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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 10, 1919. LARGE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS PLANNED TO I PROVIDE WORK FO RETURNING SOLDIERS OCEAN AVENUE APARTMENT SOLD GOOD WORK DONE BY ZONING COMMITTEE Brooklyn Board of Real Estate Brokers J' Gity to Start Big Public Works; Appropriates $10,000,000 i it L'iberal Program Advocated With View of Providing Em- ployment for Returned Soldiers Needed Projects to Organized 1905. Room 203-5.

1 89 Montague St. Tel. Main 91 80-9 181. Real estate owners and taxpayers, write today to vour Senator and Assemblyman at Albany, N. urge them to support the fixed tax rate on real estate.

Refer to Seesselberg Assembly Bill No. 10. Introductory No. 10. Full particulars Be Started at Once Brooklyn and Queens Get Large Share of Authorizations.

iMmmL Iff feitii Corona, cost, Tiemann from Polk ave. to Klngsland Corona, cost, the westerly sidewalk space on 109th (Napier-Grant from 101st (Jerome) ave. to Liberty Ozone Park, cost, $2,600. Final Authorizations. The only final authorization for Brooklyn was for regulating and grading Jerome ave.

from Liberty ave. to the Queens Borough line, cost, $1,300, contract time, thirty days. The following final authorizations were made for sewers in Queens: Atlantic north side, from Rockaway Boulevard to Bigelow ave. from any member of this ooara. uo AKNOI.U I).

A.IK1.I.O, 140 MonlHKue Sirot. BAII.EV li UAKKUKA, 2216 Surf Coney Inland. I.Ot lH ItKKlCS SONS. H9 Kcinsin Stroet. M.

BENNETT SONS. 48 Dean Street. 'U. H. Ill.m.KN SON.

Court Sllett (iii Laljved Avenu. Z. I. lihllltv, 188 Moiuaaus Street. M.

L. HHIMI.KV. 1KB Monlusue Street. it 1IOKTON HI Myrtle, Nomrand and 7001 3d At. BI'KLINti KEALTY IO tot Urldt-u (acini; Mr, in.

Bridie Plana. MI.DKK'R REAL ESTATE 21 Montague Street. 'MAC H. CART, 200 Pulton Street. "I'E rilAlNC'KY KEAI.

ESTATE vJL8.7 R'oi'taue Street. OAH CI.AKK, Robert E. Patter-Bon, U7 Manhattan Avenue. E. KSI KltllllOOK.

163 Fulton Klrci'l. THOS. U. FAKKKIX. S3 Flat bush Avenue.

HENRY FI.EliEMlEl.UEK. Plfl Ilroailwav. M1IE8 II. FISHER, 242 klyn. lalRnl nr.

Rd. L'INI. Kingston Avenue CHARLES L. GII.I1KHT. 'ostranrt Avenut.

CtJKTAVK (ilKAKD, -IS MunlaKue J. H. OKA XT, Montague Street JA1S N. Montague Street, JF.HE JOHNSON jk. 1S3 llonta.m Street, lirooklyii.

Soyilam ft Moliruhaurr, 147 Broadway. Brooklvn. knomi.es company. Broadway, Brooklyn. EVERETT KI IIN, Av Deratur street.

01.1 VI; It K. I.AI-KENIKKE, 'on'Mlue sou- Atlantic Av W. J. T. LYNCH, low Aloulague street iiiiim iimi Ill I'l AIM.

BROKERS ELltilDLF, FOR MEMBERSHIP BIG SHIPPING INDUSTRIES IN JAMAICA BAY DEVELOPMENT Mill Island Is Scene of Growing Commercial Activity New Shipyard Has 14 Ways Building Drydocks, Barges, Etc. Tin From South American Ore Being Smelted and Exported to All Parts of the World. 'j INCOME TAX PLAN WOULD HELP REALTY Secretary Woodworth Says It Is Superior to Flat Poll Tax. A Buffalo newspaper recommends the re-enactment of the old-time poll tax to make up the needed $12,000,000 loss through the elimination of excise taxes. It proposes in the place of the fiat $1 tax under the old law, a graduated tax based on income.

L. D. Woodworth, secretary of the New York State Tax Association, says concerning the proposition that this docs not differ from the income tax plan advocated for some time by that association. He says concerning the plan: "What is the difference between a graduated poll tax and a personal income tax? The amount of the income must be ascertained and the tax determined by public authority, in either case. The cost of assessing and collecting should be covered by the amount of tax received and it would certainly be more than 25 cents.

