tentative draft of the standard form and submit it for correction and approval to the full conference at its next meeting, the last of January.

A list of over 200 different forms of construction contracts, which now are in general use and which always have been the source of endless litigation, were placed in evidence, and it was found that two-thirds of all the clauses they set forth could be condensed within the scope of the proposed "agreement." Such a simplifica- tion of contracts has been much discussed, but never attempted before. The confer- ence plans to devise an addenda of special conditions for each industry, to be at- tached to the standard contract form.

TRADE AND TECHNICAL SOCIETY EVENTS.

Honors for Downtown Buildings.

The Downtown League, through its com- mittee', consisting of J. Louis Schaefer, Richard S. Elliott and Charles F. Noyes, recently awarded to the Lawyers Mort- gage Company first honors for construct- ing in 1921 the mo.st representative and best downtown offlie building; to the In- ternational Mercantile Marine Company the first award for an altered building-, and this award covered their beautiful building at 1 Broadu-ay, formerly known as the "Washington Building."

The second award for reconstruction was made to Errett, the Lily Cup man, for the alteration of an unattractive saloon and tenement property at the northwest corner of Fulton and Water streets into a clean, little office Ijuilding, adding dig- nity to the neighborliood.

In awarding first lienors to the Lawyers Mortgage Company i nnsideration was giv- en to the exceedingly artistic lines and the fact that this or ration probably more typically amplifies tlie buy-for-occupancy movement and the ni'ivement to hold prop- erty for such purposes in the downtown district than any other builciing.

Building Managers' and Owners' Asso- ciation of New York will hold its regular monthly dinner meeting at the Advertising Club, 47 East 25th street, Tuesday even- ing January 10. The speaker of the even- ing will be announced later.

American Society of Heating and Venti- lating Engineers will hold its annual meeting in New York City, January 24 to 26. 1922, inclusive.

National A.ssociation of Building Trades Employers' Associations will hold its an- nual convention at Cleveland, Ohio, Janu- ary 12-14, 1922, inclusive.

National Brick ]>Ianufaeturers' Associa- tion will hold its annual convention at the Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis, Ind., January 23-28. 1922.

Retail Lumber Dealers' Association of Neiv York State will hold its annual meet- ing and convention at the Powers Hotel, Rochester, January 14-21, 1922.

Metropolitan Hardware Association will hold its annual banquet at the. Hotel Com- modore, Wednesday evening, January 18. 1922. H. A. Cornell is chairman of the dinner committee.

Brooklyn Manufnctmers* Industrial Ex- liosition will be held at the Twenty- third Regiment Armory, Bedford and At- lantic avenues. January 11 to 22, 1922, In- clusive.

American Institute of Architects has

selected Chicago as the city in which to hold its 1922 convention, which will be held early in the spring. Further details will be announced later.

New Y'ork State Retail Hardware A«>«>- ciation will hold its annual convc ntlon and exhibition at Rochester. N. Y., Febru- ary 21 to 24. inclusive. Exhibition at Ex- hibition Park; headquarters and sessions ;i t the Powers Hotel.

Common Brick Manufacturers' Assocl- .-ilion of America will hold its annual con- ^ention at the Statler Hotel, St. Louis, Mo., January 30 to February 1, 1922. In- dications are that this convention will draw a larger attendance than the his- toric gathering in New York City last January.

Associated General Contractors of America will hold its .annual convention at Cleveland. January 17 to 19, 1922, In- clusive. Speakers of national prominence will feature the opening session of this convention. Reports of standing commit- tees will be received and discussed

22

RECORD AND GUIDE

January 7, 1922'

WHILE Important developments in the building situation liave been ladiing-, tlie first wfel< of 1922 iias ended with a feeling throughout the industry that the weelvs to come -will be far different from those of last year, when the future was clouded with doubt as to what was to come For the most part, the local building in- dustry is now optimistic, as the improve- ment in construction lias been marked dur- ing the past three or four months and as there is a vast amount of new building being planned the future is promising.

Although there is a possibility that resi- dential construction will show somewhat of a falling- off during the coming building season, there is now almost every assur- ance that an increase in commercial and industrial work will more than make uji for the loss. Reports from architects and engineers indicate a slow but steady im- provement in the general building situa- tion.

An early settlement of the wage scale controversy would do more to improve the building outlook than any other single fac- tor, but it is liltely that it will be at least March 1 'before a new agreement is con- summated.

C: iiiiiii>ii nrick. — The combination of hol- idays and unusually cold weather has re- sult -d in greatly curtailed activity in tlie New York wliolesale market for comirion brick. Buying was relatively light as com- pared with the average weekly sales for the previous wt-eks. but the business of the week was fair when the business of 1: st year at this time is considered. Iii- (!i iry is good, however, and indicative of an active brick market throughout the re- maining winter and earl>- spring. Because the Hudson River is ice-bound nortli off Newburgh Bay the arriv.-^ls this weelv were very light. Only five barge loads were docked in New York, and thees all were from tlie Haverstraw district. Common bricl^ arrivals from Hudson River points are lilvely to be negligible until the ice breaks up. but there is an ample supply in the market and in the yards of the deal- ers to supply all immediate requirements. Common brick prices are unchanged, with the range from $14 to .?14.50 a thousand to dealers in cargo lots, according to quality. Suniiiiary. — . Transactions in the North River brick market for the weeli ending Thursday. January 5, 1922. Condition of marl^et: Demand light; prices firm and un- changed. Quotations: Hudson Rivers, $14 to $14..')fl a thousand to dealers in cargo lots alongside dock. Number of cargoes arrived, 5; sales, 16. Distribution: Manhat-

tan, 5; Bronx, 1; Brooklyn, 8; New Jersey. 1; Flushing, 1. Remaining unsold in tlie New York wholesale market, 34.

