Navy Yard Contends with Brooklyn Land Pressure
From The Tribune Bureau Washington September 21 authorities at the Brooklyn navy yard face land shortages hindering expansion and a planned dumping wharf near Little Street and Commercial Street. Brooklyn Union Gas occupies valuable frontage with no recent rent, prompting possible action by Washington to protect the yard and inform Congress next session.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Greater Brooklyn Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Navy Department
Brooklyn Union Gas Company
Little Street
Commercial Street
Congress
Brooklin Yard
Tiny fleet starts round horn to warn Pacific mariners
Six lighthouse boats and tenders, led by Captain Albert T. Mertz of the U.S. Navy, begin a 15,60 mile voyage around South America to map danger spots along the upper western coast. The fleet plans to follow the route of the battleship fleet and aim for San Francisco in about four months.
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Pacific
United States
South America
Albert T. Mertz
U.S. N
San Francisco
Public school course trains saleswomen in smiling salesmanship
In East 41st Street a class at Public School No 27 begins a two year program on smiling and studying customers to boost sales. Miss Diana Hirschler leads the program promising genuine enthusiasm and teaching how to assist customers and explain product value. The course may influence personal prospects as well, with a one year certificate awarded after the first year.
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East 41St Street
Third Avenue
Diana Hirschler
Miss Hirschler
TWO GOULD CASES IN SAME COURT
In the Supreme Court yesterday Justice Giegerich heard motions in the Howard Gould divorce case and adjourned the hearing to October 1. Mrs. Gould seeks $12000 yearly alimony and $1080 counsel fees while she already receives about 3500 annually. Cornelius Sullivan urged a one month adjournment. Clarence Shearn pressed for immediate support citing Mrs. Gould’s misery from agents hired by the defendant. A second divorce suit against Frank J. Gould was set for October 2 to clarify the complaint.
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Howard Gould
Supreme Court
Giegerich
Frank J. Gould
Ashland man shoots sweetheart in Portsmouth quarrel
Clarence Richardson of Ashland Ohio shot and killed his sweetheart Lydia Corbin in Portsmouth after a quarrel. He fired two shots one grazing behind her left ear. Richardson fled as bloodhounds were put on his trail.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
Clarence Richardson
Ashland
Lydia Corbin
Richardson
Stewart to face retirement board over disability
Washington reports Colonel William F. Stewart of the coast artillery will appear before a retiring board in Washington to determine his disability and its line of duty origin after a Fort Huachuca examination found him nearly blind in one eye and with heart trouble. Brigadier General W P Hall leads the board.
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Washington
William F. Stewart
Coast Artillery
Fort Grant
Arizona
Wright
Stewart
Fort Huachuca
Roosevelt
W. P. Hall
Fort Barrancas
Florida
Department
War Department
St. Francis Barracks
St. Augustine
Fla
Colonel Stewart
Senate
Rayner
Maryland
Morton to surrender after Philadelphia arrest note swindle charge
George N. Morton, freed in Philadelphia after a fugitive arrest, will surrender to Assistant District Attorney Kindleberger in Jersey City. He faces an indictment for larceny of 10,000 tied to notes from Hopper Morgan Co Rochester. Judge Audenried criticized the charges as flimsy and NY law vagaries.
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George N. Morton
Philadelphia
Kindleberger
John H. Taylor
Morton
Jersey City
Rodger Morgan
Hopper-Morgan Company
Rochester
Tribune
Audenried
Common Pleas Court
New York
District Attorney's Office
Four Hurt In Gas Explosion On Hudson Street Hoboken
A gas main leak caused a blast on Hudson Street Hoboken injuring four men: Benjamin Brasch William Fass Jr Robert Grascha and George Topsy. The blast shattered windows flooded the area and shut water mains while the men were taken to St Marys Hospital. Topsy faces loss of vision in one eye but all are expected to recover. Brasch detected the gas smell and lit a match triggering the explosion.
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Hudson Street
Hoboken
Benjamin Brasch
William Fass, Jr
Robert Grasch
Garden Street
George Topsy
Topsy
Brasch
Servaces
No. 126
Fess
Grosch
St. Mary's Hospital
Brewmasters Convene in Albany for 20th Annual Meeting
The twentieth annual convention of the United States Brewmasters Association opened in Albany with Max Hoefle welcoming delegates. He urged unity against perceived beer enemies as routine business filled the session, a dinner hosted by Mayor Gaus and state officers, and elections set for Wednesday with several hundred delegates attending.
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Albany
United States Brewmasters’ Association
Max Hoefle
Brewmasters’ Association
New York
Hoefle
Gaus
Foreclosure Sale Set for Hotel Gotham
Foreclosure of the Hotel Gotham on a third mortgage of 455000 is scheduled for October 123 by order of the Supreme Court. New management installed August 7 remains secure. Charles Wetherbee and William R Wood lease the hotel from Fifty first Street Company and have Frederick W Wishart as manager. Two prior liens totaling 1950 held by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
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Gotham
Knickerbock Trust Company
Supreme Court
Charles Wetherbee
William R. Wood
Buckingham
Frederick W. Wishart
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Fifty-first Street Company
$175,000 House Sold by Francis B. Robert to Frederick W. White
Real estate deals reported include Francis B. Robert selling No. 12 West 5th Street five story American basement house on a 25 by 100 foot lot for $175,000 to Frederick W. White of Peters, White & Co. The buyer resides near Rockefeller, with Luggenheim at the Hotel St. Regis.
