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THE NEW YOKK TIMES. SUNDAY, "AUGUST 15, 1009. -12 sHofflf Society Imposing Strnqture Facing Central Park 1 Vork Now Under Way on $300,000 Building With its School on Adjoining Plot, the Society will Occupy Entire Block from 63d to 64th PERPLEXING QUERY Large Supply -and 'Wide Variety oiinbifses Awaiting Apartment Seekers this ear. rv 01 P- si sti Oi os C4 1t. et.

iU Is. isJ Jr. refl rai ai esi ICS rh ta tin th oo in nol use liat aafc 13 hef. not nts4 ow its ne, t. ilni rtt WJ In nei V- th" CA- re tho rx" StSi are ncd ere and nd thi has the th th re cod i roe u't TO nt's re a a the om 1 ken rae, ll(A uny ur-: on is9r i irov yy- Jecf" in? en-1 -v.

of ihe new building of the I tjetyfor Ethical Culture, at the Lt comer oT Sixty-fourth Street and 1 park West, is now under way the building will be ready for occu- Ccf about May 1010. will be used I mtting house by the society, which hitherto heId lt metlns at Carnegie rdrtetlv' adjoining It on the aouth 7 i. the large Ethical Culture erect-5 -snt five years ago Yor the society. 4 thUg owns the entire block front Central pars wcsi. ui ui feet on Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth rew building.

which was designed Architect Robert D. Kohn, will be a i-Mfflive structure of white limestone, of fi-- nv 1 turn. i I i I sjslllkwti Society for Ethical Cukares's New SixtyFoarth Street (Present School Building Adjoining) Robert D. AT MANHATTAN BEACH. finy ct its Casual Visitors Joining Ranks of Permanent Landowners.

Ew pleasure seekers become factor fc naklng real estate values In New Tork Cty is being demonstrated at Manhattan Betch, where record-breaking attendance being chronicled on almost every warm fry. It is natural then that many of the rtettom should be attracted by Ihe possl-' Khirs of all-year residence where so jeiay opportunities for recreation are Seemblnea at a point within the city limits, JvEh rspid transit and a 6-cent fare, P. Day. ho is selling the property Iti private sale, attributes to the large at-Jtts4uiee at the report much of the active for building sites, which has a.1-ntir resulted In the sale of $500,000 wth of lots. Tire Kcccnt Fourth Avenue Incident Recalls Other Interesting Controversies in this City Over Light and Air.

8ome minor will-probably be In the plans of the new twelve- Rary -building now In process of connection on the elte of the old Belvedere Hotel, the northwest corner of Eighteen Street and Fourth Avenue, on account of the 85-foot wall which the Cen- tral Real Estate Association, owners of di adjoining property at the north, have t0 Put UP along their southern 8tP "-with an m- fiaentai Junction of preventing the struct- hmre on the Belveder it from the beneQt of light and air from its nelgh- oors courtyard. As a result, Klein' Jackson of 3C Wall Street, owners of tho new Belvedere Building, will be obliged to give up some five windows on each floor up to the sixth, and to build up a wild portion of wall, where abundant indow view upon the fifty-foot court-i rtrd of the neighboring building had been pUnned. the new loft building com-j the site of the old Belvedere Hotel. ltUi a front of 53 feet on Fourth Avenue sr feet on Eighteenth Street, and tae MJacent lot on Eighteenth Street with a vantage of 20 feet and a depth of 77 feet. Erectly adjoining the plot on tho north JPourth Avnue Is tho twelve-story r-f of the Central Real Estate As-i 74tScn' occupied by the American Lltho- rph Company.

About 84 feet back from I avenue this building recedes to form 3 open court running 56 feet along Brthern boundary of the old Belve- feet tbe aatern 1 th extension "on the adjoining I rMeth Street plot, which now forms mis I we Proposed new Belvedere Build- i fcT.wT this lt Planned Real Eatate Association to I WaJl. feet high and 12 Inches j.r,tip gainst the walla of the Belve-! ftructure. rioBtfrora the polite Rliju' of fire 0t ti undersU'1 on good authority construction of the proposed prompted by a desire of th U'aji" or ine jteiveaere profitIn bv lhe free, space V5lrr nelghbor without reserving a naner courtyara or their i 4 Jtttb.m. objected. too.

that after Jt.g once constructed and used a 3 l7 or nianufacturlng it 1 atural for large quantities pper unh. Ink boUles. and lhetic obiects to find their windows Into the neifc-t i tirfn sitf Jackscm. owners of tho Belve-la th.utb other hand, while- In-' Kiiiriti Proposed wsli will cause th. lterationa In their plans, de-' section Is the result of ''Stea Prt wltl the llttl t.

