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8 BTtboKiA" DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 28, 191T. REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS-SUBWAY NEWS COMMENTS NEW PARK SLOPE APARTMENT BUILDING FOR SALE SIGN "VIOLATION" CREATES COMIC OPERA SITUATION Brooklyn Board of Real Estate Brokers, llllllll aoT. isn inn.

'(. i NtlX. PROTECT YOURSELF. This Board believes thai chances in the Tenement House laws should be made. First, as to buildina new 3-family houses; second, as to remodeling old houses lor and third, to remodel 3-story store property ior three ian.ilies.

Victims of Continuous Flow of Conflicting Orders from Various City Departments Cite Instances in Annual Report Army of Inspectors Send Volumes of "Orders" to Property Owners For Sale Sign Becomes a ViolationJames B. Fisher Says City Is Invaded with New Disease Called "Inspectionitis." Tho "Over Inspection" annoyance diR- cussed many times on this patje of The KlifriA bv nmmtiipnt innnnf'tptiirprs builders and real eslnte brokers, was a ,1 Given considerable pronnnonce In the annual report of the Ueally Associates Issued this week. Several interesting rases were cited which show how the real estate owner is more and more feeling the burden of "artificial regulation." "This company," the report states, "was served with nearly 400 orders during: the year, notwithstanding that it employs a staff engaged in the continuous inspection of its properties and had expended over in making i tie repairs wmcn it nought necessary The net return from rents dropped this year to 5 per nothwithstandinir there was no decrease in the gross rents collected. "An army of men are employed at the expense of the taxpayers in hunting up technical violations of the rules. We will mention some examples: A wooden Tor Sale' sign was el ected on a vacant lot belonging to the company under a permit duly issued in January.

The nearest building to this sign is 70 feet distant. In November the Bureau of Buildings served notice of a viola- Hon which stated, "Sign is 10 inches too; nign ana not fireproof, lou are required to have same cut down or covered with We had 10 inches of earth placed underneath the sign, reducing its height above the ground level by that much, and the law was vindicated. Notice was received from the State Department of Labor stating that one of the stores of the company was used for manufacturing purposes. On examination the tenant and his wife were found making jam in the rear of the store, which was on tho Cranston Court Apartments, corner of Eighth avenue and Third street, shown in the above picture, is a notable addition to the modern multiple-family buildings recently erected in tl.is borough. The new apartment house is the last word in construction of this character, containing every convenience for easy housekeeping.

One feature of the apartment which deserves mention the wide courtyard on the Third street side of the property. This ample space provides plenty of light and ventilation, and the attractive garden effect in the yard, ornamented with a fountain, pr ivities a pleasant outlook for the tenants. On the first floor is located a large reception room. The building itself stands on a lot 80x112.2, and the plot covers 95x147.2 feet. It was built by the Cranston Construction Corporation as owners.

The facade is of ornamental brick and decorative white stone. The large main entrance is constructed of Indiana limestone, with bronze doors and marble trimmings. On Thanksgiving Day, when the building was opened for inspection, there were many visitors. level. The order directed nnmn; nihm-iwere things that all doors should be altered and arranged to swing outwardly.

The department was notified that the tenant would vacate on the first of the month and a request was made for a stay of the order. The extension of time was refused on the ground that the risk was extrahazardous. "The Board of Health ordered us to remove the ashes and garbage from the rear of a vacant lot fenced on four sides, which refuse the occupant of the adjoining property had thrown over the back fence. Three times this order has been repeated and complied with. The Tenement House Department ordered us to replace a light of glass in a cellar window.

We are unable to find the offending sash and up to date have re-reived four communications in relation to our failure to comply." "Inspectoritis Is a Disease." Says Ileal Estate Man. James B. Fisher, the real estate broker, in describing his experiences with the various inspection departments of. the city, to an Easle representative today suid: "Inspectoritis is a term applied to a kind of police supervision developed to thi nth power that preys particularly on real estate. It differs from the ordinary police work, because it has grown to such an extent as to become presumptuous and arrogant.

