The evening world. Newspaper, June 1, 1912, Page 5

jee of the Home : As a Matter of Economy oo Developer of High-Class , Residential Tracte in ‘Many Metropolitan Suburbs Describes How the Standard of Citi- zenship Is Elevated by the Spread of Individ- , ual Dwelling Ownership ‘BY CHARLES L. VAN FOSSEN. He has been prominent for ten years with such operations as East River Heights, Broadway-Fiushing, Douglas Manor, West Morland, Crag- mere in the Ramapos, River View Manor on the Hudson.» Tin tie beginning, Got erented heaven | And earth, then He created man in His own image and after His own likeness sane him dontinfon over every liv- Man's dominion haa never been ques? Honeq. His power, however, rests only pe degree in which he asserts his pe pesiiaee. Pecullar as it may soem, hav- on blessed with such a heritage, tt) frequently manifests less in- telligence than lower orders of animal Ute, y Primarily we find in all life an inetinot lor Independence in the form of @ home| complete elty improvements ere ins and we have yet to hear, even from | stalled, our esteemed nature fakers, wherein] The particul vantages of owning any form of animal Ufe except man|jone's home are based largely upon rents or leases an abode for temporary |®conomy. The modest Investment which living quarters, will create @ modern home con@tion ving an ordinary family six or seven Man for ages has been satisfied to | © : rooms with a nice plot of ground oan viel! in a rented house and pay tribute |te°outained in the clonecin suburb for to a landiond throughout hig whole life. | agproximately $5,00, ‘The interest on Certainly if man asserts his right to dominate, one of bis first individual : efforts would be to provide a permanent | ing taxes, insurance and repal habitation for himself and family, That | not exceed $13, which mean: this {s the natural condition !s evidenced er ican weatnan ee fe ge ot . é lions $% a month, Wherever we find people living & sane, ree eee oot Se teen io te simple life. Only in our cities and | sq) chy additional amount mvested large communities do we find large per | beyond this sum is money saved nd centages of people living from day toleventually the home becomes free day and year to year in an unsettled | clear and the owner independent of temporary condition. landiord, Homes in the smaller villages through-| The apirit of independence by home out the United States are very largely | Ownership creates a higher form of ¢ owned by Individuals. Gradually in the Et both the bread-earner as | cittes the name spirit of home independ. | ie family. The permanence of ence {8 being manifested, especially among the younger generation. enough to make permanent friends, He £ Of course, the tremendous growth of} has a standing in his own community. Manhattan has made {t practically Im-| He 1s recognized as part of such @ com- \ possible for individual home ownership | munity and not as @ single unit among \ con the island, but the rapid strides in| Millions, He Syed 8D osaner: in cheng improved transportation to suburban | Pa! affairs and has a broader outlook on Ife generally. His children @ sections have opened new sections for | inaer environment which creates Detter nearly everybody in suburban commun-| health, better morals, better types ef iUes under environment sultable to both | manhood and womanhood, than pocketbook and taste. possible with the city street as ¢ nly { — Butlding records show within the last wlbeere ns’, ssbik Sein tb GOR What |} ten years the tremendous increase in 1 | thdfyidual home ownershtp in suburban | looked