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Mediocre Flats and Homes Figure in the Late Trading Operators and Investors Share in Buying of Houses on East and West Sides; Business Building on Second Ave. Corner Sold; Sales of Bronx Realty Barnett Co. sold for Assistant Dis? trict Attorney Thomas McGrath 2141 Lexington Avenue, a foar-story apart msnt with stores, 20x60, This property hai been in the family for years. Samuel Barkin sold through Rosen thal Geisler the six-story flat at 7 Manhattan Street, 25x65. Jameg H.

CruikshaYik purchased from William J. Thompson 129 West 129th Street, a four-story flat, 25x100. Harris, Vought Co. were the brokers. Sales of Dwelling William B.

May Co. sold for Miss Mary S. Pullman and others the four story residence 1032 Park Avenue, 20x 55x70. The purchaser will rebuild for his own occupancy. I.

Pennock, of the Wood-Dolson sold for Mrs. Robert Reutter 36 West Eighty-eighth Street, a mod? ern five-story dwelling, 22x60x1.00.8. Charles J. Quinlan, of the Wood Bolson Company, sold for Mrs. Fannie C.

Rvder the four and one-half story dwelling. 20x100. at 449 West End Ave" nue, adjotning the southwest corner of Eighty-second Street. The Poross Company sold for Frank B. Flaherty the thtee-story dwelling 342 West Fifteenth Street, 18.9x81.

Second Avenue Corner for Investor Shaw, Rockwell Sanford sold for the Payne estate Second Avenue, souiheast corner of 124th Street, a three story business building, 20x80. Trading in the Bronx Lang Michaelson sold for I. Roacn to H. Kapolowitz the four-story flat 1051 Home Street. 50x100.

Alexander Selkin and Joseph Sturm sold for Olga Brookman the two-story dwelling at 8.14 Trinity Avenue, 25x100. D. A. Trotta sold for the Boro Asso ciates. Inc.

3522 Barnes Avenue, a two family dwelling 20x94. The Boro As sociates bought through Mr. Trotta 176 Hoe Avenue, a two-family frame Ihveiling, 25x100. William R. Lowe sold for Elizabeth Young the southeast corner of 182d Street and Davidson Avenue, a vacant plot, 65x100, to the Brodie Realty Com? pany for improvement with a five-story apartment.

Dr. C. A. Holder Disposes of Fine Greenwich Estate Ladd Nichols sold for Dr. C- A.

his estate on Field Point Road. Greenwich, consisting of large residence, garage and cottage, about eighx and a half acres, one of the.show places in the vicinity, to G. W. Peters, of this city. The same brokers rented for Robert A.

Shaw his house in the North Country colony, Glen Cove, L. to H. H. Will; for John Stahl his country house at Old Westbury, L. 1 for P.ichard E.

Forest his house on Hilltop Place. Rye; for Crego his house on Evergreen Avenue to William J. for Mr. Wolf his house on Wainwright Street, Rye, to Dr. E.

Wilson, of New York. White Plains Houses Sold R. Franklin Hull-sold for Fowler ars a house on South Broadway, near Putnam Place, "vVhite Plains, to Charles Leeney, and rented for Mrs. Arthur De Garmo her residence, at 10 Odell Avenue, to Lester B. Thomas S.

Burke sold for Charles Steele the dwelling 39 Elinor Place, Yor.kcrs, to Walter Terry. Bankrr Buys at Great Neck Harvey Craw sold the Arthur Gil mora residence on Cedar Drive, Great Neck, L. to Don C. McCord, vice i-residect of the Commercial Security Company. The property was held at 530,000.

The same broker leased the Charles Frank estate in the' north country colony of Glen Cove. -a Jersey Home for Brooklynite The Simpson rlerritt Company sold for Thomas Curtis to James Tutino, of Brooklyn, a Colonial residence fac ing Watchung Avenue, in the Marlboro Park 3ection of Montelair, N. for $13,000. Montelair House The Simpson Merritt Company sold for J. V.

D. Card of this city his rifteen-room facing South Wil low Street, Montelair, N. to Mrs. Jessie A. Pantaenuis for $18,000.

