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RF AT FSTATR OCA! AND SUBURBAN FEATURES 1 I I 1 THE LONG ISLAND MARKET AGTIYE Rapid Development In and About the Queensboro Bridge Plaza. HOMESEEKERS BUYING PLOTS Rapid Transit Routes Approved by Public Service Commleelon Will Open New Territory In Queens, ia vmh nt waiting. Queens seems to be nearlng a -realisation of the Borough needs for rapid transit- me aaopiw by the Board of Estimate of the report of the Public Service Commission laying-out rapid transit routes for Queens marks a decisive step forward, and it is believed that within a very short time the city wiy be in a position to advertise for bids and award contract for construction of the proponed lines. Meantime, other Improvements are rearing completion in Queens, which, though attracting less attention than the question of rapid transit, are of much Importance. The extension of the Third Avenue surface lines from Fifty-ninth Street over the Queensboro Bridge and across the f'lasa to Jackson Avenue Is an Important Improvement for Queens.

This will soon be In operation, and will afford direct service to uptown and downtown Manhattan via the Third Avenue lines, with cross-town transfers at convenient points for a single fare. Another great Improvement now nearly finished is the repaying of Jackson Avenue, the main thoroughfare from the uucenaboro iirldge to Flushing and the North Shore towns. This street, bo long neglected, is being paved with asphalt blocks on a concrete foundation, a change which automobilists and the traveling-public generally will appreciate. The trolley tracks have also been relald with new heavy steel rails, which will add to the speed and comfort by this route. The Improvement of Jackson Avenue gives a new and perfect automobile route to F.lmhurst and beyond by way, of Twenty-fifth Street, which was paved with umieHlte last Summer by the Uueensboro Corporation.

It is along this street, now one- of the finest In the city, that the principal building operations of the corporation have been carried on. Soma seventy-five houses have been built here during the past year, and many more will be put up as soon as plana can be perfected. In the suburban sections of Long iBland there was remarkable activity among lot buyers in the choice residential centres, and brokers and developing companies report an excellent market. Among a number of sales reported In Nassau County were the following by the Windsor Land and Improvement Company: At Hempstead, to Caleb Martin a plot 4t by loo at "Windsor I'arkway and Oceanslde Avenue; to T. E.

Krhrrrn a nlnt. 4T bv lOtl. on Botsford street; to Samuel Warshow a plot. by 1tu, on rialdwin street; at lorai rm, to K. 1.

Lynch, a plot. SO by lo. at Carnation Avenue and Chestnut Street; to the same buyer, a plot. 4 by 108. at Plalnfield Avenue and Spruce Street; to A.

A. Bell a plot, 40 by IOO, on Cypress Street; st Kast Kockaway, to O. H. Vosa. a riot, BO by 120, on Lawrence Street.

The same company sold, at Valley Stream, to A. J. Lewy a plot. 40 by Kt, at Emerson Place and Oxford Street; to John Trautenberger a plot, 00 by loo, on Carpenter Street; to H. J.

Sussklnd a plot. 15 by IOO. at Rockaway and Beverly Parkways and A Kyle Street: to Fred J. Meyer and Theodore Wermke each a plot, 40 bv IOO, on Beverly Parkway; to t. J.

O'Keefe a plot. 100 by IOO, Rt Haverlv Parkwav. and Albemarle Avenue; to David Harry a plot. OO by 105, on Cot- 1 tage Parkway, and to Edward Buckley a plot, 40 bv 100, on Chester Street. The company also sold, at Rookvllle Centre, to Charles Gotfredsen.

A. Gilbert aajd Frederick Gotfredsen each a plt. 40 by IOO, on Columbia Avenue; to Charles Bonnier, William Botnmer. and M. M.

Connolly each a plot, 40 by 100, on Tale Avenue: to T. A. Bowman a plot. by IOU, on -Harvard Avenue; to Arthur Badenhoop a plot. 40 by IOO, on Cornell Avenue; to George Scheper a plot, 4C by IOO, on Kensington Avenue, and to John Lukens a plot.

40 by IOO, on Mount Avenue. At Lynbrook the same company sold to Charles Linnemeyr a plot. 60 by IOO, on Buckingham Place; to Edward Harris a plot. 4t by IOO, on Ocean Avenue; to A. C.

Olerkner a plot, 40 by IOO. on Charles Avenue: to J. B. Ileins a ot. 6S by 1O0, at Oak and Edmund Streets; to J.

I a. Powers a plot. MO by 122. on Driving Park Avenue; to Mary Gruessing a plot. 40 by IOO, on Lawrence Avenue, and to E.

C. Schrieble a plot. fet by 100, on Edmund Street. Lynbrook. which during the last fifteen years has been twice destroyed by fire in its business section, and which has emerged phoenixlike each time aiong more substantial lines than before, has established a fire district, within the borders of which it is not permissible to erect frame structures: and if any present frame building so situated should be even partly destroyed by flame they would nave to be rebuilt entirely of brick concrete.

This village ordinance Is one of the fruitful results of Incorporation which took place one year ago. Real extate- men agree-that the outcome of its enforcement will be stronger property values in the business section and a tonic to fee values in Lynbrook generally. The village haa grown rapidly in recent years, and the progress of the place is still pronounced. There are very few. If any.

other Incorporated villages on Long Island that have adopted such an ordi-nsnce. Another large tract has been acquired 1V the Houw and Home Companv at Great River. I- I. Owing to the demand for small farms this year, the company has developed more than acres Into small fnrms from one-ouarter to one acre each. The property about forty-two miles from the eastern boundary line of New York City Many new houses have recently been erected at the north end ff the property for residential purposes for ail year round homes.

HELL GATE BRIDGE. Contract Awarded for Structure to Connect Bronx and Queens, Th New Connecting Railroad Company has awarded the American Bridge Company the contract for the steel work and approaches of the new structure to connect the Bronx and Queens. 1t bridge will be three miles In length and the largest of its kind in the world. Work upon the steel fabric wUI commence In Pittsburgh at once, and th contract must be completed within two years and a half. The New York Connecting Railroad Is backed by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York.