up to not only, by hls nelennor New York. It will increase very rapidly settled in his habits and is in the next few years, because large| worker than the one whose m tracts of land are being opened for dition ts unsettled by c occupancy and rapidly absorbed when It is no long: enables him to know his Cd Selaibors “and to Kaew (heen weil! in modest olrcums:ances to start home| enabling families to make homes in the] sente the estate, has refused to con- ownership. Large financial Inatitu more attractive outlying sections, People | sider such offers because he wants bid- are encouraging home building by will not live congested places when | ders at next Saturday's big auction of- Ing a large percen' tal © they can get better quarters with more | fering to have a chance at the beet those who want to healthful surroundings. The steady ex-| sites. to Independence. In my experience of | pansion of auch transit facilities prom. i the past ten y in bullding suburban |f*ex to Increase the outward movement] Otto Singer sold two more of his new communities I have seen many examples | every year. . Brooklyn dwellings this week, They of men who bought homes In this way, see are in the Kings Highway sect! and within a few y Country estates are In strong demand | half-hour from Park Row, The themselves in bett usiness positions | at rising prices. They are gettin avenue subway will cut the time b but also accumulated thelr homes free! within easy reach of the metrop and clear. twenty minutes, He says there ts a masses, ‘heir enhanced investment | heavy demand for houses which can be > Value fe shown hy the readiness with | bought on the pay-as-rent system. BETTER TRANSIT which they can be traded for gilt-edge Svieae city properties. John 8. Mapes, As STARTS BIG CITY Be Pi Ce ing 928 lots of the V ying of suburban home sttes in high- |day on the round HOME EXPANSION. | ices deveiopments ts approaching the [ler road, Waterbury volume of the 19-1907 boom seavons. jor, Bradford avey: Nearly all big cities ari Queens Land and Title Company reports ® the raptdl hat no time during the past four years | Decoration Day crowds made Sea urban expansion, While thelr ve lot sales boen as active at Mase-| Breese Heights on Staten Island lively Yearty Increase of population 4s 822 per |Pedua aA during the past two weeks. |It 1s Atty minutes from Manhattan on thelr suburben increase is 48 per | LATK® crowds have visited it each Sun-|Rarttan Buy. W. C. Reeves Company Gene, hee eaveress 3 per \day. Buyers are selecting places where | sold thirty-two 1 here, cent. New York te advanc- | cotive home bullding and strect provements are being pushed. The ctloneer, Is sell- h homestead to- ng Fort Schuy- Pilgrim, Mayflow- in the Bronx, . Another Wall street oroker bought a homes with Spanish roots are in much|new house at Mountain Lakes, NJ. favor. this weok, The tract has been extend- Population in the entire metropolitan eee ed over 1,000 acres at Boonton, Tt ts Gistrict ts growing by 360,000 a year. The| Many operators have been trying to! ffty-fh minutes from Broadway. Greater City ts increasing Sy 20,0. | buy large sections of the Van Cort-'Manager George KR. Pi DGS landt tract this week at privatn sale. | gotiations for homes ha’ the ‘main founda- | They believe that part of Hroadway !s| numerous since the Lackawanna tion of the outward tendency. Au! lively building movement} road began work on Its big new mobiles as well as traction lines are » 3, CI mno_repre_! nt the Lakes. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE-- WESTCHESTER. WESTCHESTER. Re My CLIFFORD B. HARMON ®& CO. 315 MADISON AVENUE i NEW YORK BE OUR GUEST ON SPECIAL TRAIN Mr. and Mrs. New Yorker: i You are cordially invited ‘to be our guests on our special train, Sunday, June 2nd, leaving Grend Central Station 2:20 and 125th Street ten minutes later, on a visit to Larchmont Gardens, a most attractive Bungalow development, and to Pelhamwood, a high-class residential Park—both properties highly improved and fully restricted. $10 down secures any lot, the balance easy payments. Our agents, wearing yellow badges, will be at the train gate 30 minutes before train time to give you FREE tickets, or write, phone or call at our offices for tigkets and full information. Absolutely no obligation on your part. ° Office open Sunday, 10 A. M. to 2 P.M. Phone Murray Hill 2326 ® To-Day's Investment Opportunity New Section of Lots at $245 Each; $10 Down, $5 Per Month ALL IMPROVEMENTS, NO ASSESSMENTS. ch St To-Day’s Suburban vam Denker: ot vale ia eee porlig Forty Beautiful Hollow e Fireproo las oe ane ae a ‘nad ine Bab Seaman from $5,500 to $20,000 Eac ine Every Improvement and Terms to Suit. rants us in sacri Live on Long Island and Live i Rs Sies0 PER MONTH NTH pa ll e = 2b PRINCIPAL and I MAS SAPEQUA en yy RICE, sa00 10 s3700 eu unnmasaspummUganancaaiiesinaunenaaaa| IM pa poeta ee , Sanaa SSE a SS 1) Pre 7 wh on A Natural Park, Highly Improved, Surrounded by Lake, Bay and Ocean || coats Mexia) si mT us choke et They are selling fast because the magnitude of the development _(50,000 lots) war- y ' ificing the profits to home buyers on these first forty houses, Take the 1.30 Train This Sunday anor sacuitc meey. 3 noe | siaae eee aE From Long Island Depot, 33d St. and 7th Ave., New York, or Atlantic Avenue Depot, Brook FREE TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED AT THESE STATIONS, QUEENS LAND AND TITLE CO., Times Bidg., 42d St., N. Y. C. Average of “ata at ‘ral bade” ne station, walk three dlocks une Park, BO to 86 minutes Commutation, 84°80 to end of line and change to Freeport trolley to DAVID MPA! h St and Broadway, N.Y, SEIN. Phone iv cos anh. oe jamaica, “Swept by Ocean Breesea” SEASIDE COTTAGE ‘ MOTOR BOAT STEAMBOATS. Resumption of Passenger Service Monday, June 10, 1912 _ ALL-THE-WAY-BY-WATER opiarss, NEW YORK and BOSTON Metropolitan Steamship Line The Groat Twin Serow Steet Stoamsh'ps MASSACHUSETTS and BUNKER HILL THE EASTERN @TEAMBHTP CORPORATION ie ys pleased to announce that Ite Metropolitan Steam: Metropolitan | %::; Ine direst All-the-Way-by Water rate, i tween New York and Boston wi nauaul 0 Steamship Line the Gummer Beasgn of 1914 on sfonde pULe (Beginning Mond: tye How Vert to 0 Has eee Week Daye and 8u be hee orth feon the Citie release. Telegraphy, Sub- Pi siaclilttes to jing rine ‘Bianal Servi 4,8 and Comfort of passengers. Durin inter nearly Halt & Muon Dollars has ‘been invested g, in provid for and men- eral-improvement of thee. veneels, | Thege ch def ft) Fueli the additio tizective sraterooms: the inet Heotric Fare in inelde rome; an outelde Diniag-Room on the Mein urricane Deck Cafe, ete, A Dellahttet Long Island Sound @ Atlantic Ocean Trip of 390 Miles. North River, foot of Veser Bti, rg Portland same. daze 0.30 4 ving New Pours. DAY Wondaves Sune 22°10 Gept, Ons inclusive. THE COAST AND INTERIOR OF MAINE AND THE MARITIME PROVINCES ‘| Vacation Lands in the World, Thousands of miles jakes, and the Great Pine Woods Fore gna Portiant 1030" t gnoUL the ot Literature and Hy the. All-the-Wag-by-Wi toe of the EASTERN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION Maine ‘Steamship