Stores and Loft Space Leased Henry Shapiro Co. leased the first loft at 21B-222 West Thirty-fourth Street to the Tulip Dress Company and the top loft to J. Cohen and 1. Daschew. A.

A. Hageman leased the third floor Rt 684 Sixth Avenue to Simon Wein iwrg, Inc; the fouth flood 686 Sixth Avenoe to Illustrated New Company, and the third floor at 639 Sixth Avenue to Sam Ftfldman. Louis Schrag leased the store 158 West Twenty-second Stret to the American Silk Yarn Companf, and the store 57 West Twenty-fifth Street t6 M. Rachow. Dnroas Company leased the third and fourth lofta 689-681 Hudson Street to the Georgette Hat Company.

J. Arthur Fischer leased the north store 656 Sixth Avenue, northeast corner of Street, to Mar tine, wholesale beads. 42d St. Owners Sure Fight Has Been Won interhorough Start De struction of Spur This Week or Proceedings Will Be Begun The Forty-second Street Property Owners' and Merchants' Association re gards its fight for the removal of the elevated railroad strticture from East Fcrty-aecond Street ss won, If the Interborough Rapld Transit Company does not undertake this week the voi untary removal of the two blocks long structure condemnation proceedings wiil be instituted. Public Service Commissioner Barrett, before whom the matter was laid, said that the spur was no longer a necessity and that it constitutes and obstruction to the public use of Forty second Street.

State Senator McCue testified before Commissioner Barrett that tht spur was on no value whatso ever to the traveling public. He also said the value of property between Lex? ington and Third avenues on FortV second Street had not increased in value during the last twenty-flve years, because of the unsightly structure. He said the taxable value of property in that neighborhood would be in creased by the removal of the spur. I Louis Stem, president of Stem Br others department 3tore, said he cculd not imagine property owners put ting up modern buildings in the vicin ity of the spur under existing con He pointed out that all im prcvements on Forty-second Street have been west of Lexington and Park ave? nues. Henry Mandel, who is interested in the corporation that now owns the former Grand Union Hotel site, said the removal of the spur would mcre than double the value of real es-tate east of Park Avenue.

Rent Space in Fifth Avenue The M. L. Improvement Corpora? tion leased at 411-413 Fifth Avenue, northeast corner Thirty-seventh Street, the corner store and to Max Fertig, linens and laces, 6f East Thir ty-fourth Street, for twenty-one years and renewala; also leased in the same building the second floor, containing 10,000 square feet, to Bonwit Teller who will connect it with their space at Fifth Avenue and Thirty-third Street. I New Madison Ave. Offices For James B.

Speyers Co. Jarhes B. Speyers cessor to Tucker, Speyers leased I large quarters in the new Canadian Pacific Building, at Madison Avenue and Fofty-third'Street, where it is now located. The corporation has been reorganized, the officers be? ing James B. Speyers, president; Sidney i C.

Moss, secretary, and S. M. Rutledge, treasurer. -a Mrs. W.

E. Strong Gets Big Suite in Fifth Ave. Flat Douglas L. Elliman Co. leased an i apartment of sixteen rooms and five i baths in the recently compieted flat I at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave nue and Seventy-second to Mrs.

Wil I liam Everard Strong, wife of the late W. E. Strong, of Strong, Sturgis bankers. The rent averages about $20,000. a Montelair Corner Home Sold John B.

Knox jr, sold his residence at Plymouth Street and Orange Road, Montelair, N. J. to Harry W. CurVss. It contains eleven rooms and two baths with a garage in the rear and was held at $18,000.

F. M. Crawley Bros. were the brokers. Now in Own Building The real estate firm of E.

Stanton Riker is now located in its own build? ing, at 11 East Tenth Street. Mr. Riker until lately was with Pepe Bros. $250,000" Swimmin' Hole" For Lower Second Avenue The Florentine Building, at the northeast corner Second Avenue and rirst Street, one of the first iron front TOildmga erected in this part of the and for a number of years the temporary headquarters of the Essex Sarket police court, is to be altered mto Russian and Turkish baths. Zim niernian Cohen have arranged for a penty-one-year lease of the property wrough Mark Rafalsky Co.

and H. Joschim. They will pay $500,000 in for the use of the property to the florentine Realty Company, which the corner. The interior of the structure is to be wtirely rebuilt. In the basement a pool eiehty feet long is to be installed.