New Haven A M-irtford. and after the new giant bridge is completed trains can lo run bv an all-rail route from Washington to New England. The new tracks will connect the lints of the Pennsylvania In Queens County with the New Haven at Port Morrin and those of the Connectinr Railroad that Encircle Brooklyn. The new structure will be an arch brldye of the lonircst span In the world. The total cost will approximate There will 1 tui of steel in the bridge betwtcn the two big towers at each end of the Kixnt arch.

The clearance between the lowest poinvl on iw unaer sw or tne arch and the hijfh water mark will be one hundred ar.d thirty-live fewt. the same as the East River bridges alreadv built. 1 Besides the four-track railroad crossing the big arch there will be wide sidewalks. Across the Bronx Kills there will he some sort of a movable bridge to accommodate water traffic. Seventy lhiviur.il tn nf atoel )1 made up In and brought rally to complete- the contract.

Sty this arts will wei-rh 1W toe tach. TAX INFORMATION. Bureau of Municipal Research Gives Particular on Budget Increases. In a statement on the. 1012 budget issued yesterday by two Directors the Bureau of Municipal Research a plea la made that taxpayers should demand a hearing to prove that the Item appro-j prtating Zjn.OOO for standardising sal-! arles and grades and for continuing I school and health inquiries and other matters should be retained.

Without such facts as these Inquiries 1 are seeking. It is stated, efficiency can-! not be insured and waste cannot be pre- vented. Last year when this Item was cut out the Mayor refused to put It back. This year the Chairman of the Finance I Committee of the Board of Aldermen baa threatened to cut It out again, says the Director of the Bureau, and whether he does so and whether the Mayor puts it back will depend largely uon the attl- tude of citizens on this particular matter. The Bureau of Municipal Research has 1 a complete list showing every cut made in the tentative budget In order to provide the S3.b.'M00 for equal pay." The Bureau will make this Information available to any organisation of taxpayers or to Individual taxpayers who seriously Intend to make use of it In proving to the Board of Aldermen that the budget can be reduced.

It recalls the fact that of the Increase, C10.400.0uO was for mandatory new things. such as Increases In county salaries and expenses. ($500,000.) equal ($3,150,000,) State tax. ($4.800,. Increase In debt service, ($1,100,000,) and addition to make up next year's 8-mill tax for schools, The debatable ground is not this $10,400,000 for mandatory new fncreases.

The debatable ground Is the M.HOOOOO added for operating expenses, (which happens to be one-fourth less than the average of the last administration.) plus the whole 1911 basis, in which It may be that taxpayers can prove there Is slack." BRONX IMPROVEMENTS. Calendarof th Local Board's Next Meeting. A number of hearings on Important Bronx Borough Improvements will be held at the meeting of the various local boards next Wednesday evening at the Municipal Building. 177th Street and Third Avenue. The Calendar for the Board of Chester follows.

Petition requesting: that a date be fixed for the vesting of title to Olmstead Avenue, between Protectory Avenue and the Bulkhead line of Pugsley's Creek. Acquiring title to Burke Avenue, from Boston Road to Eastchester Road. Acquiring title to Throop Avenue, from Bronx and Pclham Parkway to Mace Avenue, and from Ailerton Avenue to Gun Hill Road. Acquiring title to Adee Avenue, from Boston Road to unnamed street" east of Young Avenue, and from Gun Hill Road to Hutchinson River. Acquiring title to Seymour Avenue, frcm Eastchester Road to unnamed street, between Morgan Avenue and Arnow Avenue, and from Gun Hill Road to Hicks Street.

Acquiring title to Sackett Avenue, from Bear Swamp Road to Eastchester Road. Acquiring title to Waterbury Avenue, fiom Zerega Avenue to Eastern Boule vard. Acquiring title to Wilson Avenue, from Bronx and Pelham Parkway to the Inter, section of Needham Avenue and East ai-th Street. Constructing a temporary sewer and appurtenances on the west side of White Plains Avenue, between East 241M Street and the City Line: and in Rant 94:1.1 between White Plains Avenue and Barnes Avenue, together with all work Incidental thereto. Regulating, grading, setting curb stones.

flf-Kging the sidewalks a space four feet wide, laying crosswalks, building approaches, and erecttng fences where "necessary in Fort Schuyler Road, from the eMterly terminus of the land acquired for West Farms Road at Westchester Creek to Shore Drive. Fillina in sunken lots on th aM, Hunt Avenue, beginning 145 feet south of Bronxdale Avenue and extending 75 feet south, in accordance with section the Charter, and in accordance with Board 01 neaun uroer issuea June 13. 1011 Laying out on City Map Light Street, between Dyre Avenue and Provost Avenue, Section 43. CALENDAR OF LOCAL BOARD OF VAN CORTLANDT. Paving with asphalt blocks on a concrete foundation Plimpton Avenue, from Bcscobel Avenue to 100th Street, setting curb where necessary and all work incidental thereto.

Said pavement being designated under Chapter 546 of the Laws 1910 as Class A 'r pavement Changing7 lines and grades of Harrison Avenue from a point about 20O feet south of Drainage Street (178th St) to Burnslde Avenue. Laying- out on map of the city an extension of Spuyten Duyvll Road, from Its terminus near Spuyten Duyvll Station of N. Y. H. R.

R. at Spuyten Duyvts in Bronx to Public Dock situated on the Hudson River. Said street to be 40 feet in width and about 400 feet long. CALENDAR OF LOCAL BOARD OF MORRIS AN IA. Relocating on th map of the City of New York Edgewater Road, approximately aOO feet from the bulkhead line of the Bronx River and EaBt River, between Seneca Avenue and Manlda Street CALENDAR OF LOCAL BOARD OF CROTONA.