It starts with vacant property l.y requiring the erection of fences, regardless of necessity by forcing you to remove refuse that it knows ou did not put there; by ordering you to repair sidewalks that you did not wear out, etc. RAII.ICV lltllltDilA Inland. oris sos, Kultnn Street. J. n.

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the six' story brick piano factory building and lots on which the plant is locatea, I with a frontage- of 223 feet south side; of Jamaica avenue and feet north! side of the same highway; J03 feet tst side of boulevard and 97 feet I east side of Sunswick terrace, suu-ject to mortgages aggregating $40,000. Louis Deitsch conveyed to Mary' Deitsch five lots with a frontage of IBU feet north side of Woodward! avenue. Kidgewood; 101 feet east side of James place and 52 feet west side of Flushing avenue. Kellwell Kealty Company sold to Louis Guttman two plots at Far Rock- awav. one with a frontage 120 feet! west side of Hue tie St.

Felix, 203 feet north of Sea Girt avenue, and the other with a frontage of 60 feet west side of Fulton avenue, 215 feet north of Sea Girt avenue, subject to a mortgage of $21,750. G. Pepper sold to the Bank of Lawrence a plot at Far Rockaway with a frontage of 60 feet east side of Fulton avenue, 251) feet north of beu Girt avenue. Krtuity Realty Company sold to iroolilvn Heights Railroad Company and Brooklyn City Railroad Company a plot at Ridgewood with a frontage of Si2 2-3 feet east side of Fresn J'ond road, 100 feet south of Madison street. and depth of 125 feet.

This is an ad-j dition to several acres already owned bv the company which has under I construction a large terminal at that point for the elevated lines of thej New York Municipal Railways Cor-j poration and for the surface lines of the Brooklyn Heights Railway Com-1 pany. A big elevated yard is being. built also for the storage of cars sim ilar to the yard at East New York. The Melthum Realty Company has leased to ex-Assemblyman Frank X. Oner for five years at $1,000 per year the Stlmmel Paulson property at White stone Landing, including about.

six and a half acres of upland and four and a half acres of land under water, including a large uocu ana pavilion. The upland has a long frontage on the east side of Twelfth street. Morris Bienenstock ten three story brick store and dwellings. 924 corner Jamaica avenue and YVaterbury ave nue; one northeast corner Prospect ave nue, Jamaica. llarrv Dorf.

five two story brick dwellings. northeast corier hanuol street and Cooper avenue, Ridgewood, $15,000. Advance Lodge, Astoria, one iwo story brick Masonic temple, 34x100. south side Grand avenue, 100 feet of Van Alst avenue, Long Island City, Carlton Summerfield Lstate. east side Beach Seventy-first street, 460 feet south of Boulevard, Arverne, one one story frame, 17x58, $15,000.

207 NEW BUILDINGS Brooklyn Structures to Cost $1,218,515. Plans were filed by the Brooklyn Buildings Bureau from November 1 to November L'5, inclusive, for 207 new buildings to cost $1,218,513. This is a falling off from the same days for 1013, during which plans were filed for 253 buildings to cost It is said tnat, owing to row- ing ease in the money market large number of plans that have been held up temporarily will be filed during the next few months, and build ing operations nui ue utgun on a largely increased scale. APPOIXTEl) AGENTS. The Westwood Realty Company has been appointed managing agent for tho two apartment houses known as the Monroe and Jeannette, situated at 2105-2107 Beverley road, near Flatbush avenue.

The two buildincs contain thirlv- two apartments. The companv reports a very successful renting season this fall as a result of advertising done in the columns of The Eagle. GRKKXK AVliM'l-: LKASK. The HniKioy Horton Company leased 310 (Ireene avenue, between Classon and- Franklin, a three story and basement brick private dwelling to Phoebe Mulready for a term of years. I ELK.

i I i I sfern like swallowing requires an altera- tlon some doors, and as -oim as ho wnlk js (() 'the of I that Olini'tmeni orders the removal of same doors and the substitution of a different kind of door. "One department tells you to make Improvements to a hatenway. and shortly nfter the work is completed another department orders you to cease to use the hatchway and close it up. You are required to build a partition around a wash basin In an open room of a factory; an order comes to vacate a one-story building, the condition of which is now unsatisfac tory to the department, although the 'conditions have been the same for a I numlier of years, and the owner is fon ed to carry a vacant building at least through the winter, without any allowance for the ho has to pay on the building trade vacant and at a time of financial depression. 1 know of an nctu.il case to fit each one of these references, and many more.

