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3 PROMINENT SOUTH SHORE DEVELOPERS. Operators in Coney Island.Arverne and Rockaway Beach Properties. Telephones: 3594, 3595 Main, 182 Arverne 157 Coney Island Offices: 192 Montague Brooklyn ston Av. Station, Arverne, L. I.

THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. JULY 13. 1907.

HmioBnnaHiHi II 1 IS I 1 I GEORGE P. HAIGHT. DR. ALLEN T. HAIGHT, The man who desires to own his own home in a section of Greater New York at Arverne bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and the beautiful Jamaica Bay within twelve miles of the New York City Hall and only thirty minues by a railroad that offers unparalleled train service, cannot do better than to look over the lots we are offering at Arverne, Long Island.

It incorporates all the features of a first-class summer resort and city life, including surf and still water bathing, boating and fishing. It is cool in summer and many degrees warmer than the center of the city during the winter season. Already there are macadamized streets, stone sidewalks, gas, electric lights, sewers, post office, town water, which is all filtered by an immense plant and is pronounced by chemists as pure hygienic water; telegraph and telephone service, splendid fire department, with steam fire service; police force, fine hotels and casino, a boardwalk promenade, a mile in length, on the Ocean, late theater trains, goods schools, fair commutation rates, frequent trains, fine houses and improvements and good society. A new schoolhouse, costing upwards of with the latest heating and ventilating appliances, is now complete. ARVERNE-BY-THE-SEA is considered by all those who have any knowledge on the subject to be the greatest success, in so far as the rapid building up of a new first-class place is concerned, that has been known in this country, and its situation, convenience and beauty have caused this effect.

This is an ideal place of residence for both winter and summer. The Long Island Railroad electric service is to go by tunnel as well as by the Brooklyn Bridge, which, it is expected, will deliver passengers in the heart of New York in 27 minutes from Arverne. And the Trolley Company is under contract to build a Trolley Railroad across Jamaica Bay to connect with all the Brooklyn railway lines at a maximum fare of 10 cents. Parties desiring to build can obtain all the money they require from the building and loan associations, which stand ready to make, loans upon Arverne property, and then by a small monthly payment for a few years a party can obtain a house and lot free and clear. Many persons now owning houses in Arverne have succeeded in paying for them by renting them furnished for three months during the summer, for which time they receive a sum largely iii excess of the amount required to carry the property for a whole year, and in addition have the occupation of the house for nine months free.

Investigation will show that furnished houses in Arverne bring a much larger rental than those situated in any other place near New York. The property in Arverne is subject to well-regulated restrictions, and no house can be built to cost less than Arverne has macadamized roads that connect with Far Rockaway, Wave Crest, Lawrence, Cedarh.urst and the whole south side of the Island, upon which hundreds of miles of macadamized roads are no' constructed. The finest fishing grounds on Jamaica Bay are situated within ten minutes row of this land. All the large New York and Brooklyn business houses run wagons to the doors of the cottages, and receive orders by telephone. The village has numerous stores of all kinds who send to your door for orders.

If parties desire to make the payment spoken of by installments, it can be so arranged. EDWARD L. SOMERVILLE, President. STORY OP THE MIGHTS, PUTTING A FORTUNE IN SOUND SHORE BLUFFS EOUA'S A Far Cry From a Canadian Farm to Long Island. That Is What Dean Alvord fs Now Doing at Belle Terrs.

Salt." An old story from Albany tells how Tweed once invited Alvord into an anteroom and showed him a fortune in greenbacks thrown carelessly out on a table. Tweed told Alvord to help himself, which, of course, meant the purchase of Alvord's vote. Alvord turned his back on the money, and instead of yielding to the corrupt boss' scheme arose and exposed the whole bribery plot from the Assembly floor. Began F.eal Estate Career in Rochester. Of such mettle as this is Dean Alvord made.