Laying out and acquiring "title to plot cf land at the northwest corner of Bryant Avenue and East 180th Street known as the Presbyterian or West Farms Cemetery. Acquiring title to Pierce Avenue, from Bear Swamp to Paulding Avenue; Paulding Avenue, from Pierce Avenue to the N. N. H. H.

R. R. Depot known as Morris Park Station; Wilson Avenue, from Ailerton Avenue to Gun Hill Road; Seymour Avenue, from Gun Hill Road to north line of Bronx and Pelham Parkway, and from south line of Bronx and Pelham Parkway to Eastchester Road; Sacket Avenue, from Eastchester Road to WUHamsbrldge Road; Throon Avenuo. from Adee Avenue to Gun Hill Road; Burke Avenue, from Boston Road to Gun Hill Road; Mace Avenue, from Bronx Park East to White Plains Road. Bronx Estate Auction.

Joseph P. Day's announcement that part of the Joseph J. Gleason estate, which he will sell at auction on Saturday. Nov. 18.

Is very low and swampy, has called forth considerable praiseworthy criticism on sdvertisiog facts as they exist The Gleason estate, consisting of about TMi lots and nine brick two-family houses, will be sold on the premises. This section of the Bronx, in which the property is located, has undergone a complete transformation within the past year. The streets and avemies which are mapped out will soon be laid out The present and proposed transit facilities for thr section are another attractive feature. The New York. Westchester Boston Railroad prososea to skirt the nropertr.

with an extension through to Thrors Neck. The new Lexington Avenue Subway route, up Westchester Avenue will have stations practically on the p-opertv. one at Clason Point Road, one at St. tjiwrence Avenue, and one at the Public Square at 177th Street Brooklyn Properties at Auction. On Tuesday.

Nov. 14. In the Veev Street salesroom Joseph P. Day will sell at partition sale 4S3 Pearl Street a three-and-a-half-story and basement brick dwelling, with one store. On We-inesday.

Nov. 15. he will offer in the Brooklyn Real Estate Exchange. ISO Montague Street fer the same estate, the following properties: Northwest corner of Bergen Street and Grand Avenue, and 253 Palmetto Street, to be sold separately, three two-story frame dwelllntrs; h5 and 87 Court Street a four-story and basement brick loft building, on lot 28 by IR: 15. 17.

and 13 Funrnn gtreet comer of Douphty Street. a two-vframe dwelling, with on store, and Street a four-story brick Uwcil-re, oa lot 25.1 by 7 BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS FOR CITY MAINTENANCE AND THE ERTY AND TAX RATE SINCE 1830. Assessed Valuations of Real 1 Budget anl Personal Tax Appropriations. pmperty. Rate.

lfc.T U7 42 1MI R72.HH l7.fi." 41 l.s.-i2 144.S02.:Cf.4 4 133 H71.S--.4 1.4S1.M2 1KS4 M.r..'5 HW.S4S.511 1K3.1 1. Vi2 21H.72S.7o3 1.0M3.130 8 KIT 1.244.72 2tt.747.3.TO 41 lXiH 1.41.W3 2n4.132.41 ls.yi 1,3.12. KM z70.sW,Ol 1M0 2.12.233.51.1 63 M1 l.4.s:s 2.M.194.S20 6 1M2 a.l1.3S2 2ST.so5.asi 1.T4T.51 22.2.07 79 1M4 IMS 2,011, 11 1M 2.r.2t,l4a 244.r.2.'4 1.03 2.SM.72H 2 4 7.1. 13. 2) 1.05 2.71.1.5IO 2.Vi.la.W3 l.m 1M9 3.S.7a 2.V11S7.143 tl8 1.V......

S.230.1KO 2Hrt.iNSl.sie 1.14 2.W24.34 320.11O.aST 2 lhr.j 3.ii.7fiR.42 st 1S.13 5.0fW.tt. 413,631,32 123 1K14 4.M1.2.15 42.21,734 1.05 lii3 5.M:i-22 4Ml.WiK.27S 120 1HM 7.075.425 511,740,491 1.3B Annexation of Greenwich Vlllsse. tion basis was introduced In 1903. 8Annexstioa of Annexed District, part of Westchester County Note. In 1S30 was made the first city budget by the Common Council of the City sf Nsw.Iora.

the Stat Lesialatura carina- prrvi-ousry provided for city expense by special enactments, (Contlaaea from Preeedlaa" Fsge.) the city the present tax rate would not be a serious menace to real estate values. If, on the other hand, there should be any large increase in the near future it would certainly tend to the property In an alarming manner. I also fear that the new scheme inaugurated by the Tax Department (and of which I hia-hly approve.) for collecting- taxes semiannually Instead of In one payment toward the end ot the year, will give the political powers an opportunity to raise as the increase will be less evident when divided into two parts." City OTcrextrsTsgast Edward B. Boynton, President of the American Real Estate Company, said that It was expressing- It mildly to say that he was Immensely surprised at "the size of the budjret. I believe," said Mr.

Boynton. that the city to-day Is somewhat In the condition of a man who hasbeen overextrav-agant In the past and (a now confronted witn a conamon mat 1a w-nu. iunus the past two decades or more extravagances of administration have crept in through the management of municipal affairs. The present administration, I will say, haa made some rear effort toward curtailment but It is still a fact that too many luxuries are being added Instead ot devoting chief attention to the necessities. I condemn the purchase at this time of extra parka The big parks at Rock-awav and Coney Island are not in my mind, absolutely needed now, and they could just aa well wait until a more favorable time in the city's finances.

I also condemn the adding of oculists and dentists in the school system and am opposed to the purchase of new school sites far in advance of the Immediate need or use of such land. feel that the men responsible for the maintenance of the various city departments should curtail rather than CITY PROPERTY AT AUCTION. Many Tenements Figure lii Mr. Day's List for the Coming Week. Joseph will sell next Thursday In the Vesey Street salesroom at executors' sale to close the estate of David Christie, six two-family houses In the Bronx, known as 1.263 to tJffll and 1.309 and 1.811 Llnd Avenue; also a plot 100s by 123 on Boscobel Avenue, 142.72 feet south of Washington Bridge and Boscobel Place, running through to Ogden Avenue: and two lots.