"All taxes, even those on real estate, are paid out of income unless they constitute a confiscation of capital. As pointed out by the Mills Joint Legislative Committee of 1916, citizens must support their State and local governments, as well as their national and the time has come when personalty and taxable ability must contribute thereto. The fairest tux is admitted to he the income tax. Therefore, why camouflage our inten tion to reach incomes merely because of the Federal tax? "Finally, in view of the serious condition of public finance and the encd for conserving realty values, does it not behoove I he press and all citizens to cease developing private notions which almost never have the element of novelty, and join in accepting the advice of the acknowledged experts? Tlio tax experience of the country and of the civilized world is epitomized in the recently announced model plan of the National Tax Association. It is not theory or fancy.

It points the way to a practical tax system, and we nave only tax chaos. In principle it has been approved by the State Tax Conference and the tax committee of the State Conference of Mayors. "Space does not here permit, of a description of that plan, but much confusion of thought is avoided if we recognize its classification of taxes as either on persons, on property or on business, its advocacy of income taxes as the fairest for persons nnd business, and the averaging of inequalities by moderate taxes on all three of those bases." ACTIVITY IN EASTHAMPTON Summer Cottages in Great De mand-To Start Big Hotel, All large cottages at Easthamp-ton available for rental have been leased for the season of 1919. A few small houses remain to be taken, but the rales are high, and the demand for is great. The three leading Kasthainptmi hotel are booked far ahead for the months of July anil August.

Tho Sea. Spray Hotel at the ocean beach has leased all accommodations and both or its bungalows. Ail of the Culver coltages and ocean view apartments have been taken. Cottage rentals for fhe summer made during the week are; By B. M.

the Remington King cot-taire to Mrs. Leyynrd llitchel, Detroit, French cottage lo Mrs. Harold Heck, New York: Mighel cottage vo W. II. Stafford.

New York; Talmage cottage, at Apaquoguc, to C. M. Burke, New York. Subscriptions to stock to complete the Olvmpic Heights Hotel at Three Mile Harbor now aggregate $50,000. Material for the hotel building has been ordered for delivery In Enst-hainpton, March 1.

Edward J. Bow-en is president of tho Olympic Hotel and Collage Company. NEW BROOKLYN BUILDINGS Among the principal new building plans filed wilh the Brooklyn Bureau during the past week are the follow- iiuv: l.niiis Soken, two Ihrer-story brick, mi 1 dwellings. 20 feet nr. feel, lo cost $1S.

0(MI, west side nf'sist 300 feet smith of Mermaid avo. Mills Ill K'K gar.igc. 1 ''V ln" to cost on the north side of Sackett lii.S feet east or Third ave. Aseutnev Realty Company, four two-slory frame, one-family dwellings, 2 feet by a ice(, so ciisi dim, on 'widn nf K'ean Inn Houih of Avenue L. Iliaggio Improvement Compnnv, fiiiiiiei'ii two-story briek.

two-famiiv dwellings, fl feel 3 inches by 55 feet, to $11 J. 000, west side of W. Siith I te( mil in oi uvo. Mllhurne Lucas, four two-story frame, one-famllv dwelings, 20 feet by 8 4 feet 10 Indies, to cost $22,000, linnsl corner of 13th st. and Avenue N.

"..11 WW Annual Report Shows How Property Owners Have Been Helped by Its Regulations. In a recent report submitted by the Zoning Committee, the work achieved by this citizens' organization for the proctection of- property interests in this city Is set forth. The executive committee consists of Frederic u. Pratt, chairman; Lawson Purdy, vice chairman; Walter Stabler, treasurer; Robert S. Binkerd, J.

Howes Binkcrd, Joseph P. Day, Robert W. DeForest, Otto M. Kidlitz, Arthur Lehman, George J. Ryan, Robert E.

bimon, Lpke D. Stapleton, Edward M. IJas-sett, counsel, and Herbert 8. Swan, executive secretary. The Zoninir Committor wan nrenn.

ized immediately after the adoption of the zoning law on 25 HUB Vnr the past two and a half years this committee nas been the only citizens organization that hus had as its sole work the protection of this big piece of legislation. It has looked after the law in the courts, it hus helped to amena ana perrect the law In the Legislature and Board nf Kstimate. and it has assisted all the city officials charged with the enforcement of the law. in addition to this, it has also served as a bureau of Information where any property owner might obtain exact advice concerning the iaw ana its administration. Due to the falling off in construe tion on account of the war.

the com mittee has been more concerned with tne US6 provisions of the law than with thoso regulating area and height of new buildings, the reuort swtcs. "Experience showed how to Improve the ordinance, especially regarding garages, nuisance factories and new uses In old buildings, with tho result that through amendments there is greater protection to neighborhoods now than there was originally. When old uses are changed from time to time they must grow less offensive under the law as it now is. "Another long stride in advance made by the zoning law is the exclusion of the billboard from residential distrocts. Prior to the adoption of the law there existed absolutely no safeguards to protect residential districts against billboards.