Builders' Hardware. — There is every promise of long- continued activity in this line, as building prospects are excellent. There are still many operations in the final stages of completion and plans now in preparation indicate one of the most ac- tive buildinu seasons soon to start. Hard- ware prices are quite steady, but as a num- ber of tile leading manufactui'ers now have their plants on a full production basis, it is possible that some further re-

ductions may be announced during the next month or so.

]Reiiif<»roing- Bar.s. — The new year opened witli demand extremely light, but a fair outlook tor further business. The general building situation is show-ing steady im- provement which will naturally be shortly reflected in all material requirements. Plans now on the boards indicate consid- erable new industrial construction to bo undertaken this year. Prices are faily steady.

Structural Steel.^Although actual book- ings have been light the general tone of

BUILDING COMMODITY PRICES

CURRENT prices for building materials and supplies as quoted by leading dealers and jobbers in the city for delivery in New l^ork.

Note — Price changes are indicated by bold-face type.

Brick (Wholesale, on Dock. N. Y.), per thousand:

For delivered prices in Greater New York add cartage, handling, plus 10 per cent. Hudson River best grades. . $14.00 to $14.50

Raritan No quotation

Second-hand brick, per load

of 3,000, delivered $45.00 to

Face Brick — Delivered on job in New Y'ork ;

Rough Red $45.00 to

Smooth Red 45.00 to

Rough Buff 50.00 to

Smooth Buff 50.00 to

Rough Gray 53.00 to

Smooth Gray 53.00 to

Colonials 45.00 to

Cement — Delivered at job site in Man- hattan. Bronx. Brooklyn and Queens:

Domestic Portland cement, per bbl..$2.S0 Rebate for bags, 10c. each.

Gravel — Delivered at job site in Manhat- tan and Bronx:

IV'-in., Manhattan deliveries, per cu.

yd J4.25

Bronx deliveries 4.25

%-in., Manhattan deliveries 4.25

Bronx deliveries 4.25

Note — Prices for deliveries in Brooklyn and Queens are approximately the same as for Manhattan, except where job is lo- cated at a great distance from the water front, in which case prices will be slightly higher.

Grit — Delivered at job site in Manhattan and Bronx:

Manhattan deliveries $3.50

Bronx deliveries 3.50

Hollow Tile —

Exterior — Not used in Manhattan; quota- tions only on specific projects.

Interior — Delivered at job site in Man- hattan, south of 125th street.

3x12x12 split furring $0.12 per sq. ft.

3x12x12 0.12 per sq. ft.

4x12x12 0.17 per sq. ft.

6x12x12 0.19 per sq. ft.

Note — For deliveries north of 125th St., Manhattan, and in Brooklyn. Bronx and Queens, prices job site are slightly higher, according to location of work, which varies trucking charges. Lath — Eastern Spruce delivered

at job site in Manhattan.

Bronx, Brooklyn and

Queens $10.50 per 1,000-

Lime —

Delivered at job site in IVfanhattan. Bron.x, Brooklyn and Queens; Finishing Lime (Standard in

300-lb. barrel) $4.70 per bbl.

Common Lime (Standard 300- lb. barrel) 4.40 per bbl.

Finishing Lime (Standard in Hvdrate Finishing, in paper

bags 24. 00 per ton

Hydrate Common, in cloth

bags 22.50 per ton

Plaster —

Delivered at job site in Manhattan. Bronx. Brooklyn and Queens: Neat Wall Cement, in cloth

bags $21.00 per ton

Brown Mortar, in cloth bags. 18.00 per ton Lath Mortar, in cloth bags... 18.00 per ton Finishing Plaster, in cloth

bags 24.50 per ton

Rebate for returned bags. 15c. per bag Finishing Plaster (250-lb.

barrel) $4.00 per bbl.

Finishing Plaster (320-lb

barrel ) B.35 per bbl.

Plaster Blocks—

2-in. (solid) per sq. ft $0.17 to 0.19-

3-in. (hollow) per sq. ft 0.17 to 0.19

Wolff Gas Fired Steam Radiator Solves Your Heating Problem

Costs Less to Install.

Costs No More to Operate.

Gives Absolute Satisfaction. LET US TELL YOU HOW

A. H. WOLFF GAS RADIATOR CO

4 Great Jones Street, New York

Telephone: Spring 4333 ESTABLISHED 1891

Keen CompFtition and thr- Great Struggle for Business has brought into the New York Market a Light Weight Extra Heavy Cast Iron Pipe.

We are selling Full Weight. New York Regulation, Extra Heavy. Cast Iron Pipe.