11 tie Vr.Vlfv. twehty-feot square extension Ur, 8t corner tif tiieir eite on ti? aJl th Central Heal Katate il" offered for It. eaid Mr- Jackson yea-Iji'tn we eould secure perpetual ourtvfi1! f-nd alr trom tn nclghbor-' ir Vitf if we would soil thiti part v-Z: the Central Heal Kslnte Rut the teraa were not we refused. Even should the llsht al.i;j the fr-'i he would be anspiy ih 1 Lvntllted. and no porrjr the than forty feet from i slats of affairs might be further simple and dignified style, harmonising in Its main lines with the school building adjoining.

It win front 81 feet on Central Park West. The main entrance will be on Sixty-fourth Street. Around the upper part of the building will tin a decorative cornice, with sculptured figures beneath. There will be sculpture In bas relief above the entrance on Sixty-fourth Street. The cost of the building, as estimated at the time ot filing the plans, waa $300,000.

The main auditorium will take up the eh tire ground floor. It will have a seating capacity, of 1.200 persons, The speaker's platform, set in the centre of the long southerly aide, will be surrounded by rows of benches or pews, ranged after '1 i I Meeting House and Sunday School New Building at Central Park Wect and GREENWICH FARM SOLD. Ralph B. Peck Property of Fifty Acres Bought by John K. Berry.

Pease Elllman have sold for Ralph B. Peck his farm of about fifty acres oo I Avenue, Greenwlcn. to John K. Berry. The buyer Intend to Improve the nrorjertv extensively by erecting a modern dwelling and beautifying the grounds.

The farm Is In the Clapboard Ridge section of Greenwich, near the tracts recently acquired by W. E. R. Grlswold. Henry J.

Fisher, and Tyler J. who are similarly converting their properties into fine country places. Builder Gets $165,000 Loan. The Irv ing Judls Building and Construction Company Has secured from the Lawyer's Title Insurance and Trrst-Company a building loan of $165,000 on the property, 75JI bv 100, at the northwest corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 105th Street. 95 complicated, however, should the Central Real F.Ktale Association, which owns also the property just adjoining the Belvedere ute on me west on tignwenm oirwi, decide to follow the same tactics there as along the northern boundary.

There seems to be little likelihood of this, however. The proposed wall is to be constructed, at a cost of somewhat over S5.500, of steel filled in with concrete, and will be anchored to the south wall of the American Lithograph Comoany's building. Richard Ilerger, the architect who has plans for the structure, says that It will be a wall of latest fireproof construction In every detail, permitting of use later as a main wall of the building If an extension should ever be decided upon. The building of such a wall Is referred to In municipal building records as a "fire stop." thoush It. is sometimes confused bv persons of rural education and habits of thought with a spite fence.

In some cases thre has often been more or less justification for the erection of such fences, although they haveNusually developed no further than the stage of paper plans and threats. Ah Instance In point was furnished several years when the New York Athletic Club built its present home at the southeast corner of Sixth Avenue-aud Central Pa'k South. Just west of the Dal-housie Apartments. There was a small courtvard on the Dalhousle plot, and overlooking this were to be several rows of windows of the clubhouse bathrooms. Tho owners of the Dalhousie, objecting to this, threatened to built a spite wall" along their boundary, but were soothed down with assurances that the windows In question would be of opaque frosted glass and forever tightly fixed.

When the clubhouse was finally completed, however, the windows, when they were not open, were found to be of unimpeachably clear class, while the figures appearing there were not always cian in iur wcr- 1 coats and snow shoes. Thi. riiiuwerv nT.I more clamor rom the rK The matter was finally bTmutual concession. 1 Another amufclng incioeni oi me ainu was furnished when a buyer purchased the dwelling at 1 West Thlrty-nlntn Street, just west of the holdings of John a. Wendel, at.

the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue. The buyer planned- to plaoe in the east wall of his building a single slim line of windows, one window to a floor, overlooking Mr. Wendel rear yard and stable. Mr. Wendel calmly proceeded to file plans and.