Advertisers were free to erect huge signs wherever they wished whether the site chosen was opposite a church or a warehouse, a park or a railroad yard, a home or a gashouse. No locality had any emenitles which the was bound to respect it could go anv-where. A private dwelling had no more rights in a residential district than fences, featuring whiskies, tobaccos or theatrical novelties. "The zoning law has at one stroke done more to remedy the billboard evil in the residence districts of the city than all the laws and ordinances previously passed on this subject put together. Instead of merely regulating the height, siae and construction of signs, it frankly recognizes the fact that billboards ore a hurt when nevr churches, schools and private homes.

ine stimulating influence of the zoning law has not been confined in the central shopping district It has Deen felt by business districts in all parts of the city. Keeping business off residential streets means keeping it on business streets. This helps the business streets and protects the home localities. "In holding out special indneemente to factories locating along the railroads and waterfront, the zoning law, moreover, will in time effect important economies in business and industry and thus promote the prosperity of the city. New York's competitive strength in the domestic and foreign manteis or tne world depends as much upon the arrangement of man ufacturing establishments within the city as upon the availability of raw materials and the proximity of a consuming public.

"In the days of unregulated building little or no attention was paid to economical means of transferring and distributing freight locally, although it probably contributes proportionately no less to the expansion of the city's commercial and industrial hin terland than efficient outside connections by land and water. Heavy terminal costs are a drag upon indus trial development in tho same way as high freight charges. Every cent saved in needless trucking means just mat mucn more capital available for tho extension of a city's commercial and Industrial radius by ruil and water. The zoning law keeps industries in their proper places. "The zoning law protects all classes of buildings residential buililines.

business buildings, factory buildings. Each class enjoys the maximum free dom and opportunity for development wiunn us own spnore. Tne obligations imposed upon each class, when it encroaches upon the territorv mil. side its sphere, are only such as are essential to assure other classes of a like freedom and development each within its respective sphere. Prefer ential rights give rise to reciurocal responsibilities, but the sole purpose of the responsibilities imposed upon each particular class of liuildlmrs un der the zoning law is to guarantee the rights and make permanent the pro tection enjoyea uy an classes.

INVESTORSACTIVE NEAR L.I.R.R. DEPOT Important Transactions Em phasize Crowing Prominence of Business Neighborhood. Another imnori'ant sale In fi clnitv of the Lone Island nniima.i Station emphasizes tho growing prom inence or that locality. Tho plot on the soulhwnsf of Fourth ave. and Pacific Brooklyn, with a frontage of 100 feet on Fourth ave.

and 58 feet on Pacific st, conslstinc nf tlin hHnk l.i.il.l! Fourth ave. and 648-550-552 I'acilic nas ueen aom by Arthur F. Stanl-ford and Thomas P. Payne, trustees to Bennett do Beixedon. It is the in' tention of Mr.

lie iioixedon to improve tho lH'OOei'tV IIS Hnnn liUlUj- illll mnlnriiit Bennett Sons wero the brokers. 111. uuniieit iv Kons nave sold ai.So the three-storv brick Thll-rl nvp Tinur and Marie lusilli, to a client. The two buildings on Stato st. facing Flat-bush ave.

have been sold by Ilerinnnn Grace to li. Allesandrn'dis mid Ramgravcs, who have occupied tin' ground floor of tho buildings as a restaurant. One of tho most Important transactions in the vicinity of the Long Island Depot was the sale recently iif the two business buildings, ci 614 Atlantic near Fourth for Peter F. Hellly to an Investor. Realty values In this block have been ureal ly enhanced within tho past five years by tho location of tho subway torini.

mi! opposite and the opening of tho Fourth ave. Bubway, not delay. JOKKMI ji. MAY. UB Montague Rtreat.

WILLIAM U. MOKRISKT. fell Montague Street. JOSEPH T. MarMAHON.

188 Montague btreet. 8. NOONAN. 76 Sixth Avenue, corner Flatfcae. M.

C. O'BRIEN. 708 Noatrand Av near Bt. Jolia'i PI CHARLES PARTRIDGE. 700 Franklin Avenue at Park Place.

DAVID PORTER. 82 Court Street. PL' ELS WEBEK, 400 Gates Avenue. PULLMAN REAL ESTATE CO, 741 Union Street. HOWARD C.

