The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1913, Page 5

Raster and As and Auctioneer Who Are Distributing Great Morris Park Race Track Among Private Investors Tell of Im- menee Residential Ex- pansion That Will Fol- low. By Joseph P. Day and J. Clarence Davies. The great Morrie Park auction sale, which has been it progress for a solid Week, has started new lines of thought among thove interested in the city’s home building and development. It also Marks the evolution of new ideas as real estate selling, Morris Park promises to afford within the next two or threp years one of the most ret before the subway extens! been completed the old race track will be dotted with hom te that when the t for which there and which can be offered upon prope: terma, the people themselves will become the most astute Promoters of the city’ pansion. It will demonstrate, also, that to get the People out of the congested districts there are needed no special inducements and no changes in the system of taxa- tion—nothing but the chance to buy well located property at the prices made by themselves. LOT DISTRIBUTION MEANS BUILDING OF A NEW CIT We confidently expect that thi jorria Park saie will lead to the creation of @ new city on this tract of 300 acres within @ few years. In point of magnitude the sale so far Gurpasses anything heretofore attempt- ¢d that any comparison 1s of course im- possible. In this respect the marketing of thie| Immense property only shows volume of the demand for real estate among the general public when they have the assurance that they are to be the sole judges as to values and when faith with them in this respect is strictly Kept. The public wan told that every lot In Morria Park wou!d be sold for whatever they chose to pay for it. There has deen no deviation from that announce- ment. The results have shown that the Dublic bellewed this and that their con- fidence has not been misplaced. SUCCESS OF SALE WILL LEAD TO OTHER BIG MOVES OF EXPANSION. ther angle it is im- imate the wide in- Now that Morris @ possibilities of marketing real estate, it Is anticipated That there will come the subdivision on # almilar plan of other large properties, thus hastening the city’s expansion in many directions. The public was toki that this sale wae going to be an opportunity to make money and such it has turned out to be, if the prices asked for similar property Just outside the boundaries of Morria Park may be used as a basis of judg- ment, of 4f one compares the prices pul this week with those paid in the past for Jota in this @ame property. The succeas- ful bide Gi many inetances were from thirty to forty per cent. below the ad- vance eatimate of the Banking De>>:t- ment, but for this they were prepared ‘and have the satisfaction of knowing that a small army of homeseckera and investors have had the benefit of these tow prices and that & mighty impetus Ras*deen given'to the growth of & new + section of the city. “The sale has also furnished another atriking illustration of the almost na- tlon-wide market for desirable New Vork realty, Ite ultimate effect will be WEEK'S NOTABLE REALTY OPERATIONS|' Benjamin Altman completed vans to start work at once on a twelve-story fth ave, department store to cover the Madison ave. end Julius H. Seymour completed a site 86th at., 100.6n168.2, twelve-story apartments to house 113 Bouth, to cowt $696,000, boring plot. st. to abut hie residence on bth ave. Rexton Realty Company fi +» $80 feet cant of 6t! » to Practically 2,000 lots have been sold Park race track for @ round $2,100,000. ton Park, Brooklyn, to cost ¢3,600, an all-year home. George A. Harris, BE. P. Criasmi Glen Head, lL. hattan ave. ‘wit locher, H. W. Farrell. STOCK COMPANIES KEEPING UP WORK + ATE Tt THEATRES: Emma Dunn Goes nei eset vend ville With New Sketch, “Making Good.” HOUGH haifa dogen theatres along Broadway close thelr doors for the summer to-night, stock com- panies at outlying houses odntinue to announce weekly changes of bill. For the coming week at the Manhat- tan Opera House George M. Cohan's musical comedy “Worty-five Minutes From Broadway” will) be given, with thel Grey Terry in the role of Mary nd Joseph Byron Totten as Kid Burns. Edward Sheldon's play “The Boss” be presented by the atook company Harlem Opera House. at Academy of Music “The Wom- an’ will be acted. “A Chorus Girl's Luck In New York" wil] be the attraction at the Olympic. “The Kissing Maid" remains at the Columbia, VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. be Houdini, the Charles Ahearn troupe In @ new musical offering, Bedin! and Arthur, Bert Levy, cartoontet; tinett! and Sylvester in an acrobatic comedy skit, Marshall Montgomery, trilouquist; the Boganny