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old Houses Can Be Made Modern and Cozy Homes Derelict Barn in Nebraska Made Into Comfortable Dwelling at Cost of Few Hundred Dollars; Aban doned Buildings Solution of Housing Problem In of tho shortage of bones structura that carries a roof Is of -alue and should utilised until such ime as the building situation, both vith regard to material and labor osts, will permit of extensive con? traction. Many old buildings, long abandoned is having no value, have been re -laimed and made into structures vrill give for many years come A most interesting revamped itrncture is to be found on the out ikirts of Lincoln, Neb. Some years Professor Erwin H. Barber, state of Nebraska, traveling about, ras impressed by the number of buildi? ngs which he found abandoned, buildi? ngs which he decided could be made labitable at small expense. To illus rate his idea he took an old barn, a tilapidated building, near Lincoln, and a cost of $200 made the derelict luilding into a good appearing, conf? ortable and cozy home.

What pro essor Barber haB done can be done by for he says that he had no knowledge of mechanics. It rould cost a good deal more money to nake over the house to-day since build ng and labor costs have increased aanifold since 1911 when the little old louse was reclaimed. But a made old house is cheaper and, perhaps, auch more substantial than a brand lew house. Worth $3,000 Finished When Professor Barber had com? pleted his house a builder estimated it ras worth at least $3,000. The incident, i hows the possibilities, for gain and or home purposes, possessed by old i on sea.

What Professor Barber had to say at he time of the completion of his house nay be interesting to folks who have imilar plan in mind. The tale of his xperience might also serve to encour folks to look about and see If there some old structures lying idle that night be developed into agreeable and omfortable homes. Here is the story of the rebuilding of he little Nebraska barn: "The curved and rickety weather? boards were nailed securely to the itndding, regardless of breaks, cracks, holes, missing pieces, misfit lum or rotten spots. Metal lath, which convenient strips about eight? hs inches wide by nine feet long, was nailed securely over the house. It was put on by nailing through it into the rtudding, and then bending the nails jver and pounding them down.

As soon the house was properly lathed a coat if cement plaster was troweled on with i firm hand so as to insure good keys ir.d at the same time to fill completely and joints in the weatherboard rig. It matters not how rough this is, in fact it is well to make it by scratching. "This is known as the scratch coat. scratches we used was made by a few wire nails through a block. With this simple tool the "ment was quickly and effectively it had set, thus pre it for the succeeding coat.

The 'ormuia for miring the scratch coat is me measure of cement and three of one to four or five would do. An Amateur Job "In mixing I used a clean platform boards, the barn floor or a large iox. Put the sand and cement together and tnrn repeatedly with a shovel, mix thoroughly; make a hollow in piie, pour in water and continue to and mix with a shovel until an en mortar is made that will spread icely under the trowel. It is a very any and simple process, requiring no -revious experience, and the amateur nay feel entire confidence in the re ults if a reasonably good cement is -sed. Trowel on the second coat as oon as convenient, making it a little icher in cement than the scratch coat.

gay, one measure of cement to two sand. By all means avoid trying to nake this last named coat 'nice and Let it be rough and irregu ar, for the worse it is the better. The oat of cement plaster when done is ibout three-fourths of an inch thick rid as hard and enduring as stone. "This work was done late in the fall, the injurions effects of the summer and rapid drying were escaped the necessity of shading. Take that this building, which stood on park property and would not have sold tor $100, was converted into a good looking house for the sum of $173.

The finished dwelling has a good cement cellar, a large porch with floor and roof of cement, three large rooms downstairs and two upstalrt. Tho detailed items of expense are as fol? lows: All material for the cellar, Including walla, cast extra thick floor? and etepa. f41 All material for the body of the house, including naile, wire lath, cement and sand. 82 All material for the porch, which ex? tends part way around three elde? of the house, including a floor 45 "This total of 1173, it must be understood, does not include labor. All, the work was that of 'self just as would be the case on a farm.