PYLR ft CO, -01 Montague street. WILLIAM p. RAB 1(2 Montague St. 400 Neilraea At. REDMOND BROTHERS, 613 Vanderbllt Avenue.

ANDREW HK1S 253 Kingston cor. St Joaa'a Pi JOHN REIS S05 Flalbush Avenue. THOMAS E. ROGERS. 49 Grand Street.

Kl hllN ft ROBBINS. 16 Court Street. FRANK A. SKAVER ft Bay Kldge 6K06 Av. Dyker Hta, FEN WICK B.

SMALL. Broadway, Brooklyn-CLARENCE B. SMITH, 14 24 Fulton Street. NATHAN STERN, i'5tl Fluahlng Avenue. TITINO ft CERNY.

49m Firth Avenue. FRANK H. TYLER. 1188 Fulton Street. VAN IDERSTINE 1118 Bedford Avenue.

A. J. WAI.DKON, llfiS Bedford Avenue. AKTHIR II. WATERMAN, 186 Montague Street.

SAM I El. WEI.SCH, lllii Montague Street. WESTWOOD REALTY tab Flatbuh Avenue. ROBERT A. WRKiHT.

iompklna Avenue. thirty barges for the Quartermaster Department of the Government. The company employs directly from 1,000 to 1,200 men. It owns its docks and barges and tugs. The tiulf Refining Company has on its property at Mill Island one of the largest distributing plants in this seo-j tlon of the country.

Its reservoirs nave a rapacity of over 1,000.000 gallons. The company has a complete plant there, office building, warehouse, repair bullnidg and garage. It overhauls and repairs not only its own automobiles, but does the work of the entire neighborhood. It can repair or make an automobile In its shops. It carries $50,000 In automo- bile parts.

The gasoline, naphtha and kerosene Is brought over from, the Bayonne. N. plant, and fromi fhe Mill Island plant It is taken by tank boats to ships and piers and by. tank trucks with a capacity of from one and a half tons to five tons to all parts of Brooklyn. Forty-two men are employed by the company on the island.

The city Fire Department officers in going over the plant dfTBfe company called it Spotless Town! $50,000,000 Company lias Big (Plat on Mill Island. The National Lead i third oldest of the consolidated conk-panics of the country, having a capital of Jf.0,000.000, and controlling subsidiaries with a further capital of $50,000,000, has four four-story cop-erete buildings and does a business of $5,000,000 a. year at its plant on Mill It employes over 300 making solder, babbit metal, stereb metal, die castings from aluminum, lead and tin. It does a large export business and before the war sent a great deal of white lead to England and Germany. It now sends considerable to South America.

It has 30 feet of water at its docks. The Williams-Harvey Corporation employs 50 to 100 men at its plant on the island at smelting tin. The tin is obtained from ore mined in Bolivia. Here a suitable channel dredged, the ships could come right up to the docks on the island. As there is only about 12 or 14 feet of water at the wharf at low tide, the company has to lighter all its notorial to the Island.

yj The market for the tin is inliniitd and it is alleged that were fhe proper facilities afforded the business ceVild be developed immensel-. The largest stockholder in the company is Nationul Lead Company. BAY RIDGE ACTIVE Demand for Business Property Along Third Ave. Continues. Interest in business property in the Bay Ridge section of Bay Ridge is being manifested by During the past month many buildings along the shopping thoroughfare of the sec- tlon have been transferred.

TheVijii tension of the Fourth avenue subWtft to Klghty-slxth st. has attracted many new residents to the section and ln consequence business in Third and Fifth a vps. has been greatly. improJeT K. J.

Hollihun, a real estate brbVer uf the locality, as well as other brokers doing business in Bay Ridge, have been greatly encouraged by the activity in investment property. There Is a demand in Bay Ridge for many new apartments and private dwellings to meet the industrial growth of the locality. Many workers in the plants along the shore front of Bay Ridge, who llvo In other sections of the borough, have been Inquiring for homes In the district, but because of the scarcity of new apartments and private houses are obliged to take their places on long waiting lists in real estate. -op flees. Among the deals recently negotiated by Mr.

Hnlllhnn Is the sale of the eight-family business apartment building 721i Third opposite the Bay Kidge Theater, which was purchased by an investor. HOI SF, SOl.I) AXD RKNTKD. Krnest A. Howard, as broker, sold HI Berkeley between Sixth and Seventh a three-story and basement brownstone dwelling for 13. B.

