The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1912, Page 5

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THE EVENING WORLD, ) WAGON’ SPEEDS | Building of the Home As a Matter of Economy Al 62 MILES AN HOUR IN TRIP RIP FROM PARIS ount de filets Travels 320 j Miles to Lyons With Ease i i and No Dust. [ PARIS, July 13—In what experts of “tho New York aeronautical Sbolety used te call a “wind wagon" at thetr dispiays im old Morris Park, but which is now homed by tts builder the “winged car,” Count Bertrand de Lesseps reached Juyons early to-day, having made the ‘2mile trip from this city with ease and at times with great speed. The Count te here yoxterday morning at 4.35 'ctock. Tho ‘Counts new “winged car’ ts riven by a Filipp! propeller, something Mike those used on aeropli The pro- Deller revolves within a protecting cag in front of the engine box and is actu- ‘ated by a 4#-horse power motor, with a fehain, drive. The wheels of the car are entirely ree from mec m except footbrakex, Dn @ level ¢ wing \nute, ma sed in an instant, Tt was r@tlced + which olutely no President of Brooklyn Board of Real Estate Brokers Says Construc- tion of ‘Subways Will Open Fields in: That Borough for Profitable Residential Operations. By WILLIAM G. MORRISEY. He haa been prominent for two decades in transactions in both business and home sections, the board, under his leadership having started many strong, movements for the benefit of house, owners, : Brooklyn is taking new, strides toward establishing itself as the great centre of metropolitan population. . H6meseokers, both bi and build- era, see vastly enlarged opportunities, There are ‘indications that the borough is entering an era of development and «enerdl enhancement which will go far beyond any past cycte of improvement. Brooklyn has been the most popular centre of middle dlass-home building for several generations. ‘crutiny shows how profitable the move. ment has been to the large majority, ‘Thousands of houses have been bullt or bought by families of modest means, many on varous forms of easy pay- ment plans, and the advances in land A backward |’ ns, It creates a new n for sites which es- immense propor! kind of competi tablishes valu new subways will concentra! tion in Brooklyn just qs the lack SATURDAY, SULLY tan’s millions of \flat-dwellers will be thrown down. By that time, too, there in the Greater City. Brooklyn will offer wide, splendid home territory even mo! easy Of access than the congested dis- tricts of northern Manhattan. adequate transit facilities concentrated, We must look at least ten years jit In’ Manhattan @ f ply because it offers it resistance to the homes and there will be no five-cent-fare facilities for carrying them beyond our borough. HOW BROOKLYN IN POPULATION. Brooklyn hae been increasing in pop- at the rate of 6,00 year. new transit situation will raise thia to at least 75,000 a year during the jcoming: decade. There will be 150,000 | more people In the borough within ten ‘years-4t is possible that the increase | might reach 1,000,000, This means wonderful ngw activity jin all branches of industry. To house %6,000 persons a year will involve an can do 40 be: years. A dect ago the capacity of the Brooklyn Brid aud the ferries over the Hast River passengers an hour. To-day the bridges INCREASES 5.) dential ew lines offer appreciable relief to | co westion. The projected y will make Brooklyn tand’avail- able to at least double the present num- er of users. ROOKLYN HAS AN EQUAL CHANCE TO INCREASE. | Perhaps we might arguo that euch Goudle utility ought to be accompanted by doublé values. Land fn Manhattan And the Bronx at favorably situated joutlay of more than §90,000,000 in bulld- [points In new transit centres has more ings alone. It will lead to other big } business and investment operations, all | ™.G./70RRISEY times, have averaged 20 at prac. tically all home buy: ave stood original Investment, on theli M ted how land of which cannot fall to enhance land values. Transit is the fundamental considera- tion in the spread of the home masses. Brooklyn hag been held back for many years by lack of proper transit. Bach small imprevement