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aa-r THE NEW. YORK, SUNDAY. JUN5 12,, 1910. Jletos; of tljc meat estate Worlb 3 LATEST DEALINGS" IN REALTY FIELD Brooklyn Investor Buyt Square HousePrivate Dwellings in Demand. IMPORTANT 14TH ST.

LEASE Big Deal in Long Island City Ths Bronx and Suburban Market Active New Apartment for Writ 47th 8t Louis Lowensteln baa sold for the Maxlow Realty Company to Beety of Brooklyn the property 21 East Ninth Street, facing Stuyvesant Square, a four-story building-, on lot 21 by 100. The upper part of the building la occupied a the Ksevil Home for Young Men, under the management of John D. Denton. The pur. chaser Intends altering the store floor and occupying It for his own business.

ftelllasr Private Dwellings. B. Osgood Pell tt Co. have sold for Paul Xaskel to a client, for occupancy. 133 West Seventy-eighth Street, a three-story and basement dwelling, on lot 20 by 102.2.

Pease ft Elllman have sold 128 East Fifty-sixth Street, a four-story high-stoop stone-front dwelling, on lot 20 by 100.3, to a client for occupancy. Mary H. Harper Is the owner of record. Mary Hech? has sold 234 and 238 West Thirty-sixth Street, two three-story dwell-, Inn, on plot 40 by 08.9. Pease Elllman have sold for W.

N. Guernsey 305 West Seventy-sixth Street, a four-story and basement dwelling, on a lot 21 by 7, to a client ror occupancy. Bronx Sales. John A. Clark baa sold for Mark Cohen the three-family house 356 East 143th Street, on plot 23 by 100.

to Clara L. Mayer, and has resold the same to Edward Kates, who gave In part payment two houses at Arverne, on plot 80 by 10O. and Iras resold the noth Street house to tne Llnderman Realty Company. Brooklyn Sales. Mooyer Marston have sold for.

the estate of Irejie Smith Emery the southeast corner of Avenue and Tenth Street, a plot 100 by 100. to a bulkier, who will improve the property. They have also sold for th Wilkin estate 13 Amity three-story dwelling, on lot by KK). States Ialaado- J. Sterling Drake has sold for Mrs.

Mary E. Lew to Waiter F. Orleman the well-known Law on Broadway, New Brighton. This property, 214 by 656, with its park of old oak and elm trees and Us granite mansion adjoining the former home of John Tyler, tenth President of the United States, has long been. one of the landmarks of Staten Isl- Mind.

Big: -Deal la Long Islaad City. Toseph. P. Day baa sold to a syndicate Thirty-six lots at Dfcbevolse inil.nrun. toolnt Avenues, Long Island City, for BOUt ftHMKPO.

This week the rltv will tuurin fcof connecting tha Queensboro Bridge plasa Iwlth the bridge structure already com-fpleted the Pennsylvania Railroad arross Its yards to Thomson Avenue. driJn ttl! work Prevented the South Shore Traction Company from nullum im huh oui i riomion Avenue to Jamaica, and as soon as the street is com- junea ioc rompiny will begin to lay tracks, having already obtained it. fr.n. whlse. MDiruss Bales.

Gage E. Tarbell has sold at Garden HClty a plot 100 by 200 on the west side of Devereux Place, between Stewart Avenue and St James Btreet North; a plot 100 by iw on the northeast corner of Prospect Avenue and Brook Street: a plot 100 by 'zm on tne north side or Westbury Road rwtween Lerrcrts Road and Wathertti rvoal; a tint 100 by 200 on tha west side between Stewart Avenue and St. vs Street North; a plot 100 by 130 on f'- north side of Chestnut 8t.t Ibetwpfn Avenue and Prospect Avenue: p. 1 by 200 on the west side kf John i between 8tewart Avenue ar.u wrarnn riacc; a plot 100 by 230 on the south ride of Osborne Road, between Westbury Uoa.1 and Kt-w a plot by ax on the west side of Wash JnKton Avenuo. between Wharton Place ana street.

