Banking Commissions Hear World Experts on Monetary Systems
The commission heard London bankers and the Bank of England's leaders in detail about the English and French systems. Paris banker Crédit Lyonnais outlined its vast operations and deposits. Senator Aldrich and Prof Andrews travel to Berlin for further data as Washington prepares to report in 1909.
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Daniel
Virginia
Vreeland
New York
Overstreet
Congressional Commission
Europe
National Monetary Commission
England
Germany
France
United States
Longon
Bank of England
London
Foxwell
Great Britain
Bank of
Crédit Lyonnais
Paris
Aldrich
Andrews
Harvard
Berlin
Washington
Congress
Normandie Hotel Revival Sealed by Lease Agreement
The Hotel Normandie at Broadway and 8th Street will stay in hotel use after a 21 year lease of the building's seven upper floors to Louis Harms of New York and Louis Harkel of St. Louis for 700000 in total rent. The first floor and basement will be remodeled into stores. A new foreclosure law allowing suits against the state to recover mortgage debt was enacted as Chapter 284 of 1908 after prior Court of Appeals rulings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
8Th St
Broadway
Louis Harms
Louis Harkel
St. Louis
Herman Wronkow
General Earle
David B. Hill
Normandie
38Th St
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
Bronx
Court of Appeals
Apartment House Sold in Trade to Arnold Kaiser
The Sound Realty Company sold a six story elevator apartment house on 99.11x10 foot plots at the northeast corner of 159th street and Broadway to Arnold Kaiser. The Fluri Construction Company built the house. In part payment Kaiser transfers Nos. 56 and 58 Lawrence Street, a six story new law house on a 60 by 100 foot plot between Amsterdam and Morning Side avenues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Sound Realty Company
Arnold Kaiser
159Th St
Broadway
Fluri Construction Company
Kaiser
Lawrence St
Amsterdam
Morningside Aves
Big six story apartment project on 118th Street
Silverson London Construction Co plans a six story speculative building on 118th Street west of Amsterdam Avenue. The brick brickwork facade with limestone trim will house 24 apartment suites. estimated cost is $100,000. Architect named George F. Pelham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silverson-London Construction Company
Amsterdam Ave
George F. Pelham
Dowd to Build Two Five Story Flats on Wadsworth Corner
William J. Dowd plans to invest 110000 to erect two five story flathouses at the southeast corner of Wadsworth avenue and 184th street. Separate plans show a screen coal pocket forty two feet high planned for the J Rheinfrank Company coal storage plant on Avenue D south of 14th et costing 2975.
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William J. Dowd
Wadsworth Ave
184Th St
J. Rheinfrank Company
Avenue D
14Th Et
Business Invades 127th Street With Brownstone Sale
The McKnight Realty Company and J. D. Cronin sold for the Farrington estate to Paul S. Bolger and Fred J. Davison a four story brownstone at the southeast corner of Madison Ave and 127th Street. Parcel size is 18 by 76 feet. The house will be altered into business property, signaling growth of commerce in a previously residential area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKnight Realty Company
J. D. Cronin
Joseph O. Farrington
Paul S. Bolger
Fred J. Davison
Madison Ave
127Th St
Foreclosure Sale Nets Varuna Apartment House Sale
Julius Braun bought the Varuna apartment house at 14 and 18 Vesey Street in a foreclosure in the Real Estate Exchange salesrooms. The ten story building at the northeast corner of St. and Broadway sold for 155,450 with about 50,000 due and a 150,000 mortgage. Additional offerings included multiple Edgecombe Avenue properties and other urban parcels with varied eight and six story brick tenements and taxes listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius Braun
Real Estate Exchange
Vesey St
Varuna
St. St
Broadway
Joseph P. Day
Edgecombe Ave
145Th St
State Bank
William L. O'Connor Sells Fairholm at 503 to 507 West 121st
William L. O'Connor sold the Fairholm a six story elevator apartment house on a 75 by 95.11 foot plot at 503 to 507 West 121st Street. The property adjoins the northwest corner of Amsterdam Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William L. O'Connor
Fairholm
Amsterdam Ave
Realty Notes Rentals and Purchases Lead Realty Brokers
Folsom Brothers rent No. 149 East 18th Street a three story private house to C. B. MacDonald for occupancy under a term. Simon & Atlas sell seventy eight Westhampton Long Island lots to a client for immediate bungalow development. They also sell No. 41 Underhill Avenue Brooklyn a four story tenement on a 27.6 by 77 foot lot.
