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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1906
Page
15
Capital paid in cash totals 1,504,000 dollars in real estate dealings across New York Washington and Chicago. The figures indicate major cash investments and indicate active markets in these cities during the period.
Colonel Anthony R. Kuser discloses that Senator John F. Dryden plans to seek re election to the Senate from New Jersey. Support from Gov Edward C. Stokes ex Governor Franklin Murphy Senator Bradley and Senator Kean is cited plus a vigorous statewide campaign after Congress adjourns.
Four people were thrown into the North River when the tender to the auxiliary yacht Dione capsized near Fifth Street. Miss Bessie Hoopes drowned after being struck and sinking. Others rescued to Washington Heights Hospital included Charles Conway Miss Madge Zenner Ray Ridee and Walter Anderson. The Dione owned by Dr C C Halgreen had started from the Brooklyn Yacht Club. The engine failed on the return trip prompting the mishap.
A city mass meeting in New Rochelle drew about six hundred attendees after a circulated notice went late and partly failed to reach voters. The leaflet, mailed in New York, claimed Columbus Dowell Keelin’s finance report showed city bankruptcy risk and prompted calls for a formal investigation.
The First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue and 11th Street hosted yesterday’s observance of the 200th anniversary of the first Presbytery in America. The event featured addresses by Rev. Dr. David G. Wylie, Rev. Dr. Howard Duffield, Rev. Dr. Hunter Corbett, Rev. Dr. William Henry Roberts, and Rev. Dr. K. Moffatt.
Mrs. Jennie Lister of East L224 street walked her nine year old son William last night. While crossing Third avenue at 124 street the boy dodged behind a northbound surface car and was struck by a southbound car. The fender pinned him briefly causing a slight scalp wound. He was sent home.
Four year old Irving Furst son of Philip Furst of 1444 Park Avenue was run over and killed by a furniture van driven by Thomas Wade of 216 Fort Wayne Street. Wade fled in fright after the accident in sight of the mother, but was arrested two Pete? later.
Public auction in Owego sold the old dwelling on the site of a proposed new school building. Predo HM secured the bid under terms that referenced the state of the sale. The purchase was listed as for a client, with the seller omitted.
Brooklyn carpenters refuse to return to work over pay demand of 450 dollars a day amid a citywide dispute with the Master Carpenters' Association of Manhattan. Justice Gaynor's award to 487 men at four dollars a day until July 1 contrasts with 3,500 independent Brooklyn carpenters earning 450, threatening a broader lockout tomorrow.
Miss Lucille Jacobs alleges Edward Warendorff assaulted her on Central Park West near 67th Street after he persistently tried to talk. She struck him, he punched back, a crowd of about fifty men restrained him until Detective Devanner arrested Warendorff at West 68th Street station.
Justice Giegerich reserved decision on the New York Westchester and Boston Railway Company request to occupy 1.75 acres along Boston Post Road and White Plains Road at Mount Vernon to finish the line, part of a 32 acre Astor estate tract. Trustees James B Roosevelt and Douglas Robinson value the land at about $8,000 per acre but demand at least $129,000 total. Milburn represents the estate trustees arguing for full value.
Financiers push into fire insurance with two new firms. The Cosmopolitan Fire Insurance Company of New York began operations yesterday with Adolph Loeb as president, capital of $500,060 and a surplus of $250,030. The Fidelity Fire Insurance Company lists William H. Moore, George F. Baker, and Henry Evans among its incorporators.
Morris Evans of 191 Central Avenue Brooklyn was crushed to death in the Pennsylvania Railroad East River tunnel at 32d Street and First Avenue. He and a crew were guiding a two ton steel tube when a derailed chain slipped, pinning him to the shaft floor.
Vincenzo Trinscot and Angelo de Vincenzo were arrested on charges of attempting to extort 500 from Salvatore Casso, a shoe maker on Second Avenue. Casso received threatening letters in late May and early June promising vengeance by The Black Hand and damage to his shop if the money was not produced. Police stopped the scheme after a visible confrontation at the shop, with Det Sgt Petrosino assigned to the case.
Charles Gordon a railroad clerk was instantly killed at the Bay street yard of the Pennsylvanian Railroad in Jersey City last night when a blazing freight car containing carboys of vitriol exploded. A fragment pierced his head as he stood about twenty feet away leaning against another car. Gordon aged thirty five resided at East Hamilton Place and Sh street leaving a family.
Charles F. Thayer was re elected Mayor of Norwich by a 93 vote majority over Zebulon R. Robbins Republican. The victory secures his Democratic nomination for Governor. The Republican campaign was the strongest fight Thayer faced in Norwich.
A Telegraph report from Wilmington Delaware dated June 4 states that about six Italian anarchists of sixty who escaped Baltimore under immigration surveillance are believed to be in Wilmington. It adds that many others have gone to Paterson New Jersey. A Secret Service officer from the Baltimore Immigration Bureau is in Wilmington seeking the men. Government officials in Washington want to learn the whereabouts of the entire group.
Riverhead saloonkeepers act as detectives to stop bootlegging. In Brookhaven nearby, two proprietors report a drop in trade and lead to the arrest of Frank Krotobe, a Bohemian cigar dealer, accused of selling beer from a private club supply.
Douglas Robinson and Brown & Co sold five blocks bounded by Broadway Harlem Ship Canal and 218th street to the American Real Estate Company. Tract east of Wonderland parcel spans about 300 lots with 900 feet canal frontage for just over 1 million dollars. A. E. Thomason sold NE corner 125th street and Madison Avenue site to Harry Levey, who plans a modern building. Other transfers include properties on 125th, Morningside, Chrystie and Park Place, with plans for redevelopment or new structures. Auction at Town Dock Road netted 212,000 dollars.