He Is very Independent, and th Long Island public has come to the con. elusion that he has a right to be, inasmuch as the steps he takes usually prove to have been baaed on sound reason. He was born In Syracuse, and educated at the university there. On leaving college he devoted two years to teaching and two more to the book business, and then for five yearn he was employed In the financial work of the Young Men's Christian Association in Rochester. It was in CREATED MANHATTANTERRACE HAS NO FEAR AS TO OUTCOME.

States and Canada. He was a success as a salesman because he was a good talker and a gentleman. His profits were fairly largo and when he had saved enough money over his expenses to start without a handicap he went to the Detroit Medical College and became a student. But money went fast and the handicap soon appeared again. But when It did it brought no frown to young Haight's face.

Instead of frowning he smilingly went and got some more samples of surgical instruments and went on the road again. In two or three days he had cleared enough cash to keep him In school as many months, for by this time he had gained enough knowledge of medicine and surgery to teach the surgeon to whom he sold goods how to use the Instruments. Began Practice in Chicago. In a few years Haight had graduated from Detroit and put the finishing touches on his education by post-graduate courses in New York and Cleveland, By the time he became an M.D. his people had moved to the little village of Elyria, but Dr.

Haight had gained too much of a business experience in earning money to buy professional training to settle down in a small place like that. The ambition that Becured for him his education impelled him to push himself to the front as a practitioner. He went to Chicago, coupled his business instinct with his medical knowledge, and before long had opened the eyeB of medical men by holding for years as many as thirty-six clinics in a single month. He became eye and ear surgeon of the Cook County Hospital and professor of diseases of the eye and ear at the Chi Developer of Prospect Park South Confident of Reaping a Fortune From Latest Venture. Made a Fortune in That Enterprise and Bid Fair to Do More at Massapequa.

Rochester that Mr. Alvord discovered what hn was really cut out for. He developed some property there In a highly restricted section, and made money from It. For fifteen years he has been a conspicuous figure In the Long Island realty market. He has done some of the biggest pieces of development that have been undertaken.

In 1889 he purchased land In Flatbush and converted it Into a magnificent BUburb. In the course of six years Prospect Park South was completed. Mr. Alvord Is now bending every effort to make the Belle Terra development the success he planned for It In the beginning. He has a house on the waterfront there himself, and he gives his personal supervision to the work of transforming the already pretty section of tho north Bhore into a still prettier reservation for exclusive summer homes.

On his mother's side Mr. Alvord Is a direct descendant of Jonathan Edwards, and consequently a distant relative of Aaron Burr. It Is interesting to note In this particular that his wife, whom Mr. FLORENCE PARK A man of keen powers of observation is Dean Alvord, developer of Prospect Park South, and at present engaged In the development of Belle Terre, at Port Jefferson, on the north shore of Long Island. Mr.

Alvord's discerning powers Beem to open before his speculative eyes the future needs ot the people, and he hs grit enough in his makeup to lead him to anticipate those wonts. Wljen Mr. Alvord developed Prospect Park South he knew that such a restricted residential (section must be appreciated by the public, for the ever-growing population of the city was demanding such an Improvement, and the large profits that he reaped at harvest time proved that he figured right. It Is so with Belle Terre. A fortune Is being planted In tho rolling bluffs that overlook Long Island Sound, but the fortune mm) MO'DOWN NAMONTtl Something like a score and a half of yeara ago two boys were out on their father's farm up In Canada, one of them, about 12, following behind a plow or crossing the pastures barefooted to fetch the cows, and the other Just enough younger to escape the drudgery that Is often heaped on the farmer boy.

The farm belonged to Hiram Halght, and his two sons are now middle aged men. They didn't grow up farmers exactly, but, having Inherited the parental genius for growing things, thoy set out and began to grow fortunes when they were old enough. These men now are among the most prominent of the big developers of Long Island real estate. Dr. Allea T.