It is understood that the pool will compare well in size and other features with the largest indoor "swimmin' holes" in the city. According to Gronenberg Leuch tag, architects, it will cost $250,000 to make over the interior. When this im? provement Tias been compieted the building at 30 East First Street, wnich is next to the Florentine Building, will be altered into a dressing and recep tion roora for women patrons. This property was included in the deal con cluded yesterday. The Florentine Building is a land mark of lower Second Avenue.

It was erected when many of the old families still lived in the section. $20,000,000 Office Building Projects Of Cunard and Munson Lines Compieted Provide Downtown Busi? ness District With 47 Floors, or More Than Twenty- two Acres of Fine Office Space Two of the largest of the structures that have been in the down? town Cunard Building on Broadway and the Munson Building on lower Wali been com? pieted. The Munson Building, which is owned by the Munson Steamship Lines, was compieted yesterday and turned over to the steamship interests. The Cunard structure, faclng Bowling Green, which is indirectly the property of the great British- trans-Atlantic steamship concern, will be opened for business to-morrow. The completion of these structures rrobably represents the investment of 20,000,000 land, brick, stone, steel and piles that reach well into the They have been way for a year and are the very last word in building construction and commercial architecture as adapted to New York.

The Cunard Building is the larger of the two. The Munson Building covers the wedge-shaped block formed by the junction of WeII and Beaver streets at Pearl Street. The Munson Steamship Lines undertook the construction of the building because it needed space and would continue to need space to accommodate the expansion of its business. It had big surplus earningt, and in the opinion of the directors oi the company the investment of some of this money in a big building, whioh would be the headquarters of the com? pany, would be a good investment. The buildirrg is tw.enty-five stories high and fronts 144 feet on Wali Street, 22 feet on Pearl Street and 180 feet on Beaver Street.

The roof is of red tile, which is a reminder of the com? pany's long identification with Spanish-i American trade. Reminds One of Sea The architecture indicates strongly the business of the owners, the busi? ness of the sea. The maritime atmos phere is even more pronounced in the mterior of the street floor, which has been taken for the use of the passen? ger department of the line. The ex ecutive offlces and other departments of the company have been placed on the twenty-third and twenty-fourth floors. There are two main entrances, or rather there is an areade running through the building from Wali to Beaver Street.

Ten high spaed ele? vators serve the 225,000 square feet of offices in the structure. The twenty-two story building which Seventy Dweilings for Sites On Throg's Neck Are Under Way on Estate; Many New Projects From Brown Auction Bronx building department records reveal the fact that seventy plans for new dwelling houses on the Throg's Neck peninsula have been filed since the sale, last year, of the Coster estate by Joseph P. Day, auctioneer. Twenty of these new houses are now in the course of construction, while further out along East Tremont Fort Schuyler points beyond the George Bruce Brown estate, which adjoins the Coster estate, other houses are in various stages of construction. It is apparent that one of the reasons for this building activity, aside from the appeal of the cuperb location of Throg's Neck, is the fact that many of the longitudinal avenues and laterals in the Throg's Neck section have improve ments installed and are ready for the builder.

The activity of to-day doubtless will be considerably augmented in the very near future by the sale of the 967 lots belonging to the estate of Goorge Bruce Brown, and located between Lafayette Avenue on the south, Throg's Neck Boulevard, the Shore Drive and Long Island Sound on the north. The Colum? bia Trust Company, trostee, has or dered the lots to be sold. Almost directly opposite the property is the bungalow section known as Edge water Camp and comprising several hundred buildings erected along and immediately adjacent to the water and beach front. The principal factor in opening this richly endowed section to home build? ing is the operation of the Westches? ter Avenue extension of the Lexington Avenue subway to Pelham Bay Park, with an express station in Westchester Square, at Westchester Avenue and East Tremont Avenue, from which point the East Tremont Avenue elec? tric surface cars operate direct to the Eastern Boulevard, which is the east erly boundary of.and the gateway to Throgg's Neck. The George Bruce Brown property lies east of the Eastern Boulevard, which thoroughfare forms the westerly boundary of Pelham Bay Park.

