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BIG CROWD ATTENDS BELLE HARBOR SALE BELLE HARBOR LOT SALE BEGINS Many Persons Attend the Opening of Auction of Ocean Property. NEW YORK BUILDER AMONO THE BUYERS pays $11.000 for Hlock Front Facing Water 285 Parcels Sold Quick Time. Jojej-h Day evidently pot a strong er man for the leg at Long Island, moon at 2 -es, to ad ng ocean orching, bl hot pie to buy i ei i not have btea itt red, even by Mr. Pay himself. alf an hour Of the sale, when he put up crowd was a In the even? ir.

Day for a te was spirited. city, ocean 800x100 will eon be I Id comprises I owned a' i si Rockaway Lan 1 pres? ides i twet Bay el Drive I fac Beach Mist ithei illy all Belle Bay each 125th Pi av, also a parcela in I of the the ocean frontape the -old is but to as ich as the lots an rucian of such Rockaway on the Rockaway i.l ei-1 .1 wholesale hn J. luquin, res ent of whost grand 1 Loe s. Paine, Savings M. W.

Billings, Bli i Starr a. F. M. Cox, R. A.

Dr; ivil en. of Col Rockaway Coast the place which is real nsula tt a 1 into on an en each buyer buy all no with each to be sold, if. that the a of the ad ome of Aal laid arid I the ordi who buys these when come into their non-resident around the itory of 1 population. with in rent ''ux of Eu? with unbound 1 -ible will be one locations for ovemi nt in a dy under si minishing .1 front lots ment The hid thc prices; bands." BUSINESS CLAIMS HOUSE Oil Man Leases His 56th St. Home.

I ave leased of the Stand 0 dence West s. Gensberg, ocated for ten la five storie-i en held at an aaking It is now Mr. Jennings a William 11 Kast 70th st for me brolc Joins Realty Firm. v. RloodgOOd la now associated firm of Heckscher He at 734 Fifth and will give 'ntire attention to properties for end rent on the North Shore of I TO ERECT BIG PLANT Broklyn Building for Gyro scopes to Cost $300,000.

Vi re.nfoired structure. having eleven stones above ground and Covering an ana 184x177x100 feet, to be largelj used for the manufactura1 Of gyroscopes to Stabilise aeroplanes. warships aid other moveable objects. to be built at once at the coiner of Concord st. ami the now extension of Flatbush Brooklyn, for the Sperrj Gj roscope Companj t'ontract for its construction has just been given to the Turner (on struct! on Company, which will as semble the building from plans by Frank J.

Heimle. The structure, which it is estimated will cos- approximately to, build, will be -he first improve? ment since the completion of the ex? tension to provide a suitable approach to the new Manhattan Bridge and a route for one of the subway lines. Its advent is expected to stimulate other developments hereabouts. CLAIMS FOR LOWER ASSESSMENT TAX Reductions Asked in the City Said to Reach "$150,000,000. The August issue of "The Real Es? tate Bulletin," the monthly publication of the Real Estate Hoard of New York, contains an article, under the title of Tax Items To He Contested." in an introduction to a list of properties figuring certiorari proceedings.

"The Bulletin" says: "The list includes the names of many well known persons who obtect to the placed upon their prop The total throughout the city to reach $150.000.000. tin- Wool wort a re? duction of is claimed, the assessment being $9,600,000. The ted Electric Light and Power Corn claims $1,500,000 on its property ai academy st, for $5,500, I the Dakota, i Central Park I by Edward S. ('lark. 000 is churned.

