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4 THE SUN, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1914. Better Care for Women Prisoners in New Jail Which City Will Erect DESIRABLE BUSINESS LOCATIONS OLD CANAL HINDERS SUBWAY BUILDERS Covered Over Generations Ago, It Now Pours 20,000,000 Gallons a Day Into Broadway Cut Soma Hfty feet under Hroadway and Canal ntrcet subway builders are Imttl-Ins With a problem that Is likely tn May the completion of this section of the Droadway subway and the tube Which Is to be operated under Canal Btrtt. The old canal that ran through Cutl street from tho Collect Pond, Which covered tho blocks between White, feayard, Elm, Pearl and Canal streets has keen encountered and what to do with the atrcam Is an engineering problem. Tha engineers have been righting tho trubbllns stream for many months In an attempt to dry It up, but so far they bara not succeeded. Kvcry day nearly 10,090,000 gallons are pumped out of tho tream.

which has flown under the feet of millions of pedestrians and the thousands of trucks, cars and automobiles' that pass through Canal street or along Broadway. This many gallons Is about SO per cent, of the water consumed In a day on Manhattan Island. The water la clear and as cold as If iced. Where this water goes no one seems to know. It flows on serenely west and it la presumed It finds its way Into the Hudson and then into tho sea.

It is upposed tho water flows Into tho river at the foot of Canal street because boys Wltnmlng In tho river off this spot in rammer havo often been heard to remark the coldness of the water and only tha hardiest of tho swimmers would venture near tho place. Collect Pond Is the sourco of tho tream or that Is tho belief. Origi nally, according to the Monthly, the pond was drained by a stream Which ran through tho East Sldo to tho Bast Klver. The East Sldo of those daya was not tho slum district of New Totk, but probably tho best residential ejection in the fast growing city. That tha bed of the stream might bo used 'for home sites somebody with a pull suggested to the city fathers that the outlet designed by nature bo closed up and a new one built through Canal street west to tho Hudson Klvcr.

The territory near tho proposed outlet was never expected to amount to much and that is why It wan sent through this territory. It passed through the Lis-BWMrd meadows, which began at Dual) street on the south and reached north to llroomo street and from Broadway west to tho Hudson lllvcr. The meadows were of little value. To drain the Collect through the meadows, folks reasoned, w'as far more economical than through the East Side, which at that time was the most valuable property in the city. Wreck Brpok, which was the name given the outlet through the East Side and the OH which nature had designed, was filled In and over it dwellings erected.

Later these were replaced by tenements, and as the brook ran through what is now tho swamp district many business1 buildings and part of the Brooklyn Bridge now rest on this brook. In part bf the Collect was filled In. But enough space remained for the boys and girls of thoso days to ekate on In winter and for the angler tofUh in In summer time. It was a popular spot and many regretted the re-aUtmlnar of the nnnd. JsTlth the brook closed the skaters followed tho canal over to tho Hudson River, under the bridges that carried Broadway and other (streets over the stream.

Not only youths skated over tha canal, which Is now giving subway builders heaps of trouble, but old boys of tho days as well. Mayor Daniel FTIemann took enough time from his duties to glldo along on the Ice, and let ters show that even after his term as Mayor and aa late as 1820 ho was a familiar figure on the canal during the winter months. Along the canal west of Broadway Ws so deserted that thoso who still clhng to the field of honor as the only place to repair Injured feelings went thtre to practise shooting with pistols eajoinst wood targets. In tlmn a street was laid out along the canal which was aimed Canal street. People of wealth built houses along It and tho deserted waterway became one of tho fashionable streets of the city.

Trees were planted Jena: tho canal and 1n summer months people Bat in their shade and enjoyed the breeze that followed tho water-oourse. Tho city was expanding so rapidly that tho time came, when this waterway and tho Collect Pond had to go the wny many other streams to the couth had tone to -make way for progress. An other thing, tho canal and the pond had aw commercial value. Tho story is that Judge Swann His Own Judge Edward Swann of tho Court of General Sessions Is ono of tho recent additions to tho long list of prominent New Yorkers who have felt the call ot ttlB Westchester hill. Ho has completed plans for a fine Colonial residence on Sunset Farm, a sixty-acre tract he owns not far from the Pleas-antvillo etatlon.