Halght and his junior brother, George F. Haight, are the developers of Massapequa. They aro practically the Queens Land and Title Company themselves. At Massapequa they have planted the seed from which a model city is to spring. cago Clinical School, at the same time working up a practice that was worth a MO-DOWN NfeA MONTH fortune every year.

He married daughter of R. A. Melswinkel, a wealthy Chlcagoan. She was a society avorue and Dr. Halght himself had grown to be a member of Chicago's elite In the few vears of his nrominpnee as a practttion er.

One of Chicago's society weeklies some time ago devoted considerable space In explaining how the lure of Long Island had cost Chicago tne loss ot ur. and Mrs. Halght. DEAN ALVORD. Dr.

Haight a Keen Business Man as Dr. Haight Left a Successful Practice ROCKVILLE CENTRE flodern Development and Unequalled Natural Advantages combine to nuke Florence Park New York's most up-to-date suburban residence Park. The Homeseeker's Paradise. The Investor's Opportunity. Full Size Lots $100 and Up; $10 Down, $5 a Month.

Superior Locations City Improvements; Beautiful Surroundings; High and Healthful; near Depot and New York and Brooklyn Trolleys. Near Long Beach. ROCKVILLE CENTRE ENJOYS EVERY KNOWN CITY CONVENIENCE. REGULAR SALES EVERY TUESDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. Well as Practitioner.

Dr. Haight differs from his fellow medical men, or at least from most of them, in having a business brain as well as a professional one. He is selling lots to-day Just the same as he was selling surgical instruments a few years ago, because he knows how to sell. In fact, he has sold almost everything to help out in his younger college days, and his friends say the only thing he ever failed in was when ho tried to become a book aeent and sell religious works. He has taken up his residence in New York, llviug now at the Hotel Lorraine, but has planned to remove to a suite in the New Plata when it is opened in WRITE or CALL for Booklet, Map and FREE RAILROAD TICKETS, also complete set of beautiful SOUVENIR F'OST CARDS, with views of ROCKVILLE CENTRE, its residence and business streets, churches of every denomination, public and high schools, etc.

Sent FREE upon request. FLORENCE PARK REALTY 215 Montague Brooklyn, tOTS M0 DOWN (5-A MONTH $10-DOWN MONTH October. Shares With Brother Credit for Mas-sapequa's Success. Dr. Haight doesn't take all the credit for the big Massapequa development him A FEW OOOD SALESMEN WANTED.

self; in fact, he declares his brother is the man who knows how to build cities and who is building this one. George F. Haight had a good deal of Queens County Trust Company Jamaica, Long Island City, Far Rockaway. to Sell Kealty. It was a queer step that Dr.

Haight toolc only a couplo or three years ago, when he gave up an extenslvo medical practice in Chicago to come to New York and dabble in Long Island realty. If you ask him how ho came to do it he will tell you that he was an eye and ear specialist in Chicago and his own senses of hearing and seeing were very acute. One day he heard about the promising future of Long Island. Then ho came to Long Island to investigate. The result is he is a New Yorker to-day and worth in the neighborhood of $2,000,000 more than he was when he came here.

The doctor's story of hearing about and seeing the future of Long Island Isn't a fairy tale, either. He was en route to Europe a few years ago to read a paper on tuberculosis of the eye before a body of English experts, and in passing through New York spent a few hours with his brother, then president of the Eastern Stone Company. Tho brother, who is now in partnership with the doctor in the Massapequa enterprise, interested him in Long Island real estate in the few hours he had to spend with him, and the result was that when Dr. Halght sailed for London he had vested his brother, George with power of attorney to buy a large tract of land In Brooklyn's suburbs, which they afterward developed as Manhattan Terrace. The Haights First Developed Manhattan Terrace.

Dr. Halght didn't give up the practice of medicine at once, but It didn't tako long for the Manhattan Terrace proposition to reach proportions that demanded bis constant attention. It was then that he locked his office doors against a practice that meant an income of $30,000 annually, and came to New York. Shortly thereafter ho and his brother had a chance to sell the Manhattan Terrace property outright, and they did, at a clear profit of $500,000. Dr.