The David P. Lenhy Realty Company has -old Omm Park to the following buyers; Arthur W. Hcott nn d.w. TWENTY-SIXTH STREET LOFT. I Twelve-Story Loft Near Broadway De-' aigned by Buchman Fox.

The old private dwellings at 15 to 17 West Twenty-sixth Btreet have Just been demolished for the erection on the site of a high-class fireproof loft. The new building will be twelve stories high, having a frontage of 44 feet, the plot being 18.0 feet deep, adioinina- th northwest corner of Broadway. The facade will or none, brick, and terra rotta, and ornamental iron work. There will be no columns on the Interior floors, and the basement will be vaulted to the curb. All shipping will be done through the basement, and all modern improvements for commercial uses will be Installed.

The bunding is being erected by the Realty Holding Company from designs by Huihman A Fox, architects. M. L. lies will be the renting agents. (eqi i 2i T.

i 44 Ji a slJ CI ri i 7 A 4- tf -v iJLi J. I i n'- VehMnen, 277 Davis Avenue; Fred Borden. tsS Leahy Avenue; Misa Elisabeth Dutor. 341 Brlnkmeer Avenue; Fred Nu-berger. ifcrt Brlnkmeyer Avenue.

The following purchased lots for home altea or Investments: Miss Jennie Duffy. earner of Ashby and Horan Avenues, 40 ny KM; Carl and Emma Brown, fljartin Avenue. 40 by 100: Emil Pick, Old South Road. 40 by 100; Mick Rooney, corner of Ashby and Horan Avenues, 40 by 100; Thomas A. KJ wood.

Hollands Avenue, 30 by 100; W. Weber, Kockaway Plank Road. by 100; Walter Korn, Fields Avente. 0 by 100; Timothy Farrell, Baldwin Avenue, 40 by 10O; Samuel Johansen. Alquln Avenue.

by 100; John Carlson, Ashby Avenue, three lots, 2U by 10U. Take Lesg Leasehold la letfc Street. The dry goods firm of CaPtahan orris sy, located at 48 and CO West Fourteenth Street and 47 to 53 West Thirteenth Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, for the past twenty-eight years, have disposed of their leasehold interest In the premises to Flnkelstein Brothers, who operate several ten-cent stores In the city. The present lease from the Rhine-lander estate Is for fifteen years from May 1 last. Thomas Morrlssy.

the sole owner, personally conducted the negotia tions tnrougn cnaries J. McKenna, as broker. Flnkelstein Brothers nave a store at 82 West Fourteenth Street, and they will probably make the new place their uptown headquarters. Lcsm Kesr Morgan Resldeaee. The E.

H. Wendell Company leased for the Wltherbee estate 288 Madison Avenue, a four-itory brown stone dwelling on lot 27 by 96 for five years to Mrs. E. E. Acker-son.

The house is between Thlry-sixth and Thirty-seventh Streets, directly opposite the residence of J. Flerpont Morgan. Apartment for 47th Street. Plans have been filed with Building Superintendent Miller for a six-story apartment house to be erected on the south side of Forty-seventh Street. 325 feet west of Sixth Avenue, with accom modations for twenty-five families.

The building will have a facade of brick with limestone and terra cotta trimmings, with a frontage of 87.8 feet and a depth of 87.5 feet. The Olympla Realty and Con struction company is tne owner, ueorge and Edward Blum, architects, estimate the cost at 175,000. 'Sales In Tonkers. T. S.

Burke, In conjunction with the Tonkers Realty Exchange, has sold for David G. Patton the premises 100. 111. and 113 Morris Street. Tonkers.

The property consists of two three-family buildings and one vacant lot. The entire property has a rrontage of 75 feet, by 105 feet In depth. Mr. Burke has also sold for Philliplne Edwards a plot with a frontage of 200 feet on North Broadway near Morsemere Place. Yonkers.

Riverdale School Leasee Big Plot. The Newton Land Association yesterday concluded a lease with the Riverdale Country School, Frank 8. Hackett. Headmaster, for thirteen acjrea of land and five buildings on the old Post Road and Riverdale Lane, New York City. The school has outgrown the adjoining property, which It has occupied for three years.

