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(j TIIE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. 1012. DESIGN OF THE COMPLETED BOTANIC GARDEN, NEAR THE INSTITUTE BUILDING.

City Presents Brooklyn Land for Botanic Garden as well as four pools and a swamp. In the native flower garden- we have a real bog, which was transported from the pine barrens 4.t New Jersey. It was tahan up in barreis and brought here, and gives us an excellent collection of native bog plants. We have also removed the collection of evergreens presented by Low-, ell M. Palmer of New York, from the place in the garden where they were set out and placed them around the lake." The Botanic Garden staff is as follows: Dr.

C. Stuart Gager, director; Norman Tavlor. curator of plants: Dr. Edgar W. Olive, curator of public instruction; Dr.

William honorary curator of economic botany; Miss Bertha M. Eves, secretary and librarian; Harold A. Ca-parn, consulting landscape architect; John V. Borin, head gardener, and nermann Kolsh, foreman. Property Signed Over to Institute by Mayor Gaynor Will! Enable This Borough to Have Adequate Room for New Venture Idea Meets Approval.

land, which comprises approximately i I forty-three acres, lying to the south and! Mayor fisynor on Monday last signed tho necessary papers turning over to the Brooklyn Institute for the use ot the Botanic Garden about three acres of land facing on Eat-sera Parkway between the Museum lit'. the city reservoir. This important addition to the botanic garden will servo, when the land has been a fitting entrance to the rapid-, ly developing department of the Brook- lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. The plot of land, which was held In cubtody ly the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, had been retained by that department on the supposition that It might be" necessary to the plant, but it has been finally relinquished to enlarge and improve the Botanic Garden. The land was first transferred fiom the Water Department to the (linking fund, then to tho Department of Parks, which in turn transferred it to the Institute for.

the Garden. This transection, the importance of which will become more and morn apparent as the growth and development of the civic center near the plaza of Prospect Park proceeds, together with the recent commemorative tree planting ceremony in honor of the visit of Dr. Hugo do Vries, of the University of Amsterdam, Holland, the foremost botanist of the world, serve to awaken a larger public interest In the work of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which, under C. Stuart Gager, director, is rapidly being developed to take the prominent place planned for It among the educational and scientific Institutions of the country. Growth of Botanic Garden Has Been Rapid.

This growtlr of development has been so swift and the transformation of the classes may use other material at the laboratory and in tho garden. We are at present acquiring a collection of colored lantern slides of wild flowers, and intend eventually to have a slide of every flower within a hundred miles ot Brooklyn. "We have recently had a gift of $1,000 from a public-spirited citizen, whose name is withheld, for the purpose' of buying additional books for the library. botanic gardens, and especially that the garden articulate In every feasible way with the botanical work of the elementary and advanced schools of the city, both public and private. "iLectures and courses of lectures and laboratory courses will be offered to pupils in the city schoolB, and by means of Its library, laboratories and labeled collections, indoors and out, and by its encouragement and ample provision for research, will the garden endeavor to realize its Ideal of "the advancement of botany and the service of the "In connection with the educational purposes of the garden, we hope to have collections of illustrated material to loan to schools and others to be used in teaching botany, and teachers with ine tall planting of trees and plants in new beds, will begin shortly, including iue pianung oi willows and alders along the brook in the central meadows.

"This brook, which has recently been constructed, Is 1,500 feet long and there are nineteen dams in Its winding course. IN BROOKLYN'S BOTANIC GARDEN LABORATORY BUILDING, BOTANICAL GARDENS, NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION. brary room, and north of the central pavilion will be the public and private cttlces, the laboratory of the director and other department rooms. The southern wing will contain two classrooms, an instructors room, an elementary laboratory, a physiological laboratory, a constant temperature room, a photographic operating room and dark room, etc In the basement will be a lecture hall and service rooms. The conservatories, a part of which are now under construction, will consist of a central palmhouse, with two south and two north wings, which will be divided into rooms for the housing of different plants.