Salvaged Old Materials "Two or three old buildings which desecrated the place were torn down and the old lumber used to build the framework of a decent looking laundry and shed for storing kindling, coal and similar supplies. The size of this building is twelve by twenty feet, with eight-foot studding, and the cost of the shed, made by 'self is as follows. Wiro $9.50 Oment for stuccoing. for 4.50 1.60 Xails 1.00 Total "Material left over was used for making the cement walks about the place. The total cost for walks, shed There is a house on the Albany Post Road not far north in Westchester and in one of the prettiest of the towns in the county facing the Hudson which has attracted much attention.

It is a house with a long, graceful roof. It was formerly a frame church. For a long time it had been in the market for sale. Some one with an ingenious mind bought it. The sides have been covered with stucco and other changes made in the exterior.

The architecture of the building was not interfered with. The result of the changes has been a very attractive exterior and from what has been learned in the section the interior is ideal in every respect. Y. M. C.

A. Joins Campaign For "Own Your Own "Own Your Own Home Day" of the National Thrift Week campaign of tho i Y. M. C. A.

next January has met with the approval of the construction in- dustries of this country. The follow? ing is an extract from the news let i ter of the National Federation of Con? struction Industries: "Thursday, January 20, 1920, has been tentatively set aside as the day on which a countrywide attempt will ge made to perpetuate the 'Own Your Own Home' campaign as one of our 1 national institutions. It is gratifying that the importance of the 'Own Your i Own Home" campaign, in the origin of which the Federation of I Construction Industries played so prom inent a part, should be recognized by 'Chambers of Commerce, building and loan associations, local real estate boards, philanthropic and other organi zations, many of which have no other interest than that of the public good." $250,000 Worth of Dwellings Sold in New Rochelle T. J. Sullivan has sold $250.000 'worth of dwelling property in the New Rochelle section in the last few weeks.

Among the properties sold were the i W. D. Hunter house on Cortlandt Ave nue, Rochelle to Charles Scheffield, Cleveland, Ohio. The dwell 1 ing is of stone and contains fourteen rooms and four baths. It is on an acre plot.

The purchase price was $60,000. Property of J. Cothran on Hamilton Avenue, Rochelle Heights, an I other valuable parcel sold by Mr. Sullivan. He sold it to R.

Eckstein. It is a stucco dwelling, twelve three baths, on a half-acre plot. I The puurchase price was $30,000. Com un ity Houses Opportu ityfor Ren ter To Control Rentals and Occupancy Community-planned apartment houses are fast gaining prestige in New York City as well as elsewhere in the United States. The opening of the Concourse Apartments on January 1, under the co? operative scheme, will, it is stated by ts builders, contribute in a substantial aianner toward the solution of the nuch discussed housing problem In this ity.

These apartments, which embrace the atest in apartment house design and appointments, cover the block on the side of 133d Street, between irand Concourse and Ave iue, in The Bronx. The building fronts on three streets; it is of stone and irick construction and when com ieted will contain sixty apartments three, four and five rooms each. enante Will Operate House Indirectly The Concourse Apartments are being rected for the Sterling Realty Com by the Bethlehem Engineering orporatlon, Floyd Brown president. its completion the building will transferred to the Conconrse Apart ments, and through this corpora? tion will be controlled and operated by the tenants. The apartment house cooperative scheme is not new to this city.

It has already been tried out with marked success in apartments in Gramercy Park, in Madison Avenue and in West End Avenuo. $4,800 the Top Price With respect to the Concourse Apart? ments, the price will range from $3,000 to $4,300 for individual apartments, such price being fixed with reference to size and location. The expense of operating the building, including heat, janitor and agent hire, will be borne by the tenants in proportion to the number of rooms each occupies. Each co-operator will receive a per? petual lease running twenty-one years, with the privilege of renewal, and In addition will receive stock in the Con? course Apartments, which will in? sure his part ownership of and voice in the control of the property. Ten? ants have the alternative of occupy? ing the apartments under the conditions or may sell the stock and assign the lease to others.