In fact, had excavations started for the construction of a sltiglo slim, column of bricks aiong the newromer's wall. Just wide enough to cover his windows. Here. too. a more amicable 8ttlemnt was reached before the spite wall grew to be mora than a filing of plans and a hole In the ground.

In quite a number of cases, however, the spite fence did actually grow to be a sylid reality of brick and. mortar. JTomlnent among these cases was the construction of a wall by tha Union Trust Company at Broadway, against its soutoern neighbor, the Century Building, to prevent that structure from enjoying, without a similar concession, the air and lleht of the trust company's courtyard. The coloration of Grace Church adopted A similar procedure only recently, when, after purchasing the old Flelsch-mann bakery site at Broadway and Tenth Street with the express view of converting- It into a garden plot to beautify the surroundings of the church, the -occasion was utilized by various clothing and manufacturing firms on Fourth Avenue, the rear of whose buildings thus became visible from Broadway and who thought it would but add to the artistic and aesthetic beantv if thev flashed upon the Brdad-wav shoppers their signs about corsets, shos, hats, and Summer underwear. Their signs went up on the rear of their buildings straightway, but the church corporation could not appreciate the new of beauty and proceeded to build around the rear line of its let a very artistic and very hleh stone wall.

in th- east slue, where one tenement la often built to utilize a neighbor's area space, the offended neighbor- sometimes protects his rights by a 5ge screen ot sheet Iron affixed to a tali pole, the fashion of a seml-ctrcular Greek am phltheatre. The celling of the auditorium will be forty-five feet high. The two upper, floors will be devoted to Sunday school rooms, assembly rooms, and library. The administrative offices will be located In the basement, where, too. there will be facilities for the dinners occasionally given under the society's auspice.

The Society for Ethical Culture was formed by Dr. Felix. Ad ler in 187(1. At that time lt made Us home In the old Standard Hall, then In Checkering Hall, and removed thence to Carnegie Hall several years ago. The new home Is the re-sultof the society's largely Increased and means.

Among the staff of leaders now assisting Dr. Adler are Dr. John Elliott. Percfval Chubb, and Leslie Willis Sprague. 5 .1 6 V.

Kohn, Architect. WORK ON WESTCHESTER R. R. Renewed Activity Follows Granting of Franchise Through Mount Vernon. As a result of the granting of an amended franchise to the New York.

Westchester Boston Railroad by the Common Council of the City of Mount Vernon, the. work of grading for the new road, which was interrupted at the time of the financial panic, has been resumed, with special activity In the section between the 180th Street Subway terminus and the north line of the Bronx, about SI.OuO.OOO having been expended so far. The completion of the road la promised In about two years. An additional branch, 'connecting Mount "Vernon with White Plains, about nine miles distant, and thence possibly northward to is likewise planned by the same company. The new road wfll throw open for de velopment the choice high -suburban ground from Pelham Parkway to Mount ernon.

overlooking the Sound, while the proposed branch to White Plains will open up the farm acreage In that territory. Beginning near the junction of the Second and Third Avenue elevated roads, ju.st beyond the Harlem River, the proposed line closely parallels the six-track roadway of the Harlem branch of the New York. New Haven Hartford Railroad from lth Street to Mount Vernon, practically bisecting the three-mile strip between that road and the Harlem Division of the New York Central Railroad. The only other transit facilities at present in that territory are furnished by the trolley service from Mount Vernon. The proposed road, after connecting by means of a short branch with the Subway at It West Farms terminus, will run north along the east side of Bronx Park, across the old Morris Park race course property and Pelham Parkway to the north lino of the city; thence through the centre of Mount Vernon, across the main line of the New Haven Road near Columbus Avenue, and east through North Pelham and the Pelhamwood property into New Rocheile.

which it enters east of and parallel with Winyah Avenue, i It again crosses the New Haven's tracks near Rocheile Park, from which point the line, as now located, will pass through Larch-mont and Mamaroneck to Port Chester. The road will be about twenty-two miles long. Grading on the section between ISOth Street and the Mount Vernon city line Is now pushed, and part of the stael bridges of this section is now in place. The contract for the grading In the Bronx section has been let to the O'Brien Construction Companv; that for the construction work between the Bronx and New Rcchelle has been let to Lath-rop fchca while the work in New Rocheile itself, which Is now under -way, and which must be completed by July 1, 1010, has been let to the Ferguson Construction Company. Elds are out for the necessary stel structures along the entire line.