Haight's Life Story Interesting. The story of Dr. Haight's rise in th world of science, finance, society he has risen In every world ho ever entered is Interesting. The keynote of it all is the possession of that essential quality, pluck. He has been In numerous lines of ocupation and never knew what it was to fail.

There is no such word as failure in his dictionary. He knew when he was going to the little schoolhouse in Cornell, and plowing and hoeing and chasing cows, that ho wasn't going to grow up a farmer. The rows were too long and straight, with not enough at the end of them to satisfy his ambition. When he got through with that little school, which stood on one corner of his father's farm, been the development of a large tract In Jamali-a Just west ot Hoffman boulevard. Other largo nectlons developed by him are located at Richmond Hill, Jones' Park, Forest Park East, Srrlngfleld, Rockvllle Center anil the New Lots section ot Brooklyn.

In the last two years he has super-Intended the cutting up of from (2,100,000 to $3,000,000 worth of property for and others associated with him. He has also divided up several tracts at Hollls, Queens and other places. In the winter, when real estate propositions are generally dull, Mr. Archer turns his attention to auction sales of personal property, farm stock, horses, wagons and household goods. Usually he has from three to four of these sales on his hands every week.

Id social life Mr. Archer Is a leading RESOURCES OVER $2,700,000 00 ambition In his boyhood, too, and worked his way through school. He went in for a practical business training, entering the office of the Malone Stone Company, In Cleveland, and afterward taking to the road and selling stone and builders' materials. Ten years ago he figured out that New York offered much to the hustling builder, because more new families were locating here than in any other city in the country, and he came to New York and became president and general manager of the Eastern Stone which ho and two of his friends had formed. In this capacity Mr.

Halght executed many large construction contracts in and around Gotham, and It was he who conceived the idea and drew his brother into the development of Manhattan Terrace. It Is tho practical head of the younger of the brothers that designed the big Massapequa development, a proposition much larger than many persons who haven't been out on Long Island appreciate. They figured that tho proper way to do was to equip the coming city of Massapequa with a model foundation, so, before a solitary house was built, they laid out the whole 3.000 acres of land they had purchased, bisecting it with wide, well-graded and macadamized parkways and boulevards, and laying sewers and water and gas mains. This means the burial in Mas-sapequa's ground of a fortune, but conditions make it axiomatic that the ground in that particular section Is fertile, and before long Dr. Haight and his brother, George will reap a harvest of millions and be amply repaid for what many moneyed men would call a risky plunge, SOLD THOUSANDS OF LOTS.

is bound to come back several-fold when the Improvement is completed. Mr. Alvord has been so successful with I Alvord declares to be "half the firm," Is a descendant of Alexander Hamilton. Mr. Alvord is a member ot the Law- yers Club, and the Hardware Club of New York, and the Municipal Club of Brooklyn.

In politics he is an Independ Interest Paid on Deposits Subject to Check. Special Rates on Time Deposits. Accounts of Individuals, Business Firms, Corporations, Estates, Lite, Invited. Safe Deposit Boxes to Rent, $5 per Year and Upward. Trunks and Packages containing valuables taken on storage in our Fireproof Vaults at Jamaica.

his developments that his name has come to be a synonym for genuineness with the public. He has done wondeis for Brooklyn and Long Island, all the residents ent. say themselves, and the mere statement THEODORE F.ARCHER. that he is In a new deal to turn barren wastes or natural woodlands Into at tractive building sites seems to be a guarantee that something fine and perfectly genuine Is In store. A Jamaica Mtn Who Has Prospered as a Real Estate Developer and Auctioneer.

Comes of Good Old Yankee Stock. Dean Alvord belongs to an old Con OFFICERS: FRANK SQUKK, WM. M. GRIFFITH, Vice rrrsMmit. HI E.