Out of doors, the immense garden is divided into sections as follows: Systematic section, where hardy herbaceous plantB will be arranged in beds according to their natural affiliations; local flora section, containing herbaceous and woody plants growing without cultivation within a radius of 100 miles ot Brooklyn; morphological section, external anatomy and comparative morphology; ecological section, illustrating the homellfe plants and their adjustment to their surroundings; evolution section, illustrating variation. Inheritance, artificial and natural selection, struggle for existence and survival of the fittest; economic section, foods and condiments, medicinal and poisonous plants and fiber plants; weed section, showing the characters of weeds; formal gjrden section, In front of the laboratory building; and plant houses; arboretum, a collection of trees, native and exotic; fruticetum, a shrub collection. Dr. Gager Tells About the Botanic Garden. In speaking generally of the work ot the garden, Dr.

Gager said: "Annual city appropriations for the maintenance of such an institution as a botanic garden are, of course, Justified only by the service which the garden can render to the city. It was the wish ot those Instrumental In securing the establishment of the botanic garden that the formal teaching of botany to classes be emphasized here to a greater extent than has heretofore been customary In Hit A. i tr i til A leading southward through the grounds from the lake. Laboratory-Administration Building Now Being Erected. The laboratory and administration building, one wing of which is now near-Ing completion, will be a one-story and basement structure of brick, faced with concrete, about 210 feet long and 50 feet wide.

At suitable places on the exterior will be placed the names of noted botanists, which will be selected by vote of contemparary botanists. The main entrance to the building! from the west, or garden side, opens into a central rotunda. East of this rotunda will be the main 11- FIRST YEAR and Common Edible, Medicinal NEWS to be worth not less than $100,000. Ten I have a frontage of 250 feet, southeast side of avenue, 25 feet Bouth-1 west of Dltmas avenue; 3 of 75 feet, Bouth side of Flushing avenue, 24 feetj NHL of bll'e. oe coma o- i ins a two-story frame dwelling: 13 lots with a frontage of 100 feet, northeast I oe of sail r.

sir' el. rl2 i et ni.i side of Hancock street, 216 feet -south side of Vernon avenue, subject to a mortgage of 6 lots on Radde and Academy streets, south of Broadway; 3 lots witn a frontage of 7o feet, on north Bide or Nassau avenue. 225 feet weBt same AND BUILDING DEVELOPMENT. I west of the Central Museum building, In i the very heart of the borough, so re-! markable that Brooklynltes, even those who catch a glimpse of the garden from passing trolleys, little realize the numerous activities that have been constantly going 'on, or what the ultimate plans of this department of the Brooklyn Institute will mean In the creation of a more beautiful Brooklyn. The Botanic Garden movement found Its first public expression in 1897, when George W.

Brush, M.D., introduced into the Legislature a bill providing for the establishment and maintenance of a botanic garden and arboretum on park lands in the City of Brooklyn. The bill, which became a law on May 18, 1S07, names among other objects of the garden the advancement of botanical science and knowledge, and the prosecution of original research therein, and in kindred subjects, the giving of Instruction and the maintenance of public exhibits of a botanical nature. The assignment of the necessary land was made contingent on the Institute providing a private tund of at least and this fund, contributed by public-spirited 'zens, was completed in December, 1906. The plan of the garden, which is part of a general plan of civic improvement, Is a remarkable combination of landscape and building architecture. The main entrance, on Flatbush avenue, opens northward through the esplanade to the Museum Building, and southward and eastward to the public conservatories and the laboratory and administration buildings.

In the northeast corner is a lake of about three acres in area, and the adopted plans provide for a small stream Contains Cotton, Peanuts, Hemp, Tlax and Poisonous Plants, ESTATE trie Company, which has Its main plant at Schenectady, has obtained the sole right of manufacture of the Mercedes car in the United States, and is to build as early as possible an Immense plant on its property, bounded by Fox, Star, Beaver and Itevlew streets. It will start at once an addition to itB present plant a six-story brick structure, 320 feet by 75 feet, the foundation being well under way. Within a year they will start a second addition fully as large as the above. With tho organization of the big General Electric Company back of the enterprise, it Is expected to build here one of the largest motor truck plants In the world. This establishment will give employment to thousands of high-class mechanics, who will waut homes In Long Islcid fit-'.