Keed Stem are designing the stations. The new road Is a combination of the old New York, Westchester Boston Railroad and the New York Port Chester Road, which until their purchase and absorption by the Mllbrook Company, a financing corporation, several years ago, were planned to be rival roads. The new route coincides In many daces with sec- iiuna 01 Dotn ot tnese lines, a diu per- mitting the combination was signed by I "ov- "gnes. ana win shortly corns up Public -Service Commission for The officers of the New York, Westchester Boston Railroad are: President L. 8.

Miller of New York; Vice President Thomas D- Rhodes of New York; Secretary J. O. Parker of New Haven, and Treasurer A. S. May of New Haven.

-V ft I v-r 1 nn pi -pi L- i is js Xlr''' 'i- w' 9' Fountain and Court at the Residence of C. E. Fin lay, Kensington, Gret Neck, L. ABOUT BROADWAY Where Is' Its West Side at Thirty-second Street, Owners Want to Know. LONDON INTERESTED, TOO Street Widening Proposal, a Now May Includa Union'Dlma Savings Bank Property.

That now famous Inquiry. What, is whisky?" 'which has disturbed official Washington for months, may have a counterpart in this city In the shape of a question. Where is Broadway? Such a oucrr has been suggesiea njr me resoiu tlon adopted by the Board of Estimate providing for the widening or Thirty second Street from to 10O feet by add ln30 feet on each side of said street from Broadway to Seventh Avenue." This resolution was offered at a meeting on July 1 and will come up for publlo hear' lna- on Sept. 24. The question as to what is to be the easterly limit of the proposed wldening- and lt is particularly oisrurmng to iiw two Englishmen who nought tha Unipn Dime Savings Bank Building hinges, of course, upon the question of where the west side of Broadway Is a Thirty-sec ond Street.

The block front facing the west side or Greeley where the new Olmbnl store is being built, has-been designated as Broadway for a good many years, and lha buildings formerly on the site were deslg nated by Broadway' numbers. So far as the north side of Thirty-second Street is concerned, then, the limits of the proposed widening can bardy occasion any dispute, When the south side of the street is considered, however, the problem assumes a new chase. In other words. Is the west side of Broadway, as Intended In the Board of Estimate's resolution, at the easterly boundary of the bank eite, or is it to be regarded as On the same north and south line as the west side of Broad way from Thirty-second to Thirty-third Street? Will the proposed widening call for the taking of a twenty-foot slice oft the northerly front of the old bank prop erty? Real estate men Incline to the belief that it was not the intention of the city authorities to cut Into the bank site, because that procedure would be ef enormous cost In proportion to the benefit obtained, and also because if more street space Is needed at that point it can be had by taking part of the triangular park fpace In Greeley Square. As to the merits of the general proposl tlon to widen the approach to the Penn sylvanla Station, through Thirty-second Street there seems to be little difference of opinion, the discussion having practically narrowed down to the best means of accomplishing this end.

The suggestion to be actad upon at the Board of Estimate's meeting on Sept. 24. as em bodied in the resolution of July 1, Is to convert the entire sixty feet of the street's width, as It now exists, into roadway, and to acquire from abutting property owners on either side of the street an easement over a twenty-foot strip for sidewalk purposes. Under this proposal the buildings on this block wi I be constructed on the arcade plan, with their front walla set back twenty feet at the street level, but built out to the present street lines above the first floor. This plan, all things considered, seems to be the -most economical solution of the It will certainly be much less costly than acquiring the fee, even of a trip ten feet wide, either side of the street, and will no doubt answer all pur poses just as well, aside from the fact that tha arcaded sidewalk Idea has never met with jiy great favor here.