25 by IOO each, on West 167th Street 81.r feet south of Sedgwick Avenue. On the an me dAy will be sold for the estate of Mary R. Mever the southwest corner Grand and Thompson Streets, known as 35 Grand Street and 18 and 20 Thompson Street a three-story tenement and a four-story tenement on lot 25 by 7H. for the estate of A. B.

Heath. 117 and 119 Leonard Street two three and a half storv lofts with two stores on plot 43.1 by 49.11H. Also at special sales. 227 and 229 West Thirteenth 8treet a three-story stable with 45 stalls, on lot 40 bv fit; 54o to 544 Wendover Avenue, two flve-storv tenements on plot 75 by 131; 302 West Twenty-sixth Street, a. three-story dwelling, Mr.

will also offer on the same day at Bupreme Court foreclosure sale. f2 Kast 122d Street a five-story tenement on lot 21 bv 100; and at foreclosure 510 West 171st Street, near Audubon Avenue, a five-story new-law tenement on plot 43.9 by Go. Buying Floral Park Home Sites. With the proposition to compel all buildings In Queens to conform strictly to the building line, and as there Is considerable agitation In different sections of the borough, several hundred houses now In course of construction from the plans 1 which were filed before this order went Into operation several weeks ago are now I being delayed. This seems to have no effect on the: building operations In Floral Park, as the House and Home Company has sold to James H.

Ackerman plots 80 by IOO on the north side of Jericho Turnpike 40 feet from Mackay Avenue, and 00 by IOO on the west side of Keene Avenue, IOO feet from Jericho Turnpike; to Charles Schuck a plot 40 by 100 on the southeast comer of Lowell and Keene Avenues; to Frank O. McGulre, a plot 40 by 100 on the northwest corner of Jericho Tumotka and Belmont Avenue; to Victor Wahlman plot 40 by 100 on the west side of Belmont Avenue, 140 feet from Lowell Avenue; to John D. Jamieson a plot 40 by IOO on the south side of Lowell Avenue. 40 feet from Brokaw Avenue, and to- Patrick Mul-rooney a plot 80 by 100 on the southwest corner of Whitney and Lowell Avenues. The company has erected several hundred houses on the property this year.

To Sell Old Jersey City -Factory. By order of the American Radiator Company, Bryan L. Kennelly will sell at auctios In the Vesey Street salesroom on Wednesday. Nov. 22.

-the old A. A. Ortf-flng Iron Works, situated on Woodward Street and Bramhall Avenue, adjoining the Morris Canal. In Jersey City, carrying with it a right of way to Com muni-paw Avenue. The property comnrlaes over seven acres, with buildings.

There are a number of one and two story brick and frame buildings, including factory, storehouses, office, Ac, with over 4.0tX) feet of railroad track on the premises. which adjoins the Central Railroad of New Jersey. This property is adapted 1 for automobile, machinery, or manufact- i uring plant 01 any kind. ENGLISH STUCCO DWELLINGS FOR BATH BEACH Row 17 by 40 Foot Houses Being aJ Seventeenth Valuations of Heal Bud ret and Personal Tas Bate, 1.64 1X1 1.6 1.60 1. TS 2.03 2.16 2.69 2.80 2.67 2.6 2.27 2.23 2.

IT 2.BO 2 So 20 24 20 2S 2.M 2 2. .13 2.62 2.25 2.29 Tear. Appropriations. Property 77,2.. Rt.3r.9Tl 871.7.345 H.ia.7M,353 7TO.

to, K31.6W.S13 SOT.813.529 S4, 2.17, 14 1.047.520.224 t07.213.W3 l.lO4.OtH.0T 1.129.240,373 1.154,02.17li tlOO.M43. 1.110.S13.m4 1.0OS.3M7.773 1.143.763.727 lfilW 10.223.399 10,121,3.1 isei 11.51. ns 152 ISHi 12.S43.212 164 14.87S,7'2 19.147.! li i.ttaft.sri Z3.633.324 im 2.1.92S.7M 1W 2H.4W1.IMT 1870...... 30.uiMi.2s3 JN71 31.47.14 172...... 4.0fi.W0 30.1.14.1S7' 1ST4 84.r72,3l T1M75 3.

171.472 1S7 34.fiS4.SOt 1S77 si.ons.ans 187S JtO. 104.077 SO.247.7SO 1SX0 2.VW.771 ISM 81.7SS.205' IS 2 29.434.0.I1 1.11.4H.0M 1.2S3.47.3Ia 1.276.677U64 183 80.870,783 Annexation of territory nit of Bronx River, Greater New Tork conaolldatloa. I The fall valua let the budget go up one dollar over the figures of last year. The assurances we received a long time ago from the Mayor tor incrersed rapid transit have not been We are paying more taxes and will pay still more next year, and yet we are not one dollar better off In respect to transit Improvements than several ago. I oppose every cent Increase a salaries.

In the present 1 condition of business throughout the country this Is no time to raise salaries. Tou don't find any private corporations raising- salaries. Cat Oat the Laxavies. The three points that I would especially emphasise in the present financial situation of the city are: First Cut out the luxuries and stick to the Second Let there be increased efficiency in all departments, and a further elimination of waste, for I am glad to admit there has been some progress la cutting off wasteful extravagance. Let private capital asaist in the building of subways." George T.