As all of the principal avenues extending east and west through the Brown property run to the Eastern Boulevard, the Pelham Bay Park is easily- accessible from Throg's Neck. The section ia outside the fire limits, which means that frame construction is permittetl there. a Big Plant in Newark Sold Feist Feist sold the southeast cor? ner of Dickerson and Hecker streets, Newark, N. for the Redman Manu facturing Company to the Rosenband Manufacturing Company. The property fronts 68 feet on Dick? erson Street and about 114 feet on Hecker Street, and on the Morris Canal approximately 80 feet.

The plot is improved with a two-story and base? ment building, besides several one story out-buildings of and steel construction. The property at 9 Lincoln Park, Newark, N. 54x210, with a frontage of 35 feet on Beecher Street, has been sold by Mrs, James Ogden to Joseph Berkman through the same brokers. The property has been owned by the Ogden family for nearly fifty years. Trading in Brooklyn F.

C. Sauter Agency sold the eight family house 376 Second Street for Agnes Weygandt to Christian L. Meyer. Bulkley Horton Co. sold 1355 Ber gen Street, a two-story dwelling, 19x 107.6, for John C.

Taylor. E. T. Newman sold the three-story dwelling 498 First Street, 20x100, for Judson Wali. The Ciinton Trading Corporation sold to Ethel F.

Dorin the two-fatnily dwell? ing 1390 Park Place. The Berkshire Realty Company pur? chased a plot, 100x100, on Lineola Place, berwaen Washington Under hlll avenues, through B. Greenberg. Twenty-two story Cunard Building facing Bowling Green the Cunard Company will take pos? session of to-morrow is the result of a desire for an adequate nnd perma? nent American headquarters. The com? pany has been compelled to move a number of times since it first located in this city in 1848.

It has spent the last ten years, at 21 to 24 State Street, in leased quarters. When larger premises were needed the company could not secure them. About that time the home office had decided on a policy of construction which in cluded the building of great ships, piera and other facilities. The Cunard Building is one of the fine structures of the city. It covers about half of the block between Broad? way, Greenwich Street, Morris Street and Battery Placo.

Its site measures 48,400 square feet, fronting 203 'feet on Broadway, 248 feet on Morris Street and 231 feet on Greenwich Street. The structure reared on this plot contains Gotham Bank Building Almost Fully Tenanted Only 4 Per Cent of 24-Story Structure Still in Market for Rent The Gotham National Bank of New York reports its new twenty-four-story office building, at Broadway and Colum? bus Circle, is now 96 per cent rented. Among-tftie conceras that have leased I space during the week are the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Burton Holmes Lectures, Inc; the United States Department of Internal Reve- nue, Standard Garages, Inc; Charles McC.

the Apollo Magneto Corporation, Aaron Hoffman, the Tatler Publishing Corporation, the Portage I Tire and Rubber Company, Lewinsohn Hoffman, the Ansonia Manufacturing Company, the jEtna Motor Shield Cor-1 poration, Yves De Villers, the Nu Dol Company, the Leonard Morgan Com- pany, Inc; Kromberg Lustgarten, the Eben B. Smith Lumber Company, the George L. Miiler Lumber Company and Samuel Geneen. Twenty Brooklyn Blocks To Be Sold To Home Builders Tract of 850 Parcels in Eastern Flatbush Is To Be Gliered at Public Sale Next Saturday Twenty blocks in eastern Flatbush are to be sold next Saturday at auc tion. The sale has been arvanged to satisfy a demand that must exist among home builders for cheap build? ing sites.

Bryan L. will offer the property for the King's Highway De? velopment Company, which acquired it some time ago for the purpose of de veloping the tract with small hcmes. There are 850 lots in the tract to be offered. It extends from Paerdegat Avr nue almost to Utica Avenue and from Avenue to Avenue with Flatlands and Ralph avenues bisecting the prop? erty. Generally speaking, the prop? erty lles between King's Highway and Jamaica Bay.