in facilities has led to a really great movement in land values. The borough has been making vast progress in spite of its continued transit handicap, We can ecarcely tm- agine what is apt to happen with the | completion of the great tunnels under by their propertics have good profits|the East River, the new lines over the bridges and far reaching improvem in the basil Mteelf. The huge ba: damming wp Manhi ‘OR QUEENS. {than doubted in value within ten years and why should land in Brooklyn do less under the even more favorable con- ditions which to bo established by the dual system of rapid transit? Until the subwa: operation we gannot e dinary rush‘ of outsiders or to buy Brooklyn homes. The masses usually walt until they « formation, with their own eyes, But hundreds ‘of far-sighted home-seckers will take advantage of the prevailing low prices of Brooklyn real estate, They wif not walt for actual building of the transit Hnes. They will to 100'per cent. on their jthat ts @ conservative verage advance that | Mehed by the completed system, ‘There ia more than mere transit bet- terment in the movement. It will fas less than 70,000 | h 18, haste ness 1912, ilities into Brooklyn. ‘The Fourth ayenue subway in par- tloular will lead Yo Invaluable bi a improvement. It will open the South t for the bulld factories. These will employ thousands of workers who must be housed near by. It will open a profitable field for an axtonded campaign Brooklyn ping cent the world, trade will site the borough. —_— TRADE CROWDS MASSES OUT OF CITY CENTRES. Bullders of business buildings in Mi hattan are breaking all high volut records this year. The expansion of trade 1s crowding the population masses out of old city centres B ‘9 reported to-day that the midsummer hunt for homes tn the suburbs ts covering a wid- er territory avery , flat-building er valuer to the farthest parts of Fiat dwellers are filling the Bronx, In spite of the immense construction of big Year 20 structures show dies of only three apart= ments in @ house, ‘ Actual construction on all subway Projects df the dug system should be under way in two months. courts have act aside the last obstacle to the completion of contracts. | Alco Butlding Company, which is ageo ciated with Realty Trust, fintshed to-day the first of fifty dwellings in the Maple- ton section of Brooklyn, bullt with loans from the Metropolitan Life Insura: Company. Twenty-five are nearly rood for use, eleven having been sold ‘already from the plans. They carry twent: 1D-lewo to tL. HL Hamman, two to W. {| Edwarda, one to 1. H. Grover, one to ‘Wood, Harmon & Co. in Drooklyn sold two lots at Rugby this week to IL C. Hill, two to B. B, Gulle, two to D, W. Mellen, one each to EB. B. Catet, Ger trude I, Duffy, B. B. Lee, C. EB. Duffey, A. P. 8. Wood, H. M, Ward, A. B. Cos, R, Margaret C. Wood; at Hast Midwood, Plots to A, M. Rooker, D. D, Boylan, Marthe M. Butt, B. D. Sohutts; at Fiet- bush Gardens to W. F. Richter, Revert G. Platt; at South Flatbush to Yancey, Thomas B. Franct: at Kings boro té John Btockos, Isaac M, Stanley, George F. Friel; at Kensington to J. H. Robertson. . eee Staten nd fs still nearer to real rapid tranalt. has approved the tunnel ugder the nar- rowa as an extension of the Brooklyn Bay bet way. Tt will be used for ore, freight and fen} mains, the | Pennsyivania railroad te a plann| a bridge across Kill von Kull to New Tereey. ‘ ° Homeseekers in larger numbers are moving to South Ozone ik, I I. David P. Leahy Realty Company sold several more houses there this week, making forty-m old since May More than 500 have been bullt and louse Peterson, $8,30 rd Baker, Hi sii Fraatje Ohigter: nor road, tactng, aaidiand Perkway. Massapequa will greet apother train load of queste to-merrew, ‘The Boned of Eetimate| tie houses are planned by owners for immediate Lagi Y tion, Cottages Shorea i 1 27". "ascot Palla hay tol Pee sone now bethihouces "| at Brightwaters Mrs. Adeline A. ‘et naton jah mi! i F. Morse bought @ white stwaco lt ie aif frelot i EI Why Not Make One of These Houses YOUR Home Americans. (4) L,I. blocks south is Freeport trolley, thence east to South Ozone Park, Time, 4 minutes—no more, Commutation $6.80 per month, $100 Cash Procures Warranty Deed, Balance on Bond R. R, Penn station, Manhattan to Ozone Park, walk 3 | and Mortgage. $100 Cash procures watranty deed, balance on bond and mortgage; monthly payments $18 to $25 covers interest and principal. 