Gown Sale at Custom House Nets High Bid
A Seized Goods sale at the United States Custom House drew bidders for gowns and lace robes. J Lichtenstein paid 359 dollars for a Brussels lace net robe, the top bid as collectors and dressmakers battled over the limited stock. Attendance was small with dealers bidding sparingly and total proceeds far below appraised value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bol” Lichtenstein
United States
Custom House
Marshal Henkel
Mr. Lichtenstein
Resemaker
Brooklyn
New York
Fashion Notes on Bathing Styles and Swimming Clubs
A London era column previews summer bathing fashion with Dutrectoire dresses, satin Neapolitan caps, and Grecian style shoes. It highlights rising interest in swimming among London women, new clubs including City of London Ladies Club, and praise for Miss Lillian Smith as a swimming advocate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bath Club
City of London Ladies
Lillian Smith
Daily Mirror
Miss Smith
After Graduation What Next for the College Woman
Ruth Cranston profiles post college careers for women, praising stenography and private secretary roles for capable graduates. She notes tea rooms in college towns can prosper, cites a $7,900 yearly example, and points to specialty shops, ad writing, department stores, and even flower culture and poultry farming as viable paths with initial capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Cranston
Ord
Cornell
Y W C A Summer School Opens For Girls
The Young Women's Christian Association starts a summer school of recreation at 7 East 18th Street on Tuesday June 15 at 8 pm. It teaches shop and factory girls leisure skills like shirtwaist making baskets crochet and knit and embroider. They sing dance and perform a small play at season end. Monday evenings feature entertainments and on Tuesdays there is a service of song and Bible study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Young Women’s Christian Association
East 18Th Street
Flower Mission Appeals for Help and Donations
The New York Flower Mission invites weekly donations of flowers fruit and delicacies for the sick and hospitals and tenement houses. It operates Mondays and Thursdays at 104 East 11th Street and seeks volunteer helpers. Express shipments are offered free within 100 miles for boxes under 20 pounds and should depart from the country early each morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hats and Shoes Set Fashion for Khaki In Vogue
The vogue for khaki gowns drives popularity of black hats and shoes. Hats, shoes, and hose contrast with the costume. dark blue outfits may feature cerise piping with black accessories. Black gloves and gray suede, plus silk and lace, complete the season’s lingerie look.
Box pleated dress for little girls in multiple styles
The Tribune Pattern describes a box pleated dress with the body and skirt in one. It can feature a sailor collar with shield, a square Dutch neck, or a high standing collar. Sleeves vary from long to short and fabric options include white linen with rose color bands.
Pattern No 6320 for Girls Dresses with Sailor Collar
The notice describes a dress pattern No 6.320 for girls ages four six eight and ten with options for fabrics such as Jawn batiste poplin linen and chambray. It lists material quantities for size eight and offers mailing details from the Pattern Department New York Tribune and pattern price and postage options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New-York Tribune
Trouble at Nassau Hospital on Long Island
Nassau Hospital Association executives recommend Dr Lanehart resign as head of the staff due to his new role as chief surgeon at Freeport’s South Side Hospital. The medical board rejected the recommendation. Mrs Belmont, a founder and board member, may retire after returning from abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. H. P. Belmont
South Side Hospital
Nassau Hospital Association
Lanehart
Controversy Over Yellow Peril At Charity Conference
The thirty sixth national conference of charities and correction in Buffalo debated immigration and how far authorities should break up or keep families when vice and crime exist. W A Gates warned of rising oriental immigration and the China and Japan influence, while Cyrus L Sulzberger challenged white complicity in the slave trade of oriental women. The session included remarks on immigration routes, land purchases by Japanese capital, and the need to deny oriental immigration to preserve American ideals.
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Buffalo
National Conference of Charities and Correction
W. A. Gates
Board of Charities of
San Francisco
Mr. Gates
Japan
United States
Great Britain
British Columbia
Mexico
Canada
Mr. Sulzberger
Mott and Pell
New York
Pacific
Republic
War on White Slave Traffic Escalates Deportations
Washington reports officials intensified efforts to curb the white slave trade under immigration law. From January to May, 82 white slaves and 15 procurers were deported, then 32 and 6 in April, and 34 and 7 in May, totaling 1 white slave and 8 procurers for five months, with most arrests in New York Seattle and Montreal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Nagel
New York
Seattle
Montreal
Freak Bid Nets City Tax Liens at Arrears Sale
At City Hall a freak bid of one nineteenth of 1 percent bought Lien 635 on a fast 2d street lot used as an alley. About 100 liens were sold totaling $40 000 in value with average bids about 6 1/2 percent, below owner payments. Moynahan directed no liens against charities be sold without notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mannados Realty Company
Essex Street
Stanton Street
Bowery
Chrystie Street
Daniel Moynahan
Department of Arrears
Battery Dan Finn Frees Saloon Poker Players
Magistrate Battery Dan Finn discharged Hans Siegel and seven others charged with an innocent game of poker in the rear of a Ludlow Street saloon. He warned that prosecuting the poor deprives them of simple pleasures and could leave a population unable to work or defend itself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan’ Finn
Essex Market Court
Hans Siegel
No. 17
Ludlow Street
Alliance Co Buys Site on East 35th Street in Midtown
The Alliance Realty Company led by president William H. Chesebrough purchased from Mrs. Louis Fitzgerald a four story dwelling with brick stable on a 7,200 square foot plot at the southeast corner of 35th Street and Lexington Avenue. S. Osgood Pell & Co. were brokers. Also sold were parcels on 114th Street near Amsterdam Avenue to Hennessey Realty Company, and a West 31st and West 32d Street bundle to Vernon Brown for a planned twelve story building. A Steinway factory property on Park Avenue between 52d and 53d streets, with surrounding lots, was acquired by a syndicate headed by E. C. Potter, with Steinway & Sons retaining possession under a long term contract for about a year.