Liberty Highway may be soon the ifficial name of King's Highway. is a movement on to change the name of this highway and broaden it to 140 feet. Besitles the lots, many of which have all lmprovements in and are readv for building operations, four dweilings are included in the auction which Mr. Kennelly has been instructed to conduct without restrictions as to the prices they may bring. -T, Large Estate Near Murray Hill Bought by Clayton Platt The Payson McL.

Company and Eu gene Jobs, H. F. Beck Company, sold for Leonidas Dennis to Clayton Platt the property. consisting of fifty acros with modern Colonial dwelling, stable various outbuildings. on Stony Hill Road, near Murray Hill, N.

J. Mr Merrill also sold for Betts to Carl W. Lester, the present tenant, his large English dwelling, with combination stable and garage and three acres, at Hutton and Gregory avenues. Hutton Park, West Orange, N. J.

a Builder Buys Long Island City Plot for Improvement Joseph P. Day, with Henry M. Vietz, sold to J. P. Clonin, a builder, the plot of lots on the east side of Fifth Ave? nue, 1.86.08 feet south of Grand Ave? nue, Long Island City, having a front? age of 160 feet and a depth of 100 feet.

Mr. Clonin intends' to improve this plot immediately. Last week he purchased through Mr. Day a plot of twelve lots on the east side of Fourth Avenue, 100 feet north of Jamaica Avenue, which he has since resold at a profit. Church Sells Garage The Brighton Heights Reformed Church -of New Brighton, S.

through Moffatt Schwab, the garage and plot, 33x100, recently purchased, to Carl Fl Grieshaber. The brokers sold for Cornelia Burling the dwelling 135 Corson Avenue, New Brighton, S. to Ernesto Siani. 660,000 square feet, which is a little more than twice the space in the Munson Building. It will be remem bered that this- site held the old Stevens house, which was one of the oldest hostelries in New York when it was removed, and also tTie British Consulate offices.

Years ago thif block was improved with the homes of some of the best people in town. Ceiling Six Stories High When the bronze doors in the central section of the building swing open to morrow the public will enter into the offlces of the passengep and freights departments of the big British eteamship The cen? tral dome is 68 feet high. Six six-story houses could be placed three abreast and rear to rear under this ceiling. The decoration of the interior was intrusted to Ezra Winter, mural deco rator. The decorative seheme is evi Homeseekers Find Attractive Houses In Westchester New Jersey Man Purchases Croton-on-Hudson Estate; Many Buy Homesiles and Plan to Build Soon Fish Marvin sold foT Mrs.

Mabel Esser her property on Grand Street, Croton-on-Hudson, comprising one-half acre, residence and outbuild ings, to A. L. Wells, of Caldweh, N. who plans extensive alteratioris. The property was held at $15,000.

Anson F. Robinson sold for Arthur Loomis Harmon, architect, his recently compieted house and garage on Lang don Avenue, Ardsley-on-Hudson, to Harvey W. Bell, of Yonkers. The same broker sold for Frederick T. Armstrong his property, consisting of two and one half acres, with frontage on Sherman Avenue, Ardsley-on-Hudson, to Albert H.

Bickmore. Clifford B. Harmon Co. sold at Harmon-on-Hudson. building sites to C.

L. Baldridge, B. J. Cowl, A. M.

Grant, J. Bennett, R. L. Fernandez, Mrs. Elizabeth Mayo, S.

W. Tompkins, G. Wilson, Miss M. A. Schreier, W.

H. Workman, A. R. Tibbetts and L. L.

Lynd. Twelve homes are now under i construction. E. C. Griffin P.

H. Collins sold for i Mrs. Bertha M. Aiken her cottage and garage on Thompson Street, Larchmont Manor, to Walter H. Swift.

The same i brokers leased for Arthur E. Whitmore his cottage and garage on Walnut Avenue, Larchmont Manor, to David Shiman, for Ferdinand Rollin, his cot- tage and garage on Summit Larchmont, to Arthur P. Davis; for the Whitnoyl Corporation a Park Avenue I cottage and garage to Albert and for H. D. Bradford his cottage in Larchmont Park to Albert F.

