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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1908
Page
10
The Battery Tunnel opening is hailed as a milestone for Brooklyn real estate and the broader market. Brokers report ongoing activity, mortgage funds rising, and a shift in gilt-edged loan rates while auctions and foreclosures shape the week’s outlook.
Auction notices list sales by Sheriff under order of the court. Items include property along Southern Boulevard and Avenue Gt. John with parcels 150 by 121 feet. The sales occur Monday January 138 at 14 and 16 Vesey Street unless otherwise stated.
Foreclosure notices list several properties including six story brick apartment houses at locations such as 78 and 78 East Park Avenue and 60x100 lots. Names like Turner, Thomas N. Cuthbert, Charles J. Leslie, Paul Sl. Kiernan, William Kennelly Jr, J. Smyth and Irving Washburn appear as referees or parties. Judgments due range from thousands to tens of thousands of dollars with various subordinate mortgage notes.
Public notice by Joseph P. Day announces an auction of numerous properties on the West Side. Listed are several five and four story brick and brownstone tenements with stores and three to four unit configurations, in blocks near 88th Street, Amsterdam Avenue, and Broadway. Referees Dowling and George R. Brewster are named, with foreclosures, partitions, and judgements involved.
A fragmented list of executors sales and foreclosures outlines multiple properties including brownstone flats, brick buildings with stores, and five and six story structures. Referees and notices name George E Kent Hilary P Molloy and Jesse W Tobey with judgments and due on mortgage actions.
Plans filed for several brick and stone tenements and a store warehouse in Manhattan and the Bronx. Projects include a story brick tenement on James Place near 167th Street, another brick tenement near 197th Street, a stone dwelling near Albany Post Road, and multiple alterations and additions with costs ranging from 5 000 to 186 000 dollars. Names include Sommerfeld & Steck, William Masterson, Buchman & Fox, and E A Meyers as architect.
A garbled list shows numerous property transfers and mortgages in a Saturday real estate market. Names include Elizabeth Daum, Joseph Dixon, Harris, Sidney Harris, Matthews, Lee Burridge, Laure, Joseph Arthen, D Laughman, Conlon, William Fagan, Lefkowitz, Simon, Alfred, Rose Co., Empire City ratz, and others, with sums noted like 42 500, 61 000, 9 000 and 10 000. Locations reference 150th Street, West End Avenue, Park Avenue, 178th 179th Streets, and 8th Avenue with multiple parcel sizes and frontage measurements.
The Rob M. Silverman Company completed an eleven story store and loft building at 17 and 19 West Seventeenth Street. The entire structure leased before completion and now fully occupied by lace manufacturers importers and cloak houses. Tenants often take whole floors plus half floors totaling 12 000 square feet. The rapid six month construction reflects demand for space linking Fifth Avenue to Sixth Avenue retail districts. Investors include the Astors the Goelet estate and A D duillliard.
A dense list of transfers and mortgages in the Bronx shows multiple property deeds and loans. Names include Theodore Allen to Mary Goodwin, Isaac Anduls ky to William Beaman, Abraham Zadek to Lie b enthal Construction Co, and others with street addresses, lot sizes, terms, and amounts such as $22,000 and $75,000, reflecting a busy property market.
A historical docket fragment lists multiple actions in which property owners and contractors are named. Cases include United Tile and Marble Co. versus Max H. Newman on Union Avenue, Kennedy Valve Manufacturing Co. versus New York City Railway Co., and other pairs with amounts like 1087 dollars and 755 dollars.
Multiple civil actions listed with owners and contractors named at various addresses including Holland Ave 215th St, 8 ft s. Monro St 237 and 239. Washington Ave corner 167th St, East 800 St. East 108th 51 to 55. Amounts range from 50 to 1746 dollars. Parties include Henry G. Sileck Jr., Antonio Nicia, Vico Perrone, Eliza Cohn, and J Henry Yockel among others. Court actions involve ownership and contracting disputes with specified sums.
A set of civil actions against multiple defendants including Guerney Heater Co versus Bessie Saree and others on Sept 27 1907 and Sash and Door Co versus Jacob Koehn and others on Oct 29 1907. Other suits include M A Indells versus Robert Friedman on Nov 12 1907 and Consort against Friedman dated Dec 5 1907. Amounts cited include £495 1 360 and 1400 dollars.
In William Hyams versus Liberty Land and Improvement Co and others the case relates to foreclosure of mortgage with attorneys Gross & Sneudaira. Also Adolphus Glanz Elmer Glanz and others face an execution notice with attorneys Man & Man.
W F Lunt and the Board of United States General Appraisers overruled claims by Alfred H Smith Co and George B Evans Co of New York on the classification and duty for wool powder parts. The Collector set 44 cents per pound and 65 percent ad valorem, while the importers sought 40 percent under brushes. Lemon Bache Co protested excess duty on window glass but lacked supporting evidence and was overruled. Electric Goods Mfg Co of New York had carbon pots taxed 85 percent. board reclassified as porous carbon pots taxed 20 percent and ordered reliquidation. Pots used in electric batteries.
Harry Lehr, Bronx builder, filed plans with the Building Department for two six story apartment houses on 167th Street. One at Jumel Place and the other at Amsterdam Avenue will house about 185 families and cost $185,000 each. Architects are Somerfield & Bteakler.
A marked revival in Queens Borough commerce is reported with normal conditions returning. The Rickert-Finlay Realty Co total sales for the week reach about 4000 dollars as Douglas Manor sees a builder acquire Douglas Point. Other sales include a nine teenth Street residence for 8500 dollars and a two family home for 7000 dollars in Astoria Place. The Realty Syndicate lists multiple Tilford Park plots sold to various individuals, while McCormick Real Estate reports eight plots at Floral Park and eight at Valley Stream changing hands.