This, however, may be due to the ract that it has never had a fair trial. If the plan is aydopted there will no doubt be aome entertaining arguments between owners and the city authorities as to tho value ot tne iwemy-iooi ease ment for sidewalk purposes. These mlgh also be expected if the city were to decide upon taking the fee of a twenty-foot strip. In either case owners would howl that they were being ruined and would demand awards up to me iuu vaiue v. thJr rtrorertiea It would be Interesting to know Just when and how the plan of giving Broadway numbers to properties that in reality d.i not front on Broadway was first adopt ed.

It probably had Its origin in the desire of owners to have designated by Broadway numbers buildings which are not on Broadway, so far as street lines are concerned. Thus, where Broadway crosses Sixth Avenue there is no west side of Broadway from Thirty-second to Thirtv-thlrd Street, and no east side ot Broadway from Thirty-fourth to Thirty-fifth Street. Thus, there was no apparent objection to giving the Broadway name and numbers to what ara really Sixth Avenue blocks between those At Times Square the same system has been followed, with the somewhat paradoxical result that Broadway has two west sides between Forty-second and Forty-third Streets. The Times Building is on the west side of Broadway, but. according to their street numbers, the group of buildings to the west of it.

on the other side of what most people call Seventh Avenue, enjoy the same distinction. At the points where Broadway crosses the other avenues various plans have been adopted. Union Square has Its own set of numbers, wholly independent of those on the intersecting avenues. At Madison Square there are no irregular! ties, although bv a somewhat broader at) nlloatlnn of the nrlnelDle followed at Thlr ty-third Street it would have beenrffuost logical to give Broadway numbers to the east side of Macison Avenue, irora i wen tv-thlrii to Twentv-slxth Street. At Sher man Square the street numbering follows the natural Unes or uroaawuy ana Am sterdam Avenue.

These vagaries of Broadway numbers must have greatly bewildered strangers In the city, but so far as la known the Thirty-second Street widening project Is the first instance In which it will be necessary to determine officially Just where the west side of Broadway is. THr-'" "1 1 igures Show the Extent of Construction Movement Since Heights The Increased demand for anartments In Manhattan is clearly shown In the striking growth In the number of new apartment bulldinzs in tu w. ouau curing tne Itrst half of 1000, from -an. iu juiy as compared with the number of new buildings for the same period last year. From a total of 117 new apartment nouses, flats, and tene-1 ments for the first six months ot the number has lncretsed to 3t2.

a net gain of 1.18 per cent, in 19uU. while the number of new apartments provided has from 3 3S9 to W.TM. a gain -oi As alnst a total cost 'of U1.13l.jX for -tne new-buildings In the si nu oi niw, tne total cost for the earn period in 10 waa S37.7o2.000. an ncreae.of pr cent. By far the larger part of the building boom In both 1 1 upon Washington Heights; which claimed nearly ti nr nt th new buildings In the first or 1008 and nearly 7." per cent, in the same period VJV.l.

ine fllStPlrt north nt IV, Street alone came In for 211 per cent, of iVbcrru.sh'T.enUre building growth In andfor 51 per cent, in the first half yenr of 118 following table shows In comparison the distribution of the new apartment. mi i-mnent ouiitiings erected in Manhattan from Jan. 1 to July 1, in 190S and ltXKl. the dlirln. tiin tudlnally by the crosstown streets named, and longitudinally by Fifth Avenue.

The buildings and apartments in each Instance aow tne percentage in which each dia- Medford Apartments, Recently Completed on Broadway Block Front, Be tween 163d and trlct shared in the borough's building growth. The figures do not include th building plana filed so extensively by builders during the month of July, -when the- effort to forestall the restrictions of the proposed new Building Code led to an abnormal Increase in paper build ing activity. ine 1 igures ot ma taDie show buildings actually completed or In process of construction. NUMBER OF BUILDINGS. P.O.

1909. PC. 1.8 3 DO 3114 25. 82 6 1. OS Below 14th Kast.

14 11.96 11.11 4.25 .85 8.40 1.70 35. RS 29. 76 18 4 12 11 10 7H 1ST BpIow 14ih 13 ntn tr Kast. 1 l-Uh to iWih West. 5 5ft to 110th 8U.

East. 1 3tth to 110th West. 4 I HKh to l.V.th BC. Kat 2 lloih to lDJUh West 42 North of 135th 33 Manhattan ...117 302 NUMBER OF APARTMENTS. lftoa.