Wr rio not Substitute, but sell Full. Hortesi Weioht

JOHN A. MURRAY & SONS, INC.

'■The Htniae ot Relinhility" 310-312 WEST 39TH STREET, NEW YORK

BUILDING

and PERMANENT

LOANS

On one and two family houses and five-story walk-ups in Long Island City ; 75% sub- ordination on the land ; MOST LIBERAL BUILDING PROP- OSITION EVER OFFERED; unlimited demand for houses and apartments; 141 houses al- ready sold for $1,744,500.

3^icfeert=?Prottin a^ealtp Co.

Tel. Vandcrbilt 9484. 52 Vanderbilt Av.

January 7, 1922

RECORD A N D GUIDE

23.

MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES

the local market for fabricated structural steel is i^ood because of the large amount of high class business that is scheduled to be released very soon. Several very im- portant building' projects have been placed under contract during the past week and othere are pending'. In all, their steel re- quirements will amount to a most satisfac- tory tonange. There was a slow but very consistent improvement in the fabricated steel business throughout the latter half of 1921. and there is now every prospect of a continued improvement in the demand that will shortly bring' this industry back

to its normal tonnage basis. There has lately been some evidence of a slight wi-akening in shape prices, but with a jump in demand that is bound to come upon the release of the tonnages no'ft^ pending, it is likely that this tendency will be arrested. Structural steel, fabricated and erected in commercial buildings, is now generally quoted at $62 to $G5 per ton, according to type of operation.

Ca.st Iron Pipe. — The new year opened with conditions fairly satisfactory as far as manufacturers of this commodity are concerned. The majority of the local

IN THE METROPOLITAN MARKETS

Plii.ster Board —

Delivered at Job site in Manliattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. ^^^

27x48x1/2 in $0.38 each

32x36xJ4 in 0;22 each

32x36x% in 0.24 each

32x36xi,i in 0.30 each

Sand —

Delivered at job in

Manhattan $1.80to-

Deliverod at job in

Bronx 1.80 to -

• per cu. yd.

• per cu. yd.

.$5.00 percu. yd.

White Sand —

Delivered in Manhattan. Broken Stone —

l'/2-in., Manhattan delivery . $4.00 per cu. yd.

Bronx delivery 4.00 per cu. yd.

%-in., Manhattan delivery. . 4.00 per cu. yd.

Bronx delivery 4.00 per cu. yd.

Building Stone —

Indiana limestone, per cu. ft $1.63

KentucUv limestone, per cu. ft 2.27

Briar Hill sandstone, per cu. ft 1.68

Gray Canyon sandstone, per cu. ft. . . . 1.65

Buff Wakeman, per cu. ft 1.90

Buff Mountain, per cu. ft 1.80

North River bluestone, per cu. ft.... 1.85

Seam face granite, per sq. ft 1.20

South Dover marble (promiscuous

mill block), per cu. ft 2.25

White Vermont marble (sawed) New

York, per cu. ft 3.00

Structural Steel —

Plain material at tidewater; cents per pound: Beams and channels up to 14

in l.SSc. to 2.03c.

Beams and channels over 14

in l.SSc. to 2.03c.

Angles. 3x2 to 6x3 l.SSc. to 2.03c.

Zees and tees l.SSc to 2.03c.

Lumber —

Wholesale prices, New York. Yellow pine, merchantable 1905, f. o. b., N. Y.:

3x4 to 14x14, 10 to 20 ft $41.00 to $5a. 00

Hemrock, Pa., f. o. b., N. Y.,

base price, per M 37.50 to

Hemlock, W. Va., base price,

per M 37.00 to

(To mi.xed carg-o price add freight, $1.50.)

Spruce, Eastern, random car- goes, narrow (delivered) . . 30.00 to

Wide cargoes 33.00 to

Add $1.00 per M for each inch in width

over 12 inches. Add $1.00 per M for every

two feet over 20 ft. in length. Add $1.00

per M for dressing.

Cypress Lumber (by car, f. o. b.. N. Y.):

First and seconds, 1-in. .. .$110.00 to

Cypress shingles, 6x13, No.

1 Hearts to

Cypress shingles, 6x13, No.

1 Prime to

Quartered Oak — to $166. Ut)

Plain Oak to 136.00

Fl4iorinp::

AV'Iiile oak, quart'd sel. lied oak. quart'd select.

■to $87.50 -to 87.60

Maple No. 1 65.00 to

Yellow pine No. 1 common

flat 55.00 to

N. C. iiine flooring Nor-

folks 65.00 to

Wiiido^v Glass —

OfBcial discounts from manufacturers'

lists: Single strength, A quality, first three

brackets 82%

B grade, single strength, first three

brackets 82%

Grades A and B, larger than the first

three brackets, single thick 82%

Double strength, A quality 82%

Double strength, B quality 85%

Linseed Oil —

City brands, oiled, 5 bbls. lot. $0.72 to $0.74 Less than 5 bbls 0.75 to 0.77

Turpentine— ^^^j

Turpentines $0.80 to$0.82

plants are producing at approximately .'■(^venty-five per cent, of capacity, where- as one year ago but one or two plants had orders on hand that kept their production, at more than twenty-flve per cent, of capacity. Last year at this time there was but little nCAV business in sight, but for the coming months excellent business is lircdicted, as several important municipal orders are pending and it is quite certain that private buyers will come into the market within the next few weeks with orders that will involve a relatively large total tonnage. According to recent orders for deliveries during the next two months or so bviyers of pipe are not anticipating any important drop in prices. As a mat- ter of fact the price situation is remark- ably firm, with New York quotations as follows: 6 in. and larger, $47.30 per net ton; 4 in. and 5 in., $52.30; 3 in., $62,30, with Class A and gas pipe $4 extra per ton.