"Under cooperative ownership an op? portunity is given the tenant to pro tfct himself against future rent in? creases, notices to vacate, and against arbitrary and profiteering landlords," said Mr. Brown yesterday. "The steady increase in wages, to? gether with the continuous rise in the cost of material, Indicates a still fur? ther increase in rents. Cooperative apartment houses will doubtless prove a strong barrier against this vicious cycle of rent advances now rampant in our city. "This is our first venture in com? munity house building.

As conditions with respect to labor and materials grow better we expect to put up other apartments on the same large scale in the same neighborhood, which is one of the finest and most accessible in the city. "Cooperative ownership in these apartments is expressed to the fullest extent, being similar to club owner Promiscuous Construction To Be Curbed in Newark As a Safeguard to Health and Wealth of City A curb is to be placed on the height and uso of future Newark buildings. Tho committee which was appointed to study zoning and building heights for Newark has made a tentative report which will be up soon by the city fathers, as Newark Is fully of the value of such restriction. New York has been an object lesson for other cities. It was not the first to put into effect segregation of construction and occupation of premises, but it was the first great city to givo the plan the test which proved to all the inestima? ble value of tho scheme.

Segregation in New York it about two years old. Damned at the outset, it has come to be regarded as one of the most constructive measures given by any municipal administration in this city for many years. Soon after the operation of the plan here Newark decided that haphazard construction would be the ruination of the esthetic and economical develop? ment of the city of it were not stopped. Investment could not be expected or invited in a city wtiere the economic life of a building was in constant jeopardy because builders could build what they wished and anywhere they wished and the manufacturer could locate his plant anywhere he cared to Similar to New York's Plan The suggestions of the Newark com? mittee are based on the zoning plan in operation in New York, with that will suit conditions of topographj and economy peculiar to Newark. Fom height limits are suggested by thi committee, the highest being 150 feet It also recommends that entire dis tricts be restricted to certain heigh limits irrespective of the width some of its streets, the only exceptioi to this provision being the downtowi business districts.

Wide streets are traffic arteries an? feed the narrow streets leading int? sections, and for that reason not be permitted to be lined witl buildings that top others, except In th? downtown business district of the citj While a man can establish his horn in any section of New York he please under the New York building height and restrictions, tho Newnrk commit tee would not permit it. If business i restricted, so aro residences. Tene ments in a factory district a hin drance and interfere with develop ment. The committee holds that sine it is not good for the health of dwol! ers to have factories in proximity their homes, it is equally deroga tory to health for folks to locate In factory districts. Since it la the motive of the soning and building restrictions to preserve the health as well as the wealth of the city, preferential rights give rise to reciprocal responsibili? ties, no class of building being free to be constructed In any and every sec? tion of the city.

Four Use District? Four classes of use district? are pro oaed for Newark, namely, resident, industrial and heavy indus? trial Building? in residential districts may be used as dwellings and tenements, lodging and boarding houses, hotels, churches, schools, libraries and public museums, hospitals and private clubs, philanthropic and elee? mosynary institutions, railroad pas? senger stations and nurseries and green? houses. Garages for more than five motor vehicles are not permitted as an accessory use. In business districts garages, except after a public hearing by the board of appeals', blacksmith shops, horseshoe? ing establishments, milk bottling and distributing stations, carpet and bag cleaning establishments, coal yards, lumber yards, car barns, junk yards and those trades and industries that are prohibited in an industrial district are excluded. The business districts in a general way embrace the principal thorough? fares traversing the different residence sections of the city and those tenement house districts which have been so badly invaded by business as to make it impracticable to maintain them exclusively for residence pur? poses. Due to the large number of factories already there, the downtown business section could not be treated as I a business district.

The only exception to this rule is found in the case of Broad and Market streets, which it was deemed feasible to include as a business district. In an industrial district buildings may, as in a business district, be erect? ed for any use that is not categorically excluded. The trades and industries banned are all of a noxious or of? fensive character by reason of the emission of noise, odor, dust or gas, embracing, among others, boiler works, acid plants, garbage incinerators, I foundries slaughter houses, stone crusncrs and tanneries. I The industrial districts include large I artas outside of the meadows and are found chiefly along the railroads, the Passate River, the canal, the downtown business sections with the exception of i Broad and Market streets and small scattered areas in various parts of the city already developed with industry. In a heavy industrial district the only use for which buildings may not be erected Is for residential purposes.