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Alliance Realty Company
William H. Chesebrough
Louis Fitzgerald
35Th Street
Lexington Avenue
S. Osgood Pell & Co
M. Monahan
114Th Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Hennessey Realty Company
Joseph Polstein
113Th Street
Broadway
Charles A. Weber
Leo Levinson
Elton Avenue
P. Connelly
156Th Street
Park Avenue
J. Romaine Brown & Co
Mary H. Cammack
Steinman
West 31St Street
Vernon
Brown
Arena
W. ©. Muschenheim
52D Street
53D Street
Steinway & Sons
S. S. McClure Company
Long Island City
Queensboro Bridge Plaza
Steinways
Walker Street
Receivers of Rents Named in Foreclosure Actions
Justice Guy names William G. Masserami receiver of rents for 34 West 136th Street six story brick building in a second mortgage foreclosure suit brought by Siciilian Stokes Gillespie against Max Lurie and others. Jacob Katz appointed receiver of rents for Edgecombe avenue and 142nd street property in a third mortgage foreclosure by George Kitt against Emma Cohn and others. Prior mortgages total 35 000 and 24 000 respectively.
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Justice Guy
Supreme Court
William G. Masserami
West 136Th Street
Siciilian Stokes Gillespie
Max Lurie
Jacob Katz
Edgecombe Avenue
142D Street
George Kitt
Emma Cohn
Daniel E. Seyfel Buys Putnam House in Manhattan
Daniel E. Seyfel becomes owner of the Putnam House properties at 369 to 373 Fourth Avenue and 10 and 11 East 28th Street. The sale occurred Wednesday through the Putnam Holding Company via John N. Golding for about 8010. The site fronts 49.4 feet on Fourth Avenue and 41.10 feet on 26th Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel E. Seyfel
Fourth Avenue
East 28Th Street
Putnam Holding Company
John N. Golding
Fourth Avenues
26Th Street
Foreclosure sale planned for New Weston Hotel site
The New Weston Hotel, a twelve story building at Madison Avenue and 49th Street, is to be sold early next month in foreclosure by Joseph P. Day. Knickerbocker Trust Co and others seek a first mortgage totaling about 170.0 with back taxes of 21.0. The property is leased to the New Weston Hotel Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Weston
Madison Avenue
49Th Street
Joseph P. Day
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Forty-ninth Street
Madison Avenue Company
New Weston Hotel Company
Tower Building Foreclosure Auction Today in New York
Real estate sale by Brian L. Kennedy at the Real Estate Exchange rooms Nos 14 and 16 Vesey Street includes parcels on Broadway and New Street with two thirds of the purchase price allowed to remain on bond for years. The foreclosed property carries back taxes of 42000 and a first mortgage over 1067090 to New York Life Insurance Company amid multiple prior liens and extensive tenant parcels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brian L. Kennedy
Real Estate Exchange
Vesey Street
Broadway
New Street
New York Life Insurance Company
Broadway and
New Street Realty Company
Supreme Court OF New York
Exchange
Borough Manhattan
City of New York
New York
Building Loan Contracts From Fragments of a City Ledger
The record lists multiple loan transactions with names such as Edward Hirsh, Henry Acker, Max J Kramer, Telia G Levi, Joseph Hammershing, George Dally, John A Carlson, Alexander Iff, and Foxvale Realty Co. against properties along streets like Broadway, Longwood Ave, St Nicholas Ave, Irvine St, and Seneca Ave with various lot sizes and mortgage arrangements. Details are incomplete and partly garbled, but show a pattern of secured loans and real estate collateral across several blocks.