Kleetriviil Su|>i>lle.s. — It will be some- what difficult to describe the electrical supply market situation until after the in- ventory season is past and contractors and dealers begin to buy again for stock. Con- .«uming demand is steady and good and in view of the amount of active and prospec- tive building it is likely to improve as the year goes on. Demand for wiring mate- rials is particularly good at present and In geneial the outlook for this industry is bright. Prices are steady and no changes of importance have been deported during the past week, but there are some who an- ticipate a further favorable revision in discounts at an early date.

Window Glass. — Demand continues strong, and there is every prospect of an increase in the consumption requirements because of the large amount of new con- struction now scheduled for an early start. Although it is not anticipated that the house Ijuilding program of 1922 will be quite as extensive as it was last year, it .otill will involve a tremendous total out lay and there is a vast volume of non-resi- dential building now projected that will make up for any drop in the former class. At present glass prices are steady and no changes are anticipated before February 1.

IVsiils. — No changes of consequence have occurred in the local nail market during the past week. Demand is fair and inquir- ies denote a continuation of fairly active business. Stocks are adequate and prices firm and practically unchanged. New York quotations are as follows: $3.50 to $3.70 base, per keg for wire nails and $4.25 to $4.45 base, per keg, for cut nails.

Face

Enameled

Fire

As manufacturers of BRICK for thirty years, we have a record of repeat orders that affords you a 100% guarantee of satisfactory service. To the service given by our Face, Enameled and Fire BRICK, is added the service we render in shipment and delivery. Prompt shipments on any size contracts in any range of shade or texture, at fair prices and of first-class quality.

BRICK

FACE BRICK

in Buffs, Ironspots, Browns and Mingled Effects, in full range or any individual Shade or Texture.

ENAMELED BRICK

in White and Mottled Effects, first and second quality for interiors, exteriors and courts.

FIRE BRICK and fire clay of highest grades.

Loivest market prices. May we estimate for youf

American Enameled Brick & Tile Company

52 VANDERBILT AVENUE, NEW YORK

Telephone Murray Hill 8787-8788

24

RECORD AND GUIDE

January 7, 1922

A Clean Building

We clean masonry of every type.

A clean building will sell or rent as ■^jell as a new building. In appearance it i» * new building, for cleaning restorei the original freshness of color.

Estimates for cleaning — and pointing, il

desired— submitted on request.

Atlantic Terra Cotta Co.

Cleaning Department

350 Madison Avenue

Telephone: Vanderbilt 99S0

CONTCMPLATED

CONSTRUCTION.

J. P. Duffy Co.

Flue Pipe Terra Cotta Blocks

Gypsum Blocks Masons' Materials

138th Street and Park Avenue

BROOKLYN SOth-Slst Streets and 2nd Avenue

QUEENS Jackson Avenue and Madden Street

FOR

PAINTING, DECORATING and PLASTERING

Consult

LESCH & JOHNSON

261 East Fordham Road N«w York

Telephone: Fordham 9345

TELEPHONES : H AK1.EM [ p"

FRANK U. ROSS

Contractor and Dealer in

TILE and MARBLE

8« EAST nSTH STREET NEW YORK

POMEROY

FIRE RETARD ANT WINDOWS

Built in the belief that the BEST hollow metal fire retardant window is the only SAFE fire retardant window for a builder to use or for a manufacturer to sell.

S. H. POMEROY CO., Inc.

282-96 East 134th Street NEW YORK

Phone Melrose 6104

Manhattan.

APARTMENTS. FLATS AND TENEMENTS.

MADISON AV. — Geo. F. Pelham. 20U West 'lid St, has plans in progress for an 11-sty brick and steel apartment house, 101x110 ft, with stores, at the northeast corner of Madison av and 64th st for Albert Sokolski, 2i;0 Broadway, owner. Cost, .i;i,i«IO.00O.

MORRIS AV.— David S. Lang, 110 West 34th St, has plans in progress for a 5-sty brick and limestone apartment house, 97x114 ft, on the west side of Morris Av Bast, 72 ft north of East lS4th St. for Marcus Buda Construction Co., M. Buda. president, 18UU Lexington av, owner and builder. Cost. $180,000.

WEBB AV. — John P. Boylaud. 120 East Ford- ham rd, has plans in progress for a 5-sty brick and limestone apartment house, 5Ux03 ft, on the east side of Webb av. 100 ft north of Devoe ter- race, for Tee Taw Realty Corp., Jas- Murray, Jr., president, 113S St. Nicholas av, owner and builder. Cost, $100,000.