The claim on the Com able Building, Broad il $1,..000, and that on the Century ai Broadway and New $1,200.000. Lord A Taylor claim a re? duction of $1.330.000 on their Fifth av. and $125,000 on the adjoining "i'n the Trinity Building, Ill Broad? and on the adjoining 1500,000 is claimed. R. H.

claim a reduction of $1, their store at Herald ,800,000, Michael the Alt man Es 50,000 on the Altman store, on Fifth ral smaller a score of properties neighborhood. The i'ork Exchange claims $1, New ork Produce Ex $700,000. The National Fark Hank claims it is assessed $900,000 t. much. "A number of residents of Fifth av.

elaim ment Senator (lark or: hia residence at av. "Numeroua claims are made in the loft district north and south of 14th Commenting editorially on the sub? ject. "The Bulletin." under the caption "Bleeding the Bays: "The subject of overassessmenta of real becoming a serious ad? ministrative problem. Perhapa tin- de? 1 condition of real estate has aggravated the situation. But there probably never was a time in tory of the city when so many pel w.

te concerned over the fact that their properties are too hi." d. In 'Ute. "In it is, if anything, more so. Throughout the city real es? tate owners are resort to certiorari! proceet I ave their assessments reduced. The total of these reductions in the live bon to reach I But in any event it is lally largo.

'The Bulletin' pub-: herewith a portion oi in Manhattan. It would take nearly whole issue of the magazine to publish the full list. The individual reductions run from $4,000 or nearly $2.000 rtiorari proceedings mean that filed with the department have not brought the de that owners are BO convinced of the soundness of their contentions that they are willing to make it the subject of legal contro wisv. and, of i nurse, the small owner resort to these proceedings. He simply pays." ECONOMIES FOR 1916 BUDGET oiillniiiil from 1 restions were offered for economies bv real estate as- bul few if any of the suggestions made could have legally be.n nut force with? out violating legislative statutes.

As1 a matter of fact, the Board of Esti? mate ooi "de for about tal budget The debt ting about 28 per cent. and mandatory covering 32 per cent, of the budget permits of no whatsoever bv the Hoard of Estin Taxpayers' associations should there- ar in mind that any recommend riticii ma mus' be directed at t.on.ot:- of the budget over which the Board of Kstimate has di 'ontrol. Although the Board tied to $22 out of each $100 of 'he taxes, the cit? cannot state how 'In- money be expended. The' authority for Buch expenditures residea within 'he Board of Educal on. Fif teen dollars oui of every $100 goes for the Police and Fire departments, vet the Board of Estimate il restricted in its thi ac depart? ments by mandatory legislation.

For 'he most pari economies can alone be act bed ith regard to salaries and disbursements under the department! controlled by the Mayor. It is to the estimates of these rtments that taxpayers de? vote careful and intelligent study. The Controller has recently announced that he has formulated a poliey of retrench? ment for the eitv which, if put into operation, would mean a i It ii understood that the Con? troller shortly give to the public the tails of this Ins much as the Controller has en? deavored within the last year to con? serve the resources of the citv bv rec? ommending to the Legislature in the local municipal finances, it all property owners carefully consider the principles cm the proposed policv of re? trenchment be promulgated bv the After this policv has been deliberated upon bv eolleaguea of the Controller on the Honrd of Estimate he ha? renrf-enta'i ves of the Advisory Council that taxpayers will have the benefit of the various recom? mendations contained within hi? re? port. LOFT OF GOTHIC DESIGN FACING CATHEDHAL. Structure now being built will be known as the new 1 lampion' Shoos Buildine.

DESIGN OF LOFT FACING CATHEDRAL Building Now Being Erect? ed to Have Many Archi? tectural Features. On West Fiftieth Street, facing St. Patrick's Cathedral, the new Hampton Shops Building is rapidly springing Upward, to become one of the I prominent architectural features of the upper Fifth Avenue district. Unusual as will be the exterior of this lofty eleven story structure, treat? ed in a free adaptation of a late school of Gothic architecture, it Will never? theless be not more out of the common than the interior. This will present a wide departure from the ordinary luft building, inasmuch as it will consist of a cleverly arranged group of apaeioui and well lit gall? nod for the efficient display of Hampton Shopa fur ni tu re, hangings and tL-i The mu's of the individual atnl char? acteristic will be struck at tin- very entrance- to the building by means of a lofty archeil loggia, which Will lead throuph a spacious foyer to the rccop tmn room, occupying, with the admin itiv? office and elevators, the whole of the first floor.