"There is no merit in refusing to permit an owner to make an acknowledged betterment of a property when the only reason for refusing permission is because the betterment does not go far enough to please the department having jurisdiction. There is hardship instead of good in making family of two move out of. the third story of a three-story and basement house when every room is an outside room and the whole house contained but nine people, even though they constituted three families. I he answer is that only houses of this kind so used before the year 1301 may be occupied by Ihree families. "These laws never were intended to be carried to such extremes.

They enacted to overcome the evil; lliat no reasonable person will defend but not to send inspectors out in pairs with a tape hand to hunt out trifles. The extreme to which over-inspection has gone is a sign that it has nearly run its length, and the movement to reduce to smaller number the departments charged with such supervision is a movement in the right direction, as, besides greatly reducing the cost of supporting so many departments, it would lie more efficient and it would accomplish every legitimate need. "Because estate is a kind of property that cannot be hid away from such ridiculous attacks, and because it is already overburdened with heavy taxes to support many things that should be otherwise provided for, I see no reason why it should hae to support a system of over-inspection, which no matter how well intentioned it may have been on the start, it has now run away with itself and grown so expensive and exacting as to become a hoox. It is a glutton needlessly eating up the earning capacity of property to such a large extent as to mean its absolute loss in some instances as when in the hands of owners with limited resources, and in many other instance to produce such depreciation as to cause it to become unmarketable. "It is only in a great city like New York that such a condition can exist without becoming entirely paralyzed.

There is no other growing, enterprising, thriving city in the United States that would inflict upon real estate such exacting and nonsensical conditions as to require properties to meet the standards of impractical men who tractor is the V. 8. Realty and Improvement Company, and the contract price is $2,657,004.50. Work began in August. 1H14.

There will he four tracks, with a local station at Twenty-eighth street and an express station at Thirty-fourth street (Herald Square). The contractor has erected a plant in the park at Herald Square, and has also started work under temporary street cet'king at Thirty -eighth street. Routes Xos. 4 and 3fl, Sections X'os. 3 and 4.

These two sections, extending und Broadway, from Thirty-eighth to Forty-second street, and under Seventh avenue, from Forty-second to street, have not yet been The Commission's engineers are rking on the plans, and expect to have them ready for letting by I he end this month. Routes X'n. 4 and 36, Section Xo. 5. This section covers the work in Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth s'reels, between Seventh avenue and Second avenue.

Here the subway will be a two-truck line between Seventh avenue and Fifth avenue, where the two tracks diverge, one continuing under Fifty-ninth street, and the other diverging into Sixtieth street, and following that street to the tjueensnoro Bridge. The contractor is the I'egnon Contracting Company, and the price, Work was begun in Scptemoer. 1SH I. There wi'l be stations at Fifth avenue and at Lexington avenue. The contractor nas erecieo a piaur on me it Central Park I'luxa, near Mi'in avenue.

The statue of Ceneral Sherman, which stands here, will be removed to vwmu construct ion i going on. TO IMPROVE PLOT Colonial Home to Be Erected Near Great Neck Golf Course. olhor petty things that straining at K'nats and i WnieJs. Ev Ki 4,1 A 1 r. a ur W.

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Will CUT, I ompKinf Avenue. IIII.E roll IIERSH IP. Property Owners-N0TICE! The annual Record of Acsessed Valuation of Personal Estate for the City of Xew York for 1915 will be open for inspection, examination, and correction from OCTOBIOIt 1 until, hut not Int-Iud-Jtiff. DKl'. 1, 11HI.