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Francis B. Robert
Daniel Guggenheim
West Sith St
Frederick W. White
Peters, White & Co
John D. Rockefeller
Luggenheim
St. Regis
S. B. Goodale & Son
Josephine Mallee
West 26Th St
7Th
Murphy
Riverside Drive
Ardelle Realty Company
Ralph A. Gushee
Radcliffe & Kelley
East 16Th St
Raffaele Matrazzi
Moore & Landsiedel
West 47Th St
J. W. Ingle
J. Walter Rosenberg
Foreclosure sale yields $44,900 for 43 West 24th Street building
Auction row lists multiple properties offered by Samuel Marx and Joseph P Day at Vesey Street rooms with detailed parcels including 108 Madison Street, 43 Peck Slip, various vacant lots, and five and four story tenements. Debts listed include taxes and mortgage sums. titles by various trustees and attorneys noted.
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West 24Th St
Real Estate Exchange
Vesey St
Herbert E. King
Samuel Marx
Hamilton St
N S
Catharine St
Voxti
Sty Ten
185Th St
Washington Ave
Bassford Ave
James Power
Trus
Decker
Attys
Maxwell Davidson
Joseph P Day
106Th St
Madison
Lewis
Maurice Sandberg
Goldfogle
Adolf Miller
Charles Schwick
A P Wagener
131Th St
S & 100
Amsterdam Ave
Morris Levy
C Clark
Myron Sulzberger
R H Clarke
Broadway
W S
190Th St
Title Ins Co
Conner Et al
A L Westcott
Atty
G H Montague
Baychester Ave
Kingebridge
Gustave Bihldorf
Martha Will
Ferris & R
F S McAvoy
Real estate sales in Hunt's Point and East Harlem area
The brokerage market reports numerous transfers. Hunt's Point Realty sells a 109 by 150 foot plot from Edgewater Road to the Bronx River to John Gallagher. Kurz & Uren handle several trades including a 25 by 110 foot three story dwelling with store at 2 East 146th street and a similar 274 East 144th street property. Arnold, Byrne & Baumann resell two five story flat houses on West End Avenue for Frank Jaeger, with Jaeger having recently bought through the same brokers. Eliza Arnolds sells No 19 City Hall Place, a four story building. F. M. Weiss & Co. move a Parker street lot for Marcus Nathan to Henry Nerenberg and a Glover street plot to Amelia Steinmetz. Marcus Nathan also sells two Chatterton avenue houses to Commercial Finance Company and a Gleason avenue two family house to the same buyer, plus two White Plains Road lots to David Brown. Additional exchanges include a Green avenue plot to George Buckenham via William Purdy and a Mapes avenue neighboring lot sale.
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Hunt’s Point Realty Company
Edgewater Road
Bronx River
John Gallagher
Kurz & Uren
East 146Th St
West End Ave
Mr. Jaeger
Eliza Arnolds
City Hall Place
Deutscher Press Club
F. M. Weiss & Co
Parker Street
Mapes Ave
George Buckenham
William J. Purdy
Interborough Leases City Investing Building Floors
Interborough Rapid Transit Company leases the sixth and twelfth floors of the City Investing Building at Cortlandt street and Broadway for ten years as its main executive offices. Herbert J. Spur negotiated the agreement, which takes effect May 1, with total rental for the term around 1 million dollars.
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Interborough Rapid Transit Company
City Investing
Cortlandt St
Broadway
Herbert J. Spur
Realty Notes Show League of Lease Deals and Purchases
Real estate notices cover F T Barry leasing 73 East 80th Street to George L Shearer and broker G Tuoti Co. Deals list hundreds of thousands of square feet leased at 199 West 2nd, 9 West 20th, 45 51 West 25th, 22 26 Howard, 3 and 32 West 21st, 24 East 22d, 2% Greene, 124 West 18th, 43 and 45 West 34th, and 1068 Brook Ave. Buyers include Robert Ferguson for a Broadway and 180th St plot to be developed. Union Railway Co buys a Broadway plot. City Real Estate Co holds title.
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F. T. Barry
H. W. Vogel
Greene
Union Railway Company
Brook Ave
165Th St
City Real Estate Company
Union Company
Building loan contract notes tied to Prospect area
James G Wentz loaned Francis X Bannon 30000 dollars in a building loan contract. Property described as 68s and 91.9 feet west of Prospect, with parcel measures 40.1x72.3.