This exclusion, however, does not ap? ply to the erection and maintenance of dwelling quarters in connection with an industrial establishment for the family of one watchman employed upon tho premises. The heavy Industrial districts in? clude tho greater portion of the meadows and such parts of the Iron bound district as are already devoted to tho more offensive trades. 150 Feet Height Limit In working out the height regula? tions it was deemed better to establish a flat height limit, according to the zoning report, than to vary the height in each particular case according to the street width. The only exception to this rule Is in the case of the narrow streets in the downtown business section where the application of the height limit gener? ally applicable to buildings in the dis? trict will permit the erection of too high buildings. These streets, which in many instances, have a width of only 30 to 40 feet, are, moreover, so interspersed between wider streets that it is impracticable to segregate them in a separate district with a lower height limit than that applied to the wide streets.

In this part of the city. therefore, a multiple of the street width is used to supplement the flat height limit suggested for the district as a whole. The flat height limit for this district as a whole is 150 feet. But buildings of this height are limited to streets having a width of at least 75 feet. On streets having a width of less than 75 feet the height may not exceed twics the width of the street.

In applying this rule, however, no street is deemet to have a width of less than 50 feet, sc that even under the most unfavorable circumstances a building is permittee a height of at least 100 feet. Five classes of height districts i proposed for 125' I foot, 80-foot, 50-foot and dis triets. Of the 150-foot height districts ther? is only one, the downtown busines section. This limitation will permi tho erection of twelve-story building; 1 It seemed undesirable to encourag the construction of higher building? than this for several reasons. First, Newark is peculiarly fortunate in topography, ft has abundant space for tho lateral extension of the retail sec? does not need to extend ver? tically.

Secondly, there are yet only three building? in the city that exceed a height of 150 feet. Of the 125-foot height districts there is also but one. This is a district in the meadows which appears suscep? tible of a large warehouse terminal de? velopment, but which doe? not require a greater height than ten stories. The eighty-foot height district? em? brace the great bulk of the industrial areas in the city, as well as those npartment house areas which are most available for the erection of and seven-story buildings. The fifty-foot height district? con? tain those areas which seem to bo destined for three and four-story apartments.

The thirty-flve-foot height districts are confined to those neighborhoods that should be protected so far as pos? sible for one and two-family houses. To absolutely prohibit the erection of towers in Newark, it was feltf would be a mistake. They lend variety to the skyline and embellish a city an few structures do. A single Wool worth tower instills more civic pride than a hundred giant skyscrapers occupying the entire lot. The proposed zoning ordinance therefore, permits towers of anj height subject to two (lj That they occupy no more than 25 pei cent of the lot area, and (2) that ar open space be provided above thi height limit fixed for buildings In district on each and every lot line tha' is not also a street line.

In othei words, towers are allowed on the strec line, but not on the property lino. Four classes of area districts ar? proposed for Newark. In each distric the size of the court? and yards re quired is made to vary with the heigh of the building. The A districts are designed espe cially for business and factory build ings requiring outside light and ven tilation; districts are those in whlcl apartments and tenements are to built; districts are for dctachc? and I) districts wore consti tuted afford the maximum protec tion thought possible within constitu tiona! limitations to such private hous districts as Weequahic Park, Clinto Hill Forest Hill. Apartments ar not excluded in districts.

New Yorkers Find Homes In South Yonkers Wellesley Avenue Section Made Into an Attractive Neighbor by Small Home Builders Wellesley Avenue has been the scene of considerable building activity. At any rate, it has been the most active section of South Yonkers. The Land? scape Realty Company, Joseph Gilbert president, laid out the section, a tract of several hundred lots. Tho corner of Landscape Avenue and Wellesley Avenue, the last parcel on the market, was taken recently by the John Nelson Construction Company, which will erect a dwelling there. Mr.