The new plant Includes an athletic field for the boys and a gymnasium. Xotes. The Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company to-day loaned Moses Zimmerman $80,000 for five years at 0 per cent, on his property, 818 to 824 East Houston Street. The plot la 72.4 by 88, three brick factory buildings being on the property. J.

H. Mayers has two foreclosure sales scheduled for this week, one being a par-eel. 172 V.nrt Klnetv-slxth Street, a four- story building on plot 30 by 100.81A. and the other being 1.9H3 to 1.07 Grand Avenue, between Tremont and Burnside Avenues, Bronx, to be sold on the 10th and 17 th respectively. The firm or Bcott St Trotta has been dissolved bv mutual consent, and the business will be carried on by D.

A. Trotta at Third Avenue nnd 149th Street. It Is reported tnat 161 and 1G3 Seventh Avenue has been sold. Substitute plans have been filed by W. L.

Rouse and L. A. Goldstone, architects, for the tOOO.OiiO twelve-story store and loft building at 13 to 21 East Twenty-second Street, Flemish Realty Company, owner. WIDEN "MORRIS STREET. Petition Presented to Borough President by Property Owners.

A petition Tias been presented to the President of the Borough of Manhattan by various property owners, asking for the widening, of Morris Street by taking a strip on Its southerly side, which will make Morris Street eeventy-flve feet wide, extending from Broadway to West Street. Tho development of the section south of Rector Street and west of Broadway has been retarded, it la said, by the fact that from Rector Street to the Battery there are practically no means of access from Broadway. The widening or Morris Street, the petitioners say. will furnish the district with a wide street, oermittinr access from Broad ay to the river, tending to greater development of the entire section. At the present time it Is covered by build-lnrs of poor character, practically non-fireproof, and forming a serious menace to tne OMBiness section of New York in case of fire originating among them.

BIG DEVELOPMENT SCHEME. Eccles and Taylor Estates on Long Island to be Cut Up Into Acre Plots. The Real Estate Exchange of Long Island, In Its weekly review of the real estate market, says: Through the pur- mna jcccies estates. located In Douglaston and Bayslde. Long ilsland has Int i lllo wealthiest families in New England In its me very nignest standard will be maintained In the development of this property.

The purchase was negotiated through E. A. McConneU of the Realty Syndicate. Among the principals In the Draper Realty Company are members of -the Draper family to which the Governor of Massachusetts belongs, and whlcto is also a leader In the manufacture of textiles and textile machinery, owning some of wie largest mius and foundries lm New England. While the company has not divulged Its plans In detail, it Is known that It will develop the property In acreage plots and make it a Tuxedo In fact as well as In name.

The property lies between the Oakland Golf Club and Douglaston Park, and all of Its environs are In keeping with the high standard for which the North 8hore Is famous. "JlX the Til- niii Station ge Company, represented by Realty Syndicate, J. W. Doolittle. Prea fhTf, rlans 'r.

hiu- developments are coming verv rapidly in Long Island, and severil new avenues of travel will be opened to the Puhlic In the-next few weeks ln The bill sls-ned by the Mayor to enable the owners of the Stein way tunnel tocon-vey Its rights to another 'wTli result In the Interborough obtaining thii connection with Long Island ty and rt uhway iysteSu This will give Island City a fivV cent far. td of the preset sub- As a result of the fight made by the Transit Committee of Queens, routes are elng planned to? that borouVh tl be built upon the same terms as the TuneS Into the Bronx and Brooklyn, and to WIDENING OF FORTYSECOND STREET WILL BEGIN EARLY THIS SUMMER An Additional Fifteen Feet for Road Traffic Will Be Acquired by Cutting Off IV Feet on Each Side of the SidewalkEntrance Columns to Manhattan and Knickerbocker Hotels to Come Down1 Bryant Park Also to be Curtailed. ii 1 Ii mrmmm Within a very short time, this 8tnnmer surely, said Borough President McAneny yesterday, work will begin toward widening Forty-second Street. This work is the logical outcome of the widening of Fifth Avenue, now completed up to Forty- seventh Street, and In the near future It will be followed by a similar widening of Twenty-third and Thirty-fourth Streets. The project of widening Forty-second Street has been before the city authorities for several years.