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Prospect Are
Edward Hirsh
Henry Acker
Norfolk St
John A Carlson
Jane
Kelly St
Longwood Ave
Foxvale Realty Co
St Nicholas Ave
Alexander
Iff Operating
Seneca Ave
Irvine St
Kellwood Realty
16Th St
Broadway
Joseph Hammershing
George Daily
Tohn A Carlson
Real Estate Market Sees Multiple City Transactions Reported
Tucker Speyers Co sells 162 Lexington Ave. Joseph Hafner moves 31 West 34th St two four story dwellings. William Somers transfers Classons Point Rd plot. Dowling sells 107 East 40th St four story home. Weiss Co sells Tremont Heights lot 77 and Cedric Park map parcels. Lorillard estate sells 383 38 West Broadway and 69 71 Wooster. Cohen and partners acquire multiple buildings. Schnelle Locker move 313 315 East 8th St flats. Cox sells vacant lot 2112 Hughes Ave. Crotona Park North plot to Cook for improvement. Shatzkin sells 222nd St parcels to multiple buyers. Palazzolo and Orzo acquire parcels on 222nd and 217th streets.
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Tucker, Speyers & Co
Henry Meyers
Lexington Avenue
Joseph Hafner
34Th Street
William Somers
Classons Point Road
Tacoma Street
F. N. Dowling
Frederic Allien
40Th A Street
F. M. Weiss & Co
Tremont Heights
Lamport Avenue
Rosedale Lane
Cedric Park
Hershell Street
Butler Place
Davis Brown
Dore Lyon
Glebe Avenue
Parker Avenue
Stephen B. Cross
W. Lent
Lorillard
Cohen
West Broadway
Wooster Street
Huberth & Gabel
Crotona Park
Prospect Avenue
John C. Cook
Abraham Shatzkin
White Plains Road
Barnes Avenue
Provenzano
Faro
Vincenzo Palazzolo
Realty Notes: Farms Sold and Real Estate Board Elections
William F. Jones sold for John B. Cox to George T. Van Riper a twenty two acre farm at St James Long Island near Middle Country Road and Lake Ronkonkoma with a plan to make a country seat. H B Christensen Jr Co sold a 40x100 foot plot at 29th Street Franconia Avenue Flushing to Patrick and Mary McKenna. O'Hara and Lummis elected to the Real Estate Board of Brokers. associates include Wise Lemendorfer Carrére Rutledge Cone Hill and Wetten presidents of boards in Detroit Cleveland New Orleans St Louis Minneapolis Seattle Chicago.
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William F. Jones
John B. Cox
George T. van Riper
St. James
Long Island
St James
Middle Country
Lake Ronkonkoma
Alexandria Avenue
Brown's Road
H. B. Christensen
29Th Street
Franconia Avenue
Flushing
Broadway
18Th Street
Peter O'Hara
Benjamin R. Lummis
Real Estate Board of Brokers
Lester E. Wise
Detroit Real Estate Board
Julius Lemendorfer
Cleveland Real Estate Board
Ernest A. Carrére
New Orleans Auction Exchange
Leases Grand Street Building to Multiple Firms
J Clifford Moore Co leases six story basement factory at 10 Grand Street to Box Board and Lining Co for Alexander Levett. William H Sweeney Manufacturing Co rents 15000 sq ft in new concrete building at Main and Water Streets Brooklyn to Stransky Co. Adolph Raudnitz Co leases 20000 sq ft at 7th and Grand Streets Hoboken to Oriental Rug Refinishing Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Clifford Moore & Co. (Inc
Alexander Levett
Box Board and Lining Company
M Grand Street
William H. Sweeney
7Th and Grand Streets
Hoboken
Caldwell Sale Buys 100 Acres Baldwin Tract
Frederick L. Heller and John S. Eveline bought about 100 acres of the Baldwin tract at Caldwell New Jersey for approximately 700 dollars per acre, the total around seventy thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick L. Heller
John S. Eveline
Caldwell
N. J
Baldwin
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Orient
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Heymann
2D Ave
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Turner
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Tenmt
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Sith St
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Lexington
Hermandesz
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B'nai Brith
Sarah Goldsteine
T Brady
FEA Gardiner
Hughes Ave
Nettle Robertson
Magdalena Marx
Wecheler & FR
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I. J. Phillipe & T O
Hariem
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Champion Contracting Co
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Division St
Imo
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City
Murray Hill
Madison and
Park Avenues
Renwick C. “Hurry & CO
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Country Property
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N. Y
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Rector
Adirondacks
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Greenwood Ave
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Lackawanna Road
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Navy Department
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Commissioner of Immigration
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Roslyn, Long Island
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Hong
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Centric
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W.C. Reeves & & CO
St. N
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West NT
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Nantasket
RED Bank Line
Franklin St
N. R
Ham
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Vendome
Commonwealth Avenue
BF Cc. H. Greenleaf & Co
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Sth Ave
Sienta
DO. P. Hathaway
Berlitz School OF Languages
Madison Square
Harlem
Livingston
Asbury Park
American and Foreign Teachers” Agency
Avi Mies
M. J. Young-Fulton
Union Square
John F. Yawger
Metropolitan Surety Company
William Street
Borough of Manhattan
Edward R. Finch
U Street
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