Blttckwoll to a client; nlso the' rental of the properly J. Frnneots for a term of yours. The Committee on Finance and Budget has recommended to the Board Estimate and Apportionment as lib-eral a program aa It is practicable should be laid down concerning work to be done during the current year In the way of highways and sewers and other Jmprovements to be paid for by assessments upon the property bene fited. This is looked upon as a move in the direction of complying with the recommendation of the Federal Government for States and cities and villages and public and cor porations to undertake at this time the carrying out of needed improve ments and furnish occupation for re turning soldiers and others out of employment and help bridge over the gap between now and the time wnen business shall resume its normal con ditions. The committee suggests that the restrictions heretofore imposed upon the value pf preliminary authorizations to be outstanding at any one time be substantially modified, and that the sum of $10,000,0110 bo set aside for urgent local Improvements lor wnicn linal authorization will be granted dnrinsr the vear 1819.

said sum to be increased to meet established needs if sufficient assessments couecieu from the property benefited are turned back into the treasury. It is suggested that the sums be apportioned as follows: Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, $2, 800, 000; Manhattan, 11,200,000, and Richmond, At its meeting on Friday, February 14, the board granted a total of $704,700 authorizations for highway and sewer improvements for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, to be paid for by assessment. There were three preliminary authorizations for Brooklyn totaling $18,600. and 18 for Queens, aggregating $351,700. The largest authorization was one for 18 lateral sewer mains in Flushing to cost $161,400 and another for 7 mains in Long Island City to cost $62,700.

There was one final authorization for Brooklyn for $1,300 and ten for Queens aggregating $333,200. The largest for Queens was $135,400 for building a big temporary open drain in Genesee st, Woodhaven, from South Conduit ave. to Wortman $82,300 for mains in Atlantic ave. and Yarmouth Woodhaven, and $61,700 for nine mains in Kiehmoud Hill. Brooklyn Preliminary Antliorliations.

Following la a list of the Brooklyn undertakings for which preliminary authorization was given: Paving with asphalt Sackman from Newport st. to Lott cost $6,800. Regulating and grading Bay 38th from 86th st. to Benson cost $8,000. Sewer In Crown from Albany ave.

to Kingston cost $3,700. Queens Preliminary Authorizations. The following preliminary authorizations were made for sewers in Queens: In Becckman Flushing, from State st. to Mitchell cost '4n Diamond Richmond Hill, from Atlantic to Fulton in Pepot lane, from Joslin to In Norwood from Depot lane to Crocheron Flushing, cost 1 Narcissus st, from Robinson ave. to Bowne Flushing, cost in Wilson from 15th ive.l to 16th from Wilson ave.

L. I. City, cost (M)b0; in Rust Maspeth, from lathes to Flushing in Flushing from Rush st. to James in Hibbard from Flushing to Collins in Mount Olivet from Flushing ave. to Collins and in Broad from Grand st.

to Mount Olivet ave, all in Maspeth, cost In Ashland Richmond Hill, from Brevoort st. to North and In North Curtis from Ashland to Metropolitan cost in Herbert from Van ave. to a point about 105 feet east of High Maspeth, in Idaho from Queens ave. to Laburnum Flushing, cost in Remsen from Grand st. to Perry Maspeth, in Queens Boulevard, southerly side, from Van iDam st.

to Honeywell and northerly side, from Honeywell st. to Buckley in Buckley from Queens Boulevard to Skillman In Skill-man from Buckley st. to Lowery in Hulst from Skillman ave. to Foster In Van Tclt from Skillman ave. to Foster in Harold from Skillman ave.

to a point jibout 250 feet south of in Brngaw from Skillman ave. to Foster and In Lowery from Skillman to Foster L. I. cyycost $62,700. Big Program for Flushing.

Sowers in Ormond (27th-167th) from Crocheron ave. to a point about 50 feet northerly therefrom; in Norwood pi. (26th-166th from Cro-iheron ave. to State st. t36th in Milliard (25th-16Gth) from Crbcheron avo.

to State rt. (35tn in Lawson (24th-lP4th) from Crocheron ave. to Stato st (35th in Kendall (23d-163d) st, from fttate st (35th ave.) to a line 730 jeet northerly therefrom; In Joslin (22d-162d) st, from Jackson ave. Northern Boulevard) to Mitchell (83) In Inker-man (21st-161st) from Stato st. (35th ave.) to Mitchell (33d) in Hooglund from Jnckson ave.