Strong protests were originally made by some of the property owners whose building have been enjoy ing or usurping, according to the way you look nt it. for several years the city property beyond the building line. Final action on the widening of the street has been taken by the Board of Estimate. Maps are now being prepared by the city engineers showing the extent and manner of the projections that must be curtailed, and when these are approved In all details by the Borough President and the Commissioner of Public Works actual work will berin. Before final notice Is served on the property owners affected by the change a public hearing will probably be held, said President McAneny, and this may be called before July 1.

Conferences are now being REAL ESTATE CONVENTION. I To be Held at Minneapolis June The New York Delegates. The Real Estate Board of Brokers In making arrangements to send delegates to the third annual convention of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges to be held In Minneapolis June 15, 10. and 17. The cities of St.

Paul and Duluth will co-operate with Minneapolis In the entertainment of the convention. The progress for the three days' session contains the names of many well-known real estate brokers from all parts of the country, each prominent in his special line. Among the prominent speak ers rrom New York will be Joseph P. Dav. President nt th Troat it1 ot.ta tja of Brokers, who will address the convention on "Real Estate as a William K.

Harmon of Wood. Harmon subject The Development of a System of Selling Hlgh-Priced Property Through Shares on "The Man Behind the Sale." by Prof. Irving E. Vlnning of Columbia College. From other cities: "How the Desert Is Made Green," by J.

Blanchard. Chief of the TliiFeAii nf A i United States Government: The Torre ns system or registering and Conveying the Title to Real Estate," by the Hon. F. B. Snyder of Minneapolis; "Real Estate dent of the Minneapolis Real Estate grd: "The Unit System of Scientific oy ja.

w. uoty of Cleveland. Other men of National rapute and at the heads of their various lines will speak on subjects pertaining to advertising, taxation, loans, exclusive listing, and suoh other topics as are of interest to real estate men in general. QUEENS BUILDING RECORD. Permits for Paat Month Show Big In.

crease Over 1909. The report of the operatlona In the Queens Bureau of Bulldlnga during the last month shows an Increase over the records for the corresponding month of 1909 both as regards the number of structures erected and the total cost. Plana were filed and permits granted for 462 structures, estimated to cost 11.602,000. against 411 buildings, valued at 11.581.000, begun during May. 1900.

since Jan, ,1 plans for LM4 buildings, estimated to have PProved. rf th nw buildings are detached frame dwellings and 20 nir cent, two and three stohy brick struct' u7- complete records show grestl est activity In the Third WardL lng Whitestone, MalbausWng.th new north shore home sectionsf wek w. of the ast weex wss for the erection of h. seven-story office building onthe Oueens boro Bridge Plase, at the corner Academy Street, which will be on the ploof ground purchased last week for Iwoav This building will be 34 bVw feVt. and will cost SUw.OOO.

The sjhiteot r-ri glrn anduS ornl're i 8 tree and Seventeenth Avenue Brooklvn V2 Ailen of BrTwFstet and Cropsey Avenue that borough. 1. -X held with the Interborough officials regarding the changing of the subway kiosks, as three of the subway entrances will be affected by the widening the one on the Knickerbocker Hotel corner, on the southeast corner of Broadway and Forty-second Street, and the two on Madison Avenue, on the northeast and southeast corners of that avenue and Forty-second Street, respectively. These three kiosks are close to the curb line, and the seven and one-half feet that it is proposed' to clip from the present sidewalk will practically eliminate these entrances, as at present arranged. The street is to be widened from Park Avenue to Eighth Avenue by cutting off seven and one-half feet from.

each side of the sidewalk, adding thereby fifteen feet to the roadway, making the street. Instead of 40 feet, as at present, to Eighth Avenue, feet wide, with sidewalks of 22 feet Inches. From Eighth Avenue to the North River the street 1 55 feet wide. Practically all of the new buildings erected on the street In recent years and the old houses altered for commercial uses are set back to the legal bulletins line. The city allows, however.