Nelson has been one of the most, active and successful builders in the; development of this property. Herbert W. Heath, well known as a builder of small houses, also has bought a plot, 100 feet front, on Land? scape Avenue, on which he is building a seven-room dwelling, with a garage. S. Gray, a local resident, has bought a plot on Landscape Avenue for a bun? galow.

Lanzner Kahn, New York apart ment house builders, have erected two i dwellings at 21-25 Wellesley Avenue, which have been sold to August Schon hard and Simon Gutner. In each of these cases the sales of I the land to the builders and the build ings to permanent owners were effected through the office of Thomas S. Burke. Another Silk Mill for Paterson Joseph P. Day has sold to Joseph Rosen Son, of Paterson, N.

a plot I 100x260, on Spruce Street, at the foot of Market Street, Paterson, N. J. It is the intention of the purchaser to 1 erect a silk mill on the site. This is the fourth sale made in sub-division of the former American Locomotive Companv's plant at Paterson, by Joseph 1 P. Day.

Edgemere Club Property Bought by Max Natanson The Edgemere Club Hotel, at Edge-, mere, L. has been sold by the Lewis i H. May Company for the Lancaster Sea Beach Improvement Company, Fred J. Lancaster president, to Max i Natanson. The hotel is five stories in height and contains 300 rooms.

The sale in eludes the block front between Beach 'Thirty-fifth and Beach Thirty-sixth i Streets to the Atlantic Ocean: the ocean front between Beach Thirty- fourth and Beach Thirty-fifth on which the club tennis courts are located; the ocean front on which the bathing casino is located, the casino having 400 bathhouses and other rooms; also the plot to the north con? taining the hotel cottage and the new helps' dormitory in Beach Thirty-ninth Street, containing fifty rooms. Negotiations are pending for its re? sale through the same brokers. Brooklyn Apartments Bought by Investors Four-Story House in Bergen St. Changes Ownership; Dean Street Flat Sold The Bulkley Horton Company has sold 1042, 1046, 1050 and 1054 Bergen Street, four-story eight-family apart? ments, on plot 152x125, for Adaline M. Snedeker to client for investment.

Lloyd Winthrop Company have sold for W. T. Whitman 2S0 and 282 Dean Street, a five-story, modern apartment house, on plot 50x100 feet. The Realty Trust has sold for Artec 1 Realty Corporation the apartment store building at 1556 Gravesend Avenue to Frank Guerra, the present tenant. E.

T. Newman has sold the family dwelling at 240 Windsor Place for Carl J. Osterlind. The Meister Builders have sold 132 Tenth Street, a two and one-half story brick one-family house. $400,000 Addition Planned for Bush Building on Street Irving T.

Bush evidently is of the opinion that building costs are not coming down for a long time, for he had his architects, Heimle Corbett, file plans yesterday for another unit to the Bush Building, which extends from i Forty-second to Forty-first Street, east of Broadway. The new section will be nine stories high and will be erected at 137-139 West Forty-first Street on a I site purchased some time ago for the purpose. It will cost $400,000. New Desk for Demorest William J. Demorest, who has been associated with William Ziegler jr.

for a number of years as vice-president and general manager of the Park Ave? nue Operating Company, has joined forces with Cushman Wakefield, and has been elected a director of the corporation. Builders Buy in Scarsdale The Scarsdale Estates, Robert E. Farley, president, has sold to Ward, Carpenter of White Plains, two plots in Giimore Court in the Green acres section of Scardale. They will be built on in the near future. Joins Wheatley Hills Corp.

E. E. Patterson, for ten years assoei i ated with L'Ecluse Washburn, has now become associated with the firm of Wheatley Hills Real Estate Corpora? tion, where he will continue his activi? ties as Long Island broker, specializ? ing in properties on tho north shore, from Great Neck to Smithtown. New Men in White Office Paul L. Mottelay, formerly of the mortgage department of J.