Mortimer of the United States Realty and Improvement Company, which paid 732 In this year on Its varloua said that the tremendous burden of taxes being borne by owners of real property, ana especially by owners of Improved property, haa reached almost the breaking point The attempt to assess real estate to Its full value has worked; Injustice to many ownera." The Commissioners and assessors. In Mr. Mortimer's opinion, have made the best effort to do justice, but he said that the Commissioners cannot personally make the appraisals, and it is hardly reasonable to expect that assessors can be secured at the salaries available who are competent to do the- work accurately. Furthermore, I am advised," continued Mr. Mortimer.

that, each deputy I la reuulred to make assessments on lO.tKV) pieces of property each year, and I do $600,000 LOFT BUILDING. To be Erected at 18 to 22 West Forty-fifth Street. H. F. Cralgo Severance and Walter Schumm.

architects, have prepared plans for Henry Dazian, William R. Rose, and 3 Al Tayman for the construction of a sixteen-story office building at 18 to 22 West Fortv-flfth Street The building will cover a plot 62 by 100 and will cost approximately 500,000. The property Is now covered by old dwellings. Improving Brooklyn Waterfront. The New Tork Dock Company has begun the construction of two large reinforced concrete factory buildings at the foot of Commerce Street Brooklyn.

These buildings, planned by the architects, Maynlcke Franke. will be 400 feet long 80 feet deep and stories high. The estimated cost is $1,000,000, and they are to be completed by Aug. 1. 1912.

They will front on the Commercial Wharf. Atlantic Basin, and will occupy the blocks between Commerce, and Bowne Streets. The company also has planned the con struction of a 000-foot concrete bulkhead! with a railroad terminal at the Commer- 1 cial Wharf to be component parts of a great system of new warehouses and manufacturing buildings. Since reor-! ga nixed, with F. S.

Landstreet as President the company Jias abundant capital and has adopted a comprehensive plan of development to meet future needs of the port of New. Tork. Erected by the Sandusky' BuiiJinz Company on Seventy-seventh Street Aveniic, DrookljTi, from Plans by Gresorj. D. Vctb.

TAXABLE VALUES OF FR0P- A Valuations of Real Bud set and Personal Awropnattona Prrerty. 1S 84.M4. 1. 371.117.0O3 ln 83.H02.32' 1,420, 1W.7 84.343.022 l.ft7,64).6rt.l INK 7.031.0& 1.533.442.431 84.K93.3M5 35.14H.flW7 1.6W1.S7S.3MO 83.9e2..4ll 1(3 8ft.8Sl.103 l.M8,2W4.273 87.444.1V! l.ft:i3.818.B2 88.6rt4.2-17 2.0,3:i2.0aT tlt 2.016,47.62 1SM6 46.4tMi.37I 2.106. 4M.95 17 2.16W.635.8.16 118S8 77.5.1.8sa 2.367.325.49S lfS 03.2O.5 3,478.3.12.02 l00 92.3K7.446 8,6,14.

1 33. 28 SO.J-2tJ.3M2 8.7H7.970.878 8,837.047.718 8.f(fM,im6 6.432.416.91 1P04 8.640,M2,6.17 1K03 Ill.tttt4.648 B.S12.144.22T 1U6 119.OB2.h4t 6.85.74.1A5 1T ISO. f13; 824 6.793.370.4T3 143.572.204 7.M,190.4'1O 1909 J56.543.i48 7,330.500,559 1910...... 163, 180,279 7.416.S37.4U9 Haa Bate. 2-40 2.29 2 14 2.22 1.93 1 97 1.90 1.85 1.K2 1.79 1.72 2.14 2.10 2.01 2.48 2.24 2.31 27 1.41 1.51 1.49 1.47.

1.48 1.61 l.trr 1.75 believe It Is a physical Impossibility for any cne to do this efficiently. 'The passage of the Sullivan-Shortt bill would, in my estimation, give the most Immediate relief to ownera of improved property by reducing the percentage of assessment on improvements. Baflaiaa-s Assessed Abave Cast. Boms of our buildings are assessed for more than they cost to erect, while others are assessed at a figure materially higher than we are willing to sell for, and I believe our experience Is not unlike that of many others, In the face of all this we are now confronted with a budget calling for which means a tax rate of approximately 1.85, as compared to the present rate of 1.72248. In addition to this burden we are continually confronted with additional departments and bureaus having to do with the regulation of building, whose orders and requirements are in many cases conflicting and unnecessarily burdensome.

The elimination of many of these bureaus and the concentration of their powers among the remaining departments would-be a more practical and satisfactory method for controlling building and would be conducive to effecting further economies In the administration of our city. The crux of the whole matter la the budget and It gets right down to a question of economy. The business end of the City of New Tork is a tremendous Institution, and while I believe It Is the earnest Intention of the heads of the departments to hare their departments operated in the most economical and efficient manner, it is a very difficult thing to maintain this element of economy in any business where administrations are changing every few years, and, in many cases, every few montha' In 100T) the United States Realty and Improvement Company paid out In taxes $531,200.17, In 1810. and this year 8rtrt2.732.08, an advance over 1909 of 24.76 per cent ACTIVE BROOKLYN SECTION. Increasing Demand for Houses and Apartments In Park Slope District.

One of the sections of Brooklyn that is showing a well-sustained activity In the demand for bouses and apartments Is the district known as the Park Slope. Its availability for residences has been materially enhanced since the completion of the subway at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues. A six-story elevator building- with thirty-six apartments recently erected on Prospect Place, near Flatbush Avenue, found tenants fon thirty: apartments before completion. Another building with twenty-five suites, on Sterling Place, was entirely rented before completion. These comprise three to five rooms and bath, with parquet flooring, electric light steam heat, and telephone service, and average $10 to $12 a room per month.

New six to eight room apartments of modern construction find a ready list of applicants, but do not produce the pro rata rate on the Investment The construction of the new-law apartments now provides all light bedrooms, and the old-style apartments, with their Interior rooms, are fast becoming obsolete. There are available for purchase at the present time on the Park Slope a number of plots for building of new apartment dwellings. Private houses this Kali have rented readily. Practically all leases are being dated from Oct 1 Instead of May 1. The sale of realdences and Investment properties on the Slope during the past six years has surpassed any other section of Brooklyn.