John H. Waters sells two and a half acres in Fairview to Adolph Brehm. Edith T. Wood buys a 50 by 100 foot plot on Columbus Place at Firstide Pik. Elizabeth Ritter acquires a 50 by 175 foot plot on Fourth Street Fort Le Samuel. Edsall sells 75 by 200 foot plot on Hillside Avenue Palisades Park. Annie Livingston purchases 50 by 100 foot plot on Grant Avenue Grantwood. William Sinns buys 80 by 88 foot lot at Hudsonace and Palisade Plaza Hudson Heights. Columbia Investment reports sales to Minnie Roland Grove and Highland Aves Grantwood. Clifford Spencer 50 by 100 on Harwood Ave Morsemere. Isabel Morris nine room house Harriet Ave Morse mere. C B Darst 50 by 100 on Fairview Ave Grantwood.
The United Service from Washington reports multiple transfers and duties: Captain E. F. Tilton to consult with the Quartermaster General on construction matters. Lieutenant Colonel J. Fisk named engineer of the Tenth Lighthouse District, relieving H. M. Adams. Captain F. W. Kobba leaves Army School of the Line for his regiment. Captain J. L. Barbour retires to gather evidence for an enlisted man’s trial in Rockport West Virginia. First Lieutenant H. Hering resigns from the Philippine Scouts. Major G. F. Barney and Captain G. T. Scott with Coast Artillery. Lieut. H. L. Martin and Major W. W. Hancock court martial witnesses in Atlanta on Jan. 18. Major W. F. Carter detailed to Fort Monroe board. Captain C. D. Dudley granted ten days leave.
Retired Commander G. Hanus detached to New York nautical schoolship J Marys. Commander W. Low detached to Massachusetts nautical school ship Enterprise. Commander C. N. Atwater assigned to Pennsylvania Nautical School and Sara toga. Lieutenant E. H. Dold to command the Fortune. Ensign K. B. Crittenden to Mare Island for temporary duty. Surgeon R. T. Orvis to St Louis Recruiting Station. Boatswain B. EL press detached to Independence navy yard at Island Cal. Boatswain a Pass detached to Pensacola for cabin station. Machinist J. O'Neil retired to Massachusetts nautical schoolship Enterprise.
Movements list shows vessels arrived at Magdalena Bay and Pernambuco with names Hopkins Hull Stewart Whipple Lawrence Trux ton Hartford Standish Henry at Norfolk. Sailed Tingey for Annapolis and Rocket for Norfolk from Washington. Leonidas and Marcellus ordered placed out of service at Portsmouth New Hampshire navy yard.
A lengthy listing of buyers and representatives from major dry goods companies visiting or purchasing in various cities. Named firms include Mabley & Carew Cincinnati, Emery Bird Thayer Kansas City, Maxwell McClure Fitts Kansas City, Cooper Coates Casey Los Angeles, Behrnitz Behroeder St Louis, Thompson Gibson Williamsport, Woodward Lothrop Washington, Ely Walker St Louis, and more. Vendors and agents such as H J Moble, G H Kraft, B E Schich, Murray Carleton, Smoot & Rogers, and M J Schmidt are noted along with addresses like 16 East Eighteenth Street and 896 Broadway. The item functions as a commerce roundup of buyer activity across multiple markets.
A ten story building called the Hohenzollern at the southwest corner of West End Avenue and Eighty Fourth Street opens as part of a wave of luxury apartments on Riverside Drive. Built and owned by Lorenz and William H Weber the structure sits on two plots of four lots and features single floor ten to twelve room suites.
A commission salesman from the Middle West seeks lines of clothing including cloaks suits and skirts. The note references Box 41 Times at Times Square for contact or pickup.
Deputy Sheriff Porges executed on Taft & Belknap Galleries at 1 East Fortieth Street for 1 022 dollars owed to F J Newcomb Manufacturing. The business closed and had moved around Jan 2. The firm began in 1897 and reformed Jan 9 1906 with 100 000 dollars capital.
Bondholders asked U S Circuit Judge Dodge for a temporary receiver for the Maine Coast Transportation Co. The judge denied the petition but advised reapplication on Monday. The firm operates freight boats between Boston and Astport Maine with intermediate points.
Clarence B. Green, a Chicago sporting man who owned and managed several billiard rooms over fifteen years, filed for bankruptcy yesterday listing liabilities of 52,281 and assets of 61,684.
Debtors listed include Eleanor C. Anthony, D. W. Brown, A Fendheim, H E Benedict, J D Slenk, W Boudreau, G C Ratcheller, H G Chilvers, A Cammerer, W Collins, B Davis, J Fago, Caroline-C Mix, J H Devlin, D Fisier, A Eckstein, A Ford, P Jannelly, M Schefs, J F Ghee and others. Amounts range from small costs to several thousand dollars, with various creditors including Tel Co, Howell-Demarest Co, City of N, and City Ry On.
The record enumerates various debtors and creditors with judgments filed at different dates. Names include Jam Grillo, Itzkowitz, Bell, Storm, ManGrover, Moy, Enma, Rame, Bhaniey, Michael J., Thomas Butler, and Kramer, among others, with amounts ranging from small sums to substantial totals and dates spanning 1905 to 1997. It also references the Swedish and Norwegian Benevolent Society with A Nilson and an April 29 1997 entry for $171.
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