2 feet 6 incnea leeway ior step tuiu rnirantn, uul Dtyond thls-everythlng is doomed to go. The greatest sufferers by the change will be the Manhattan and Knickerbocker Hotels. The former has encroac'hmpnts extending nearly 15 feet beyond the building line, and It will be necessary to remove large section of the Imposing entrance to the hotel In addition to the flight of steps on Forty-second Street PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF BUDGET Favored by President MeAr.eny and Property Owners' Associations. Owing to President sickness and absence the Board of and Apportionment did not take final action last Friday, as was expected, upon his resolution to hold a public exhibition next October of budget alternatives and corporate stock plan for permanent Improvements and administrative changes. McAneny stated over the telephone, after the meeting, however, that no time would really be lost because the board was already In practical agreement that the exhibit should be given, and that a definite outline with Illustrations would be pre-' sented to the board on Friday next.

The exhibit idea has been advocated In a number of letters to the Board of Estimate. The West Side Taxpayers' Association passed resolutions stating that more budget education would be appreciated by taxpayers generally throughout the city' Allan Robinson, writing for the Allied Real Estate Interests, said: If an exhibit can be devised which will graphically set forth the salient points that all ought to know about, it will stimulate the kind of public Interest which could not be aroused in any other way." Among others who wrote were Robert W. De Forest, who at last year's" budget hearings introduced the speakers In support of budget Increases for tuberculosis work, and Jacob H. Schlff, who last Oc-tober'Claimed that a budgtt of would be sufficient for this year, and that the officials of the last administration owed it to themselves and to the public to make retrenchments necessary after they had repeatedly said that many millions of dollars could be saved by efficient management. In addition to the facts relating strictly to next year's expenditures, the Board of Estimate plans to exhibit by charts and photographs Its work and plans for permanent improvements, park and dock extension, public buildings, it, and also the administrative changes already made and in prospect.

It is thought to set side by side the many increases in service or decreases in expenditure of the present year with the changes In method that brought about such Improvements. Even without the exhibit, the taxpayers of New York are guaranteed, according to the Bureau oft Municipal Research, with opportunities to participate in budget-making, such as the taxpayers In no city in the world ever had. not even those In the alleged model municipalities of Eu. rope. For some days it has beenltnown that taxpayers would have two budget hearings on departmental estimates Thursday.

Oct. 13. and Monday, Oct. IT: that th tentative budget would be ready for distribution and study on Friday. Oct.

21, and that five days later, on Wednesday, Oct. 28. the taxpayers would have an opportunity to protest against the tentative budget as submitted by the Board of Estimate. With this advance notice, certainly no taxpayer can claim In 1910 that It Is anybody's fault but his own If he does not understand what Is in the tentative budget, v. To Abandon Elmsford Route.

The up-State Public Service Commission has consented to the abandonment by the New York. Westchester Jk Boston Railway Company, of that portion of Its route wine a is nonueny ana westerly OI YVnlte Plains, lying between that village and Hall's Corners, bow Elmsford. i west of Madison Avenue leading to the cafe and barber shop in the basement. I The Knickerbocker Hotel will be required iv a.iuw.u uic ymrvifnvjk etui iivq miu uio row of marble columns on Forty-eecond Street directly in front of the main hotel entrance. on tne diock between seventn and Eighth Avenues the projections of several theatres will have to be removed, including those of the Republic.