P.C. lftOB. P.C. 4.M 1.IW 1.24 4.10 4.01 2.42 2A.34 J1 Blow 14th 323 9.53 Below 'West. .40 12.39 1R2 14th to KltD 30 .88 134 14th to West.

144 4.33 Iff! 5Uth to 110th East. 100 2.1KJ 443 5Mth to lloth Wet.207 e.io 4.13 llOth to 155th Eut. 32 .94 iW2 110th to 155th. west.l.zia ss.sa 2.842 North of 155th 813 20.94 5.815 3.389 10.78 The cost of the new apartment buildinrs for the same periods, as distributed among the various districts, la shows in the following table: ioo 1SK.9. ftlNI.OOO 1MMHMJ 373.I0H) 1.102 OIK) 3UV.C0H lt.40!,Ot.) 21.5U7.00u Below 14th.

East S7S5.O00 Below 14th. Wnt 4K4.0KO 14th to Oilth, Kast. 44I.OOO 14th to 5Wh. West 8:15.000 to 110th. 100.000 With to 110th.

West aoo.nm lloth to 155th. East 4S.O00 110th to 155th. 6.14.S.0OO North of 155th 3.2M.5GO Manhattan $11,131,500 S3T.702.ono The lead of, the Heights In the number BRONX PROJECT ADVANCED. North Side Bo3rd of Trade to Get Es timates for Its New Building. The Directors of the North Side Board of Trade Building Company, at a meeting held on Tuesday, authorized Albert E.

Davis to complete the plans and specifications and obtain estimates for the North Side Board of Trade building to be erected at Third and Lincoln Avenues and 137th Street? It is likely that the biddlrg will be confined to Bronx builders. The building will have a frontage of 33.8 feet on the plaza at 137th Street where six streets and many trolley lines converge. There will also be an express station on the Broadway-Lexington Subway route at the 138th Street plaxa. The frontage on Third Avenue will be 179.5 feet and. on Lincoln Avenue 173 eeC The budding will be of classic design, three stories high, faced with white brick and terra cotta.

It is estimated that It will cost about $100,000. BRONXVILLE AUCTION One Hundred Lots In Armour Villa Pylt to be Offered on Saturday. Bronxville, distinguished for its lno villas and high class developments will have chapter added its real estate history next Saturday, when Joseph P. Day will sell at public auction, on the ground. 100 lots in Armour Villa Park, on Bronxville Road, Wiltshire and Wallace Streets, and Willett Place.

The property, which Is in the City of Yonkers. is three blocks from the Bronxville. Station on the Harlem Division of the New York Centrar, and near tne Hotel Gramatan. It has an electric express service of fifty-tour trains daily, and on the fTOmnletlon of the extension of the Manhattan Subway to the city limits on Broadway, will be accessible from any part of Manhattan within forty minutes. The lots to bo sold are also on the line of the Tuckahoe and Yonkers trolley.

For Westchester Homebulldera. The Hudaon Co-Operative Saving and Loan Association, organized several months ago. of which Clifford B. Harmon Is President, has received many applications for loans to build on the properties in which Mr. Harmon is interested In Weatcheeter County.

Many houses are now being built by the association at Harmon. 4Iarmon Park, North White Plains. Pelhamwood, and the Woods of Larchmont. The association Is under the supervision of the State Superintendent of New Buildings Generally of Better of new anartments Is. or course.

The Heights are firsthand there Is no second. The of the strong movement of apartment dwellers to Washington Heights aeem to be tho newer and more modern type of moderate-priced apartments to be found there, the healthy altitude ot the section, its Subway facili ties, and chiefly, perhaps, the encroacn-tnent of lower east" side and lower west side tenants upon thd Harlem aectlon. MOVING TO NEWER DISTRICTS. We have noted a strong migration frony Harlem, especially the Lenox Avenue district, to Washington Heights," said Dudley Phillips of L. J.

Phillips Co. Tha change Is ascrlbable to the northward movement of those formerly living on the lower easft and west sides, -ana also to the influence of the growing negro settlement near Lenox Avenue knd Street. Moreover, there Is always the additional inducement of living in newer and more modernly equipped apartment on tho Heights. Because of this fact, many tenants of the llariem 'section, who have been paying from J0 to per room, are willing to pay S3 and $Sa0 for somewhat smaller accommodations on the Heights. We are getting a larger number of apartment dwellers on the Heights from the Seventies.