It was originally tho old Leander Hall firm. It had been In thn Ilnll family 106 years without conveyance before Judge Bwann bought It. Tho tract Is at tho top ot a rldgo nnd has a commanding position. Near by Is the extension of thn Kenslco Lake, whose waters will rise 100 feet on the com a brick arch was built over the canal for Its full length and tho waterway used as a newer. When members of the Flvo Points gang, tho toughest this city ever had, wcro hard pressed by the pollco they dropped Into the Canal street sewer or tho old canal through a manhole In the centre of the street and rowed away to the river In a boat kept on hand for such purposes.

When tho canal was filled In the street was brought to tho grado of the adjacent streets. Except that old maps of tho city ffhow that a waterway passed through the centre of Canal street the fact had been forgotten. It was even thought to be extinct by this time, as no rising of water had been complained of by Canal street owners or builders who had to go down into the earth to lay foundations for tall business buildings. The subway builders had no idea of a subterranean river and not until they had burrowed down fifty feet below the turmoil of traffic at the corner of Ilroadwny and Canal street did they encounter tho flood. The Canal street subway will pass under the Broadway tubo at this point.

The floor of the former rauto Is to be fifty-five feet below the surface of Canal street at Broadway, which Is the lowest street level In the city map. Engineers luiv computed that 'the Canal street nubwuy at Broddway will bo fifty feet below til" water level of New York. Tho solu" of tho problem Is in a way as great as thoso that confronted Col. GocthaW and his experts down at Panama. To build one subway In tho bed of stream of 20,000,000 gallons capacity In twenty-four hours and another subway counter to It was Impossible.

So the only thing to be done was to pump the water out or divert the stream. Pumping Is now being done, and it seems as If th contractors, tho O'Ronrko Engineering Construction Company, will master the dlfilculty and havo tho subway ready on time. Tho fight against the stream Is being wnged by a group of powerful pumps which never stop, night or day. For three months they have been at it, and how long they will bo forced to pump out the endless stream is a question. TRADE IN JOHN FOX HOUSE.

SOtk Street Dwelling Sold Yester day to Itualnrai People. Trndo Is to enter tho residence of tho lato John Fox at 10 East Fiftieth street, Just across from St. Patrick's Cathedral and Just east of the Buckingham Hotel, on the Fifth avenue corner. Tho dwell ing was sold yesterday by Mooyer Marston for Mr. Fox's estate, to Eugenie Van Chorus and Albertlne lllmbach.

If Is a four story and basement high stoop, brown mono house, on a lot 21.5x100.5. Mr. Fox, who was president of the Democratic Club, died on January 16. Tho purchasers of his former homo will make some, alterations to the building to adapt It to their own business needs. BVVS WEST SIDE HOME.

Slawson Hobbs have sold for the estate ot Abraham Well to a client for occupancy 35 West Seventy-fourth street, a four story ana basement brownstone dwelling on lot 20x102.2. midway between Central Park West and Columbus avenue. BALES IX MANHATTAN. WEST 127TH STBEET The Bryant Pnrk Realty Company has sold for Gustave I C. Herman tho three story dwelling at 140 West 127th street, on lot 16xJ9.ll, WEST 183D STREET Harriet Blum has bought for Investment from E.

BUlarct 554 West 183d street, a threo story dwelling, on lot 18.9x104. McDowell McMahon were the brokers WEST 104TH STREET William Brower has sold 268 West 104th street, a three story dwelling, on lot 25x 100.11. BUYING IN imoOKI.Y.V. Frank A. Kenver Co.

have sold for tha United Tltlo Guaranty Com pany the plot, 240x150, at the northwest corner of Thirty-eighth street nnd Fourteenth avenue, to manufacturing corporation which will erect a factory; also for the Fidelity Mortgage Company nnd the Zlegler estate to the same buyer four adjoining lots, 80x150. Louis Hchras. ns executor, has sold for the estate of Maria 11 Kernhnrt the dwelling at 220A Vernon avenue, on a lot 18.0x80. pletion of the new Catsklll Aqueduct. The house, which Is to bo of hollow tllo and cement construction, very light gray, ulmost white, will command a view of a section bounded by the foothills of the Catskllls and Long Island Hound.