The Picrce-Arrow Company has started work on its big new plant on Jackson avenue, near the Ford and Alco build-Inns. The Edwards Motor Car Company, which it It. said Is an adjunct to the Dayton (Ohio) Car Company, and which It is said has many valuable new patents, has taken the old Blanchard fn tory on Borden avenue, near the Brunswick-Bulke-Collandcr Company's plant. Big Farm Sale at Rosedale. Margaret V.

McNully, Bernard V. Lott and Rosedale Pla.a Company conveyed to Pascal L. Knman ami tne purchaser to the New York Suburban Land Company, a farm of over 46 acres at Rosedale with a small frontage of 135 feet on the southwest side of Rosedale avenue and front ing 44S feet on the aqueduct property of the City of New York. The sale was mado subject to a mortgage of tiiH.627.50. It is said to be worth over $100,000.

William A. Reinhart, Benjamin Hants and Alonzo D. Hough conveyed to Samuel K. Harris, and the buyer reconveyed to Ito'kaway Comt Realty Company, a big Plot at Arverne with a frontage of 1S2 feet on the north side of the Boulevard, then extending north to Jamaica Bay, 2.IJ11 feet on Its easterly side and 1,774 on Its westerly side, there being a deep Indentation lit Little Bay. There Is an irregular frontage of several hundred feet on f.c waterfront.

Tee plot comprise! from 20 to 25 acres, much of which has been filled III from tho bay ami will be sold off In bnlld'ng plots. There Is a Iiior'zagc of iio.oiio on the properly. ink A. sivalt and Frank Brodsky conveyed to Brodnky-Sovak Realty wlli' or' to develop toe property, 5S lots In the Astoria section of Long Island City, estimated 1. 3 mill I' mwmm 2 3 a TIMELY TALK ON TAXATION J.

Wray Cleveland, secretary of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, said yesterday: "Although the fact has been very generally advertised, it is probable that many people are yet unaware that tax day has been changed from the second Monday in January to the flrBt business day of October. This is the day on which the tax books are open showing the real estate values for 1913. The residence of an individual and the amount and kind of personal propety he own on this day fixes his liability for personal taxation. The condition of real estate on tax day is tne basis for its assessed valuation for the next year. "There are certain investments which are free from all taxation owing to tho fact that the law specifically makes them so, such investments, for instance, a Government bonds.

There are others which are free from personal taxation because the tax on them has already been paid. Among this class are mortgages which have paid the recording tax and mortgage certificates which are part interests in mortgages on which the recording tax has been paid. Usually. Just before tax day, a great many people aim to invest their idle funds in such forms of security. "Mortgages and mortgage certificates have much the advantage over government bonds on account of the hlghrate of income that they pay.

The mortgage certificates which have the payment of principal and Interest guaranteed by soma responsible guarantee company are as good or better than mortgages owing to the fact that it is not necessary to wait for titles to be searched, titles to close or papers to be drawn. The Investment can be made instantaneously." Ashland Place House Sold. it, A tt way No. 39 Ashland Place, Sold by John L. Gelhardt, to Thomas Clark, Theater Builder.

Reported to Be Part of New Playhouse Property. est sale," said Mr. Knight. "Tho dostfhjr and growth of a suburban town Is largely affected by tho foresight of the man who subdivides tho land he Intends to sell. Tho most efficient manner of plotting land should he the plan which gives the greatest value and security to every purchaser, adds the greatest amount of value und security to the property as a whole, yet produces a fair profit to the man who plots the land.

