Brooklyn Navy Yard Faces Land Dues and Expansion Hurdles
Washington reports say Brooklyn Navy Yard authorities struggle to secure land for expansion as Brooklyn Union Gas exploiting western and northern frontage blocks waterfront access. City plans to dump a wharf worsen water front constraints. Navy Department will brief Congress to safeguard yard expansion and prevent further hindrance. Army and Navy orders list transfers and detachments across coast artillery and infantry units, plus Navy movements and ship assignments through October.
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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
Brooklyn Yard
Tiny fleet begins 15000 mile Pacific warning cruise
Six lighthouse boats and tenders, under Captain Albert T. Mertz, start a 15 000 mile voyage around South America to warn mariners of rocks and shoals along the upper U S West Coast. The smallest under two hundred feet, the fleet aims for San Francisco in about four months.
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Pacific
United States
South America
Albert T. Mertz
San Francisco
Public School Course Teaches Saleswoman Smiles
In East Street’s Public School No 27 a two year course trains girls to read customers, smile, and suggest goods with genuine interest. Miss Diana Hirschler says the program, the first of its kind, aims to develop personality and enthusiasm, even hinting at improving marital prospects. A large class is expected. after one year a certificate may be awarded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Dist Street
Third Avenue
Diana Hirschler
Miss Hirschier
Two Gould Cases In Same Court
In the Supreme Court yesterday Justice Giegerich heard motions on counsel fees and alimony in Howard Gould’s divorce. Mrs Gould seeks 12.5 percent yearly alimony and 15.0 in fees while she already receives 5.0 yearly. Sullivan requests a one month adjournment. Mrs Gould’s counsel supports immediate provision for support. A second suit, Frank J Gould’s absolute divorce, was set for October 2 with a motion to make the complaint more definite.
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Howard Gould
Supreme Court
Giegerich
Gould
Cornelius Sullivan
Anable, Lindsau & Fuller
Frank J. Gould
Ashland man shoots sweetheart then flees in Portsmou th
Portsm outh Ohio Sept 21 Clarence Richardson of Ashland Ohio shot and killed his sweetheart Lydia Corbin after a quarrel He fired two shots one behind her left ear Richardson escaped bloodhounds are on his trail
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Portsmouth
Ohio
Clarence Richardson
Ashland
Lydia Corbin
Richardson
Colonel William F Stewart ordered to retirement board review
Washington reports Colonel William F Stewart of the coast artillery will appear before a retiring board in Washington to determine his disability and whether it was incurred in line of duty. An Arizona Fort Huachuca examining board found him nearly blind in one eye and with heart trouble, deeming him disabled for service. Brigadier General W P Hall chairs the Washington board evaluating facts for the Secretary of War and the President.
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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
Friends
St. Francis Barracks
St. Augustine
Fla
Colonel Stewart
Senate
Rayner
Maryland
Morton to Surrender Over Note Swindle Case
George N. Morton, arrested in Philadelphia on note swindle charges, agrees to surrender to Assistant District Attorney Kindleberger in Jersey City. He faces an indictment for larceny of 10000 tied to the Hopper Morgan Company notes three years ago, while Philadelphia Judge Audenried criticizes the case as flimsy and irregular.
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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
Gas explosion injures four in Hoboken street
Four men were severely hurt when a gas main leaked and exploded in Hudson street Hoboken early yesterday. Benjamin Brasch and William Fass Jr addressed 1% Hudson, Robert Gras h 23% Garden and George Topsy unknown. Brasch smelled gas and lit a match. A flash and roar followed as Fass lit a taper. They were rushed to St Marys Hospital. Nearby houses were shaken and water mains broken.
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Hudson Street
Hoboken
Benjamin Brasch
William Fass, Jr
Robert Grasch
Garden Street
George Topsy
Topsy
Brasch
Servaces
No. 16
Fess
Grosch
St. Mary's Hospital
Brewmasters Convene in Albany for Annual Meeting
The twentieth annual convention of the United States Brewmasters Association opened in Albany with Max Hoefle of the Northern New York group welcoming delegates. He urged unity against perceived enemies of beer as officers prepare to be elected Wednesday, with several hundred delegates and many related trades represented.