Elias. The lessees are all of this city. Mrs. Margaret A. Lyons, wife of Police Lieutenant Jere Lyon3, pur-; chased a residence at 778 North Broad Way, Yonkers, formerly owned by W.

i L. Richmond. Thomas S. was the broker. Stephen J.

Stilwell sold the Elizabeth Gregory property on the Boston Post Road, near Larchmont, as The Kennels, to Mrs. Elsie Frowd, of Rye. 1 Big Plant at Elmhurst Bought by Corporation: Buildings Erected During the War for Tire Concern Never Occupied Joseph P. Day aad Louis Schleainger, Inc, sold for the Newtown Tire Com- pany to the Cling Cutlery Corporation the plant erected during the war or. Alvion Street, Elmhurst, L.

95x298. This plant was originally erected for the manufacture of automobile tires, but the proposition was abandoned after the armistiee was signed. The building was never occupied and con- sists of a monitor roof build- ing of moderr. type of construction.1 lt has a clearance under the monitor i of 22 feet. The sale includes a machine shop, i boiler shop, eight-car garage and stor? age building.

There is a high'pressure power plant installed on the premises. The property waa held at $150,000, and an amount close to this figure was real ized, it is reported. a Investors Have Chance Wednesday to Buy Flats East Side investment and income properties and many vacant plots in others ready for immediate improve? ment will be auctioned Wednesday by Bryan L. Kennelly. The properties are 435 East Ninth Street.

740 East Ninth Street, 375 East Tenth Street, 384 and 386 East Eighth Street, 644 East Thirteenth Street, 299 East Seventh Street, 2374 Amsterdam Ave? nue, 248 Water Street, twenty-two lotsj on Kingabridge Avenue, weat of 230th Street and Bailey Avenue; 124 acres at Lake Hopatcong, N. 592 North Broadway, North Yonkers, and a 98x100, on the north sido of 174th Street, UG feet east of Macomba Road. Building, on Wali i Street, Opened Yester-! day; Cunard Structure Be Ready for the! Public by To-morrow dent as soon as onel steps into the ves tibule to the great krched premises. Its five ceilings qontain shell forms harboring marine figures in the Gre cian From tne tinted plaster background of these figures the ob server gets his first hint of the blaze of color in which the whole seheme of decoration is conceived. Passing on into a groined vault, you look up to see the aeals of English shipping towns as a central feature, while below in the vaults with the walls of Roman Travertine stone, are bas-reliefs portraying the four winds and the four seasons.

At the far end of the Green? wich Street a similar groined vault similarly treated. Between them I is the great central dome containing four roundels of mythological marine figures. Below this central dome on the four pendentives are lsrge repre- i sentations of the vessels in which Leif Kricsson, Columbus, Cabot and Drake pioneered on the Atlantic Ocean. In i panels on the walls are maps of the continents executed by Barry Faulk- i ner on the theory of Mercator's pro jection, but treated decoratively with the same glow of color and touch of mythological Interest. Office Entrance at South End.

At the northeast corner of the building, fronting on Broadway and running back down Morris Street, are the new quarters of the Produce Ex? change branch of the Mechanics and Metals National Bank. At the south? ern end of the Broadway frontnge is the offlce building lobby leading to the twenty local and express elevators which with eight additional lifts at the northwest corner of the building serve the twenty-two stories of the building. The first four of these floors are leased to the Cunard and Anchor lines, together with portions of the basement. The architecture i3 an adaptation of the Italian Renaissance. The Broad? way front is entirely of stone and the remaining fronts of stone and brick trimmed with stone.

Owing to an in geniously devised system of courts, one giving upon the Morris Street and the other upon the Greenwich Street frontage, there are no interior offices in the building. Benjamin Wistar Morris was the architect, with Carrere Hastings as consulting architects. Todd, Irons Robertson, Inc, were the builders. City Should Heat Flats Instead of Monkey Houses Dr. Copeland Says Children of Poor Ought to Have Same Consideration as Animals The Real Estate Club of the West Side Y.

M. C. A. held its annual din? ner at the Hotel Wellington last week. W.

H. Wyckoff, of Pease Elliman, was toastmaster. The chief speaker was Royal S. Cope? land, Health Commissioner. Ma.iy families with infants lived in cold water flats last winter, Dr.