Tho residence Is to be Colonial In typo and has been designed under Judge Swnnn's direction to embody the best points of a number of Colonial residences throughout tho country. While ho had tho house in mind Judgo Bwann nindo extended motor tours through Now Kngland and the Koutli, taking pictures of Colonial homes which attracted him In Bomo particular way, Tho ilnal plans arc composite of these BSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSLa.rrR"'.' Women prisoners will be better housed and better cared for when the plans of Griffin Wynkoop for a fourteen storj ouiiuinc id coer uio miu ui mo um Tenderloin police station on West Thlr-! tlnlh street nre executed. The designs' wero comnleted last week and were sub-i rc ri mUsloner of Correction who after liav- miss oner of Correction, who. afar lins lng them passed by the Municipal Art commission, proceed wun me erec- tlon of the structure. For the building, tho Hoard of Estimate -appropriated $450,000 lust year.

Not only will the- new building be the tallest J.xll In the world, but It will be as well the finest b.isln, a water closet and a bed. This ueveiopeu. building of Its kind that skill -can de-, arrangement shows decided departuro "The work of securing an npproprln-vlse. land Improvement upon the usually ac- tlon nnd of planning the budding fell "Home of Detention and Court for cepted nrrangrment of prlon cell. The I upon Lawrence Vellr and a eouim.tt- Women" is the title given tho structure groups of twelvo prisoners provided for i headed by -Mrs.

J. Borden H.n ruiiiili. by those who nro planning to build lt. make possible tho complete segregation I Mrs. Hnrrlman la fiddly responsible It Is planned primarily to correct nti-lof the various types nnd degrees of for securing tho appropriation from the mcrous abuses attendant upon the con-1 flnement of both men nnd women Jills-' oners In the siimi-building, which now Is necessary, especially In the older police stntlons.

In Its fourteen stories the i structure will contain forty detention "the front of some light-colored stone to rooms for prisoners prior to nrralgn- be selected. Dr. Davis Is fhtetly re-ment, 110 detention rooms In the House sponsible for tho Interior arrangement, of Detention nnd 150 prison rooms In her views having been taken by the the City District Prison. Besides there architects In planning the structure, will be a magistrate's court, complaint Dr. Davis believes the building will nn-room, finger print room and probation swer every requirement and still not be and administrative rooms, nnd rooms overcostly.

She cays of It: for all those who have business 4n thej "The detention homo and court as Tll.tni.Vfl IX Tin: liuo.X. BOSTON HOAD-Klmer J. Klnley nnd iiiiiuciioh iiion "'thi Kdward Sheehnn tho lot 25.73.Gx Ir regular, on tho cast sldo of lloston road, 72 feet north of Kant 174th street. Thn buyer now havo f0 feet frontage adjoining tho corner, bought recently by the American Ileal Kstalo Company. AQUUDl-'CT AVKNUn.

Mrs. John lllchn has sold tho prlvato dwelling ultuated on thoourvo at tho northeast corner of Aqueduct (University) uv-enuo nnd lSlat street. It was held at $30,000. It Is brlclt detached residence, occupying plot of about two and a half lots. At the Architect pictures, embodying tho Judge's Ideas nnd conforming to the Colonial type.

The windows on the II rat Hour are like thoso in an old hnuss In West Kleveilth street, New York i tho porch was taken from nn old mansion In the South, and the sun parlor was suggested by Connecticut residence. Tho Interior retains distinctive Colonial features modified to meet thn requirements for present day comforts and conveniences. The combination slallo nnd garage Is modeled after an old stable ou the country estnto of old Charles Carroll of Car-rollton, Maryland. Unlit as Judge Bwann wants It, the residence at Sunset Farm will cost at least 130,000. building.

On the top floor will be a kitchen, laundry, stnff dining room nnd rooms for nurse and' doctor. The wl )mva vjn)g opon n(r for an t.n. for llS(. a chapel. I i dividual rooms.