During the time the books art) open for public inspection, application man be made to the Department of Taxes and Assessments bjt any person or corporation claiming to be aggrieved by the assessed valuation to have it corrected. Appliratlons for the corrpotton of thti Personal nnKcasniPiils of corporations must be til at lie main office In the Borough nf Msmlinltan. Applications in relation to the assessed valuation of Personal Estate must he maoV by the person assessed at the office of the Department, in the Borough where such person resides, and, in case of a non-resident carry ins on business in the 'ity of New York, at the office of the Department in the BoroUKh where such place of business is located, betwpen the hours of 10 A.M. and 2 P.M., except on Saturday, when alt applications must be made between 10 A.M. and V2 noon.

I.dl'ATrOX OF OFFICES. Manhattan Main Ofilce, Municipal BuiiiihiK, 9th Floor. Hronx Herpen Tremont and Arthur AveK, lironklyn Offei-man Building, Duffleld and Fulton Htn. Queens-Cuurt House Square, Lontr Islan.l City. Richmond Iiorough Hall, New Brighton.

S. I. LAWPO.V Pmny, President; JOHX HA 11, Kit A CHAS. T. WHJT13.

H. WOniiWAKD. ARDOLPII Jj. I C1KUHOK Ml'ILA Ti. SHIPLF.Y, rnnmls-sioners uf Taxes and Assessments.

SEEK CONSOLIDATION Realty Men Would Combine Departments That Inspect Buildings. An important conference was held recently at the offices of the Real Estate Board of New York, 115 Broadway, as the result of action taken by the board to secure co-operation of taxpayer and civic bodies with respect to the tentative plan for a building department, outlined by the Statu Factory Investigating The object of the bill is to consolidate, several departments having jurisdiction over buildings. The object of the Real Estate Board's conference with other taxpayer bodies was to bring about joint action and decide on a policy with respect to the State Factory Investigating Commission's plan. The conference was attended by representatives of the Advisory Council of Real Estate Interests, Building Managers Association, Citizens Union, Fifth Avenue Assoela- tion, Harlem Property Owners Associa tion, Merchants Association, Heal Estate Board of New York, Twenty-third I in pro vomer Associat ion T-nited Heal Estate Owners Associa Uon. Washington Heights Taxpayers Association, Astoria Taxpayers and Business Men's Association, Flushing Business Men Association, Queens- boro Chamber of Commerce, Brooklyn Board of ileal Estate Brokers, Bronx Chamber of Commerce, North Side lioara or i i-aoe, jMaten jsiana uivic League.

The following have not yet been committed to the resolution: Citizens Union, Harlem Property Owners Association. Washington Heights Taxpayers Association. The following will probably join in the conference: Broad-i way Association, Forty-second Street Association, West Side Taxpayers As-i sociation. The conference, after discussion, adopted the following broad resolu-I tion: "Resolved, That we favor the con solidation of all departments and bureaus now having jurisdiction over the construction, alteration, structural changes in and maintenance of buildings in New- York City." The resolution, with a list of the confirming organizations, was presented on Monday last, at the hearing before the State Factory Investigating I Commission, by Robert E. Simon, chairman of the joint committee, and turtner time was asked in which to submit a brief.

This was granted by the commission, the date set being December 10. In the meantime the Real Estate Hoard will seek en-operation of all taxpayer organizations who are willing to act with the joint committee. GIVES $120,000 IOAX. The Title (lurantee and Trust Com-pany loaned $120,000 yesterday on first mortgage to F. H.

Cowperthwait and others. This mortgage covers stores and flats nt the northeast corner of Park row and Roosevelt street, and is for three years at 6 per cent. I RESALE OF EDGKMERE LOTS. The Lewis H. May Company has re sold for Morris Asinof two lots on the east side of Beach avenue, Edgcmere.

L. to a client, who will construct a two and one-half story brick bungao low for occupancy. MANY NEW BUILDING PLANS FOR QUEENS Two Hundred and Twenty Structures Approved From November 1 to 24. ESTIMATED COST, SI. 220.