Eighties, and Nineties also. Small four and five room apartments seem to be most In demand, bringing from to rental per month: but there have been a great number ot 1 6.1th Streets. leases for eight-room apartments at from Sl.tttO to a year. There has been a strong settlement of out-of-town people, especially Westerners, on the Heights, these people seeming to prefer apartment homes at moderate cost in Manhattan to private homes In the suburbs. "The quality of the apartment houses erected on the Heights tola year likewise I Fowler Court, One of Riverside Drive's ACTIVITY AT ROCKAWAY.

Many Buyers for Lots at Belle Harbor New" Residences Under Way. Walter Treasurer and General Manager of the West Rockaway Land Company, reports the followinif recent sales at Belle Harbor: To Mary O'Connor, a plot of three lots on the east side of Essex Avenue. 13U feet south of Washington 'Avenue; to Emma Miller, a plot of two lota on west side of Montauk Avenue. 140 feet north of Bayslde Drive; to John O'Hara, a plot of three lots on the east side of Oxford Avenue, rr.S feet south of Washington Avenue; to Hermann yclialf, a plot c-t four lots at the southeast corner of Essex and Washington Avenues; to Thornton Steers, a plot of three lots on the east side of Brighton Avenue, 131 feet north of Washington Avenue; to James K. Dillon, a plot of six lots on the east side of Essex Avenue.

549 feet south of Wasn-ington Avenue; to Edward Isarr, a plot ot six lota on the west side of Norfolk Avenue. 39 feet north of Newport Avenue; and to David N. Barud, a plot of thre lots on the easterly side of Ostend AveDUe, tK feet south of Washington Avenue. There nre now in the course of construction at Belle Harbor the following all-the- year-round residences; For O'Connor, at the southeast comer of Washington and Oxford Ave-, noes, cost for D. J.

Gallagher, on the east side of Oxford Aven-ue. fcot north of Washington Avenue, cost SS.OJU; for Bertha Lohr, on the east side of Suffolk Avenue. 24() feet south of -Washing-j ton cost Su.tXK). The West-Rockaway Land Company la erecting, for purchasers, one" residence on the wept side of Dover Avenue, 12 feet north of Newport Avou-e. costing i and another on the wttt fide of Dovr' Avenue, about 14a iei south of Drive, at a cost of The seashore territory near New York i3 being built up.

and the. West Rockaway Land Company has announced that will advance the prices on all of its remaining property on Sept. I. HUNTINGTON, CARNIVAL To Celebrate Opening of New Trolley Route on Aug. Negotiations are under way by the Bel-leclaire Realty Company for additional land adjoining its property, Huntington Plaza, at Huntingdon, L.

and bids have been asked for the opening of streets end other Improvement in this section. Recent sales have shown up well, among th more important purchasers in the past week having been R. C. "Parks. O.

G. Karr, Had. E. P. Johnson.

11. T. Ayres. Charles I. Donohue.

and Frank O'Neill. A committee has been appointed to cooperate with other committees In arranging for a large carnival to be held Huntington on Avi. 5 in celebration cf the opening of the cross-island trolley system. In the evening a banquet will be held at the Chateau Beaux Arts at IXusUngtoa Harbor. 'n rV: '11- i-'-S8i I I January Prominence of the shows an advance over that of the rre-ceMcg year.

The nw structure, while still for the most part of "the six-atory type. ar built on larger plots, by expert- enced builders who have constructed apartment houses on Central Park VVeit and the oider west side district, and the houses generally are better built and ef a more modem type. A large number ef ten and twelve story-apartment houses -are likewise In course of construction." As was to have, been expected, renting has rot yet come abreast ot the building activity in the case-of the Helehts aport-nienta. Although the condition by no means warrants the feeling that the Heights have been even temporarily vr- ninit. tne numDer or new nouses 19 anen that some agents say that the granting of rent concessions in some case Is ykely to develop as tne season advances.