Northern Boulevard) to Mitchell (33d) in Grennell atn from Jackson nve. (Northern Boulevard) to Mitchell (33d) In HVlies st, from State sY (35th ave.) to Mitchell (33d) Inttjt Eagle (17th-157th) from Jackson ave. (Northern Boulevard) ton Mitchell (33d) In Dunning (16lh-15fith) from Mitchell (33d) avfc.rto point about 370 feet southerly therefrom; In Clarence (15th-150th) from Mitchell (33d) ave. to a point about 300 feet southerly therefrom; In Jackson hvc. (Northern Boulevard), from Joslin (22(1-1 62(1) stj.to Forbes (18th-158th), In twktle st.

(Sntli from Norwood pi' fSOth-lilillh st.) to Dunsing (Itllh-166th pt.) In Mitchell (33d) from Inkernuin 21st-16lst) st. to Uhtrkmitn (14th-16th) and In Crocheron from Joslin (22d-12d) St. to Ormond 67th) ulli'ln Flushing. Kstlmnted cost, 'J The following other preliminary authorizations for grading, curbing nnd Rugging, also, whero necessary, guttering. In Queens were made: Fenhurst from Freedom nve.

to llocknwny Bench Division of the Long Island Railroad, Richmond Hill, cost, Ferguson from Mst st. to HoPeystcr Coronn, cost, (lunthor from 61st st. to l'eiirlroc Corona, cost, Have-rneyor st, from 51st st. to Pcartree and in Yarmouth st. from Atlantic ave.

to Syosset st, Woodhaven, cost, $82,300, contract time, 175 days; In Tompkins from Central ave. to uusaii Glendale, cost, $4,000, contract time, twenty davs: Syosset st. Woodhaven to a point 90 feet west or Bigelow ave. and In mgeiow ave. from Syosset st, to Jamaica cost, $5,900, contract time, twenty-five days; Grand st, from Willow ave.

to Columbia pi. and in Columbia pi. from Grand st. to Brown Mas peth, cost, $19,800, contract time, sixty days; in Kaiser (91st st. from Jamaica ave.

to Ashland St. (Park Lane South); in Willard ave. (96th st.) from Jamaica ave. to Ashland St. (Park Lane South); In Oakland st.

(86th Drive) from Kaiser (91st) st. to Manor in Brandon ave. (86th toad) from Woodhaven ave. to Wil lard ave. (96th In Elmwood st, (86th ave.) from Kaiser (8-st) st.

to Willard ave. (96th st): in Ferris st. (85th road) from Kaiser (91st) st. to Willard ave. (96th In Avondale st.

(85th ave.) from Kaiser (91st) st. to Willard ave. (96th st); in Ashland st. (Park Lane South) from wood haven ave. to Willard ave.

(96th and In Manor ave. from Ashland st. (Park Lane South) to a point about 175 feet northerly therefrom, Richmond Hill, contract time, 200 days; estimated cost, $61,700. In Ralph st, from Fresh Pond rd. to Trattlo st.

and in Traffic st. from Ralph to Grove, cost, con tract time, forty-five days. Temporary open drain In Genesee st. from South Conduit ave. to Wort- man Woodhaven, cost, $135,400 contract time.

125 days. The following final authorizations were made for grading or regulating ana grading in Queens: Gamma pi. from Suburban st. (Cooper ave.) to Myrtle Glendale, contract time, thirty days, cost, 85th rd. (Ferriss st.) from 83d st.

(Forest Parkway) to 91st st. (Columbia contract time, sixty days, cost Mount st. from Hunterspoint ave. to Thomson ave. Long Island City, contract time, forty days, cost $3,700.

Regulating and grading, and paving with bituminous macadam (preliminary pavement). 87th ave. Unum. First st), from 80th Bt. (Shaw ave.) to 86lh (Yarmouth) Woodhaven, contract time, forty days; cost, $7,800.

Regrading, curbing and recurbing and flagging and renagging Skillman ave. from Third st to Fifth Long Island City, cost, contract time, forty days. $4,100,000 for Repaying in All Bor oughs. The Committee on Finance and Budget recommended an appropria tion of $4,100,000 for repavlng during the year 1919 streets In the city as roitows Dy boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Richmond, $250,000. BOARD OF APPEALS Building Zone Matters to Be Heard Next Tuesday.

The Board of Standards and Ap peals will hold a public hearing in ac cordance with the provisions of the building zone regulations in Room 919. Municipal Building, Manhattan, when tne following mxters will be consid ered: Application, January 9. 1919. of William F. Kissing to permit partly in a business and partly in a residence district the maintenance and manufacture and storage of chemicals; premises, 1518 Metropolitan ave.