Ahead of Last Year I.cadins Realty Changes in the Borough for Past Week. There are promises of largely in creased building activity in Queens during the coming season, as a result of greater ease in the money market. From November 1 to November inclusive, plans were filed for 22 new buildings, to cost as compared with 105 new buildings, to cost for the corresponding months of last year. Among the prominent plans filed in the past, week are the following: A four-story concrete factory, 80 feet by SO feet, with an extension 2(1 feet by 40 feet, corner of Meadow and Pearson streets, Long Island City, by Degnon Realty and Terminal Company, to cost $145,000. A theater at the corner of Locust and and Mulberry streets.

College Point, to cost Morris Bienenstock will build ten three-story brick stores and dwellings at Jamaica nine of them at the northwest corner of Jamaica and YVaterbury avenues and one at the northeast cor ner of Jamaica and Prospect avenues. Harry Dorf is to build five two-story brick dwellings, northeast corner of Satidol street and Cooper avenue, Ridgewood, to cost Advance Lodge, i and A. is to build a two-story brick Jlasonic temple, 34 feet by 100 feet, south side of Grand avenue, Astoria, 100 feet from Van Alst avenue, to cost $15,000. Carlton Summerfield estate is to build thirteen one-story frame cottages at Arverne, east side of Beach Seventy-first street, 400 feet south of Boulevard, to cost $15,000. Leading Queens Conveyances.

In a partition of the estate of John Gracy the executors convey to five of the heirs a sixth share of a parcel of about seventy lots in the village of Jamaica. 150 feet east, of Canal street; five-sixths had been alreadv conveyed to the same. The grantees are Mary- re Vandewater, David Ruth William A. and Charles A. Gracy.

William A. afterwards conveyed his one-fifth to Charles A. Gracy. The plot has a frontage of 25BV-. feet on the south side of the Hempstead and Jamaica Turnpike.

feet north side of Willow street and a width of 440 feet at its widest part. There are several frame houses on the plot. Rose I.ahey conveyed to Anna Stat-tel and "Kllon Lahey two parcels of a little over S'i acres each. One has a frontage of about 300 feet on the west side of the Lakevllle road, a little south of Lake Success, almost wholly Queens Uounty. and the other with a ironinge or 2u tec-t on tne east side of the same highway, a little north of the former described, bong Island City Block Changes Hands.

Woodside-Cresccnt Company conveyed to Louis V. Hubbard an entire block of about sixty lots at Long Island City, with a frontage of 200 feet south side of Anable avenue, 200 feet north side of overt avenue, 000 teet i west side of Madden street and Ooo feet east side of Van Buren street, The block is said to be worth $75,000. Ring-Oibson Company sold to I Charles Kugerl a lot in Ridgewood; with a frontage of i6 1-5 feet north, side of Madison street and 2414 feet east side of Fresh Pond road, subject i to a mortgage of $14,000. Estate of Hugo Sohmer and Ade-1 lena Sohmer Weber conveyed to Harry "It comes so ofun anil in such nnm-(Wpre i)orn too soon and in many in-bers on improved property that own- stances not frugal or thrifty enough ers frequently receive visits 1'rom dif- to possess it. Our city has made won-ferent departments at the same time, i derful strides in the last ten years, making inspections and rein.