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Folsom Brothers
East 18Th St
C. B. MacDonald
Simon & Atlas
Edward and
Elvira Frank
Westhampton
Long Island
Underhill Ave
Brooklyn
Real Estate Transfers Including Brooklyn Flats and East 70th St Lots
E. T. Newman sold for Lillian Waddingham to a client the Alexandra apartments Nos 477 and 47924 st Brooklyn a five story double brownstone plot 44x90 ft. John Tilly No 474 1st st between Seventh and Eighth aves a three story basement dwelling with extension. Leonard Moody Real Estate Company sold to Specter Miller Company ten lots on East 70th St near Avenue U for seventeen brick houses. The buyers also recently purchased twenty Avenue U lots they are improving with similar dwellings.
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E. T. Newman
Lillian Waddingham
Alexandra
Brooklyn
Mr. Newman
John Tilly
1St St
Seventh
Eighth Aves
Leonard Moody Real Estate Company
Specter-Miller Company
East 70Th St
Avenue U
Mercury Injections Used At Navy Hospital For Tuberculosis
Navy Surgeon Barton Lisle Wright reports in The New York Medical Journal that mercury injections for tuberculosis at Fort Lyon Colorado naval hospital show patient improvement. Of 196 in care, 65 volunteer injections, 41 decline. 12 officers live in repaired houses, enlisted in open air wards or tents. officers’ education aids adherence.
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United States Naval Hospital
New Fort Lyon
Colorado
Barton Lisle Wright
Navy
New York Medical Journal
State Knights In Conclave Opens At Niagara Falls
The ninety fifth annual Grand Commandery Knights Templar of New York opened at Niagara Falls with a parade led by a massed band. About fifteen hundred uniformed knights from cities across the state attended, and numerous ladies accompanying the knights were present.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Knights Templar
New York
Insurance chiefs urge Provident policyholders board control
A letter from fourteen state insurance department heads to Arthur G. Langham, new president of the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society, asks policyholders be allowed to elect at least five directors. The letter, written during a Detroit convention, argues public confidence lies in policyholder influence over governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur G. Langham
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
the Provident
Detroit
Langham
Fts
Grave fears for steamship Zon missing near July 6 departure
San Francisco reports grave fears for the British steamer Zon missing since leaving port July 6 for Sydney via Apia and Auckland. Reinsurance at 50 percent suggests possible damage but not confirmed loss. ten passengers aboard include the wife of Lieutenant Riddle and Chaplain and Mrs Patrick bound for Pago Pago. The incident involves alleged violation of port law by passengers.
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San Francisco
Zon
Sydney
Apia
Auckland
Riddle
U. S&s
U. S&s., and Chaplain and Mrs. Patrick
Pago Pago
Plans Filed for Sixteen Story Renaissance Office Building
Plans filed for a sixteen story fireproof office building at 1182 Broadway adjoining Hotel Breslin replacing part of the Sturtevant House landmark. The Renaissance brick structure with limestone and terra cotta trim features a Doric columned entrance and Doric pilasters atop stories, with an ornate cornice. Erected for Century Holding Company at an estimated cost of $500000. William L. Rouse is the architect.
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Broadway
Breslin
Sturtevant House
Old New York
Century Holding Company
William L. Rouse
West End Ave Property Deals Reach Investors
Goodale and Son sold a five story dwelling on a 20x feet plot at 98th Street and West End Ave to Robert Alexander, an investor. The building hosts a private school. Slawson and Hobbs sold two five story double apartment houses at 84 and 86 West End Ave on a 00x100 foot plot to A. Rudd Ward’s client as an investment.