500 homes built and sold within the last three years, all to Germans: and Irish-Americans and Houses from four to ten rooms, thoroughly modern, containing steam heat, hot and cold water, gas and gas fixtures, combination coal and gas range, gas hot water a Write, Phone or Call for Particulars or Literature. . Agents and Own Live on Property Brooklyn; take “Jamaic. Freeport a) Subway, Sth ave. L," or “ closets, se ~bins in cellar. Your choice of outside finish of houses, either stucco, bevel siding or shingles. Situated in lots 30 to 40x100, with terraced lawn in front and large garden plot in rear. Numerous stores of all kinds and churches on property. Public schools, public HOMES $1,850 to $3,750 Worth $2,350 to $4,250 arate, well-lighted laundr Houses newly painted and trolley to At! ». (Flat! station), L. I. R. R., pl al a 3 a KY, ‘0 Atlantic ave. (Flatbush ave. station), trolley, thence east to South Ozone Park, ‘ave. (5-cent fare), walk three ime, 35 minutes—no more, heater, tiled vestibule and bath room, parquette floors, elegant console mirror mantels in parlor, buffet mantel in dining room, roomy dish closet in kitchens, plenty of clothes in basement, concrete cellar and sidewalk, coal decorated. blocks south to (3) Or take a Rockaway express to Ozone Park f Oram Flatbush ave. station), avalk 3 blocks south, take Freeport trolley to South Ozone Park, 30 to 35 minutes, Commutation, $4.80 per month, DAVID P. LEAHY REALTY COMPANY a el Nr ali ND est donne EXCURSIONS. = remiacnen AND TO THE OCEAN, ipped akle-wheal steam ie ‘mullionalry’, ore. Noh Riv Every Night—3-Hour Sail Down the Bay, 50c ee as Concert om Board Sunday WES! POINT EXCURSION ” SUNDAY EXCURSIONS TO NEW HAVEN ina. Het siisie, 40" ‘These immiane under management of FALL RIVER LINE ‘Ticeote ot Piers only on day of exumurdens. Pat ene tae ity espe for Hudson lier ze tape A a m3 EXCURSION ON POPULAR STEAMER ini” 7 BO BRO CHRTON Stor Ly 45 4. M Bridi frei treat Intormaticn Phous Orchard 8va1, EXCURSIONS, BELLE /OOD BL"Bay 81,00 FRier? Lehigh Valley Railroad jongert op Tr Ferries ih ty 0.20 A, M, Hudwo liver tuby Traine gomnen ot fenay Clty Btation, UP The HISTORIC HUDSON notre geet ‘Hitomt Brockton {i laste ba HS aa ee nh B BY wa UP LONG ISLAND sounp ater, Sue is ORIGINAL” ont SIGHT-Stcai i Yavid CLIFTON fy 2a ete) Bila $i'50 bi ying car, leaves fons tay, 'N "gat SRIDGEFORT EVERY SUNDAY THY PALATIAL #TEB. STEAMER BTL an N. W. Corner 34th Street and Broadway (Macy’s Corner) NEW YORK CITY ce 40 tea . Ag ‘iratan pl ieare Ne Y, poe bey cet Wee traina eure, Brmgkizn, ( at frequent pa Lo} 7 BRAG cor ar \ ” Ta dS eat, & hoult mal tala returning oh x i | et: ft fa resuinants, infu, ‘is| ME ONL Smnone pa et ‘ON Fae rites = ~ "| STRS. KEANSBURG & CHR f ea Ne 2 YOST F FOR BEARSEUEG.N v0 Baltery v a) ‘WORLD WANTS WORK WONDERS ) library, moving picture theatre, la: pe hell for thpatricals, dancin; and best developments in New Rockaway Boulevard and on the line’ of ty, new Bro ment there is nothing better in the Greater Cit $349 and up on easy terms. water, gas, electric lights. raded and pa Land lays high and ne 3 hy Roe fcr ited to (8) Tal "i uth Osos Elevat oy eae Tare Fastest ted on the famor Kaede Prokiyn Ele is loca Elevated. and as an invest Lote can be pu Streets, cement sidewalks, — dry, positively no salt or swamps. Many houses and lots sold to Sollee and firemen and other city employees. 4 WAYS TO GO TO SOUTH OZONE PARK: end of It beant fare to ESTABLISHED 25 YEARS’, Property Office Phone, 546 J Jamaica Next Wednesday? why We ‘elccw Ge te ||BERMUDA retain JULY 17 ee ato too ature Never Over 80; Faeroe re Bos q i Regine, betnias tennis, driving, colt ALL EXPENSE TOURS br Bite | obeBVee | ost Ask for illustrated fiterature, ‘THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET CO earpmmson @ #0N, ou. Aste. N. Y. Office Phone, 3616 Greeley

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