ipections i particularly when consideration is bunting for a leaky faucet when you given to 'what we inherited from are laready paying for more water than I earlier generations, but it is too much you use a fire-escape that needs paint- to expect us to attain such perfection ing a room a few inches too small, a as to leave no improvement to be dwelling occupied by three families, I wrought out by coming generations, when only permitted to have two; old "While we are passing it on better buildings with plain glass, where the than we found it let us hand it down law requires wire glass, and many free of the pest oi inspectoritis." the line is the short cut which it takes through Mapleton Park, where the New nrk Municipal Kailways Corporation bought $125,000 worth of land for its right of way from the Alco Building Company, owners of tho largest single ueveiopment along the s-ea Heacn roaa. Speaking of the effect which this subway would have on Mapleton Park real estate values, Mr. Sugarman, president of the Alco Building Company (associated with Realty Trust), said yestereday: "This four-track Sea Beach road. I providing the first real rapid transit I from tho heart of Manhattan to the At- lantic Ocean, is opening up one of the most beautiful sections of Brooklyn and has already started building op-i erations which are destined to surpass I tho sudden but substantial develop-i nient which accrued to the Bronx when New York's first subway pierced the Bronx Uiver. And if the Bronx, two hours away from Brooklyn's beaches, prospered as a result of tho subway alone, is it unreasonable to expect that Mapleton Park and its contiguous lands, seven minutes from the Atlantic Ocean, will secure even more benefit from this Sea Beach subway than the Bronx could possibly have secured from their subway?" Builders and Homescckers Buy at Mapleton Park.

George W. Silsby, sales manager of tho Alco Building Company, associated with Realty Trust, reports that the weekly average of the sale of houses in Mapleton Park during tho last four months amounts to "a house a week," and that the average of vacant laud during the same period is nearly a block (of ten lots) a week, eighteen blocks having been sold in nineteen weeks' time. The two most recent sales of vacant land were made on Monday last. The Kraslow Construction Company bought from the Alco Building Company seventy lots, being the entire block extending from Sixty-third street to Sixty-fourth street, and from Twenty-first avenue to Twenty-second avenue. The Alco Building Company also sold to tho Kraslow Construction Company and Mapleton Associates, who together purchased thirty-three lots in Mapleton Park on the easterly side of Twentieth avenue, being the block front extending from street to Sixty-sixth street, one block from the subwav station.

The buyers have already erected six blocks of houses and business prope, in Mapleton Park and will improve their latest purchase with three-story Hats and stores. Today there, is not a vacant flat or store in Mapleton Park. The following six sales of one-family brick houses on plots 24x100 each were made during the past four weeks: Peter Dcschamps, 20(14 Sixty-sixth street; Margaret T. Teske, 2063 Sixty-sixth street; S. Shapiro, 2141 Sixty-vnth street: Sophie Mayer, 1930 Sixty-fifth street: F.

Klotz, Sixty fifth street; Frederick Main, 057 Sixty-sixth street. STUYVESANT HEIGHTS SALES Many Deals in This Section Closed by Everett Kuhn. That there is active buying and rent-fife' in the stuyvesant Heights section shown in the following deals re cently negotiated by Everett Kuhn, the real estate broker, who sold 17S McDonough street, a three story and basement brown stone dwelling, 20x100, for the estate erf Margaretha Looff to a client for occupancy; 37G McDon- ough slreet, three story and basement brown stone dwelling, 18x100, for Kli.abeLh I Hack, to a client for occupancy; 535 Halsey street, a two sioiy and basement brownstone dwelling. lS.lxleo, tor K. C.

iluelle, to a client lor occupancy, who gave two ai l.aurelton in part payment for the dwelling: Macon street, a two and one-half story and basement In-own sione dwelling, 17.0x80, for C. II. and C. Schiudler, to a client for oceupanc The broker rented the following ies: 450, Franklin avenue, for M. A.

Ilobinson, to a client; 168-70 Decatur street, for It. Koster, to a client; 4io McPonough street, for II. y. Urazer, to a client; 30(1 Halsey street, i'(r Henriques, to a client; Bain-liidge street, for V. Lambert, to a client, besides many apartments.

BROOK HAVEX'S T. -YES. Cost of Running the County Government and for Fire. Patchogue, 1., November 28 The items in the warrant for Brookhaven taxes, given out yesterday morning from Supervisor Robinson's office, follow: Supreme Court expenses, School Commission, $381 county, town poor, Almshouso Children's Home, asylums, armory (State tax), election expense, improvement of highways, $72,060.54. The fire tax for Heliport District Is Port Jefferson, Blue Point, .19 Lighting tax for various districts is: Blue Point, Centre Moriches.