ISSTH ST.— Chas. Kreymborg, 2334 Marion av, has plans in progress for two 5-sty brick, lime- stone and terra cotta apartments, one 115x01 ft and one S0xll3 ft, at the southeast corner of ISSth St and University av lor Chas. Mark Realty Co., care of Philip Stein, 370 East 14t)th St, owner. Cost, .$32."i.0U0. Owner will take bids on separate contracts shortly.

SHERMAN AV.— Chas. Kreymborg, 2534 Marion av. has plans in progress for a 5-st> brick, limestone and terra cotta apartment house, 75x100 ft, on Sherman av, north of 167th St, for Frank Willetts, 280 Madison av, owner. Cost, $125,000.

HALLS AND CLUBS.

40TH ST.— George H. Streeton, 115 East 34th St. has completed plans for alterations to the 1- sty brick gymnasium, 30x98 ft, at 507-9-11 West 4Uth St for the Roman Catholic Church of St. Raphael, Rev. M. J. Duffy, rector, 502 West 41st St, owner. Cost, $2."i.000.

STABLES AND GARAGES.

1S3TH ST.— John De Hart, 1031 Fox st, has completed preliminary plans for a 2-sty brick and concrete garage. 50x60 ft, at the corner of l.S5th st and Broadway for I. Langner, 700 Trinity av, owner and builder. Cost, .?!)0.U00. STORES, OFFICES AND LOFTS.

3GTH ST.— Schwartz & Gross, 347 5th av, have plans in progress for a 14-sty brick and lime- stone store and loft building. 75x100 feet, at 142- 48 West 3Gth st for Julius Tishman & Sons, Inc., 2S0 Madison av, owner and builder. Cost, $1,- 000,000.

171ST ST. — Chas. Kreymborg. 2534 Marion av, has completed plans for a group of 1-sty brick stores, 190x190 ft. in the south side of 171st st and St. Nicholas av for G. L. Lawrence, 144 West 72d st, owner and builder

231ST ST.— Chas. Kreymborg, 2834 Marion av, has plans in progress for seven 1-sty brick and stone stores, 28x100 ft, at the southeast corner of 231st st and Albany rd for Superior Construction Co., 132 Nassau st, owner. Cost, .f 15 .000.

Bronx

APARTMENTS, FLATS AND TENEMENTS.

HULL AV — John P. Boyland, 120 East Ford- ham rd, has plans in progress for a' 5-sty brick, limestone and terra cotta apartment, 100x100 ft. on the west side of Hull av, 125 ft south of 209th St. for John O'Leary, 2218 University av. owner. Cost. $200,000. Owner will take bids on separate contracts.

PROSPECT AV.— Chas. ' Kreymborg, 2.534 Marion av, has plans in progress for a 5-sty brick apartment. 67x100 ft, at the northeast cor- ner of Prospect av and Crotona Park North for Johnson-Deichsel BIdg. Co., 219 East 188th st. owner and builder. Cost, $20U.OOO. Owner will take bids about March 1. Plumbing, A. F. Dcichsel. 584 East 169th st.

DAVIDSON AV.— Gronenberg & Leuchtag, 4.50 5th av. have completed plans for two 5-sty brick, limestone and terra cotta apartments, 100x78 ft each, on the east side of Davidson av. 143 ft south of ISlst St. for Samuel Roseff. 113 West 4th st, Mt. Vernon, owner and builder. Total cost. $360,000.

BRYANT AV.— J. Kleinberger. 20 West 43d st, has completed plans for a 2-sty brick and stone tenement, 52x75 ft irregular, on the west side of Bryant av, 275 ft north of Spofford av. for Isaac Kranter, 419 East 121st st, owner. Cost, $22,000.

UNIVERSITY AV— Geo. F. Pelham. 200 West 72d st, has completed plans for two 6-sty brick tenements, 80x90 ft, on the west side of Uni- versity av, 50 ft north of Tremont av. for An- tonio Mungo. 39] East 149th st. owner and builder. Cost. $170,000.

STORES. OFFICES AND LOFTS.

KINGSBRIDGE RD. — Chas. Kreymborg, 253' Marion av. has completed plans for a group of 1-sty brick stores, 76x109 ft. at the corner of Kingsbridge rd .ind Sedgwick av for Siegfried

SPRINKLER SUPERVISORY SERVICE AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER VALVE ALARM SERVICE INTERIOR FIRE ALARM

EQUIPMENT

INSTALLED AS A LOCAL SYSTEM OR FOR CENTRAL OFFICE SERVICE

AUTOMATIC

FIRE ALARM SERVICE

SPECIAL BUILDING

SIGNAL SERVICE

Automatic Fire Alarm Co.

416 Broadway New York City

CANAL 5188

Karlsbad, 2775 Bainbridge av, owner and builder. Cost, ,$25,000.

Brooklyn

APARTMENTS, FLATS AND TENEMENTS.

30TH ST.— Samuel L. Malkind. 16 Court st, has plans in progress for a 4-sty brick apart- ment, 60x104 ft, in West 30th st, between Mer- maid and Railroad avs, for J. Greenbury, 36 West 17th st, Manhattan, owner. Cost $60,000.