To follow this method, one must have supreme Imaginative confidence in his property and Its future." "I have worked out on Long Island a method of plotting 450 acres of restricted resldcnco property, and developed Idee which have been of great value to the residents. Every grade, cut or fill, has been given the utmost attention In order to give everybody easy access through the property, and all streets completely graded and macadamized, the low ani. broken lands utilized and Improved Into parks and boulevards. All the roads have been made to conform to the natural iaw of tho land; this gives them a winding effect, and their entire length Is shaded with trees. One hundred acres of this property have been set aside as a golf course, and the old Thorne Manor House converted Into a clubhouse.

"The most efficient method of beautifying each plot by having the correct selling for each house, and the shrubbery, trees and plants placed to give the most pleasing effect, the class ot houses, distance from the roads, character ot outbuildings, location of telephone poles, location of churches and schools, provision for playgrounds, open centers for shrubbery and flowers, the decoration of I the streets with ornamental lights, plac lug or neighborhood stores In unohjeo-tloniihle points, and the creation of clvle and local Improvement associations that will be sufTlcleiitly alert to protect every restriction mid keep ull.ve the Interest and enihuslauin that exists In the property when first started and the assurance of special grounds for permanent residents surrounded with ample spare for air and sunshine, among flowers ni, shrubbery, all expressive of the owner's Ideals ul beauty, health and A 1W Iff fei 1 fin til IHgg 11 street; 2 lots on Jamaica avenue, and 21 'other plot 100 feet, south side of Eighth on Fifteenth. Sixteenth and Newrown avenue, 125 feet southwest side of Tenth avenues, suhket to a mortgage of SS.OUO. avenue and 108 feet east side of Nine-Jane V. Hunter sold to Christopher J. teenth street.

Moore 5 2 acres at Juniper Swamp. Mid- Morris L. Straus, referee, sold to Peter die Village, on east side of Nagy street. A. Lcinenrrer for $500, subject to a mort-Eatate of Ambrose Hayes sold to Rich-1 pnKe of a plot tit Long Island mond Hill Realty Company 4 parcels at city, with a frontage of 43 feet on the Richmond Hill, in Maple Grove se-tlon east Fide of Van Alst avenue, 81 feet One of about an acre has a frontage of east of North Washington place.

193 feet south side of Long Island Rail-1 Charles II. Topping sold to Wheeler road; another small Irregular piece, 226 Palmer of East Orange 1U3 lots at bv 1 lass Manor. Metropolitan avenue; another a small triangular, 91 feet by 83 feet by 52 feet, Mortgages Recorded, beginning at the center of Abingdon Newtown Council Building Association, road, 341 feet east of Willow street and a holding corporation of the Newtown small triangular plot about the same Council, Royal Arcanum, gave to the size as above, 07 feet west ot Abingdon Title Guarantee and Trust Company a road. mortgage of $18,000 on Its council build- Thomas Warner sold to United Broth- lng and lot, with a frontage of 87 feet BANKERS BUY NEW ROCHELLE, N. TRACT, COVERING 320 ACRES ers Real Estate Company 32 lots on tho B.

N. Dawley Real Estate Company's plot, at Richmond Hill South, subject to mortgages, aggregating $8,200. Elizabeth J. Graham sold to James Sullivan for $13,200, 33 lots, 25-foot front, at Col lege Point, in Ave nnrcels One of 4 lots northwest corner Xinrh avenue and Four- teenth street; one with a frontage of 225 feet, west side of Fifteenth afreet nnd 125 feet south side of Eighth avenue; one of 8 lots, northwest corner Ninth ave nue and Sixteenth streets; 4 lotB each at southwest and southeast corners of Flirhrh nnrt tm.ii.nih. isn '3 F- by 115 feet on the northwest side of Broadway, Newtown and north side of Horse Brook, and Ernest M.

Strong one of $18,000 to Stuyvesam Realty Co. on a plot 102 feet on the south side of Jackson avenue and 86 feet on tho east side of Buckley street. Long Island City. Merchants Lloyd Realty Company gave i to Alrick H. Man a mortgage of $13,500 lOn Hint 7 fnnt nn 4hf nnrth airla nf Cuthbert place, 100 feet east of Lcfferts avenue, Richmond Hill, and Esor Realty Corporation one of to German Savings Bank of Brooklyn, on five lots, 100 feet on the west side of Gheradi avenue and 100 feet on the north side of Ferrist street.