Port Jefferson. North Patchogue, East Patchogue, West Patchogue, .14. The total light tax will be $8,717.93, and the total Are tax, $3,285.50. By the recent decision of Sm-reme Court Justice Blackmar, pronouncing illegal tho methods the Board of Supervisors adopted to collect back taxes in Brookhaven, the sum will be used in the town budget. This was collected last xr s-nd amounts to $23,967.

SEA BEACH SUBWAY NEARLY FINISHED Will Be the First Five-Cent Fare Line to Coney Island. ready FOIl NEXT SIMMER. Actual Pigging for Open Cut Took Less Than Ten Months. The first five-cent fare line to Coney Island is now nearly ready for operation three months ahead of schedule time. It is the new four-track subway known in Manhattan as the BroadwayrSeventh avenue line, and connecting in Brooklyn with the Sea Beach line, running from Fifty-ninth street, Manhattan, directly to Coney Island, via Mapleton Park, without change of cars and for a single five-cent fare.

The 'route is from Fifty-ninth street (at Queensboro Bridge) west to Seventh avenue, down Seventh avenue to Times Square, then down Broadway to Canal street, then across the Manhattan Bridge, then through the Fourth avenue subway in Brooklyn to a point just beyond Fifty-ninth street, where it turns into the $1,870,000 open-air Sea Beach subway, which by taking a short cut through Mapleton Park, reaches the Coney Island terminus (five miles from the Fourth avenue spur) in the record time of forty minutes for the entire trip from Fifty-ninth street, Manhattan, taking only twenty minutes from Park How to Mapleton Park. An alternate route of this line is now under course of construction but will not be finished for about two years more; this will continue from Canal street down to Vesey, over to Church street, down Church to the foot of Whitehall street, then under the Fast Uiver through the new Montague street tunnel to Brooklyn, where it will join the Fourth avenue subway and continue as above. The work from Fifty-ninth street, Manhattan, to and through Canal street, is practically finished; the Manhattan Bridge is ready for the running of the trains, and the Fourth avenue subway in Brooklyn has long since been readv as far as Forty-third street, the small stretch from Forty-third to Fifty ninth street, on Fourth avenue, is I nearing completion, and the Sea Beach cut itself is almost entirely finished. This Sea Beach line was originally the Corbin steam road, and has always been, physically, the shortest way to Coney Island. Now it will be the shortest in time as well.

The contractor, Maier George W. McNulty, who is building the Sea Beach cut rr the New York Railways Corporation, is, according to the contract, to receive a bonus of if the work is completed by Mareh 1, That the lure of the bonus has had its desired effect is apparent ny the lact mat tne work is today nearly finished, and the mail will doubtless be ready at least a month ahead of time. The New York Municipal Hallways I'orpornt'on is depending upon tho Sea 1-ieach line to carry tne oiggesi van oi us v.uut-. i. land traffic next summer, and that trains will be running before then Is Indicated bv the tact that the third rail Is even now in for more than half the entire distance.

The actual digging of this open cut took Ipss than ten months, the su-ain shoveling having commenced in January and the last steam shovel having left the job last month. With a few exceptions, all of the concrete work is finished; this includes the powerful re inforced concrete retaining wan, inc. steel arches which serve the double purpose of tunnel below and roadway and street crossing above. The stations are 7U0 feet in length, long enough for a train of fourteen cars, and are more artistic than on any other line. The Sen Uearh road is, In fact, an example of "intensified engineering," that is, every inch of space has been utilized to further the needs of rapid tinnsit, while at the same time keeping its construction and efficiency on a par with tho standard railroads of the country.

It is expected that trains will from to f.O miles All ilOlir In equipment has been designed for speed fniin the KiO-nound steel rails and ex ira heavy tics to the solid roadbed and elongation of curves in the few nlaces where curves occur. The con per mile of construction was less than for any otber road pre iousiy built, and et many original features were intro- prarance oi i-h- times. As a contribution to the 't ity Beautiful" this subway need net be ashamed of itself. What Tills Menus to Real Instate. The Sen Beach open cut Itself is about five miles long, a ride of only ten minutes from the Fourth avenue curve to Coney Island.