53TH ST.— Cohn Bros., 361 Stone av, have plans in progress for a 4-sty brick and lime- stone apartment, 100x107 ft, at the southeast corner of East 55th st and Ditmas av for Morris Posner, 35 Amboy st, owner and builder. Cost, $1.50.000.

BENSONHURST.— Wm. I. Hohauser, 116 West 39th st, Manhattan, has plans in progress for a 4-sty brick and limestone apartment house, 60x 100 ft, in Bensonhurst. for Fidelity Improvement Co.. 116 West 39th st, Manhattan, owner and builder. Cost. $80,000. Exact location will be announced later.

DUMONT AV.— Chas. Goodman, 375 Fulton st, has plans in progress for two 4-sty brick apart- ments, one 35x90 ft and one 65x88 ft, with stores, at the northwest corner of Dumont av and Bar- rett st, for owner, care of architect. Total cost, $120,000.

HEGEMAN AV.— S. Millman & Son. 1780 Pit- kin av, have plans in progress for a 3-sty brick apartment. 30x84 ft, on the south side of Hege- man av. 40 ft west of Stone av, for Isaac Gor- don and Pincus Toback, 72 Sutter av, owners and builders. Cost, .$45,000.

NEW LOTS RD.— S. Millman & Son. 1780 Pit- kin av. have completed plans for a 3-sty brick apartment, 16x44 ft, at the northeast corner of New Lots rd and Stone av for Tillie Hood, 55 New Lots rd. owner and builder. Cost, $25,000.

OSBORN ST.— Martyn N. Weinstein, 16 Court st, has plans in progress for six 2-sty brick flats, 20x80 ft, in the west side of Osborn st. 28 ft outh of Hegeman av, for Craftsmen Building Corp., Samuel Levine, president. 7,52 Rockaway av, owner and builder. Total cost. $78,000.

BAY PARKWAY.— Slee & Bryson. 154 Mon- tague St. have plans in progress for a 4-sty brick apartment, 90.x00 ft, at the corner of Bay tect will soon take bids on general contract, forming, owner. Cost. $175,000.

BLAKE AV — S. Millman & Son, 1780 Pitkin av. have plans in progress for three 2-sty brick flats. 20x69 ft. on Blake av, between Pine st and Euclid av, for Max Seidman. 1463 St. Marks av, owner and builder. Cost. .$36,000.

LOUISA ST.— A. Farber, 1746 Pitkin av, has plans in progress for two 2-sty brick flats, 21x 72 ft. at the southeast corner of Lopisa st and Story st for Louisa Story Construction Co., Louis Gold, treasurer. 1774 Bergen st, owner and builder. Total cost, $24,000.

DWELLINGS.

LINDEN AV.— Philip Caplan, 16 Court st. has completed plans for two 2-sty frame dwellings. 22x60 ft. at the southeast corner of Linden av and East 46th st for Samuel Seltzer. 328 Hins- dale st, owner and builder. Co=it, $20,0(X).

9TH ST. — Irving Brooks. 26 Court St. has plans in progress for a 2'^-sty frame and stucco dwelling. 26.\50 ft. in East 9th st for M. Klein- feld. owner, care of architect. Cost. $23,000.

7.5TH ST— Ferd Savignano. 6003 14th av, has comoleted plans for a 1-sty frame dwelling. 22x 43 ft. in the south side of 75th st. 240 ft east of 12th av. tor Mariano Cordi. 1170 65th st owner and builder. Cost, $12,000.

IfiTH AV.— Seelig & Finkelstein. 44 Court st, have completed plans for five 2-sty brick dwell- ings, 19x52 ft, on the west side of 16th av. 215 ft south of snth St. for Straus & Shummer. owner, care of architect. Cost, $75,000.

January 7, 1922

WITH ST. — Jos. Hartung. 661 5th av, has com- pleted plans tor a 2-sty brick dwelling, 20x50 ft, in the south side of oiHh st, 180 It east of 11th av, for Rocco Agoglia, 6713 4th av, owner and builder. Cost, $10,000.

SCTH ST — Fred R. Thieme, 619 81st st, has completed plans for a 2J/2-sty frame dwelling, 24x50 ft, in the north side of 8bth st, 180 It west of Narrows av. for John H. Bakrenburg, 148 88th St. owner and builder. Cost, lt.lS.OUO.

76TH ST.— Jacob Lubroth, 44 Court st, has plans in progress for eight 2-sty brick dwell- ings 20x58 ft. in the north side of ibth st, lou ft west of liith av, for owner, care of architect. Total cost, $100,000.

PRESIDENT ST. — Jacob Lubroth, 44 Court st, bas plans in progress for four 2-sty brick dwell- ings '^d.^iS ft, in the west side of President st, 100 ft east of Rochester av, for owner, .care ol architect. Total cost, .$.50,OOU.

70TH ST —Jacob Lubroth, 44 Court st, has plans in progress for eight 2-sty brick dwellings, ■'l(x.")S ft in the north side of 76th st. 100 It west of'llith av, for owner, care of architect. Total cost, $100,000-

OOTH ST — R. T. Schaefer, 1543 Flatbush av, has completed plans for a 2-sty frame clwelling 20x57 ft, in the north side of 60th st ,«0 ft east of ''2d av, for John Liona, 1.160 East 5th st, owner and builder. Cost, $10,000.