Romaine Brown Company, and Albert E. Devoe, formerly with tne Lawyers' Mortgage I Company, have joined William A. White Sons' mortgage department. Yonkers Market Reflects Demand for Houses Broker Reports Many Transfers in Dwelling Ownership in Neighboring City H. W.

Sullivan, of Yonkers, has sold for Captain George Russell his resi? dence on Park Hill to II. B. Land: for; Ely Bernays his estate, Park Hill, to Alfred C. White; for Harry Maxwell I his modern brick apartment at 12-14-16 Highland Avenue to John Roberson; for Morrow her estate on land I'laco to E. H.

Owles, of New York; for E. Petrucci his two-family house in G'envnle Avenue to Mrs. McDav- itt; for Harold Lockwood his residence! on Lowerre Summit to F. A. Zittman: I for People's Savings Bank, house 358 South Broadway to Vincent Griece; for James Coogan to William Cully, house, 364 South Broadway; for Frank No wicki, residence on Park Hill to J.

H. Ross; for Mrs. Sunderland, two-family house, 368 Palmer Avenue, to J. Par tow; for Dr. McCormick, three-family apartment to Dr.

Longworth, 840 South Broadway; for Mrs. Mowel, 76 Living- I ston Avenue, residence to Dr. McCor? mick; for Mrs. Small, three-family and store apartment, 223 South Broadway, to R. Iseman; for E.

Becker, residence to Dr. Belcher, 110 Radford Street; for Howard Capp, two-family house, 68 I Post Street, to L. Loring; for J. F. Cur ran, business property on South Broad? way to Al Fauser; for Harry Wood house, residence, 5 Halcyon Place, to Robert McKenna; for Mrs.

Barker, resi dence on Pinecrest Terrace to 1). Dean; for Mrs. Meyers, residence on Park Hill to H. Grey, and for Mrs. Car? men, residence on Park Hill to J.

H. Rose. Harrison Place at South Orange Sold Edward P. Hamilton Co. have sold for M.

W. Harrison his residence and grounds on Tremont Avenue, Orange, N. to Grace B. Hall. Larchmont Corner Buyer E.

C. Griffin and P. H. Collins re? port the sale for Miss Elizabeth J. Flint to Christian Ellrodt jr.

of her large cottage, on three-quarters acre of land, on the corner of Larchmont and Elm avenues, Larchmont, N. Y. Addition for Hotel Monterey Slawson A Robbs have sold for the Chelsea Realty Company to the Mont erey Holding Company the plot 62x100 I on the south side of Ninety-fifth Street, 100 feet east of Broadway, for improve? ment with an addition to the hotel. Realty Firm Changes Name Henry Berkowitz, recently returned from overseas, and Henry Shapiro, who have been doing business under the name of Herbert Hecht Co. for the past year and a half, will discontinue the use of this name, and in conjunc? tion with W.

Sarp will continue in the real estate brokerage business un? der the name of Henry Shapiro Co. John Murray Properties To Go in Auction Room Dwellings and Tenements of Former Investor To Be Par titioned by His Heirs Included in tho next special sales day to be held by Joseph P. Day. on Tues dny, December 2, in the Vesey Street salesroom ure tho properties acquired during his lifetime by the late John Murray. The executors have author? ized Mr.

Day to sell these properties at public auction to liquidate the realty holdings of the estate. They are located as follows: At 154 East Thirty-eighth Street, a three-story brick dwelling; 328 East Fifty-fifth Street, five-story brick tenement; 105 East Eighty-eighth Street, five-story and basement brick tenement; south- i west corner Fourteenth Street and Ave- nue two five-story br'ck tenements, with stores; 225 and 227 East Thirty- fifth Street, six-story and basement brick tenement; 65 to CO East Eighty seventh Street, three five-story brick tenements; 111 to ll? East Eighty- ninth three five-story brown stone front tenements, Other parcels included in the sale are 265 Lexington Avenue, northeast corner 14-lth Street and College Avenue and six adjoining parcels, 39 and 41 I West Thirty-second Street, a sixteen story fireproof office building; 1229 and 1231, 1239, and 1298 Webster Ave- nue, The Bronx, and vacant plots in! The Bronx and Brooklyn. Ridgewood Attracts Dwellers From Other Sections S. S. Walstrom Gordon Forman have sold for William C.