Tho main reason for this quick time at tbli nd of I SUBWAY PROGRESS Work Being Done Along Routes Nos. 4 and 5. Work on Route No. 5. Section No.

2A, of the four-track subway is a continuation of Section Xo. 2. It is a short section, extending only from Walker to Howard street, and is eon-lined mainly to the Canal street crossing. The work bean in 1912, and is now about 7D per cent, completed. There is about 100 feet of the structure already completed.

Route Xo. 5, Section X'o. 3. This is a continuation of the suuwny from Section So. 2A.

under Broadway to Bleecker street. The contractor is the Underpinning and Company, and tin. price, There will be four tracks on one level north of Broome street, the two middle tracks being depressed south of thai street. There ill lie a local station at Prince street. This work began early i in 1812, and is now about per cent.

completed. There is about feet of completed smnture between Ho v-j ard street and decker Hack- railing, paving and pipe restoration are! in progress from 1'iince street to How- ard street. Route Xo. Section Xo. 4.

This is a from iv-riion I No. 3, under Hroadway to middle of Union Square. Tin- Doci; ('mtrai-toi-1 t'omnanv has tho conlrai t. 1 078. Work was hi gun the latter part of 1H13, and is now about tin per cent, completed.

TIhtc will be four tracks on one level, with bu-di sta- iion at. sirei-i, and exoress station in Union Square. About i of the structure lias beca com- pleted between Houston and AYaverly place, and between Four-! tc-enth street and the 1'nion station. liestoratlon of pipes tauiis js in irom lii'-ecuei is oiojn irom iseecker of I SALE IN MIDWOOD SECTION OF FLATBUSH Mc-Knight Company sold Pra Hc-ach cut. and the entire S-lioii Xo.

I.I "PPosite "he eighth hole on the This is a continuation of sub- i 'at Neck golf course, to L. from the Union siu-1 Bosque, a civil engoieer of the no. li t- I'j-mJnav to Tw. i svlvania Railroad. The purchaser will It is jnder contract the K.

erect a large JJuten colonial house, to duced on the Sea. Meach road, l-or in-Smith Contracting Company, 'for be completed by early spring. The re-j stance. I'V molding the reinforced Ther" will be i our tracks ported price of house and plot was 1 crete ret. lining walls with tho cn one level, and the contract includes $18,000.

lor brace side toward the inside, a four- half of. the express station in Union Albert Hngstedt purchased a plot i track system was built within a sixty-Square and a local station at Twontv- having frontage of So feet and a depth foot right-of-way. the stations being third street. A particularly difficult 13" feet facing Cedar Drive near I built into and made part of the walls of th work was the nui intnance 1 1 he entrance to the Estates of (ireat themselves, requiring no extra, land for of four In rue w.ib-r mains ut Twent v- 1 Neck, for improvements, with a large the stations, and improving the states of (Ireat Neck a plot having frontage of 130 feet on Bay lew Unglisn nan tininer sijie oi nouse, I with a enrage built under the porch on the west side of the house. ix i.rrn xvk.

cottvc.k. The one family cottage 7710 Thirteenth avenue has been sold for K. 11. Norwood by Frank A. Seaver as brokers in the transaction to an I "OSSBSSSiii mmmmmmm third i and 1 id wn About 115 fet of the stric'tun in Union Square has been inpl.

ie.1. i onsiraction is beins middle nortn oi that point. Some pipe restoration nrk has been don- at Tin -foun Houtcs Xo-. and UK. Sen ion Xo.

2. This is a c-n moat inn id' the line from Twenty-sixth street, under 1'i-oad-Wy to Thiily-eighlh street. The con- The attractive detached dwelling. 1439 East Eighteenth street, shown In the above picture has been sold by the Midwood Associates, builders, to ti. Bishop, sou of li H.

Bishop, the wcll-knowu builder, for occuniim-y. I.