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B. Goodale & Son
Robert Alexander
98Th St
West End Ave
Slawson & Hobbs
West End
A. Rudd Ward
Estate Sells 50th Street Brownstone Home
Payson McL Merrill sold for the estate of Albert T Kelley a four story brownstone at No 20 West 50th Street on a 24 by 1 1/2 foot lot. The new owner will remodel the property into an American basement house.
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Payson McL. Merrill
Albert T. Kelley
West 50Th St
Real Estate Transactions in Manhattan Brokerage Market
Douglas Robinson and others sold four and one third lots at Hoe and Westchester Aves for Benjamin Tucker. Slawseon and Hobbs moved a West 95th Street three story dwelling to Annie Davis. Ralston sold 318 West 76th Street a three story dwelling on 20 by 102.2 feet. Huberth and Gabel sold for the Carpenter estate a four story flat at 328 East 30th Street. Simon and Atlas sold two six story apartment houses at 560 and 562 East 158th Street and Edmund Frank sold a five story flat at 98 Jackson Avenue. Louis Reiss sold 28 East 161st Street to a Mr. McArdie for Perinamacoor and Myar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Robinson
Charles S. Brown
Edmund Frank
Jackson
Louis Reiss
Pefinamacoor & Myar
161St St
McArdie
Plans to convert stable 112 116 West 62d into storage warehouse
Plans filed to alter four story stable No 112 to 116 West 62d street into a storage warehouse with elevators. Change of occupancy for Ruth A Wallace as owner at a cost of $11000. Edwin Rossbach is the architect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth A. Wallace
Edwin Rossbach
Moving Picture House To Become Concert Hall At Essex Street
Change of occupancy filed by Stein and Weiss as lessees for the No 133 Essex street site to convert the moving picture amusement show into a concert hall. D Felix Townsend listed as owner. Plans show fireproof dressing rooms for Nos 120 and 122 East Mth street for Joseph Raldenberger owner. Architects Irving Markowitz and Lorenz F Weiher Jr.
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Essex St
Stein & Weiss
D. Felix Townsend
East Mth St
Joseph Raldenberger
Irving Markowitz
Lorenz F. J. Weiher, Jr
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Trip
Congress Commission
America
Hotel Algonquin
West 44Th St
New York City
Frank M. Case, JR
Touraine
East 89Th ST
Lucerne
West
79Th ST
A . Adison Ave
Meciks
Otel Frederick
56Th ST
Voth Street
Ae Martinique
B Way
Gibbs & Kirby. Brosswey
Phe Hargrave
Hprman SQ
B'Way
71St ST
Ruland & Whiting CO. Real Estate
Beekman ST
Tribune
Hudson
Dobbbs Ferry
Esther Wood
Armour
J. Connelly
Dobbs Ferry
Brose War
REMCO
8Th Street
Nassau St
15Th St
Columbus Eve
W. H B
Country Property
Bound Broak
N. J
Watchung Mountains
Ellett
Brophey
Grendy
Danbury
Conn
Clark Estate
Broseway
Majestic St. Nicholas Avenue & BE. Cor
DU Bois & Taylor
146Th St
Co Bownette
West List Street
A. P. Coburn
Courtenay
Central Park
Milano
Steproof
58Th St
Park Ave
Robert
Dale Compton
Fifth Ave
M'Knight Realty CO
5Th Ave
Mpue Langham
Central Park West
Hotel Belleclaire
T7th ST
Riverside Drive
Kenilworth
Cor
75Th St
THE
Berkshire
the Apthorp
West 18Th St
Wood &O
Slet Et
Legant
Lenox Hill
East
J. Braun
Vesey Street
Hugh D. Smyth
151St St
Murphy
G Landi
HA Knox
Atty
J T Brady
Joseph P Day
Sherman Ave
Hawthorne St
Alexander
O'Brien
Alexander & A
S Bevins
Villa
van Cortlandt
Allerman Coagt
Pistone
Dutton & K
Attys
State Knights
Provident Life Board
City OF
Bell System
New York Telephone Co
50Th ST. House
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