Above will the many roomy galleries fitted for the display of Hamilton Shops fui and reproductions, while one floor In particular will deserve more than paas? ii attention. This is the seventh, which is il vided into a series of delightfully furnished and decorated rooms living rooms, dining rooms, libra' forth designed for the suggestive it hibition of period and Other furniture It remains only to point cut that the site of the new building has BI ciated interest for many prominent New Yorkere, Here for neatly a quar? ter of a century stood the famoui Cut? ler School, at whieb were ed such well known men ir; public Theodore Roosevelt, Francis B. Harri I son, Hr. Theodore C. Janeway, Harry Payne Whitney and Alfred Vender 1 I ilt.

ALONG THE CULVER ROUTE Contract Given for Section of New Transit System. The Public Service Commission has awarded the contract for the construe? m. of section No. 1 of route No. 49, the Culver rapid transit railroad in Brooklyn, to post McCord, the lowest The Culver rapid transit railroad is a new elevated line which will connect the Fourth Avenue subway through the I i ty-iiinth Street, cut with oney I land by a line running over the Cul? ver Lite route of tin- Brooklyn Rapid Transit system, namely, down send Avenue and Shell Road Section Xo.

1 extends from a point mar Thirty seventh Street over liravcsond Avenue to a point near Bay 1'arkway, or Twen eeond Avenue produced. The con? tract for section No. 2, extending from I that point to Avenue was awarded a short time ago to the Oscar Daniels Company. $200,000 BAPTIST CHURCH Plans for Edifice on Amster? dam Avenue Corner. Plans have been filed for the con .11 of a four story fireproof church, Sunday school and on the southeast corner Arn? im av.

and st. for the trus tral Baptist hurch of Sew York. It will have a frontage of feet on the avenue by feet in the with a of brick and terra cotta the Gothic atyle ami ornamented with a tower. Walter Cook tin- ar? and i laced the ce More Room for Realty Firm. Goodwin Goodwin have found it to over the adjoining ai.

addil ional force, will be a better to care for their increased el.entele. MOUNTAIN LAKES SALES Sever.il Plots Purchased at New Jersey Suburb. At the Mountain Lake? Residential Park, Mountain N. .1., the fol-' low sales have been made in the last week: To Joseph M. Keane.

1137. over? looking Mountain Lukea on Lake Orive; Eugene F. house 2X1, plots 31 Kttd block to Charles Meads, house MO, plots 17 and l'J block to B. B. Bave? house plots and block to George W.

Fanning, a large plot adjoining his home, which ill be improved; to Roger Barstow, a lart-e plot adjoining his home; to L. Powell, a house, on Hillcrest to John Pilger, house 22'1, iiitl to Emil de Clyne. house BIDS FOR QUEENS SUBWAY STATIONS Public Service Commission to Select Contractors This Week. The Public Service Commission will open on Tuesday and Wednesday bidj for the finish of the stations on the two elevated lines of the duul subway lystem in Queens. As numerous com? petitors for the contracts have sub? mitted estimates, a favorable selection is confidently expected.

Of the two lines in Queens the more advanced to completion is the Second av. branch to Astoria. The roadway of this line is completed and simply awaits track laying and the complet? ing of the station? to have it for use. The Roosevelt or Corona branch, is approximately -HI per cent advanced, the principal portion of th-' i structure remaining to be being Section 1, which includes the section at the bridge plaza. This part also involves the Astoria branch, as both lines converge her" to con? tinue over the Queensboro Bridge.