Cope? land said. without heat, and as the city spends thousands of dollars to keep the monkeys in the parks warm in the winter, he declared, he could not un? derstand why the city could not do the same thing for these infants. Joseph L. Buttenweiser, Clarence T. Coley, president of the Building Man agers' Association, and Lee T.

Smith also spoke. OwnmYourmHome Show Ba Helped Many io i How to Get a Place of One's Own Started Explained Experts in Construction and Finance; Exhi bition To Be Staged Here Again Next Year The third annual "Own Your Home" Exposition closed last night with an attendance far in excess of that of any previous evening session. Thou? sands of New Yorkers and as suburbanites who have not had the opportunity of visiting the show at any other time took advantage of the very last night when they might ba instructed in the art of becoming their own landlords. Display of small home models that might be economically ductions of the twenty-nin? prize winning designs from a recent national "Small House Competition" held in conection with" the exposition and un? der the approval of the American In stitute of the chief attraction at the armory. The public knows from experiences that date back several years that the building of dweilings has been aban doned because of the high cost of architectural talent as much as because of the high cost of materials.

Pros pective home owners of small means have had to live in monbtonous rows of houses. all alike. To influence or create a desire to put beauty into small home facades and plan more efficiently the small home competition was started. Prizes amount ing to $15,000 attracted 1,100 archi? tects to the problem of cbanging our house planning program. The designs submitted are as individual as any home owner could wish.

The houses are of four, five and six rooms and of lumber, brick and stucco and plastered metal lath and have been estimated in price to cost from $5,400 to $10,600. "We have no idea of the total num? ber of inquiries wc have had on the methods of ftnancing the home," said W. D. Carter, president of the Metro? politan League of Building and Loans Associations. "As soon as visitors to the exposition had become convinced that, home building is possible they came to us to ask how it nright be done.

It was surprising to many that it was so easy to finance such a project." "It has not been our purpose to wage war on all landlords," said Robert H. Sexton at the close of the show last night. "There are people who will al? ways pay rent. The Own Your Own Home movement does desire to wage war on profiteering landlords, and by these expositions, tnat place before public the graphie example in good plans, building materials, home furnish ings and equipment, encourage them to build and own. With the country con fronted with a shortage of 1,000,000 homes the slogan must be 'Build Now!" "The attendance for the two weeks passed away over the 200,000 figure we had hoped to have.

Plans are already under way to hold a similar exposition in New York next year, and the various officials who backed us this year are enthusiastically behind these plans for 1922." Much interest was manifested in the construction of the full-size stucco house of four rooms on the armory floor. The house was finished early in the second week of the show and then wired and the plumbihg connected. Ex hibitors supplying the materials and furnishings overlooked no item that i wouid make of this house a real little I home, Each room was completely fur nished and equipped. In fact, when i compieted it was all ready to raove Into Designed by R. K.

Talbraith, of 1733 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, and submitted together with the other designs in the Small House Competi? tion, it is interesting that this house was not a prize-winning design. It -was selected by the stucco interests as adaptable for this purpose from the entire lot of plans submitted. When all compieted the management announced the cost, completely fin ished, inside and out, with baaoraent and foundation, heating and piombing eqnipmont and eleetrical wiring. to be 14,400, the figure heing based on tho latest estimates on cost of materials and labor in and around New York City. This exposition has proved conclu sively that the only way to get a thing done is to do it the only way to beat the game is to I spoil his game, and its success is ex i pected to be an inspiration to other cities to encourage home building bf the same method.

i Hard to Exact Condition Of Frame Dwelling Unlike Masonry Houses, Actual Construction Mem? bers Are Hidden; Initial Cost Low, Upkeep Higb. By Harlow Lewis Of Tiocker Lewis The value of a frame wali is mort difficult to determine than the value of any form of masonry wali, because of the fact that the actual construction members in it are concealed by the materials with which it is faced, but if properly built such walls are dura ble, warm and tight, in addition to be? ing cheap. The gtuds which form the wali are usually covered with sheathing boards cne inch in thickness, laid diagonally on the studs. Between this sheathing and the outside covering of the wa.ll building-paper is placed. In the case of clapboards or shingles the owne must remember that the best coat paint obtainable will not last forever, but will have to be replaced at inter vals of from two to four years, de-, pending upon the location of the house.