Lyrlov and Hackett Theatres, In addition to several old fashioned house stoops and the iron fence- In front of the Central Baptist Church. The Iron fence bordering Bryant Park ion the Forty-second Street side wlU also i A v. i. i a i niki. 1 1 1 lie Kl uuiK nuuui iiiievii ini.

uu wu necessitate the destruction of the row of small trees recently planted close to the present curb line, and a half doten small I trees In the park will have to be removed. The new xence line win te on a par witn the new wall now being erected around the Public Library, the old wall, all that remains of the ancient reservoir, having been almost entirely torn down. The stairways to the elevated railroad In Forty-second Street, connecting; the Third Avenue line with tha Grand Central FtnMon. will also be affected, and a few projecting stoops still remain for elimination in the blocks from Madison Avenue to Broadway. The widening will tnvolve no expense to the cltv, the cost, as was the case with the Fifth Avenue widening, being borne by the property owners, the total cost being estimated at about (000,000.

FIFTH AVENUE CHANGES. Last Vestige Going of Famous Gothio House Row Opposite Library. Work began last week In tearing down the buildings on the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Forty-eeoond Street, opposite the new Publlo Library, for the new seven-story' building for which plans were filed by Architect Thomas W. Lamb a few days ago. The buildings being torn down Include the seven-story structure on the corner formerly occupied by the American Safe Deposit Com pany and the three adjoining structures recently owned by the Columbia Bank.

The entire plot, having a frontage of 73 feet on the avenue, was purchased by Felix Isman a short time ago for 650.000. The wrecking Is being done by Volk A the same firm which tore down the Olllender Building at Wall and Nassau Streets. The elimination of these Fifth Avenue buildings will remove the last vestige of the once famous row of Gothio houses built back In the 80' occupying fhe entire block from Forty-first to For-y-second Street. The house at 495 Fifth Avenue, adjoining the Depew building, retained on Its third and fourth stories two of the old gothio windows. The interior of the building also presented many of Its old-time characteristics.

Including a fancy staircase winding up to tie root from the ground floor evidences of Gothio decorations were visible In the decorations of many of the upper rooms. In the middle of the block tor forty years the Rutgers Female College has Its home la Its palmy days. The, new building will occupy the numbers from 49ft to and including 601. While the building to be erected has been planned for only seven stories, negotla tlons, lt Is announced, are pending whereby radical changes mar be made and a sixteen to twenty story building erected on the corner. Arrangements have been made whereby the new building will have an entrance In the basement with the new MeAdoo tunnel.

New Home for ex-Senator Palmer. Many fine houses occupy the eligible points of view along the water front of the north shore of Long Island, from Flushing One of the notable additions to the list Is to be made by Thomas Palmer, formerly United States Senator from Michigan, who has homes In Detroit and St. Louis, and who la to build on the former Field estate of ninety-three acres -at Great Neck. He paid $100,000 for the property, and Is expect-cu to expend as much cn the residence to be erected. i Yonkers' Population 79453.

According to. Information received from Washington, the. population of the City of -Tonkers, as shown by' the census taken several weeks ago, -will range between 79,335 and 73,800. There are two districts 1 yet to be recanvassed on so count of errors of enumerators, but the figures to date are given as- TO. 806.

On these figures the city has grown 17.638 In the last fire years, and the Chamber of Commerce slogan of seems About to bo realised. OPENING DAY AT BELLE TERRE MSBMessnMSBssHSM New Ctubheuso Thronged with. Real- deVita of tha Colony. SfttM Tki JYns York Tim. PORT JEFFERSON, I Juno 1L-It was a great day hereabouts in spite of the Bella Terra Club had Its annual opening with mora than tho usual gathering of fashionable 'people, who laughed at tha mud of tho roads aa they, toured down from Manhattan.

Brooklyn, and oven from Connecticut. Those who came In yachts. said thev did not mind tha wet 'a bit It was a largo and Jolly crowd that stro ilea. over tho lawns, rambled along tho forest paths glorious with mountain laurel, rode horseback to view points of the sea, played golf and "Just sat on tho big porch overlooking tho har bor and renewed tho friendships of former years. There was mualo.

luncheon, and dancing to property launch tho sea-son for this popular country club, many of whose members are residents of the Belle Terra Summer colony. Among those now occupying their country homes are the families of Flske, Edgar Rleble. Charles E. Baylies. W.

n. w. E. o. Mitchell.

Dean rVSrdACi B. Zabriskie, H. B. Moore. Dr.