Tie contract for the completion of Section 1 expires about October 7, but as only 50 per cent of that work was tlone on July 1 there is no likelihood that the remaining half can be com pleted the specified time. This fact. was foreseen, however, some ago, when announcement wag made by a representative of the Public Servies Commission that in all probability th-'! two Quoena elevated lines would ready for service next January. Ac? cordingly builders ami nal estate deal era are planning, antl in many sec? tions, particularly those contiguous to the Astoria line, numerous modern style flats have been constructed and others are in the planning. Construction of homes to discount dux of resident- after the oper? ation of the new system of transit will doubtless be greatly stimulated by the iction of the Public Servies Commis? sion, which a few days ago submitted to the Board of Estimate, in keeping i with its recent resolution, a set of plans for the building of tunnels to earry the subway trains into Manhat- tan instead of over the reconstructed Q'tecnshoro Bridge.

The latter plan was earnestly opposed by realty and business interests on both sities of the river as being a trille removed from a makeshift whose usefulness would be' outlived within a few years, and thus leave the bridge a reduced highway, Incapable of handling the steadily growing vehicular tralhc. Historic Homestead Sold. W. J. Ackerman soltl the historic Mitchell homestead ami of land on South Broadway, White Plains, to Thomas Simpson, of Scarsdale, for improvement with a residence for occu? pancy during the winter months; tor Isaac N.

Hoyce, plots at Co-1 lumbia and Lawton Hartsdale, to William II. Secord, who will erect sev? eral houses; also, for Walter E. Snif fen, two lot? on Lakeview av. to Mrs. Adeline Leviness, who will improve the site with a bungalow, and for William II.

Secord. a dwelling in Lawton av. lo Harold S. Richmond. Lakeville Farm for School.

The Batson Farm Ageney elosod sev? eral deals last week, including the sale of the Meads farm, of acres, valued at $20,000, at Lakeville, to F. Riggs, of New York, for an industrial school for boys; the agency has also sold a farm near Poughkeepsie, as a country home to Virginia Johnson, the actress. Lessee to Erect Building. Jo eph P. Pay, in connection with James R.

Stryker, has for the Consolidated Cas Company to James J. Riordan for a term of twenty-one years the plol 225x93, at 438-45i West -t. Mr. Riordan will improve the prop erty a three story building, hav-: 1 ing a floor capacity of pounds per 1 square foot. TO LET FOR BUSINESS PURPOSES.

Superior Business Location, 26 West 58th On Vanderblll Block, Opposite Plaza Hotel Entrance. Altered to Suit Tenant. Ido. WM. B.

MAY 717 Fifth Avenue, Near N. APARTMENT HOUSE DIRECTORY EAST AND WEST SIDE. PUBLISHED TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS AND SUNDAYS. RIVIERA Bill flail Drive, I.MHh to I.ITtli M. BUCKIMiMAM COURT a AilJi'iiniilC Kivrrslilf Prive.

"THE PRINCETON I 111 I. from ROOMS. I to lu I liree I I I I MS' li'MllllS. Two i tally Mrll Kl I Ml.lli.HO ill warnen-r ite reniai. M.

i- I I-i-aa'ti? I Bljee In ihir. 'i St. SI.KOO. or I Af.KVT. I IMll I I t.ullilln?; up-to-date appliance; ail outside rooms; rlsw Hu.tson; 601 feet to i'lnn Ml levator apurtment.

mnilern lm provmsMtsi ruder supervision -ment owner. Atlraetlre Suporlnteil lent Ni ifhton Bi i it to Sutway and I'nexoelled A-l ROMAINE LOYAL Drive, li.mli to I'H-i and S5S lfimh st. 308-310W2st 15th a. Kimm? Two SINO to 1.3:0 Yearly. lu As-i "a prt-m I New bull.lir.s?.

overlooking Hurt 'i- i auiiu l'-li and rangements on prior ti.t.er Ashforth I Attractive bachelor apartment? 11 4M St. location. THE ROCKFALL N. E. l'OKNKK BBOADWA1 AND 111111 M.