Belmont Park. Tenement House Committee Sees Chances in Queens for Permanent Relief. J. W. Paris, president of the Paris Ilcnckcn Company, who has for years been Interested in the betterment of tenement house conditions In the closely uougested sections of the city, had a regarding this problem with repicsei.tative of the Tenement House Committee.

The Idea of erecting homes in Greater New York on the style of those used in Baltimore and Philadelphia was discussed at length, but on account of the vast difference in land values between these cities and those of New York, the pliin was not considered feasible. A careful investigation of Greater New York shows that Queens Borough offers several sections where such a plan could be worked out. The Idea was to establish permanent relief. Between Flushing and North Beach lies a section of about 300 acres, nnd In order to carry out this plan tha streets would have to be re-surveyed, the blocks being made 120 feet long Instead of 200. Lots would then be made about 14x60, and these could be sold with the house at a price within tljo reach of the people benefited.

The Tenement House Committee, which Is composed of Paul D. Crnvnth, Grosve-nor Atterbury, O. M. Eldlltz. Jacob A.

Rlls, I. N. Phelps Stokes, Lawrence Vell-ler and others, has made an exhaustive study of conditions and have endeavored to find somo plan thut would provo practicable. An Item ol hpeclal Interest Is the construction of a house at Klssenn Park, Flushing. L.

under unique methods. Tho walls are of hollow concrete tiling, the floor of reinforced concrete trie floors ol concrete and marblelold and the roof of tiling, thiiB making tho entire dwelling practically fireproof. The ityle of architecture Is of the Queen line cottage type. Tho houso, which Is now Hearing completion, contains fifteen rooms and Is brine built by George Schafi at a coBt of $30,000. The Economic Section, Here Shown, REAL BANKS LOAN FREELY ON QUEENS REALTY Increasing Confidence of Manhattan and Brooklyn Financial Institutions AIDS MARKET IN I.

BOROUGH. Big Industrial Concerns Locating In Hunters Point District Leading Sales Recorded in Past Week. One of the promising features of real estate development in Queens is the Increased confidence of savings banks trustees and directors of life and fire insurance and title guarantee companies in the stability of property values and safety of mortgage loans in that borough. One of the contributing factors is the belief that the goo,) government of Presi dent Connolly is to be maintained and that the public affairs of the borough will be administered In the future with fffii-ieney and economy. Tor a long time the Williamsburg savings hanks have been loaning large amounts on building operations among the thrifty German-Americans of- the Hldgcwood section, and say they have been amply fatl-flcd with their returns.

As a result scores of bloi-ks of brick and frame two and three-storv tenements on what was less than a decade ngf open farms and orchards have been built. William F. Wyrknft in an address ye-terday b. f'ire the local board of NYwtown at DorniiKh Hall, Lmi? Island City, said that he hud Induied the i nnI1 i)rm, savings Dank, In view of the Improved government and near approach of the of. the Itapld Transit extension Into Queens, to loan hundreds of thousands of dollars In the Woodnlde-Klm I at.i.

sect .11., and a considerable part of tho loaiw bad been used In the inaugiir.i-t ell of pull! much an sewers, pav-Inx sidewalks and other tiitnilar impr.iy-iiirnts. He said that the action ef the bank mj not baed on any charlt n.l coiisldi rutioi.s, hut 'iely on the id' a that itiV'Sini nl wai-. a safe and profitable one. lie ai. id that Inventmi ma would be ma le in oilier sec tions following tne grow.h ot ipiilntion.

The same story is beini: (i i as to the increasing confidence o' lii" li.iancial iniit itiiMuiis of Manhattan 'hi operate only in Hi, I borough or the Hronx. Large ainouii'? He rn'- b.oj; loaned for factory di v. i rini tit in Loim Island City and c.viovii. tiu'l'ad of n'i iik to bulid .1 os h.v ir.p.H and meadow with L. I.