Several important real estate deals closed in Long Island City yesterday. Bertha Volkenning sold to Edward B. Tompkins and Robert F. Fischer a land plot with a frontage of 2% feet on the East River, on the west side of Mill street, near the southerly side of the proposed Franklin street extension in Astoria. The property houses Rob ert H. Reid & Co marble and onyx works and reportedly fetched 35000 dollars, with a mortgage of 15000 dollars to the Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn. Additionally sixty four lots in a block and a half between Thomson and Greenpoint avenues were sold by Frederick A. Phelps to Charles L. Petrie for 32000 dollars, sale subject to a mortgage.
Maguire and Co lease the building under construction at 1989 Broadway between 6th and 7th Streets to Lillie L. Toptitz for occupancy by the Darracq Motor Car Company. The arrangement transfers use of the property as the motor company moves into the new premises.
Plans filed for a five story private dwelling for Robert Brewster at the southeast corner of Park Ave and Wilh St. The 35 by 76.2 foot house includes a basement and attic, granite first story with Indiana limestone above, a central street entrance, and a cartouche on the second story. Estimated cost is 150000 dollars. Architects Delano and Aldrich. Also notes Realty Auctioneers' by laws limiting commissions to half of 1 percent and prohibiting fee sharing with other firms, affecting sales of Rt. Joseph Orphan Asylum lots.
Multiple properties change hands in a flurry of five and six story tenement and flat houses. Listings include Nos. 3220 and East 541 st two new six story flat houses and a six story triple flat with store at No 168th Street West 168th Street. Several buyers take on plots near Riverside Drive Columbus Avenue and White Plains Road while others purchase East 67th Street and East 18th Street tenements.
No 1483 Madison avenue a five story apartment house with dimensions 20.2 by 1L2 feet Max Marx buys from Albert H Atterbury three six story tenement houses on a plot 74.3 by lw feet at the southwest corner of Seventh avenue and gust J Romaine Brown sells a plot 25 by 200 feet on the east side of Riverside Drive extending to Claremont avenue 200 feet south of 122nd street
A long list of voluntary and estate auctions led by Bryan L Kennelly and James L Wells. Properties include multiple dwellings and vacant lots across Madison Ave 1321, Central Park West vicinity, Broadway area, 168th Street corridor, Dyckman, and West End Long Branch NJ. Listings feature 2 to 4 story dwellings, triangular plots, frontages, and irregular parcels with stated dimensions and block fronts.
Auction notices recap multiple properties sold by D P Ingraham Co and Parish Fisher Co. at various addresses near Vesey Street Van Cortlandt Park South and Jerome Avenue with total proceeds and taxes listed. several parcels convey to buyers including William Crawford Jacob Leltner Frederick Haas John Honn Kate Norton and others. Remaining lots of the tract were withdrawn.
The list records transfers and mortgages with various parties and properties. Rodolfo G Barthold et al transfer to Williem G De Witt for 16000. Simon Wacheman to Jacob Blanner for 48000. Edward R Hewitt mortgage 8500. Mechanics and Traders Realty to Isaac Irving Place. Annie Berger to Henry R Stern 35000. other executors and parcels cited with multiple street numbers and units. hospital figures noted as 1009 and 97000 in a dense, OCR damaged entry.
Summit Ave and Fixth St MN corner 25 by 100. Manhattan Mortgage Co loans Mary A Let 279 map of Section A Wyse estate Bronx NY and Suburban Co operative Greenbaum Intervale Ave s 169th St area. Building and Loan Association loans Samuel W 100 by 87. James M Wentz with Arch Beaty and Elmer A Allen loans Annie F Macken 21000 5000.
Plans show a four story brick school on Daly Ave near 177th Street with a 439 foot depth, for owner John B Kerby and architect. a five story and tenement house on Park Avenue corner with distinct street address. a brick store building at 7th Street with Nicholas Conforti as owner and architect. Total value listed as $75,000 with partial figures.
A ledger of satisfied mechanics liens with dates from 1905 to 1908, naming various parties and defendants. Entries include Goulds Manufacturing Company versus Title Guarantee and Trust Company, the Butchers Dressed Beef Company, Willson Adams & Company versus New York Dressed Meat Company, and others. Locations span West 39th Street, Central Park West, and East 3rd Street, with monetary figures and case numbers noted.
Mechanics liens list multiple properties and parties including George Huber agent and Charlie Schwab owner at 734 and 74th streets West End and Riverside avenues. Patrick W. Finn contractor. amounts shown such as 826 85 at 127th Street. Marston Lumber Co against Louis Cohen. Arthur McGonagle Co against Frederick Potter trustees and Excelsior Repair and Supply Co. Aitken Construction Co against George Sterneckert. George Vassar Jr against Hebrew Technical School for Girls. Selig Elf not against Herman Lance. totals include 1,800 00 at 84th Avenue 1201 and other sums.
A compilation of property addresses and parties including Herbert Realty Company Hyman B Goldberg Campbell Supply Rebecca Crane Mendel Alterman Ida Bernstein Goldfogle Ono Rudot Schreiber Releman Adama J B Kerman Henrietta Hirsch Tanac Roth and others, detailing actions to enforce mechanics liens vendee liens foreclosures and partition and lease cancellations. Notable locations include 108th Street near Park Avenue 125x91 and Lenox Avenue area with multiple mortgage foreclosures and ownership disputes. The list cites numerous attorneys and involved parties across Manhattan and Bronx locales.
Yesterday filings show judgments against Adams George B Hartford Suspension Company and numerous others including Appleton William H Hofftin J Dwin Brown Louis H, Siegel Barry John J O K Dimock et al, New York Telephone Company, Manhattan Woollen Company, Standard Marble Works and J Plgisehia among many. Names span individuals and businesses with amounts noted beside each entry.
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