RACKFS, Vice rresideut JOHN j. YVYCKOFF, Secretary. YM. F. WVCKOFF, Counsel.

A name long linked with the realty world of Long Island is that of Archer. Back as far as 1S72 the business was Over 13,000 on Long Island Disposed necticut family whose early ancestor, Alexander Alvord, landed in America In the year 1640. Diocletian Alvord, a descendant of Alexander Alvord, settled In Syracuse, building the first house in that now great city of nearly 150.000 persons. DIRECTORS: Of by Schwenke Co. in Past 15 Years.

FRANK SQriKI'. WM. F. WYc'KOFF WIIEF.t.F.R JAMES MACHKTH Intiiui.a WM This was about the year 1732. Syracuse HAS H.

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lt'iHKKT At STI.V .1, WM M. GRIFFITH JAMF.H C. VAN JOHN R. B.VKtS KDWAttn FROST CHAltl.ES F. LEWIS FRBliKKU'K WILLIS H.

YOLN'J frt were the real impetus oi us gruwiu. De Soto's silver bottomed lake is supposed to be at Syracuse. lie borrowed $100 and went to college. He knew ho would be able to pay the hundred back some day, lor there was nothing but optimism In his makeup. He graduated from the Whitby, College and took out a teacher's certificate, but ho found, after teaching a short while, that he hadn't chosen the vocation for which he was fitted.

There was not enough opportunity to work off his nervous energy; in his own words, "teaching was too slow." What's the matter with medicine! That's what the young teacher, only 19 then, asked himself. He hadn't the money to go through college, but he could earn it. He went to a large of surgical instruments and got a set of samples and a promise of commissions on his sales. He took to the road and visited doctors all over the United Port WM II. PFMM1NOS H.mp.-tcaJ JAMFS S.

first established by Theodore F. Archer's father, and under his guidance It became most successful. In ISI'O the firm name was changed to T. F. Archer Sons.

This was just three yearB prior to the death of tho senior member. When the family had recovered from its bereavement the development of the business Interest fell to T. F. Arcb Jr. Since that time its progress has bcn accelerated and Its scope has been greatly Increased.

Not only has he prospered as an auctioneer, but as a developer of real estate he has gained fame. Among his accomplishments In the latter line bai A grant of thirteen acres of land was O. L. Schwenke Co. have been dealing in Long Island real estate for over fifteen years, and in that time have sold more than 6,000 acres at Medford and over 2,000 acres at North Patchogue.

The company was the first concern to sell improved property on Long Island. During the past two years the firm has sold more than 3,000 lots at Hempstead and 2.000 at Bellmore. O. L. Schwenke is rated a3 the largest Individual property owner on Long Island to-day.

given Diocletian Alvord. ine properly wn. In the town of Salina. It was on and A. Brooklyn: Jamaica fnuncil, the host built residences of Jamaica, at T.

F. A A. figure, and Is well known not only in Jamaiia. but all through Long Island and Manhattan. He is a member of the Jamaica Club and of the Jefferson Club, president of the Atlantic Hook and Ladder Company, one of the oldest In New York Stale; he was at ine time chief ot 'h Jamaica Fire Department; is a member of Anglo-Saxon Ledge No.

137, F. Royal Arcanum: the Improved Orier oi I 1 4' I nion avenue. Me married, in lssw. Miss Jennie Wilkinson, laughter of Cap account of these associations that Thomas G. Alvord, who was Speaker of the Assembly of the State of New York for sixteen years, defending the salt industry all the time, became known as "Old Red Men, the Jamaica Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

th Modern Woodmen, the Elks and the Heptasophs. Mr. Archer's native place is Newton, L. 1. 1 but be resides at present in one ot tain and Mrs.

A. J. Wilkinson. Captata Wilkinson is connerted with the Vnltel States Custooi3 service. Mr.

and Mr. Arcber have six.