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Albany
United States Brewmasters’ Association
Max Hoefle
Brewmasters’ Association
New York
Hoefle
Gaus
Foreclosure Sale Set for Hotel Gotham on October 123
The foreclosure of the Hotel Gotham on a third mortgage valued at $455.00, secured by the Knickerbock Trust Company, has been scheduled by order of the Supreme Court for October 123. New management, installed August 7, remains in place, with Charles Wetherbee and William R. Wood holding a multi‑year lease and Frederick W. Wishart as manager. Two prior liens totaling $1,?09 hold by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Fifty‑first Street Company owns the property.
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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
Five Story American House Sold For 175000 In New York
Francis B. Robert sold for Daniel Guggenheim a five story American basement dwelling at No 12 West 57th Street on a 25 by 10 foot lot to Frederick W. White of Peters White & Co for about 175000 dollars. Guggenheim lives at the Hotel St. Regis. The deal shows several large realty moves reported yesterday.
Foreclosure Auction Listings From Manhattan Real Estate Salesrooms
The auction listings detail multiple properties sold or offered by firms including Samuel Marx and Joseph P Day and at 14 Vesey Street. Notable entries include 43 West 24th Street purchased by Herbert E. King for 44900, along with numerous lots on Madison Street Peck Slip Catherine Street and Broadway at various sizes and four to six story tenement houses. Debts, taxes, and mortgage liens are listed for each property, with agents and attorneys named.
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West 24Th St
Real Estate Exchange
Vesey St
Herbert E. King
Samuel Marx
Hamilton St
Catharine St
Madison St
Market St
South St
Bassford Ave
185Th St
Washington Ave
James Power
Trus
Decker
Attys
Maxwell Davidson
Joseph P Day
106Th St
Madison
Lewis
Maurice Sandberg
Goldfogle
Benjamin Jack
Park Ave
Park Ave, E 8, 74 Ft 8 of 109Th
Katharina Vetter
Adolf Miller
Charles Schwick
A P Wagener
136Th St. S
Amsterdam Ave
Morris Levy
Title Ins Co
Conner Et
S McAvoy
Samuel Goldsticker
Gramercy Park
4Th Ave
Life Ins & Tr Co
Oakley
Emmet
Atty
H Ward
Real estate deals in Hunt's Point and East 146th Street
The Hunt's Point Realty Co sells a 109 by 150 foot plot from Edgewater Road to the Bronx River to John Gallagher. Kurz & Uren handle sales for a client at 27 East 146th Street a three story dwelling with store and a 25 by 110 foot lot, and at 274 East 144th Street a three story frame dwelling and lot. Arnold, Byrne & Baumann resell Nos. 834 and 86 West End Avenue two five story flat houses on 10 foot lots. Jae ger recently bought the properties through the same brokers. Eliza Arnolds sells 19 City Hall Place a four story building on a 24.6 by 99.5 foot lot. Deutscher Press Club adjoins the property. F. M. Weiss & Co. sell the lot on Parker Street west side 68 feet north of Westchester Avenue for Marcus Nathan to Henry Nerenberg, and also sell a plot 50 by 13 feet on the east side of Glover Street to Amelia Steinmetz. Marcus Nathan also sells two houses on Chatterton Avenue and a two family house on Gleason Avenue to the Commercial Finance Company and to the same buyer. Also sold for Marcus Nathan two lots on White Plains Road to David Brown, with an exchanged two family house on Glover Street. A 75 by 19 foot plot on the north side of Green Avenue near Mapes Avenue is sold to William J. Purdy by George Buckenham, for two family houses.
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Hunt's Point Realty Company
Edgewater Road
Bronx River
John Gallagher
Kurz & Uren
West End Ave
Mr. Jaeger
Eliza Arnolds
City Hall Place
Deutscher Press Club
F. M. Weiss & Co
Parker Street
Westchester Ave
Marcus Nathan
Henry Nerenberg
Alsc
Glover St
Amelia Steinmetz
Chatterton Ave
Castle Hill Ave
Commercial Finance Company
Mapes
George Buckenham
William J. Purdy
F. T. Barry
H. W. Vogel
East 80Th St
George L. Shearer
G. Tuoti & Co
Amsterdam
M. & L. Hess
John J. Geraty
West 26Th St
Grayson Martin
West 20Th St
The
Building and Engineering Company
West 25Th St
A. H. Mathews & Co
Howard St
Edward §. Rapallo
West 21St St
Pacific Realty Company
East 22d St
Annie Brown
Greene
Union Railway Company
Brook Ave
165Th St
City Real Estate Company
Union Company
Interborough Leases Key Floors for Executive Offices
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 lease, taking effect May 1, with total rental for the term about 1 million dollars.