The Park Slope, during the so-called boom of 10(i5 and 190A, developed no fictitious valuations. There have been few houses sold which have not represented a saving in almost every Instance over what they would cost la any other section of Brooklyn Want New Station. The Columbus Avenue Association, which is endeavoring to have a station erected on the elevated road at Eighty-sixth or Eighty-seventh Street and Columbus Avenue, has declared that every legal means would be adopted to compel the Interborough Company to comply with the order" of the Public Service Commission to construct the station. The Interborough Company, through an official, stated recently that It had done all it could to get the necessary consents, and. admitting its failure, said It was up to those who wanted the station to do the rest An officer of the association said yesterday that if no results are shown within two weeks the association Intends to take steps to compel the railroad company to obey the order of the Public Service Commission to build the station.

Rlekert-Finlay Sales. The Rlckert-Flnlay Realty Company has sold. In Kensington, to Ruby L. Jordan a plot with 100 feet frontage on the south side of Beverly hoad, 200 feet east of East Drive; to W. O.

Brown a plot with 100 feet frontaga on Arlelgh Road, northwest corner of West Drive; to Leon C. McClellan a plot with 109 feet frontage on the south rie of Beverly Road. 400 feet east of Eafc Drive; to Henry Fets a plot with 100 feet frontare on 'the south side of Beverly Road. feet eaat of East Drive, and to George W. Whltmer a plot with IOO feet frontage on the north side of Beverly Road.

4 20 feet west of Nether-wood Road. Also, in Westmoreland, to riarry uotasione a piot wun feet tront-are on the north aide of Cutter Avenue. 173 feet east of Old House landing Road. CRITICISE TAX METHODS. 1 Real Estate Beard Says High Assess ments Have Caused Inactivity.

Sever criticism of the Tax Department and Its assessment methods Is made In the current Issue of The Bulletin, the organ of the Real Estate Board of Brokers of the City of New Tork. In discussing the subject of tax value in real estate Bulletin says: I year ago the Real Estate Board of Brokers through Its Board of Governors passed a resolution protesting against tee high values at which real estate la this city oraa assessed, and a. committee was appointed to Interview Law son Purdy and the Tax Commissioner. 1 1 Tax Commissioner, acting: under Instructions from the- Mayor, had laid their plans to cut deep and heavy Into any profit in real estate in this city, and they' have done their work so well that the ensuing year has been tlvlty and decadence of values In realty In this city, which was the prophecy made at the time ty your committee but which required common sens Indicate to any The City of New Tork loses leap from 11... t.

a tsfc4a fpAm want Of tntl- llgence. and a department that would kill the goose that lays the golden egg. "the Tax Department has done In the last two years at the Instance of the Mayor, la highly Injurious to the realty Interests of the City of New Tork. "Real estate will have for a long time cause to remember the terrtfio blow dealt to It through th Incumbency of Mayor Oaynor and Tax Commissioner Law Purdy. and the end I not yet and any recovery in the years to follow will be In spite of their effort that were, in effect following the lines of the Mayors Committee on Congestion of Population, to drive at the landlord and treat any profit that he might gain through realty investment as hokd Dwellings Leased.

Scanlan A Dollard report the following leases at Far Rockaway: For Thomas O'Kane, his cottage on Cornaga Avenue to Joseph A. Coit, for Mrs. O.I Hewlett Stutts her oottag on Roanoke Avenue and State Street to M. J. McCarthy, for Harry L- Spence th Williams place.

Roanoke. Nostrand Avenue, Street to Edward McGann. and for John O'Kane his Clark Avenue cottage 1 to V. J. Faldlng.

I Pease EHlman have rented for Henry Webb bis house, with plot of ground, at 80 Maple Drive, Greenwich, to Albert I Cushlng. i I The J. P. Wblton-Btuart Company ha rented th following dwellings: 8 East sixty-sixth Street. Orsnt Schley to Mra John "FlifleT.

to Mis. Elisabeth Hyde. Leases. tt Senior A Co. have leased for William 8.

Patten the four-story and basement dwelling 123 West Sixty-fourth Street to Ernest W. Nlckerson: for' Stein Saalberg the store and basement at Amsterdam Avenue to Henry Frei tag. and for Howard Payson Wilds the (our-atory American basement dwelling 325 est 137th Street to Mrs. 11. li- Kelly.

I The Duross Company ha leaaed for A. C. Bechstein the store 242 West Fourteenth Street to Charles Fischer a term of years. 't-w Wright Barclay has leased for son estate th four-story building iOO Fourth Avenue to Wulf Brothers, for a term of twenty-one yeara The premises are being- altered for use as a cafe, BUSINESS PROPERTY DIRECTORY NOTE. This list la In numerical orer, the street being the nearest to that railed for by tbe avenue aumber or miuaina.

BASEMENTS 23D 2fi2 WEBT- Fixe. SAslOO; elevator: rant. SSOO. Henry Brady. 2J West 2Sd St.

BUILDINGS- 10TH 134-S WEST Il-atory and basement: S6.O0O. Durmi IBS Weat 14th St. KTU UT -Kl-T WEST 2-a-etory and baaement; 15x100: session arransea. Diitmi 135 Weat 14th 8t I3TH 227-0 WEST- -story and baaem't sir. 45x90; now.

Duress 1W West 14th St. i 15TH Ill WEST- 4-story; 2JXJ': aneraa 10 sun; a.uw. Dumss las west iia 01. 2-s-story Udira. sa.OOO: paaseasloa mmtig'i.

Tmromu 15 West 14ta Bt. 16TH 25 WEST, 4-atory; altered to suit: $3,000. Duross 155 West 14th 8t 1TTH lit WEST 8-tory and baaematit: fS.OOO; poas. arr-gad. Euroas West liin Bi.

17TH BT 1 7A TTH A V. 4-story 28iloo; alt te suit; 14.000. Duroaa 155 Weat 14th 8t 1TTH 23 11TH AV 1 -tory now; SV. Dumas 155 Weat 14th St. 1TM 1S4 lOTH AV.