Twelve of these rooms I nre nlnred on either ile of the arge recesed light court. It has been rom- Commissioner of Correc- th.u tach jf thpu tWl.lve rooms laVe In connuctlpn with them ii dining nnd living room, service pantry, bathroom and a storaire closet for linen und I'lothe. Each of the small rooms will be provided with w.ish 1 crime as well ns the establishment of a1 distinctly better type of honor system I tlian Is now possible In any of tho city, district prisons'. I The building will be entirely fireproof, rear of the plot thcro la a private Vn, Company has sold for a Mr. Colot tlioi r.4 story Hat on plot 37.0x120 at 1060 I 15o3ton road.

UIiIh property as held at $42,000. VYHK AVENUIJ. 1 tarry H. Davis has sold tho two two-family houses nt 1PS1 to 1985 Vyse avenue, to Ucorgo 11. 1 Jensen, who gave In part payment plot, 101'xlUO, at tho corner of l'oplnr and Norwood avenues, Deal, N.

J. Mr. Davis has also purchased tho nd-joining plot. 100.4SO, extending from l'oplnr uvenuo to 1'hllllps avenue, facing the large residence property of Newman Erb. GRAND UOCLEVAUD, Max J.

Kramer has purchased from the estate of John W. Doylo plot nt tho northeast rorner of (Srand lioulevnrd nnd Concourse nnd ISSth street. The plot fronts 136 feet on the Concourse, 73 feet on tho street, with a south lino of 111 feet. Negotiations nro well nd' vnnced 'for a resile to a builder. Will lam E.

Uriggs negotiated the sale. KM'ATi: SC.I.I.S I'llltllllAM HI.OCK. Thn block front on the enst sldo of Morris avenue fiom IKOth street to Kord-linin road bns liceii sold by thn John II. Ilasklns Estate, which Is tho namo under which tho llusldna family holds tltlo to Its property In tho Kordliam section. The block Is Ki7 feet along Morris avenue, 320 feet on Kordham road nnd 20 feet on lPuth ftreet.

Mlilway In tho block Is nn old house, threo stories high, which has been there, for tunny years. At the north end of the plot Is stable. The piopvrty was the country homo ot ono ot the old Eordham families before the city to tho south had become to erowdid that lint builders for want ot sltPti went to tho Kordhnm Tho property Is a block from tho moth street stop on tho piopnsed Jerome nvenua subway. A builder la said to havo taken the property arid. will erect Hats.

IH5A1, I'nit itfti i.ot.i. Tho MolfiUr fc Hache Henlty Company has bought from Jacob Itoseuthnl 251 lots nt Eilgemere, L. I on the boulevard nnd bay, ono block from Half-Way Houno station of the Long Island ltallroad. Tho company will s'rect thirty dwellliiRs, mostly of the California bungalow typo. roun.vA iioumi: hai.ii.

Jo-tpll F. Ss-flleell has sold to Kate. I i oiuns too inreu ouiiouiKs on loot loaioo I nt the corner of, itoosevelt ami Junction ncnues. Corona. Tho property was held at $2:.,000.

iKii: i.v Louis Bi'lileslnger has fold for former Judgj Augustus Eggers S07 South Seven-I teenth street, Newark, to Hudiiowltz, Tho new owner will Improve tho piopcrty with a three family dwelling, The same broker sold for Hornnrd Unison the threo ruurj irumu siw'iioik inoiijer iive- mie to llcnjamlii lluinstiln, Thn front building has been altered for store purposes. planned Is without doubt tho Inr.t word In the construt of tins type of Institution. It provides Uu. pf K.in- nnd fresh air. good ventilation and prnier provision rlasxllk'ntlon.

It might easily be more ornate, but that I not necessary; a pl-ilner fort of miuuing will uu ns jor one, nm opposed to the spending of mone to ln.vlde for law- breakirs who have gotten Into trouble. Tile committee 'WorKing -ovt uiese plans has centered Its attention upon lire protection nnd structural matter. una lias given lime attention 10 mere n-sthetics so long as rational plans were Hoard of Estimate and Apportionment, The committee organized by llarrl- man consisted of Mrs. llnrr.smin, Jmb' McAdoo, Mr. tiller, M.iud Miner, Miss Annu Morgan nnd myself.