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Interborough Rapid Transit Company
City Investing
Cortlandt St
Broadway
Herbert J. Spur
Realty Notes Highlight Multiple Leases and Big Purchases
F T Barry leased 73 East 80th Street to George L. Shearer for H W Vogel. Deals include 5,000 sq ft at 109-115 West 26th Street to John J Geraty and brokers G Tuoti & Co. Other sales cover plots on Broadway 180th Street and Brook Avenue with Union Railway Company as buyer.
Building Loan Contract for Homest Prospect Avenue Project
James G Wentz loans Francis X Bannon $30,000 for a building loan on the west of Prospect Avenue. The contract specifies a typical mortgage arrangement with principal and terms to be determined by the parties and standard security provisions.
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Prospect Ave
James G Wentz
Francis X. Bannon
Furnished and unfurnished suites for rent across three hotels
OTEL St James at 10913 West 45 offers 2 or 3 room furnished apartments with lease path. OTEL Seville at Madison Ave and 20th St provides desirable suites to lease. TOURAINE at East 29th St offers furnished or unfurnished suites for lease.
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Otel St. “James
West 45
Otel Seville
Madison Ave
20Th ST
Pur
Touraine
Simpson Street Brick Town Homes Construction Details
Construction items listed for multiple properties include Simpson Construction under Thomas Reilly owner with L F J Weber architect on Webster Avenue and Vyse Avenue, and Charles Bierkegren owner with Franz Wolfgang architect. Costs cited around 35 0 and 60 000 dollars, with expressions of 38x64 and 40x88 brick townhouses and additional 50 ft segments and three signature brick ten houses. Arc Realty Company with Joseph Frish mentioned, Thomas Hennett as architect.
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Simpson St
Freeman
Simpson Construction
Thomas Reilly
L F J Weber
Webster Ave
Charles Bierkegren
Franz Wolfgang
Vyse Ave
Let
Sig
Sig ‘Bre Ten Hs, 20255 Each: Arc Realty Company
Joseph Frish
Thomas Hennett
Sass Cores Escecta Seeds
West End Ave Property for Sale Bargain
City listing notes a 10 foot wide parcel with side and rear access on Columbus Ave near Reade Street. Northwest corner near Beers at 66.9x14 feet, described as a desirable downtown corner for sale. Apply to WM. C. Walker's Sons, 202 Broadway.
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West End Ave
Columbus Ave
Readest
WM. C. Walker's Sons
Broadway
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Army and Navy News
Chester 3. Goodier
Southern Artillery District of
Leutenants
Louis D. Pepin
Fort Greble
Karl F. Baldwin
Fort Totten
Charles E. Wing, Jr
Fort
NAVY
B. W. Hodges
Boston
Naval Observatory
W. Bpofford
Wolverine
Celtic
J. F. Dortch
Mississippi
James
Pman
Scorpion
Marietta
J. FE. Gardner
C. N. Fiske
Minneapolis
W. N. McDonnell
Naval Academy
Waters
FR. B. Westlake
the Prairie
Cesar
Cavité
Justin
San
Chattanooga
Corcord
Denver
Galveston
Chefoo
Nagasaki
Prairie
Hampton Roids
Yorktown
Valdez
Sitka
Rainbow
Puget Sound
Colorado
Honolulu
Pacific Fleet
Howard
Frank
Brewmasters
Gotham Mortgage
F. W. White
John D. Rockefeller
Francis B. Robert
Daniel Guggenheim
West Sith St
Frederick W. White
Peters, White & Co
Mr. Guggenheim
St. Regis
S. B. Goodale & Son
Josephine Mallee
Hare
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
Midtown
Interborough CO
Marie Antoinette
Bay and
67Th Street
Cortland
Lawyers Title Insurance and Trust Company Capital Sceaus
Montague Street
Packard
Packard Night School
Packard Commercial School
Fourth Ave
Ruland & Whiting CO. Real Estate