4-atory and basement 25x100; 12.200. Duross 155 Waet 14th 8t 4-atory and elevator: 25x131; I2.500. Duroa J55 Weat 14th 8t. 19TH 243 WEST 5- str. and baamt.

alter to suit; $100t now. Dumss 155 West 14th St 29TH BT 220 WEST 20c. per bq. foot: new. W.

H. Huaeey. 150 Waet 85th Bt. S0TH 341 TH AV. S-story and basement; $100.

Duress 155 Weat 14th St. SOTH KT. 4 lO TH AV. 4-story and baaemont; SSilOO: $5,000. Dnim Co 155 Weat 14th St.

41ST 41 EAST (near Grand Cent Depot) 2o-foot house. Herbert A. Sherman. 0 Pine St 6 1ST 1.S4S BROADWAY 2AX130: now. Ifaro Lowenthal.

Ttraadway. I LOFTS BROADWAT, CORNER PRINCE ST. Sise 75x200; rent on application. 1 Herbert A. Sherman.

Pina St. BROADWAY, i-SKH. COR, WALKER Rent en application. Herbert A. Sherman.

Pine Bt. BROADWAY 481 Slse. 30123; rent reb. l. R.

WillaM 4t 45 Pine St. BROADWAY, 804. Buft Slxe. 44x200; rent. f3.SO0; Feb.

1.1 8. AVI Hard a 45 Pine St. i WORTH BT.i Tl-73 Slse 50x100; rent on Herbert A. Sherman. Pino St.

ST. 8TH SO 6TH AV. 20x100 ft. 3 rent. S45 each; now.

Duma 155 Weet 14th BU 13TH ST. BROADWAY Rent on application. Horbert A. She tmn. Pine Bt.

13TH ST S40 BROADWAY Rent on application. Herbert A. Sherroa m. 9 Pine St. IOO 8TH AV.

Slse Uxl40; new; $7,300 to $4,500. Anthony jo Forte, loo flth Av. 18TH 43-47 WEST I Slse l5vw2: rent S2.eoO-S3.300. K. s.

Wlllard. 45 P)n St. 1STH 8T-. -T EAST I Slse BOxsO; rent vacant new. Mark Rafalekr 327 6tB Av.

IffTM ST. 5 FIFTH AV Slse Ss141.1olrrecllar; fl.nno to $4,300. Mark Rafalahy at S77 Sh Ar. 1TH 7 ITH AV. KKTCKER DOCKER) SUa Fh.

1. 1 AntHone Lo Forta Rtn a v. IflTH 79 ITH AV. (KMCK EKEOCKEJt) Slse 162Uxl5- now: $15,000. 1 Anthony lo Forte.

IOO (th Av. i 1 I TTH Ml-64 WEST Rent to recant now. Mark Rafalskv Ml. Hh 17TH IOI 7H AV. U.

8. WORSTED Bll LDI NCI Slse. 75x130; now; M.SO0 to $7,000. Anthonr I Porta. IOO $th A v.

1TTH 1ff2 8TH AV. U. 8. BVILDIXO sis. 75xz4- jo: M.noe.

Anthony Ijo T'lrte. 10O 5tn Av. 17TH KAST Rent modermia. I. H.

Pollock. 1t5 Broadway. WORSTED 1TTH 15 EAST Rent. 1 Onrr, room I.OIO. 1 Br 1 mmT.

I 18TH 6TH 8. W. CORNER 0(xll5; separately or toaetber. Herbert A. Sherman.

Plna St I UTH 2-23 WEST Slaa. VTtxsn- ml. S3.6OO-S4.2a0. E- S. willard.

45 Pu St. Z2T 150-154 WEST 1 Slaa. a2.iS.V. rent $3,10: vacaet sew. Mark Bafalaky A tZJ StB Av.

71 WEST Fh 1. 1012: about lO.Ono feet; mod. rant e-t. Wet 4ih tU rTTM STH AV. rrnt mv1Tt J.

ti j-r BUILOING ON QUICKSAND. Difficult Engineering Feat Met In West Bide Y. M. A. Dormitory.

In a basin of treacherous qulcks.Vt through which run a stream ef wsw the foundation ha bee complied tar eleven-etory dormitory annex of the Bid Toung Men Christian Asaoclaul at Eighth Avenue and Street A urvy that djotniiu buildings built on! the Mm, oulchM basin were disturbed only to the ext.n. of one-thirty-second of an Jnch. The ea tire foundation la Incased In a hut reinforced steel jacket The new.bulidln Is to be erected Fifty-sixth Street on one aids present dormitory of the Toung Men'tj Christian Aaaodatlm mnjt v- 1 trm mnsr side I a six -story dwelling. Foundations of both the old dormitory end the dwu. Ing rest on the basin of quicksand.

excavate for a foundation beneath ttw level or the rootlags of the tw a. joining building rneant that quick would oos from beneath and both buU4-Ings would be undermined. In this feat of engineering, piles first sunk through; the quicksand recti bottom, the pile varying from twenty forty-five feet du to the slop ef tk, rock surface underneath. So treaehar wa th quk-ksand that th piles eowk not be driven with the ordinary Cnt hammer, aa th vibration would car tendency to destroy or Injure the adjefe-Ing building, and it was necaasary ta a a steam hammer having a sharp blow, There Is to a swimming pool SO feet In the basement of the new tory. and this oaused th arc hit art t.v builder much anxiety, as th foundatw for the pool and part of the pool Itw will be below the footings of sdjouiini buildings.

It wa evident that If an cavatlon were started for the pool th quicksand would In as quickly a taken out I What enarlneers 1 say Is something eM tlrelv new in foundation construction v. finally decided upon. At the time ts f'lles were sunk a wall of steel ehaet ea ng wss driven down all around the This effectually prevents any tnovanw of the quicksand. cavatlon for t- swimming pool could then be made wit out danger to surrounding property, pool resting on a reinforced concrete lw which. In turn, reats on the plies.