"i8TH ST — S Gardstein, 26 Court st, has plans in progress for a 2-sty frame dwelling, 2ix (13 ft in the south side of 5Sth st. 140 ft east of ir.th 'av for Armor Construction Co.. Louis Le- vine, president, 1334 40th st, owner and builder. Cost. $14.(100.

PENNSYLVANIA AV.— Boris W. Portman. 26 Court st, has plans in progress tor seventeen _- sty brick dwellings, 20x64 ft. on Pennsylvania av between Riverdale and New Lots avs, tor Vo'orhies Realty Corp., Morris Worronnck. presi- dent 373 New Lots av. owner and builder, total cost.' $240.0110.

FACTORIES AND WAREHOUSES. TROTTMAN ST. — Boris W. Dorfman. 26 Court st has completed plans for a 1-sty brick storage hiiilding 25x05 ft. at the northeast corner ot Troutma'n st and Wyckoff av for Joseph Lowen- stein, 162 Throop av. owner and builder. Cost, .$15',o6o.

HALLS AND CLUBS. ITT HST. — Abram Bastow, 1711 Bast 22 st. has completed preliminary plans tor a 3-sty brick hall, 60x100 ft, with stores, in the east sul. ot East 17th st, 48 ft south of Kings Highway, for Kings Highway Community Corp., 1701 Kings Highway, owner. Cost, $40,000.

STABLES AND GARAGES. 15TH ST.— J. Howard Tracy. 4210 Ft. Hamil- ton av, has completed plans for a 1-sty brick garage 40xRS ft, in the north side of 15th st, -V> ft east of 5th av, tor Burns & Hurley, 231 lath St. owners and builders- Cost, $16,000.

KINGS HIGHWAY.— Chas. M. Spindler. 20 Court st, has completed plans tor a 1-sty brick garage 124x104 ft, with stores, at the north- west corner of Kings Highway and Flatbush av for Alexander N. Stafford. 148.0 East 17th st, owner and builder. Cost. $18,000.

STORES. OFFICES AND LOFTS. PACIFIC ST. — Brooks & Rosenberg. 26 Court St. have plans in progress for two 2-sty brick stores, 20x80 ft, at the northeast corner of Pacific and Nevins sts tor Bluebird Realty Co.. Paul Dombek, president, 44 Court st, owner and builder. Cost, $24,000.

Queens

APARTMENTS, FLATS AND TENEMENTS.

JAMAICA, L. I.— Cohn Bros., 361 Stone av. Brooklyn, have plans in progress for two 4-Bty brick apartments. 05x80 ft. on Hillside av. near Victoria st. Jamaica for Aix Improvements Co., 6 Maxwell av, Jamaica, owner and builder. Cost. $180,000.

ELMHURST. L. I. — Andrew J. Thomas. 1.3" East 45th St. Manhattan, has completed plans for a 4-stv brick apartment, 86x110 ft, at the north- east corner ot 25th st and Hayes av, Elmhurst, for Hayes Avenue Apartment, Inc.. 2 Claremont terrace. Elmhurst, owner and builder. Cost. $136,000.

ELMHURST. L. I. — Andrew J. Thomas. 137 East 4.5th st. Manhattan, has comnleted plans for a 4-stv brick apartment, 86x110 ft, at the north- west corner of 26th st and Hayes av, Elmhurst, for Hayes Avenue Apartment, Inc.. 2 Claremont terrace, Elmhurst. owner and builder. DWELLINGS.

WOODHAVEN, L. I.— L. Danancher. 328 Ful- ton st, Jamaica, has nlnns in progress for a 2- stv frame dwelling. 22x52 ft. on the east side of Wondhaven rd. 80 ft north of Park av. Wool- haven, tor Jacob Gunther, 35 Scbaeffer st. Brook- lyn, owner and builder. Cost. $10,000.

CORONA. L, I. — A. Brems. Corona av. Co- rona, has plans in progress for a 2-sfy brick dwelling, 20x45 ft. in the south side of Fergu- son St. 175 ft west of Tiemann av. Corona, for Jos. Vitarelli. 06 Merritt st. Corona, owner and builder. Cost, $10,000.

NEPONSIT. L. I.— Slee & Bryson. 1.54 Mon- tague st. Brooklyn, have plans in pros-ress for a 2-sty frame and stucco dwelling. 25xno ft. at Neponslt for Bernard Block, 50 Court st, Brook- lyn, owner. Cost, $12,000.

RECORD AND GUIDE

FACTORIES AND WAREHOUSES.

LONG ISLAND CITY, L. I — G. C. Buchten- kirch, 280 Madison av, Manhattan, has plans in progress tor a 2-sty and basement brick and steel bakery, 70x80 ft. on the north side of Queens blvd, near Thompson av, L. I. City, for S. B. Thomas, 335 West 20th st, Manhattan, owner. Cost, .$25,000. ■ Architect will take bids on gen- eral contract about January 15.