Queens. Application, January 9. 1919. of winiam A. uiesen to permit in a busi ness district the erection of public garage; premises, 14 West 181st southeast corner Davidson The Bronx.

Application, January 15. 1919, of Abraham Farber, architect, to permit partly in a business and partly in a residence district the conversion of a residence building Into a furniture store and showrooms; premises, 634 Fifth ave. and 248 14th st, southwest corner. Brooklyn. Application, January 9.

1919, of Shanipan Shampan, architects, to permit in a business district the erection of a public garage; premises, 258-262 Coney Island Brooklyn. THIRD AVE. BUILDING SOLD Tint t'lght-ianifiy business nnd apartment building. 7219 Third opposite the liny ItlilgR Theater, lias iM'i'ii sold to 10, llalllhiiii an broker for the owner to an investor. Tho building occupies plot 20V 1 00.

ACTIVE MARKET IN SUFFOLK COUNTY Bay Shore Tract Brings Acreage Sold for $26,000. Frederick O. Lemmerman of 280 Vandorbilt ave. purchased from L. A.

Reiners, executor, a tract of land at the southwest corner of the South Country rd. and Awixa Bay Shore, paying $20,000 for it, according to the deed recorded ln the County Clerk's office at Riverhead, L. I. Of late, too, there have been several other good sales in Suffolk County, Including many pieces of valuable farm land. The executors of the estate of Stephen Tyson Hamilton have sold to Joe Zuhoski 75 acres of farm land at Mattltuck for $26,000.

Frank H. iRuy of Manhattan has bought from Sara W. Coe, wife of Dr. H. C.

Coe, Lot 59 and part of Lot 53, Huntington Bay Estates, for $18,000, according to the war tax stamps. 100-acro farm at Doerfield, Southampton, has been sold by James Strong to Louis Zaluskl for about $20,000. Grant W. Spear of Manhattan has bought from S. Voorhies a lot on the east side of Ocean ave.

and two other tracts, Northport, for $30,500. John Harus of Cutchogue has bought from Lillie M. Newbold of Southold about 47 acres of farm land north of Cutchogue for $10,000. Mary Jones of New Rochelle has bought from Helolse McCue Sands of Washington, D. a tract of land on the south side of Main st, adjoining the Little East Neck Babylon, for $7,500.

Mary A. Crosby and another have sold to William M. Allison of Kay Shore a tract at the corner of Clinton ave. and Bay st, Bay Shore, for $12,500. Bruno Blasko has bought from Fanny G.

Long 31 acres of farm land at Baiting Hollow for about $8,000. J. Shupienus has bought from W. B. Codling 57 acres of farm land on Sound Hiverhead, for about $12,000.

Louisa G. Gulliver has bought from Cornelius N. Bliss Jr. a tract of land at tho ocean beach adjoining land of It. R.

Quav, Wlekapogue, near Southampton, for $11,000. The Huntington Motor Sales Co. has sold to Lavinia H. Conklin. Huntington, lots 15 and 16 of the Huntington Real Estate Association, for $14,000.

Charles S. Wells has sold to John B. DorosUi 80 acres of farm land on the Herrick Riverhead. for $21,500. Margaret J.

Vail of Peeonic has sold to Stanley Stepanoski a farm land tract on the north side of the North between Southampton and Peeonic, for $10,050. I. K. Smith of Calverton has sold to Con Rutkoskv 66 acres of farm land on the Middle Country Hiverhead town, for $9,000. Alice McLean of Manhattan has bought ffora James McLean two or three tracts of land at St.

James for $51,000. Helen O. Boutcher and others have sold to Joseph Halleckski 44 acres ot farm land on the south side of the Oregon Mattltuck. for $10,500. Robert P.

Burns has sold to Frank Krupski of Southold forty acres of farm land on the north side of the North Mattltuck, for $10,000. O. Victor Dahlgren has sold to John McKay sixty acres of farm land on the north side of Sound Riverhead, for $13,500. E. Lawrence Jones of Cincinnati has bought from Isabel LnMonte a lot on the north side of Lily Pond lane, East-hampton, for $17,000.

E. E. Mercells of 635 Second st, Brooklvn, has bought from O. T. Fanning and others two lots adjoining Port Jefferson Harbor for $26,000.

Joseph H. S. Thomas, executor, has sold to Theodore Rowehl of Syosset two tracts on the road from Huntington to Dix Hills, at Greenlawn, for $29,000. Another farm land tract at Green-lawn has been bought by E. K.

Hutchinson from Douglass Conklin, referee, for $1 5,500. Adolph K. Brlon of Manhnttan has bought from Daisy S. Gill a lot on the west side of Little Neck, Huntington, for $10,500. H.