S. 1 and 8 KiHimi, Battu. SI "00 Cfaarle? I New la Tul JJorn. MM. ory f.reproof, p.rfe-tl; perb entrance? and contented tenantry NEWARK HOUSES IN TRADE.

Exchange of Dwellings in North End Section. Louis Schlesinger, effected an exchange in the North Knd section of Newark. The concern has sold for Puncan MacKinnon the two two-family frame houses at IM and Woodsule each erected on a plot feet. These houses are of a new type, hav? ing a glass sun parlor extending out in front of the large living room, which contains an open liieo'ace. The purchaser of 161 is Mrs.

Alice R. Welshman, who gave in payment the two and one-half story brick and frame dwelling at 20S Mount Prospect which will be altered for business pur? poses. The dwelling at 167 has been bought bv the Misses Lena and Cather? ine Keller, who gave in payment the REAL ESTATE FOR BALE Hit TO LET MKSn 4 The Home As An Investment Land everywhere witlun a radi.ia of twenty of Manhattan laland ha? felt the effrr-t of Metropolitan char? acter and rcfle cte I thi? advantage by a at'? 'v increase in valuation. 1 line factor? hav? in-reaaed renta and former apartment dwel.er? had to meet tin? imteaie in "the Coat of Living." it the time to eliminate part of thi? expena ariH'lnveit in a Home" at on equivalent ul your Pruenl Htnlal PARK HILL On-the -Hudson by far the beat eatxblithed and moal attractive all-year-'rminH h- me place in the environ? of New York It combine? evety advantage of City Country. How to Reach Park Hill Subway 242.1 Si then trolley rbr-rtto Park Hill: ertalie Elevated to ISith St.

iimaiun to Hark Hill. Cintinuoua aervice. Office at proof rly ofitn cixry Jay. jfrnl fompinru. Oummrt FOR INFORMATION WRITt OR PHON? GEORGE HOWE.

Sales Agent 527 Fifth Avvnue. New York I CAN SELL 'olnnlnl house, I hi Oreen for 5:1, morl face; pei month t.rs Inter. taxes. thi? your Sketch and floor plan ran roqu it. i now i.

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BIG VALUE FOR PRICES ASKED. S-rnolll AM'TIIKIl i ohm. all II I' i 4 laust a.r- 1 Ull.i.i: II. Rathvftctnn term? OWNER, .1. HI'KCIAL WATER.

Iront proper! deer park. tn a.r.- P.U) U. AI I TI.IvY IN A about th? Home t-t'UKTART, Boi .4 K. L4)N(i LSI.AM?. FREEPORT.

L. I. $300 CASH, BALANCE LIKE RENT. Baatttll III A. A BEAM 16! n- COI Country Horn? Information fr'e to pro.pn-tl?? buy rrs i irlt I II.

me Hart I tl I 11 BEAU ESTATE. Il RSKY. INnIKE IHAl Til LE in Nortl Jei ind tee mortgagi art ft nl SVrite 1 ii ne? aula map North Jersey Title Insurance II KI xs i. N. Y.

GLENN A. CARVER, bl lit 4 11.. lllu.tr?t?ii book FREE lluttrated bookl of Homt? li-h. 1,123 Bi i MS, I TWO RESIDEN! KIOH I DAVI in i inn Sh in urn. an IDEAL i MMI nom th? Kamai il ne? Iront I i at Rama? Rli I turnll il ii Ml MU It t'4D Col UNFURNISHED IPARTMENTS TO LET.

BIDS. THE MAJESTIC" M. Nl.li.ila? I ST. ll'tli M. Rooms Bath I $660 to $1,0001 I irje, lifht complete, elevator and telephone ce All mtidern conveniences.

Close to and elevat I REED HOUSE Broadway at 121st St. 5 $660 $720 6 roomt, $720 $900 7 Perfect Ni it rUEHUtTM. FUBNlhHED APARTMENTS TO LET SIDE. The Sevillia Apartment Hotel, 117 VV. 58th St.