Clark the stucco residence at 102 Walnut Street, Ridgewood to Mrs. Emma T. Paterson. N. for Dr.

John G. Sin? ger; the dwelling at 213 South Maple Avenue to Mrs. Minnie S. Entwisle, ot Gardon City, Long Island, and for Christina V. A.

Oakiey No. 32 Liberty Street, to Marry J. Parker, of Brooklyn. Noyes Company to Have Building of Its Own Buys 118 William Street for Exclusive Home; Will Mean $250,000 Investment; Businese Increased From $200,000 to $50,000,000 in 22 Year? The Charles V. Noyes Company le toi have a building of its own.

In less than a quarter of a century the business of this concern has grown from one of the smallest to one of the largest in the city. The last report of the com pany showed transactions totaling, $50,000,000. When Mr. Noyes started out for himself back in April, 1898, his! prospects were very limited. was no market such as the current one to encourage him.

He entered the field because real estate wax something that folks had to have, and he der ded that time would establish him in the district. In a measure Mr. Noyes was not wrong in his reasoning, because time has established him at an expert In the downtown field. First Office in Beekman Street His first office was a small one at 61 Beekman Street. Small as it was, it was too large for the immediate needs of his concern, as the did only worth of business tho tirst year.

A few years later the business moved to 62 Cedar Street, where it remained until the property was purchased by tho Mutual Life Insurance Company for the Harvey Fiske Building. The Noyes Company was the first tenant to move into the Wyllis Building, at M2 William Street, in April. 1903, when? the business has steadily grown until it now occupies an entire office floor. The company has specialized in man? aging, renting and selling downtown real estate, and has been actively iden? tified with many of the important transactions in the tire insurance and financial districts. Means $250,000 Investment Mr.

Noyes has bought for the ose of his company the six-story b.uilding at 118 William Street. His investment in this building will be $150,000. His company will occupy two or three of the floors of the building and lease the remainder of the space for insurance purposes. Other prominent real estate firms which own their own buildings include Joseph P. Day, Horace 8.

Ely Pease Ellimari, Douglas L. Eliiman Slawson Hobbs. Cal houn and L. J. Phillips ft Co.

Men Who Make the Noyes Company Associntod in the active management of the Charles F. Company are Fisher P. Weaver, Frederick B. Lewis, William B. Falconer.

Joseph D. Cronan, Francis W. Gridley, Edwin C. Benedict, Stanley K. Green.

Walter J. Cashel, Charles F. Heller, J. O'Connor. Thomas Christie, A.

B. Himmelmann and Thomas D. McBride. The agency department of the comffsny is under the control of F. S.

Willert. M. N. M. Kerr, M.

and II. S. Ford. Theater for New Rochelle To Seat 2,500 Persons Construction to Start at Once; Nursery Where Babies May Be Checked J. B.

Thill and Mrs. Edmund W. Bo dine have sold the property at Main Street and Centre Avenue, owned by the Wilmarth Estate, to a syndicate com? posed of William De Garno Smith, head of Lucky Platt H. G. Gur ney, banker, and Ely Elting, merchant, and other prominent men of Pough keepsie and New York.

This syndicate is to give New Ro? chelle a theater on this site to cost over half a million dollars, and one which will surpass Proctor's, in Mount Vernon, in size and appointments. The plans call for the immediate erection of the theater. It will have a seating capacity of seats on the orchestra floor and 700 seats in the entresol balcony. A nursery and play? room for the kiddies will be a special feature. Where Harlem Begins and Ends The name narlem has come to be ap? plied in a loose to all of the orthern portion of Manhattan.

But this is not a strict application of the appellation. Harlem is that portion of the city above lOGth Street, between the East and Harlem rivers and Eighth Avenue. In the beginning of things urban Harlem was separat? and dis? tinct settlement. For many year? it was just a quaint Dutch mad? up of little farmhouees etand irg in gardens. Ir the old day? it shad? trees, under which th? Dutch wont to and gossip.