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James G Wentz
Francis X. Bannon
Building Plans and Entries at Simpson Street Area
Fragmented OCR lists multiple construction items: brick tenements and three story brick structures on Simpson Street and Webster Avenue, with owners Arc Realty Company and Simpson Constructom o, architects Franz Wolfgang and Thomas Bennett, and costs noted around 50 000 to 60 000. Also references Freeman et al and Hannes Bjerkegren in terse docket lines detailing lot sizes 40 by 88 and 38 by 64, with 22 four story or five story brick tenements and related addresses.
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Simpson St
Freeman
Simpson Constructom
Thomas Reilly
L F J Weber
DOGO
Cme
Peices
Cass
Webster Ave
Hannes Bjerkegren
Mer
Franz Wolfgang
Vyte Ave
Arc Realty Company
Joseph Frish
Thomas Bennett
Apartment Hotels Offer Furnished and Unfurnished Suites
OTEL ST JAMES at 199 113 West 45 presents 2 or 3 room apartments with bath for lease. OTEL SEVILLE desires suites to lease. AVE and 29th St advertises desirable suites. TOURAINE at 911 East 39th St offers furnished or unfurnished suites. HOTEL MARIE ANTOINETTE at Broadway and 67th Street also available.
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Otel ST. James
West 45
Bath
Otel
Seville
Ave
Touraine
City Property for Sale on West End Avenue and Reade Street
Sale notice for 19 feet wide Lane West End Ave corner and 669 by 124 foot roadway northwest corner of Reade Street. Describes prime downtown corner property. Apply to WM. C. Walker's Sons, 22 Broadway.
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Lane
West End Ave
William R. Ware
Columbus Ave
Readest
WM. C. Walker’s Sons
Broadway
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Everett M. Bal
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Boston
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Midtown
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67Th Street
City
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Apital & Capitaé
Montague Street
Packard
Packard Night School
Packard Commercial School
Fourth Ave
Ruland & Whiting CO. Real Estate
Beekman ST
van Cortlandt Terrace
David Stewart
Tribune Building
Nassau St
Berkshire
Madison Ave
John H. Moran
Plaza
West 57Th Street
5Th
6Th Aves
E. S. Willard & CO
Pine St
John
Chelsea
LE Marquise
East 31St St
Xnanhattan Square Hotel
W. Tith St
Lee Bownette
West List Street
HE Langham
Central Park West
74Th St
F. R. Woood & CO
Bway
S0th &J
Osborne
S7th ST
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Otel Savoy
5Th Avenue
Brooklyn Property
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Star and Crescent Realty CO
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Washington Square
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Fulton St
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Arthur H. Cutler
L. C. Mygatt
West 71Th Street
Colleges and Scientific Schools
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Corcoran Manor
Cooley & West, Inc
Farley Gold Mine
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Bertwhistle & Stainton
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Galen Hall
N. J
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Josiah White & Oes
Hotel Gramatan
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J. J. Lannin Company
Irving School
L. D. Ray
West 84Th St
DR. Ray
Kelvin School
G. A. Lh Dionne
West 70Th ST
Hamilton Institute For
West 81St ST
Syms School
East 61St Street
Dally
Barnard School For Boys
Nicholas Kindearten
Allen-Stevenson School
East S5th St
Country School
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Furman
A. M
Tarrytown- on-Hudson
Wm. J. Betts
Stamford
Conn
Worrall
TOME
Thomas Stockham Baker
Port Deposit
Jestchester Academy
White Plains
Hove
Ss Davids Hall
Koya College of Business
Rey
L. Byans
M. A
Scarsdale
Garden City Hotel
Garden City
Long Island
A. J. Lanni . Co., Proprietors
Palatine
Newburgh
N. Bain & CO
Young Ladies—City
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Rayson
Ate
de Lancey
West 98Th St
Hamiltgh Institute For Girls
West 41St ST
Barnard Schoo
GI Kindergart Pri
le Baron Drumm School
Gardner
43Th
49Th Ste
Indergarten
Maxwell
Regents’ College
Drepargetory
Froebe
West
Earle
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N.Y
ZRG
Patery Schools
Orace Mann
Columbia University
McDowell Dressmaking
6Th Ave
Miss McFee
Dana
Louise L. N
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Sianor
Grand Central Station
John Cunningham Hazen
Arrytown-On-Hudson
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Messey T Metcalf
Friends’ Seminary
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Berlitz School OF Languages
Madison Square
Ariem
Lenox Ave
121Th St
Court St
Metrogalig
16Th St
Chappaqua
Westchester
Chappaqua Mountain Institute
Society of Friend Cal Preparatory
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M. J. Young
Mademoiselle Amyot
St. Tel
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NEW York University Law School
Kaas Reas Taus On
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Washington Sq
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Shepard
F. H. Shepard
Carnegie Hall
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Restegh
Poughkeepsie
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Mary Powell
Upreme Court
New York County
Jont Simmons Company
Essig
Lindsay, Kalish & Palmer
Wiliam New York City
George J. Essig
Cuthbert New
Supreme Court of
State of York
Asaumus
County of New York
County Court House
Manes
Lindsay, Kalish & Palmer, Attys
Xow
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York City
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