C. P. Gildersleeve, Dr. Frank A. Abbott, gerdon Grant.

Travis Gibb, and the club Include John Jacob Astor, D. tm x. jBusn. uversiey cnilds, B. Cortelyou, Alfonso de Navsro Elbert H.

Gary, Edward H. Floyd-Jones, Howard Gould. Albert H. Harris, Archer M. Huntington, William E.

Iselln, J. Rog-ers Maxwell w. h. Marahalu j. Ox-nard.

Ralph Peters. Roger A. Pryor. Clinton Rosslter. Charles S.

Thorne W. K. VanderbUt, Harry Payne WhlU EJwHd Tinker. Henry fc. Tinker.

George D. Yeomans, and many others well known In the business and professional worlds. There was eyen a larger attendance at the opening thlo year by members and their guests than usual. Everything was in readiness for their every comfort from the spacious, thoroughly appointed clubhouse, built on a commanding spot oyerhookinr the harbor, on the lines of the old English Inn, to miles of broad roads winding about the great peninsula from lodge gate to the pergola-crowned bluff at the end of Cliff Drive. There was much that was pew since last season.

The massive rustlo bridge spanning a deep and wide ravine built to connect the new English section came In for much attention. And the English section Itself excited great admiration. It lies between Upper and Lower Devon Lanes, which, with park and bridle paths between, are fringed with old English estates surrounding eight fine examples of the half-timbered bouses of Devonshire famous for their comfort and perfection of architecture. The character of the land, rugged and rolling, invited the construction of this type of dwelling, as did other sites the villas of Italy, the chalets of Swttierland. and the old xutch farm houses and colonial homes of Holland and New England.

The Belle Terre Country Club Is an evolution In the progress of the American country home, of which the club Is the social centre. The residents have the say but have none of the care of management utilities. A wall and lodge gate cut off the great promontory that runs far out into the Sound, so that Intrusion from the shore end Is impossible. Ownership safeguards the beaches. There are about sixty home owners along the crest of the windswept highland, each, from the owner of the picturesque little bungalow to the roost pretentious country seat, with equal voice in all affairs, and each using the whole great estate as if he owned It.

McKnight Realty Company Sales. The McKnight Realty Company reports the following sales at the Thornewood and Great Neck estates: J. H. MoVea and M. M.

MoVea, a plot 70 by 100 on Maple Street about 200 feet west of Middle Neck Road. D. L'Hommedleu. a plot 40 by 300 on El em Street. IjO feet west of Middle Neck Road.

W. S. Evart, a plot 110 by 100 on Elm Street, between Hlllorest Avenue and Middle Neck Road. M. O.

Ridge, a plot 40 by 100 on Elm Street, between Hlllcrest Avenue and Middle Neck Road. E. W. Good, a plot 1O0 by 100 on corner of Hlllcrest Avenue and Elm Street. At Bayside-Flushing D.

W. Hall a flot SO by 100 on Lin wood Avenue, bp-ween Palace Boulevard and the railroad; M. A. Belden a plot 100 by 140 on corner Palace Boulevard and Lin wood Avenue. At Whitestone M.

Juliet a plot 30 by 100 on Seventh Avenue between Fifth and Sixth Streets. At Cedarhurst George F. 8hav a plot 40 by 100 on Oakland Avenue between Parky Place and Kensington Place. HARLEM YIDDISH THEATRE From a church to a Yiddish theatre Is the transformation that la taking place In the gray stone building long a Iaodmork of 116th Street, between Fifth and Lenox Avenues. Originally a Baptist chapel, the church In latter years was the headquarters of the First Colored Church of Harlem.

The property was purchased a short time ago by the Metral Realty Company and leased for sixty years to Do ran Bergoffen. builders, who have torn down the old church edifice and are erecting a theatre from plans by S. S. Sugar. The original intention was to make the bouse a vaudeville and moving picture theatre, but within the last few days a lease has been erased whereby the- place will be New Amusement on Site of HEW IROLLEY ROAD OPENED.