The slrej i etnesa of village quaintly described iri Washington lrvinir's "Knickerbocker's History of New York." Fine Record Made By B. ken nelly In Auction Room Splendid of the Ziegler prep, erties, consisting of forty-one Jots and eight houses the Bi ghborhovd of Fourteenth Avnuf and Street, Brooklyn; 235 lots ia Flushing; enty-one four house? in Basylettt seventy-three at South Elitsbeth: Z87 iur houses at and 201 lots at Tottenville. comprising nearly 1.000 parcels of property in scattered locations, which were all sold et th? Real Estate Exchange Salesroom, Ve.se Str Y.ist rate good dt mand for this class of property and i the buying parly adver? tised and placed before the public, also the advisability of holding sales in the legal salesroom rather than going from place to place and selling on the properties. These properties disposed of on three different days, from 11 iM in the morning to 6 o'clock la the evening and sold at the rate of 100 lots an hour. Th? total pniount for the entire sale was f400, 600, and in some of the locations th? prices far the most sanguine expectations of the owners.

And after the suie Mr. Kennelly was heartily con? gratulated by Mr Ziegler and his real estate manager, Mr. on th? wonderful success of the sa'e. Again last week at the salesroom Mr. had scheduled for the James Ruf us Snu'h Estate a umber of interesting sales.

I he corner of Broome and Greene stre a six-story building on plot 4x100, wae sold through ig at pri te le for $12? on Prince, Cro-hy and Lafayette on which the old residence of ex-Presi dent James Monroe, for An apartment house at S4-W Grove Street, running through to Sheridan Square, was sold at private through 151,261 On the same da) rty five lot? Yorkers were so'd to til purchaser? at $36,660, and thirtj flve aerea at stone i Borough of Queens, brought $124,500, making the lay, or $1. 134,300 for the week. $35.000 Building For Newark Feist A Feist have sold for Arthur Hensler the corner Sten ton Street and Frelmphnysen Avenue. Newark, to the Leather Machinery Company. The plot has a frontage on Frelinghuyjcn Avenue of 50 feet and on Stanton street of 113 feet, on which will be i rected a one story building for office use.

Th? plans for tin? structure hey? been pre? pared by 0. Bartlett, nrchiteet and engineer. It will cost Greenwich Dwelling Buyers GREENWICH, Nov. Thomas N. (Yoke soli the resi? dence of Ralph E.

Brush at Belle Haven to Mr? Murjone New York, and the Amos H. Mead house. 'Ridge Street, to Mahel R. Kmpy. He has also leased for a term of years the dwelling on East Putnam Avenue Bos? ton Post Road, owned by Mrs.

Elin ubeth Milbsnk Anders to Humphrey A. Lee, of Net? York City. It was for? merly known as the Jabez Mead homestead. Asbestos Makers al Bound Brook ieph P. Hi? lea i the Jacobs Asbestos Mining ompaty a one-story building at Bound N.

60x150 a two-story office I building. This is the third concern that Mr. Day has located at Bound Brook. Merchants' National Bank Purchases Corner in Newark's Big Business Zone The southeast corner of Broad and Clinton streets, in Newark's financial big business district, has been bought by the Merchants' National Bank from the Fidelity Trust Company as a site for a banking building. Feist Feist negotiated the deal, having been the agents for the trust company for some time.

The site has a frontage Broad Street of 66 feet, with a depth on Clin ton Street of 132 feet, running back to a rear alley of 12 feet, si'parating this I plot from the Union Building. The property was formerly owned by the Union National Bank and was used by them for about fifteen years. The Union Bank sold three ago to tie Fidclty Trust Company as a site for a six-story bollding, but to an arrangement with the Prudential Ii de? cided to remain in The Merchants' National Bank will start next spring the erection of a modern office barking building. The bank has le since Joseph Biker was made presU dent of Corner of Brood and Clinton Streets wbtrt the Netieoal task will Mdiaf.