1 gave i particular attention to the plans. I wanted tho plainest kind of building properly planned. 1 felt that there was 1 no necessity for magnificent building with marble, gilded and frescoed in-, tetlors, and that all that was needed was a well planned, absolutely llroprnof building with elevators enclosed within fireproof walls." To n.irr Plana have bixri jintureil for the re-btllldlug 1X id of tho Otcl.ir 'Urf Hotel In New lloch.lle. Tn- l.tl occupies a hill about tlftv f.et above or I'clham i oast, net omoIto Ucn Mui ve.T-1,0'.,ij,l D.tvruiwirt's Neck. The plant call for Itntn ovementi the cost or which liau been tstliualeil at mm: iiiki.nv Ocorgo I'.

Crosier has flleil plam for six frame dwellings, one of three Morles, on lot nnd live two stories, ach ou lot 2Ux.r2, on the Mmllnw-t corner of liiOth street and Klndlcy avenue, for Thornton llros. Company, nt total cost of and for four frame dwellings on tho loutheast corner of street nnd College avenue, one thrse storhs, on lot nnd three, two stories ou lot sach, for tho samn owners, at cost ot CdltOXA HOI AM) l.lll' William J. Hamilton has sohl to Czurda a two faiully houau on i.ncuit street near Myrtle nv line. Corona to Thomas O'ltcllly a one family honso nn Lake street near Myrtle nvtniie; to James Smith a to family hoiikc on Ceiural nv -ntlo near Prospect street, to Aitliur 15. Saunders two lots on Locust sires near Central avemu; to Anns Behrott lot on Central avenua near itoosevelt avenue: to Harry HiiKgeln two lots on Shell rond near Central a(nue, and to Thomas Qulnn a ono family houj-o on ISoosevelt uvenuo near Myrtle avenue.

no jiousKK roil isAvr John 11, Dunn Sons of Newark will shortly start tho erection of xty two. family risldcncs on Norwood stre Norwood place and Clinton street. East Or-nnge, Each house will cost about jn.OOO, and plans for thorn nro being designed by Dunn llrot. of Newark, C.U'T. SMITH SELLS S.

I. HOME. Cnpt. Cornelius C. 11 Smith, I'nltcd Slates Hull Inspector, has nild through Cornelius KollT.

to Mary M. c. Speed, recently of San Frnurisio, his homo on tho east side of llenteiit nvenue. he. tweon Itlchmonil Turac nnd Hemic ruin avenue.

West New Hrlghton, I'lnlnnclng plot U0x40i fi'et. This property was long known as the William Dement Homestead, from which Hcmont avenue, now ono of tho most attractive avenues on the north ehors', derived Its name. PiioiT.iiTV The Charles V. Noyes Company has leased the building nt 17 Front strict to tho (Ssturgo E. Conley Cnmpany for tlve years, the Mors' and basement at 13 Fill, ton street for William Cnbbln Excelsior Wlro Mamifncttiflng Coiupany to II, It.

Cnno and the grnninl lloor of 2s Kii-lliiir Slip to the Wltlken Trucklni; Cumpauy. J. C. Hand has leisel a lloor In West Thllty-foiiilh stiiet to Dr. Water-bury for dental parlors, for live years at an aggregate rs'htnl of fsn.uno i0 leuseil tho Ntore 'at 121 East Twcnty-thl-il street to Alexander, optician, fnr term of years.

Dutf Conger have leaned for a client of Douglas L. Elllmaii Co. a btoie to the Offices to Rent Prlr Row Ruildinff (isli i Abundant Light end Ait City effkn being rwjwei te aew Munkifxl Bui Id. ng rdse Urge epeee. SrMt te wit.

Niw Out MghMpeed rlevtton being installed 9m run lafanMtSai ou I Will bf Hi TO SUBLET A FIFTH AVENUE OFFICE Approximately 945 Sq. Ft. in the BRUNSWICK BUILDING Madison Square Corner. 4 windows on 1-ifth Avenue. 3 windows on Madison Square.