In other words, such a wali differs from a masonry wali in the im portant particular that there will be a regular charge for upkeep on it during the life of the house. Upkeep on Frame Hoase Is Regular When the frame walf is faced with stucco the stucco is usually applied on wire lath or on some patented form of covering especially devised for this purpose. Stucco on frame construc? tion will crack earlier than on masonry construction. The cost of upkeep therefore on this type of wali will be greater than on a stuceoed masonry wali. When frame walls are veneered with brick very great pains must be taken to insure that no leakage will occur, and if this type of construction is used special efforts must be made to waterproof around all doors and win? dows at the various floor and ut the junction of raftera and walls.

Comparative Cost of Building The cost of construction of the vari-, ous types of walls referred to abovj increases in the following order: Clapboards, or shingles on studs. Stucco on studs and wire lath. Brick veneer on studs. Common brick 8 inches thick, un- faced. terra cotta blocks and stucco.

Twenty-inch rubble stone walls. Stucco on 8-inch common brick. The heat and cold resisting proper? ties of all of these walls are approxi? mately the same, except in the case of the 20-inch rubble stone wali, which is more impervious to heat and cold than any of the others. Barriers to Use of Land Near Center Of City To Be Lifted by Park Auction ZQ7TS. of land in the Astoria sec? tion of Long Island City, the oeneflt to be derived from tax exemption and the increase in traffic on the Astoria divi sion of the dual rapid transit system were tlte moving in bringing about the purchase by Philip Krule witch, president of the Filrose Con? struction Company, and Morris Mana cher, president of the Manacher Con? struction Company, of twenty-six lots on the west side of Fifth Avenue, 150 feet north of Jamaica Avenue, for im? provement with three, four and five room apartments.

James E. Clonin, who has erected a large number of dweilings and apart? ment houses in Brooklyn and Queens and who is prominent as a dealer in building materials in Lang Island City, has purchased twelve lots on the east side of Fourth Avenue, 100 feet nortb of Jamaica Avenue, for fmprovement with small apartments. Widespread Interest Indicated These purchasea indicate the wide? spread interest that has been aroused in the Astoria section since Joseph P. Day announced recently that he had been commissioned to sell at auction 1,200 lots for the estate of William G. Park and others, The selling will be started at 1 o'clock next Saturday in a large tent on Grand Avenue, between Sixth and Seventh avenues, close to the Grand Avenue station on the Astoria extension.

A number of the lots to be sold are varioualy located in the vicinity of the Washington Avenue, Broadway, Grand and Hoyt Street and between that point and Steinway Ave? nue. Others occupy several blocks along Jackson Avenue. between Twelfth and Seventeenth aveauea. The remaia GgrftiD LOTS TO. BE StfTURDtfy.

OF OF LOTS TO 3E SOLD ing Astoria lots are located along Vandeventer, Wilson, Patterjson (Ja? maica) and Grand avenues, between Twelfth and Eighteenth avenues, and in Graham and Pierce William, Crescent and Radde streets, between the Washington Avenue and Broadway stations on the Astoria division of the i Interboro and B. R. T. Brooklyn dual i subway. The lots are located in sections that! are well improved with single and two- family housee, apartment houses, store properties, moving picture schools, with some of the largest mo- i tion picture studio buildings erected immediately along the of the As? toria subway extensiqn.

The iate eincFdea the Oid Bowery, Bay Farm, in the immediate vieinity of Bowery Bay and North Beach. This waterfront section, whieh is especially suitable to improvement with bungalows and ali-year homes, is lo? cated between the Astoria Avenue and Ryker Avenue trolley ear lines, but has never before been available to home seekers, lot buyers and builders for the reaaon that tho property has not been in the market and could not be purchased in separate lots. The subdivision and sale of this property next Saturday by publio aue tion for whatever it may bring, in sep lots, means the open ing up ef all his fine waterfront area of the Astoria Steinway soetians af Long City aad ita rapid dtrt'oyaeat,.