Tt-sheet piling makes the lot In reality great steel box, with steel sides and quicksand bottom. 1 Louis E. Jallade, th architect, said peaking about the work: There is a basin containing between Fifty-ninth and Fiftr-str Streets, and it runa approximately fr Ninth Avenue northeast probably te 6V-enth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street, a Treat many buildings in this nel(hhat hood have part or the whole of tM-t foundations resting on this qulrkaan. and a great deal of difficulty has tw. i met by builders In designing foundation to take care or this particular conaitton 1 It would seem that there was bat extending over this property, and sim prt of It remains in the form of the i.

now In Central I'ark at Sixth Avenua ar Fifty-ninth Street. This lake eeema hav an outlet, which runs under the York Athletic Club, down hlxth A van-through the Slerel-Cooper 1 Building. down through Mlnetta Lane, aipr' lately at Sixth Avenue and Four-Street and thence to the Hudson Klvr In the Sixth Avenue stream, however. 3ulcksand is but a eal of water. Th association was for nate In finding very Utile A In this quicksand pond under Its bui.

I LOFTS. $7TH WEST Sisa. 51xm7; rent. now. Van Norden Wllaon, 1 Wast 4tll St 89TH S-14 WEHT Slse.

75xe.S: rent. vacant see. Mark Rata Inky 627 Mb Ar. 40TH ST. IS-IS WEST 1 Stxa, 125 square feet: rant $7,000.

Mark Rafalaky A $27 SHk Av. 42D Bll-13 WEST Rnt modarata. T. Alton. Ill Broadway.

I 43D ST. MS FIFTH AV. Slsa. 2t0; rant $4,000. 1 Mark Rafalaky Co, 627 th A.

STHT BROADWAY TTH Slsa? i4.5xll.exl21U3 Mark Rafalaky til 6th A. iioth 113 Lenox av- 25x75; vacant. Maro UowenthalJ 1.13H Broadway. 1318T 8. W.

COR. BROADWAT Rent reaaonabla L. T. Alton. Ill Broadway.

OFFICES! BnOADWAT, 220 BT. PALL. BUIXDIHG" Rents to $7.50. Herhvrt A. Sherman.

Pins 8t BROADWAY, 8WI. Rant on application. I Herbert A. Sherman, 9 Plna IJBEHTY 114, 11. I ENGINEERS BCIUDlNOr I Refit on applleatlon.

Herbert A. Sherman, Pine St SOUTH WILLIAM 3 1 Rent $1.8 Pr foot. j. IHm. ft 15TH 9.

10O BTH AVB (TrUTVE A XT-All sixes: $400 upwsrd; now. Anthony I JO Forta. HO 6th 1TH 19-93 6TH AV. tKWICKXRBOO ER) All alses: $400 upward; now. Anthony Le forte.

100 $th Av. tTTH K.2-4 6TH AV. S. WUM" BfILDINO 1 Showrooms; all alsea: $400 epwara; sew. Anthony Im Forte.

100 A. 23D 71 WEST Feb. 1, 1911; about 10,000 ft J4TH KwWHT (MABOrtlC HAU Aaaertad sixes. I Ant on prmlaa. 29TH I US EAST (2 ITH BT.

ARCADO- From $240 upwards. Ilrunewick Realty East 2MB 1 WEST tCENTLRr Ire and small. and us. Van Nuroen Wliaun, on pramlaaa. 42D 7 WEST HLATER)- Slia 2'xV; now.

James Slater Mr Hush, oa pramlaas. 3D st Ma nrrii av Rent $1,600. Bup aw premiaa Mark Itafalakr Co 527; mia A. iiTu rtrrH A v. 1 H.m tt imi 2 TfV)-.

yaramt Mark Hafalakv 627 AV. 4TH HT BROADWAY and TTH AV. $1 to $2 per square fool Rafalaky A 627 6tk Bent Mark Rafalaky SHOWROOMS. BROADWAY. 3WI, Rnt oa application.

1 Herbert A. "tL-rmrn. Pine St STORES I BROADWAY. NEAR 13TH ST. With baaeroent; rant on application.

Hrrhi a. Sherman. Plna St. BROADWAY, 6l4. i With basrment.

44x0- rt. K. S. WIllaM A 4 Plaa St. LIP ERTY 114, IIS.

IIS- With baeementj rent on A. Sherman, ft Plna St. 1TH 17 With baaement aftxtO; S. WIllaM 43 Pma St. 1TTH ST 5o-4 Weat as MM- varset new.

Mark Rafalaky A 577 th '-rrfT 1TTH lw2 3TII tV. OMT i Anthony For- A' ItTH ST. AXD 6TH AV. With baaamrnt; rant on apill'-aUoO. Herbert A.

Shertnaa. Plna St. T2 EAST- With hermnt. 25I0rt: 50. re.

S. Wtllar.1 A Co 43 run 22D ST WEXT- 5S.r.st, rent I 'Mark RafaLky A 527 6th A. 23D 71 WEST Feb. I. 11I2: abwut 10i0 feat Acnt, K) VT.

Jilth i 42D 7 WEST SLATER)-Slse 2fm40: 12 now. 1 Jiikm Slater Mrllnfti. on pramlaaa. S4TM -BROADWAY. 2.524- Six.

42a 13S; r.flt 171ST 1.6-Slse. 12x45; rent. -SPt or T. Alton 111 IBra4ar. rr -BSOOK ti Slse.

12x45; rnt. 65. Si.t- oe I. T. IM "raedwsr.

171ST ST -BPOOIC Slae. 12x45; rynt. S-ia. Sr or I- T. Alton.

171ST W. COR. BHOOa. Ill Rr.4..r. -WORKSHOPS.

tirrr.TI 114 77 i 1. I A. L. 1 M' I 't ui or vl I rljHt "111 tort I nd 1. 1 8.

-f Hie. -oil urt 1 u. 1 A' tall 4 veil lt 4 in .1 I It irk -at ti, O.I hm 'a 't vt ft! h- 14 iai i 1 r-lW 17 nfl.