PnralSaWil Apt. i tt two and one-half story frame dwelling at 111 14th Feist Si Feist. 'lave learned th" store and be at Broad to Stammer. Apartment Leases. Douglas L.

Klliman Co. have a large apartment in the new building at W9 l'ark corner of 5lth to Ceo'g? T'odgman: an apartment in 122 East 76th st. to Will lam P. Hardenbergh, and an apart? ment in 10.o Ma? on corner of to Mrs. Ni rn.ah l'erry.

William It. May A 0. have leased an apattment in Ml West 71 to M. Carbone: also atud West 57th to J. Nett Alk-n and He Witt ookman.

IfFAl. ESTATF FOR SALE NKU JERSEY. REAL ESTATE FOB SALE. 11 RBKT. I MOORISH ALL-YEAR HOME On the Water Rights.

(IINMMKVT COSOfl TATHIN TO CRT. $7,000. Term? to Suit Purchaser A bei utiful horn? on I'll) by 20(1 ft, In I tlonally living room I Open rial dlBtB? i I nun Iry and th? I Bevoa fine maater bed two tiled bathe and storage Lars? reraada and K. W. B.irne?, ln(? h.

Bvary modoro 170 B'way, N. Y. Hnht. p.irunot Saura, beamed eelllaca, I Tel. fully pam-IIed In hard t.i MM? try club, Rolf, Water call or UlsphoM for pbotocrmpa.

rf 3 I P'ii I a' v. INFURMSHED APARTMENTS TO LET fXPUBXISHEP APARTMENTS TO LET BillK. Co: N. E. Cor.

Madison At, list. Murray I t-s I Offers a number of desirable Apartments, some of which are ready for immediate occupancy. -THE WELLSMORE S. E. Cor.

77th St. Broadway. Modern In all details. 3 $2,500 to $3,100 The Cambria 317 West 55th St. 2 3 Rooms Bath, Kitchenette, Furnished or Unfurnished The Majestic St.

Nie. S. E. or. i i.V'i 7 Rooms Bath.

Rental? I to I Very inplet? modern eon to Wharfdale 604-606 West 115th Rlvtral I 8 Rooms. iteo to Bonavista rtmenta 7 11 Rooms. 2 3 Baths. kl $1.404 to I ElberonHall West, 8 Rooms 2 Baths. -The Beauclere N'.

W. Cor. B'way 100th St. 7 Rooms Bath. li.tao?ii.

i The Hillchester? 547 West 157th St. Near N. E. Col B'w 164th St. 4, 5, 6 7 Rooms Bath.

4, 5, 0 i 7 Rooms I Bath. Jls'J Prince's Court Tenant? living in apartment? under our supervision arc th? most efficient and High Class Service Brockton SSI IV. I- I II RKET. lili Ii.I- un i MO I Top loor, Ml front Ki "The Avoca SSI I I. V.

aolllnjrtofl Ave. IA" Elevator. 1 repr mf. HlKh. I M3 S5S 8 Km.in?.

MS "The Annadale" isa 11 I levador ilthl Park I SI." I.i ti r.M.iii? 1 r.n? to neun- SI 1.7 "Nathan Hale" it. nai i. i 01 ii Ill Vi II "The I 1 I I Ii" iii sio i i Hispania Hail mil w. -t i at. I Art Uu I li see to 7 S70 I l.

KNAP WASSON IMS llrniilwav. 1HI-I M. TH. 17 i Hroadway, IMIh Vu.l.,i...n BELNORD S7th St. A i ome sunlignr and air.

If you are looking fo' an apartment apart nenx erith the si a teAnsd in nie, you rnomt? of un'isua! o( 'he Ixiuts XVI j-er'O'J. with the day of irodern art. tue the last word in apartment tion fiHu1 and trained employes con? tribute to idea! service Manager on premises 7 to 11 Rooms, 2 to 4 Baths Rental $2,100 to r. R. Wool, W.

H. Dolson Agents, AT HWA? Tel.