City Factory Development. Til- 1-i IlilM" nl of Long Island City lii.Mlilfact'.ir- iKi.il s. tvjee center goes on, "i iv. at st developments Vehicle Mompanv I mi I I'lty, which him all along 'I 10 IIKIIIIlfacllire of eei I in Ilp.iee. Oil' IS tll.lt t1' of Loin I-1! been elj'ci trie io i.o MO) hot I.

as now gone Into I rip with g.uioline In to iner-t the I it Is now hull. ling i.i i the ,1. pip, i lip. ill. 'I I i.oij le This 'i ton a ii rut I sieel shed with tioor space for Its mp irary 'fun, hieh' It Is oi the (J-iivlal EIcC- 1 PLAN NEW TROLLEY LINE Will Be Direct Route From Hempstead to Waterfront.

The board of supervisors of Nassau County has, for several months, been considering a trolley road owned by the Hempstead and Baldwin Traction Company, a domestic corporation which proposes to build and operate tho road within a very few months. It will start at Hempstead station, run south down Maine street, to Front street, thence to Franklin street, down Grand avenue, through Baldwin and Baldwin Harbor, direct to the water front on Hempstead Bay, Middle Bay, Milburu Creek, opposite Jones Inlet, Nassau-by-the-Sea and Long Beach. It is said that the waters of Hempstead Bay or Middle Bay and Mllburn Creek have the best fishing this side of Nova Scotia and Maine; these waters are patronized by all the fishermen of Greater New York and the outlying districts of New York. Consequently, the trolley of the Hempstead and Baldwin Traction Company will be patronized by some of the best fishermen, who now huvo to get off at Freeport and change to two trolleys, taking 20 minutes to get to the water front, and then about 20 minute to go through the winding creeks before they reach the fishing ground. When this trolley is completed they will be able to get off at Baldwin station and take the trolley direct to the water's edge and thero embark In a boat.

This trolley will also he a great convenience to the people on the north shore, as they can come from Bayslde. Whltestone Landing, Beechhhurst, Port Washington, Ros-lyn, Hlcksvllle, Mlneola and Hempstead. They can nlso come from New York by the direct trolley running across the Fifty-ninth street bridge to Mincola nnd Freeport. The length of this road will be about five and a half miles. It Is to run through the finest section of the Town of Hempstead and connect with the best sections on the soiith shore.

The company proposes lo run the trolleys under 30 minute headway. The principal motive of the Hempstead and Baldwin Traction Company In getting this road Btarted la to assist in the rapid upbuild of thlB section, which Is considered one of the finest on Long Island. Later this roud will be com lulled to Ixing Beach. When the road Is fully completed, it will mean a great deal to the people on the north shore, well as those on the south shore, as they will he able to tench the ocesn by trolley, across the Island, whereus now i here Is no direct route. SUBURBAN DEVELOPMENT II.

8. McKnlnht of the McKnlght Realty Company, In a recent Interview on suburban subdivisions, stated that the manner In which they should be handled Is of unusual Interest to real estate men, and that the day has pasBed when a land promoter can outline a development In a vacant field In a suburban section of New York, giving the most limited sort of Improvement, anil rid himself of his property at fictitious profits. The legitimate business of suburban development has become a science, and residents of the city are much more discriminative and require up-to-date Improvement and comforts In keeping with their life In the i lly. "The best manner of subdividing land -iiould net ntceasttrlly mean the quick i z' nl tefeihi 1 The Wykngyl Reservation, New Rorh lli, Bought by a Syndicate of DankeiB. The Porch ie rmbrnceg Seventren Old FArmn, With One Mile Front-Be on North Avenue.

The Above Picture Shows a Oioup of Dwclllnx t'. to the Renervation, With the Tom Fattie Monument in the Torrgjouud. Joseph P. Dny Hun Eitu AppointeU Sales Mnnngcr.