Line new youn and PORTLAND, ME. MUSIC, AMUSEMENTS Megan Dinner, 50c 1] ROUND e ae, Pee id “all Sat ith Nea te Rant ey Battery, La th, At. “abba 0 M.; Battery, Tost as Represented, ONLY $500 CASH Required to aecure title and ownesship of Dearly new fast imotor boat, Special Train leaves Penna. Ferries, ‘Cortlandt and Desbrosses Sts.,9 A. M, Jersey City, 9.20 A. M. Hudson River Tube Trains onnect at Jersey Sy Station. L: eee inter, ‘Dail Meadiia EVE RY "SUN, DAY SEACLIFF Fen GLENWOOD en “fiagamaore" will leave Pier N.Y, (naar Hanover 8a. 1, Sta, Me “Piers foot tah St, Ee N TICKETS 50 CENTS, EXCURSIONS, BXCORSION T0 NBW HAVEN ON SUNDAY, JUNE 2 Menmer RICHARD PECK wil! leave Pier 70. B, . gay hedron at, alors wired foot East 224 #t., 10.00 ds a0 opportun Pat tess than toa "st teow than fie Write or phone me now. L, M. POTTER, Tel, 1250 Ma, Bu. Office 1108, 847 Fitth av., N.Y. C. Rete ery javen 2,80 P, M. ‘Return.due N. ¥, 9,00 P, M. Two hours in New Ha ven, Music, Rwreduments, Tickets, $1.50, Children, 75 cents, Ticket enles limited to half the capactty, om enie only on day of excursion, je - . ° N ‘Sight-Seeing Yachis|> 2s : aaiet gunee, ANE POULTAY, OBSERVATION nine} coh rar dain 3 a YARD re ie. | ASLovON SEF ZHE QoRAN, sa World Wants Work Wonders, WORLD WANTS WORK WONDERS /IGHT- SEEING YACHT CLIF TON {alana ghecturer aboard, M. Wout 42d | = | ate a It purobeser AUTOMODIL: BoC MAIL TTT Tt | whlch jhe 8° Avenue We Know theblock opposite Central Park, oa Broadway from 58th to 59th Streets, as shown. above, was sold at an Auction Sale by A. J. Bleeker & Sons for $6,955. It is now owned by Geo. Ehret and estimated to be weet about $3,000,000. We Don’t Know what you will pay at the VAN CORTLANDT ESTATE SALE for the blocks opposite Van Cortlandt gia, 238th to ) 240th Streets. gsi oe We Do Know that New York is pike Northward ten times faster now than when this was sold. A We Do Know that every purchaser at the Van Cortlandt Estate Sale will make meney unless New York st r , and d ac ag “cf ork stops growing, and we don’t Go and See the Property, then attend the Supreme Court Partition Sale of the’ Van Cortlandt Estate of 719 Lots on Broadway, between 238th and 240th Streets, Van Cortlandt Park South, Mosholu Parkway, Jerome Park Reservoir and adjacent avenues and streets. (Subway Station at Broadway and 238th Street.) ° Will Be Sold at Auction on the Premises Saturday, June Sth, 1912, at 10.30 A. M. 75% may remain on mortgage. Savings bank books taken as deposits on purchase of lots Titles guaranteed by Lawyers’ Title Insurance & Trust Co. Every Lot Must Be Sold to the Highest Bidder Adam Wiener, Esq., Referee Philbin, Beekman, Menken & Griscom, Plaintiffs’ Attorneys, For maps and particulars apply to Joseph P. Day J. Clarence Davies " Auctioneer oR 149th St. & 3rd Ave., 31 Nassau Street Bronx , MEETINGS, SOCIETY OF TAMMANY COLUMBIAN ORDER rothers-You are respectfully exam "the Gener esting ot the HELP WANTED—MALE, WaNTED FOR U, & AME: i Pi rh Aer i i naa Fune'a,_ 101 the: ettiad Sar athe ot the SO a srrn Season of Flowers, 6th Moor $25 Diamoot Ki a “10th Puen, eal he Jewelry, Setsovel “ig! stitution im m wer LY sore, 1080 i ave. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES, | == = pa ee EOL GARAGE for, ale, tvortory, , B0a100, feet, Moet | mm “HELP WANTED MALE. on ak eer RE | © OOKS WANTED. APPLY| TIMEKEEPER, WALDORF: ASTORIA | era) Mwlivem Barn FOR SALE. ano mn | CARMENTIERS. wanted. : ered; eapvenient pay. ve calle; telepho: wien m8, ce iteaiied Glen Co ve, he 8 SYMBOL POMERAT Hk, ork, “1PM Begecs a Wiydeaburgh’ Dalgion, toh,