An unusual office. An unusual opportunity. Additional space can be had if required. Apply to New York City Car Adv. Company Room 611 Brunswick Building 225 Fifth Avenue 250 West 54th St.

STORE, Loft and Offices FOR RENT, Pf twrrn IlrmiiTy A Mh A v. Oriltc Autemehllr lull America. Ilr.ivy I'lnor I'emtruotlon. J' 3 Lnrrr Automobile Uftv S'prlnVr Kytrni. lllitli Um l.ouesl Insurance.

Moderate ItcnU. Ewing, Bacon Henry 101 Park A v. Tel. Murray Hill l'ull lo Ureters. roil HUNT In th Mlvrrimltha lliiltdlnr.

IS MuMpii New York City. About nf-tfn hundred Ifft of ajucf. whlrn ulll Ulvlileil to suit truant, l.xcrllrrit mirth Unlit mid hlifli forvlcf. AmdV Houni 1301. it Airem o( HulldlnK T() rrv dfhlrablc ndlolnlni; Odin's, KOtithMcst corner of Vct street tlulldlnt: total Ilotir stmcr atioiit aquaie feet: Iminrdlrttc po.

nflon; fur nnd further Icfurmailou airflc to Itoom 101J-li Wet roll l.lIASi: Central 3 mnry brick build-Inr. 3 Orcenwlt'h near Canul, now Mtuble. 33 Mall; wacun tlonr. feed loft, nar-lif. ronin, et, It, COMPANY, I.alKht Street Knickerbocker Cleaning and Dyeing Company In the building being altered at the corner of Madison avenue nnd Seventy-sixth stre-el, Daniel lllnlsall Co.

have leased offices nt Hroadway to Scott lofts nt 47 Harcl.iy street to thn Kelnehlld Chemical Company and Art Metal Construction Company: lofts at 27 Walker street to I. Ion Infants' Wear Company and Kr.isnnff fc Heck lofts at "0 Dunne street to Ilraunsteln IlersKovltz. and loft at 473 Hroadway to II. Goldstein Co. The Duross Company has leased tho HOUSE-BUILDING, DECORATING AND FURNISHING In these columns will be found the announcements of standard concerns, dealing in everything essential to the building, decorating and furnishings pf the modern suburban home.

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Present Subwiy (and two Subwsvs under construction) uptown i and to Brooklyn minute walk. Hudson Tun nels end N. J. Feme 4 to 6 minutes' walk. Afl? Switliuj OTAM omc wtu ai TEMPLE COURT S-t nCKKMAN ST NASSAV ST DESIRABLE OFFICES FOR RENT SINtil.Y OH IX SflTrS RULAND and WHITING CO.

us una riisv. 41 Park Row 147 Nassau St. Junction Park t'nir, Spruce nrd t)piiolte city Had Park. OIFICES'ro l.l'.T. Iildu ir.

norHt blja. .1 lde open on a atrccta. Modern liulldimr. ConllnuounSerrlre Apply II. A.

on prml l.OITS to let. Steam heat, electric CM and power, eieellent natural llcht, centff of zi inltiuten from llud'sn i inlnal. AM KM HUYMOI'H. Jr. Manufir Hirer tif Kana and Ventll.illnc Marltlnrrr, tt-M Mrect.

Newark, I.orT, 69 Ct Olt(-lIAltl) ST, nenr ilrand Imjiilre Janitor, 17 orchard St, or It Allen aub-baiicmcnt apace In private ofttee ue and recepttonroomjaoSS.We Unomv storo at 220 West Fourteenth street to J. Laurlcelle and l'alno liros. M. L. llei-s have leaseil the loft at 3S3 Fifth avenue to I' I m-bert Co.

for term of years Mjvr Handy bns leased the at ire 153 West Forty-fourth street German, also a loft In lion 1 to Klein, nnd a Inft U'averlcy place to Shlansky A Ezeretk 15. S. Wlllnrd ft iNi. havo Ic.im 'i storo at 54 Hroadway to the Iluf -Corr Manufacturing Compan leased a loft In the same tul i'eg Charles Goldstein t'o. BOYNTON CO New York i (1 TV.