Ray Paige hus bought from Florence W. Wheeler of Remsenburg a lot on Basket Neck lane adjoining land of Beatrice W. Speir, Remsenburg, for $23,000. Adelaide T. Corbet! and another of St.

James have bought from William 1) Thornton of Butte several tracts of land on Stony Brook Harbor, near St. James, for 1110.000. KAPPA T1IKTA DAXCK. Kappa Thcla sorority will give a Victory dance at the Pouch Mansion on tho evening of St. Patrick's Day, 17.

On thu rmnniitlee for tho evening are Miss Alice Humphreys, Miss Marie Murphy, Miss Catherine Dow, Miss I.rnore Scliluter, Miss Margaret Nolan, Miss Maijurio Fijux, Aliss Rosemary Mel Mil. Miss Katherino Shnrky, Miss Julia Madden, Miss Marguerite Gaffney. Miss Genevieve O'Brien, Miss Helen Doherty, Miss Carolyn Sullivan and Miss Dorothy Morun. Tho big growth in manufacturing Industries unci commerce on Mill Island since the completion of the dredging: of the main channel in. Jamaica Buy and the Mill Basin gives some idea ns to what would be likely to result all along the shores of tho bay were the improvement to be continued.

The property owners In the vicinity are now making a strenuous appeal to the city authorities to dig a short canal through an isthmus by the winding course of Mill Creek and thus avoid a long detour and a number of sharp curves, great hindrance to navigation by large Doats. The community has also under consideration the building of a spur track from the Long Island Railroad junction at Pardcgat Hasin to Mill Basin, ubout two miles, the railroad company having agreed to co-operate and operate the line. Tho road would go through unimproved property fur nearly its entire distance and the right of way could be had at small expense, the promoters say. It would bring the entire Jamaica Bay section in direct rail connection with the New York Connecting Kali-road and the Pennsylvania and New England Railroad systems and the Hush Terminal and all the other leading trunk lines of thetountry. This, it is said, would, with the waterfront development, tend to build up a great community of Industrial plants and warehouses on Jamaica Bay in connection with the projected canal terminal at that point.

Jamaica Bay has a 65-mile waterfront and it is said every foot of it is capable of the highest development and prosperity would follow the extension of the main channel and the huilding of deep water basins along the entire front. There are five or six big concerns doing a prosperous business on Mill Island and the new city pier in the basin Is the scene of a busy commerce. Soil of France Brought to Brooklyn. The Brenack Stevedoring Company has been the pioneer in using the pier, having discharged "a cargo from its boat, the O. S.

Snyder, at the city pier, Hull Basin, on January 17. This company is discharging ballast from the ships entering the l'ort of New York, which is soil from the heart of the French Republic, much of it said to be from the fields torn up by the contending armies conflicts in Picardy, Aisne, Marne, Ardenne. Meuse and Somme. This material is unloaded from the ships at Staten Island into the barges of the Stevedoring Company and is then brought to the city plor where It is used in helping fill In the thousands of acres belonging to the City of New York on Jamaica Bay. The company's ofTlcials say that if the Jamaica Bay Channel was increased from its present depth of 18 feet to 30 feet, and widened to 1,000 feet, tile ships could come right, up to the point where the dirt ballast is to be discharged nnd save the expense of the double handling.

They say that they could get one or more shins to come to the pier every week. The Sinking Fund Commission has i approved the building of a $3.1.000 i pier on the city tllleil-in land north of Barren Island, and the Board of Fstinmte has passed tho appropriation this week for the necessary funds for the work. Demand for Flatlmsh Ave. Fxtcnsinti. A general demand Is also being made for the extension of Klatlnish nve.

south to Barren Island. This would afford access to all the city owned territory and make easy the work of filling in over 1.000 acres with city ashes nnd rubbish anil doing away lurgely with tho necessity of using lunges or lighters for their transportation. Tim South Brooklyn Company now runs to Flatbush ave. nt Mill Basin. Tho extension of the avenue would also bring all pnrts of tho city within easy reach of big City Sensidu I'tirk and all other points of tho llocknwny peninsula.

One of tho leading concerns now operating on I ho Island Is tlio Atlantic, 1'aclfle ami (lulf Company, which has hud fourteen ways built on Its property and is now building thirty-three pontoons for three big dry docks eleven for each dock. Over 2.li00,ono feet of lumber Is being used for each dock. It Is nlso building seven big barges for the Navy Department, tt work of nine or ten months. The bulldliig was begun on these boats October 1. It completed last August,.