JAMAICA, L. I. — Louis Allmendinger, 20 Pal- metto st, Brooklyn, has plans in progress for a 3-sty brick refrigerator and storage building, 60x75 ft, on Chichester av, Jamaica, for Merkel Bros., Chichester av, Jamaica, owners.

Nassau

DWELLINGS.

GREAT NECK, L. I.— Slee & Bryson, 154 Montague st, Brooklyn, have plans in progress for a 21^-sty frame dwelling, 26x36 ft, at Great Neck tor Dr. Masters, owner, care of architect. Cost, $20,000. Architect will take bids on gen- eral contract. Exact location will be announced later.

HALLS AND CLUBS.

GLEN COVE, L. I.— Wm. J. Boegel. 8566 11.3th st, Richmond Hill, has completed plans tor alter- ations to a dwelling on Glen Cove av. Glen Cove, which is to be converted into a club house for James Morton Council Knights of Columbus, Wm. A. Moe Hill, president, Glen Cove, owner and builder. Cost, $n,000.

Suffolk.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. CENTRAL ISLIP, L. I.— Edward Hahn, Hemp- stead Bank Bldg., Hempstead, has been re- tained to prepare plans for a grade school at (.'ontral Islip for the Board ot Education of

25

Union Free School District No. 1 of the Town ot Islip, Fred C. Hendrickson, clerk, School Building, 4th av. Bay Shore, owner. Cost, $200,000.

Westchester

DWELLINGS.

PELHAM HEIGHTS, N. Y.— Wm. E. Hau- gaard, 185 Madison av, Manhattan, has plans in progress for a iVa-sty brick dwelling, 40x30 ft, with garage, on Corlies av, Pelham Heights, tor A. L. Werekle, owner, care ot architect.

MOUNT VERNON, N. Y.— Stern & Peyser, Proctor Bldg., Mt. Vernon, have completed plans for a 2V2-sty brick dwelling, 28x42 ft. with garage, at the corner ot Vernon pi and Graham st, Mt. Vernon, tor Frank Slatt, owner and builder, on premises. Cost. $25,000.

STORES, OFFICES AND LOFTS.

MT. VERNON, N. Y.— Louis Larkin, Proctor Bldg., Mt. Vernon, has plans in progress for a 2-sty tapestry brick and limestone store and office building, 25x80 ft, in 1st st, between 3d and 4th avs, Mt. Vernon, tor Herman Stern, 16 East 1st st, Mt. Vernon, owner. Cost, $25,000. Archi- tect will take bids about January 28.

New Jersey.

APARTMENTS, FLATS AND TENEMENTS.

NEWARK. N. J.— Nathan Welitoff, 240 Wash- ington st, Jersey City, has plans in progress tor fourteen 2-sty brick apartments, with stores, on Avon av, from 10th to 11th sts, Newark, for Gershonowitz Bros., 81 Jewitt av. Jersey City, and Chas. Barbash. 240 Washington st. Jersey City, owners and builders. Cost, $30,000.

NEWARK. N. J— Harry M. Veix, 738 Broad St. Newark, has plans in progress for a 3-sty frame and clapboard flat, .32x60 ft, at 67-71 Brnokdale av. Newark, for Allied Engineering ^-

Turkish Baths

One of the largest Turkish Baths in the city will soon be opened at 20-24 Second Avenue by the Second Avenue Baths Corporation

An electric sign 40 feet high carrying approximately 800 lo-watt lamps will attract thousands to the baths and to the roof garden which will top the building

The entire electrical installation ot 3520 lamps and 40 horsepower in motors will be supplied with Central Station Service through the mains of this company

Architects — Gronenberg A: Leuchtag - - 450 Ficrtli Avenue

General Contractor — Magoba Construction Company 103 Park Avenue

Big Buildings Use Edison Service

The New York Edison Company

i^t Tour Service Irving Place and Fifteenth Street

Telephone Stuyvesant 5600

26

RECORD AND GUIDE

January 7, 1922

Construction Co., Michael Mazzola, president, 156 Marliet st, Newark, owner and builder. Cost, $25,00U.

MONTCLAIR, N. J.— J. B. Acocella, Union Bldg., Newark, has completed plans for a 2-sty and basement common and tapestry brick and frame flat, 6Ux60xD8 ft, with stores, at 610-612 Valley rd, Montclair, for Giuseppe Lammardo, 55 Wildwood av, Montclair, owner and builder. Cost, .$35,000.

MORRISTOWN, N. J.— Hyman Rosensohn. 18S Market st, Newark, has completed plans for a 4-sty brick, limestone and terra cotta apartments 38x74 ft, with stores, at 55 South st, Morris- town, for James J. Lyons, care of Park Theatre, Park pi, Morristown, owner. Cost, $60,000. Architect will take bids on general and sepa- rate contracts about January 28.

LEO.NIA, N. J.— Nathan Welitotf, 240 Wash- ington st, Jersey City, has plans in progress for two 4-sty brick apartments, 50x100 ft, at the corner of Broad av and Crescent pi, Leonia, for Dr. S. S. Lefkowitz, 3S2 Broad av, Leonia, owner and builder.

BANKS.

NEWARK, N. J.— Holmes Winslow, 134 East