Part ly on this account, and partly because of the constant desire to live in tha new biiildinira. there has been noted a continuous shifting of tenants from one cart of the Heights to another, though few. It One prominent broker and agent stated yesterday that, the rentable space i of Heights apartments Is larger this year than last. It in believed, however, that with the beginning of the renting season. In October, this state cf things will be considerably Many of the new buildings, arnon them -the Cromwell Apartments at l.Vtth Street and Riverside Drive, are reported as having no avail-able space after Oct.

1, and there are said to be no vacant stores in the" grouad floors along upper Broadway' from 138tn to lir.th Streets. AROUND 181ST STREiyr The chief- building activity Ju tha Heights has centred around the Subway stations at ISlst Street and 157th Street, while the new station to be opened at-190th Streat has already stimulated development there. The comparatively slight development around the 168th Street Subway Station, on the other hand. Is ascrib-able In part to the close proximity of the baseball grounds and to restrictions -placed upon a large portion of the property west of Broadway at that point by the old Ward estate. Besides the Heights, one other section of the city, the west side, has shown much activity, in the bttudinf and leasing of apartment houses during the last half-year.

This activity has manifested Itself chiefly In. the district between Eightieth and 100th Street and Riverside Drive and Broadway. as well, aa In the section about Momingslde Park and Cathedral -Heights. As compared with the erection of only two or three, large apartment houses of the Apthorp or Her.drik Hudson typo In 1JXW. the present year has seen the erection of the Belnord.

the largest apartment building In the world, covering the block between Klghty-aixtb and- Kighty-seventlt Streets. Broad way. and Amsterdam Avenue; the ISethferland, Lancashire, and Dorchester apartment houses at Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth Streets and River-side Drive; ihe Peter Stuyvesaat apart- ment at Ninety-eighth Street, and the Drive, and numerous others. "In all of these buildings," said F. R.

Wood yesterday, "the leasing is reported as progrs3ing most satisfactorily, with all types of apartment, at from to S.1.000 per year, almost equally lit favor. A considerable westward movement to this section has been noted from the Madison and Lexington Avenues section above Eightieth' Street. This is-attributed to tha better transit facilities on the west side, the more modern buildings, and to the encroachment of thos coming from downtown districts into the Harlem section." Newest Structures, at 112th Street. RAPID WORK ON TUNNELS. Ninety Thousand Ties Ready for Laying In East RJver Tubes Predictions recently made by President Ralph Peters of the Long Island Railroad that trains would be operated from many points on the western of the system to Manhattan, by way of the Pennsylvania before the "end of the year appear certain of fulfillment by the rapid progress of work on the Long Island City end.

or the tubes. Most of the work near the Fifth Street and Hunter's Point viaducts was finished last week. One of the tunnels now comes to the surface near the Fifth Street viaduct; Another tunnel, terminal- Ins r.car ThomDson Avenue, has been car- rled tander the Belmont and the remaining two tunnels pass under the Fifth Street viaduct and come to the surface about three blocks north of that point. The Pennsylvania Railroad reports the completion of the tunnels under the East River and practically all that remains to be done In the tubes is the laying of Near the Long Island termlnalsi of the tubes 00,000 ties, brought fro.tt the Pennsylvania lumber camps, have-been 1 At tha Sunnyslde yards hundreds of mechanics and laborers 'are at work on the immense terminal of Pennsyl-vanla-Ltmg Island system, while along the main line and branches, of the railroad work is progressing rapidly on the electrification of the entire" western Tho first division, from Jamaica to Long" Island City," will be "ready for electrio have bwn purchased for the electrification and double tracking o' the North Shore Division from Port Whitestonc, Mafba. and Flushing to Long' Island Cl-'y.

When these lines are completed the remaining divisions will ba electrified to the Sunny sld yards. Mcrtaea Fliinaa Tor tne WeeK. There were recorded last week In Manhattan and the Bronx 2U2 mortgages tat Si.712.,623; of which 101, -for SL202.801. were at 6 per 11. for 1 107,273, at per G2, for fl.SOSOu, at 8 per cent; 31, for 1.600,300.

at 4Vs per cent. and I. for iXQ. at 4 per cent. In the cor responding week last year there wera recorded 22S mortgages for S4.148.01S; ct which 120, for S0S4.518, were at 0 per 27.

for 126223, at per. eenL: 39. for at 5 jsar cent; 4. for SSC600. at 4H per cent and 1.

for at 4 per ceat. Jf.