van Cortlandt Terrace
David Stewart
Tribune Building
Nassau St
Berkshire
John H. Moran
Plaza
West 57Th Street
5Th
6Th Aves
E. S. Willard & CO
Pine St
John
Partment
Chelsea
Masbattan Square
HE Bownette
West List Street
Langham
Central Park West
Osborne, Sith ST
7Th Ave
Otel Savoy
7Th Avenue
Brooklyn Property
Flatbush
Star and Crescent Realty CO
Flatbush Ave
Woodruff Ave
Country Property
Mount Vernon
Corcoran Manor
Cooley & West, Inc
Farley Gold Mine
Warren County
N. C
S. W. Duke
Arcola
Riverview Manor
Hastings Homes Co
New Jersey Real Estate
Otten Estates
Englewood
Bertwhistle & Stain
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Dennis
Walter J. Buzby
Hotel Gramatan
Bronxville
Westchester County
Tself
Jd. J. Lannin Company
Dwight School
West
New York City
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Columbia
Cornell
Mass
Ins. Tech
Colleges
Jemil E. Camerer
Arthur William S
Geskeley Schoo
Columbia Institute (Consolidated
72D Street
West End Avenue
Hudson
Berkeley
NEW York University University
Washington Square
East
N. Y
Fulton St
N. Yeagan
Cutler School
East 50Th Street
Arthur H. Cutler
L. C. Mygatt
West 77Th Street
Colleges and Scientific Schools
Trinity Senec
Irving School
Elvin
G. A. I. Dionne
West 70Th ST
Thorouough
Hamilton Institute For
West 81St ST
Syms School
East 61St Street
Barnard School For Boys
College Prep
St. Nicholas Av
Allen-Stevenson School
East 15Th St
A Hoa Seminary
Friends’ School
Schermerhorn St
Max Unger
N. NY
von W. le W. W. Massee
Oo — Irving School For
Furman, A. M
Torytown-on-Hudson, N. Y
Wm. J. Betts
Stuard, Conn
Willl
Worrall Hall Military Academy
Tome School
Thomas Stockham Baker
Port Deposit
Westchester Academy
College
yRerae
X- Tory
Boss
Wille Plains
Col
Hove
David's Hall
WM le BraxSs
Bronx
City
Garden City Hotel
Garden City
Long Island
J. J. Lannin Oo
Newburgh
N. Balin & CO
Young Ladies—city
Semple
de Lancey School
West 98Th St. Col
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Hamilton Institute For Girls
ST. Wl
Barnard School For Girls
BEG
le Baron Drumm
Undergarten
Makwell
Regents
Froebel Norma
West Som Mt. Sheips
Earle
Enes Seminary
Friends Schoo
East Lob St
Lis Scharmerhans
Orace Mann
Teachers College
Columbia University
McDowell Dressmaking Am Millinery
6Th Ave
Miss McFee
College Boys
Marriot Rwm
Dana
Louise L. Newell
Prin
RYE Seminary
Mrs. & J. Life
Misses Stowe
E Homestead
Flushing
College Preparatory
A t @ LOUCKS
Rethlerem i
Bytown-On-Hudson
SN. T. the Metcalf’s
Friends’ Seminary
Friends School
16Th St
Schermertion St
N.Y
Berlitz School OF Languages
Madison Square
Gariem
Lenox Ave
Metrogalp
Chappaqua
Westchester
Chappaqua Mountain Institute
Society of Friends
M. J. Young-Fulion
Union Square
Mademoiselle Amyot
Teachers’ Agency
Law Schools
NEW York University Law School
Kadrees
T. Ae “Fompkins
Esters Lem. Llm
Letc
Washington Sq
NEW York Day School
Fultom
LAW School
George Chasz
Chalif
Normal School OF Dancing
Louis
Chalip
Institute OF Musical Art of the
City of New Yor
Frank Damrosech
Fifth Avenue
Twelfth St
Sy Ac
Aseball
Shepard
F. H. Shepard
Carnegie Hall
West Point
Poughkeepsie
Palace Iron Day
B’klyn
Desbrosses St
Mary Powell
S 129Th St
Sunda
Eeeeeupreme Court
New York County
Jobs Simmons Company
Gere
Essig
sSummors
Aniswer
Lindsay. Kalish & Palmer
Wildon
George J. Essig
Cuthbert
Supreme Court of
Bey York
County of New Orm
County Court House
Borough of Mane
Lindsay, Kalish & Palmer
Attya
William Sites
York Ty. N
Panama Rail Road
Shoe Street
Panama Rail Road Company
Og Purchasing Department
Panama Rall Rowee
State Street
Assintans Purcha
Panama Rat Road Company
Orleans la
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