AT BABYLON South Shore Traction Company Runs Its First Electric Car to Amltyville. MANHATTAN CONNECTIONS Fifty-four Mllo Road Will Eventually Go Through Jamaica to Queens-: boro Bridge. An event which promises to revolution lxe the passenger and freight business ef Long Island, and open up one of the most promising sections of Ksw Torf great Island suburb, with Its pop ulous towns and fertile farms, took place at Babylon yesterday afternoon when the first link in a flfty-four-mlle trunk ba trolley system stretching across Long Island from Patchogue, on the shorts et the Great 8outh Bay. to Manhattaa via the Queensboro Bridge, was formally opened. The event was witnessed by a number of financiers, railroad men, and others Interested in the development of the Island.

They were the guests of Joseph G. Robin, a New Tork banker and railroad man, who Is the moving spirit In the South Shore Traction Company, which has finally succeeded In removing all obstacles to the construction of Its extensive trolley system. A special car took Mr. Robin and his guests from Long Island City to Babylon. The section of the line Just completed, and which began operation yesterday, extends from Babylon to Amltyville, a dlsatnce of over nine miles.

Mr. Robin acted as motorman on the first car te run over the soute. The South Shore Traction Company has secured all Its rights of way and ths necessary franchises for the entire system. rrom atcnogue to the Borough of Manhattan via the Queensboro Bridge. It runs from Patchogue to Blue Point, to Islip, Bayshore.

Babylon. Freeport. Rockvllle Centre, and Lynbrook, thence to Jamaica, and from there to New Tork over the new bridge. Arrangements are now being made for a system of transfers with all the Manhattan north and south bound surface roads between the East River and Madison Avenue. In addition the company has franchises for a cross-Island branch from Patchogue to Port Jefferson, a distance of over seventeen miles.

Between Queensboro bridge and Jamaica the new trolley line will run through the Hoffman Boulevard and Thomson Avenue, heretofore known principally to autoinobllists. The company now operates Its cars over the bridge at a three-cent tare. According to Its franchises the rate of fare within the city limits will be cents, which means a ride from Manhattan to Jamaica for a nickel. This trolley system had its Inception In a peculiar manner. Five years ago Mr.

Robin was motoring in the vicinity of West Sayvllle, L. when a tire of his machine blew out. To his disgust, be discovered that there was no way of reaching the nearest garage, in Patchogue, savs by waiting several hours for the next train on the Long Island Railroad or walking. To him this seemed incredlbi in a territory five miles square end with a population of more than 25,000. With James T.

Wood of Bayvllls organized a company to build a line from Patchog-ue to the New York City line near Belmont Park and a cross-Island line from Sayville to Ronkonkoma and Port Jefferson. A long period of litigation In securing rights of way and opposing rival fran-chases followed. Early In 190S, however, the South Shore concern purchased -from the' Long I3land Company the rights, franchises, and a little more than a mile of old tracking of the Babylon Railroad. We are hopeful now." said Mr. Robin yesterday, that all our legal troubles are over and that we will be permitted unmolested to aggressively push the work of building this trolley system, whioa means so much to the future development of Long Island.

With but a quarter of Its entire line built and less than that In operation, it now shows sufficient earnings to pay the Interest upon its entire bonded managed as a Yiddish theatre, being ths first of that character in Harlem. The new theatre will have a fronts of 41 feet on 116th Street, the plot being II feet doep. It is to be ready for opening by Oct. 15. The facade will be of limestone and tapestry brick, three stories la height, containing an orchestra, balcony and gallerv; with VA seats.

The cost of the altered building Is estimated at ouo. Mr. Sugar Is also the architect for the extensive alterations now being mads to the old Harlem Casino, at Seventh Aenue and 124th Street, which will be opened earlv In September as a vaudeville and moving picture theatrs. The entire tnter-lor of the building has been torn out sad 1140,000 is being spent in the alterations. I The new tluntre will have 1.800 seats, be.

lng, when completed, one of the largest i amusement houses In the city- i 11 6th Street Church. S. Scgu, 1.