troupe in in @ Bakery,” and Alexander and Scot: in new songs Frederick Bowers and his “ Revue” will head ,the bill at Keith Union Square Theatre, where others will be Valerie Bergere in “Judgment,” Mae Melville and Robert Higgins in “Just Married” and Miss Jeanette Dupre, sing- ing comedienne. tre. There will also be Grace Edmond e songs, Elphye Snowden and Earl Ben- m ine singing and dancing skit, and Paul Morton and Naom! Glass alcal act. The Modern Svengall will be the headliner at Proctor’s Twenty-third Street Theatre. The Great Barnetti will be the feature at the Fifty-elghth Street Theatre. A twelve-act bill will ini gurate the summer policy at the Hundred and Twenty-ffth Street Th tre, Wadith Barton, Neccla Vailie and Myr- tle Bushman have been added to the Madison Square roof garden cabaret. The American Theatre will have May- to extend further and a.rengthen this) ~~ Buyers have tome from Bos- ton and from Norfolk and from as (ar West us Chicago, We confidently be eve that @ large and certain profit awalts every one of these buyers in Morris Park, and the experience of those vuyers will be the means of bringing greatly tn ed support to the New York real ¢ market. fhe $50,000 FACTORY FIRE. Orange, N. J» Plant @adly Gutted by Fire. east ORANGE, N. J., June 7.—Fire in Seabury & Johnson's pharmaceutical market. feetory on Glenwood avenue caused & loss thin morning of about $60,000. The plant | ‘ee-story brick building and the rted dn the plaster-mak- {ng department on the second floor, which was gutted. The damage ta stock on the floora above and below was done mostly by wi The origin of the fire has not been ascertained, but it (e thought that defective wire inaula- tlon may have started the blase. -_————_ Gives Camp for ¥. M. ©. A. Bove. Mra. Alfred E, Marling, wife of the Preaident of the real firm of te Twenty-third street branch, thirty ecres of upland in the Sussex Hilis, near Greenwood Laks, N. J., to be used a» a boys’ camp. The ‘gift was made ae & memorial to Mrs. Mar- lng's eon, Harelé Mar! epeeet, Marling, whe died in W. L. DOUGLAS oe °4 &°42 SHOES 163 West 6th ot., 162.6x100, as a site for twelve-story apart- H. B. Davis old the six-story Alabama apartments at Riverside Drive and 127th et. to New York Real Estate Security Company for §00,000, Klena Realty Company, with Dominick Abbate as President, filed plane for thirty families on Thompeon atreet, from West 3d st. to Washington Square Davis filed plans for $600,000 apartments on north corner at and idist st. B. U. Construction Company started & 613,000 Archer M. Huntington Mled plane for @ $90,000 aix-story dwelling on @th plans for elxteen-atory lofts on the north side Alco Building Company completed plans for 600 more dwellings in Maple- 000, Oakhurst, on the Sound at Mamaroneck, 135 acres, was suid at $980,000 to « syndicate for development into villa sites. Chariton Hall, at Irvington-on-Hudeon, was sold at $150,000 to a banker as Baroness von Zimmerman’s old home at Scarsdale was sold for $58,090 to paid $35,000 to Mre, Pauline A. Valentine for her place at 4, abe taking at $5,000 the six-story flats, Nos 27-2) Man- B, Young sold for cash « large tract with colonial house at North- vale, N. J., to a New York banker as a country estate, David P. Leahy Realty Company sold houses at South Ozone to W, Fred- ericks, F, Schoenthaler, Matthew Winkler, George Mermede, Jofeph Hor- sit (ORE Seettels wader wansgement FOR BIG WEDDING FOR | COUPLE ALREADY WED | Preparations are being made to- day | in Brooklyn for a big church wedding, two or three weeks hence, for Valen: tine Ketcham jr., real estate opera bass soloist, former football star of the Manual Training High School. His bride-to-be is Miss Bessie D, Scatt, Gaughter of Thomas F. Scott, a busl- nese man who lives at No. 190 Bighty- fourth street, Bensonhurst. Thelr en- @agement wes formally announced by their parents only @ few days ago. Word came from Stamford, Conn, iaat night thet young Ketcham and Miss Bcott were married there Feb. 2 last at the parsonage of the First Baptist Church by the Rev. J. W. Richardson, ‘The news of the marriage, taken from the Town Clerk's office, was printed the next day in the Stamford Daily Advo- cate, but the item never got to Brook- yo. Ketcham has been ataying at his home and Miss Gcott has been living at her own home, Ketcham ts the bass solo singer at Trinity Baptist Church, Brooklya, It is sald Mise Scott attended service there one day and fell in love with the decp bass voloe. After that she fell in love with owner of the voice. tor Ketcham sald to-day he! ard the news. Miss Scott's ity Company bought elaht dwell- for apartments at Nos. 94 to 312 West families and a seven-story house for cost $150,000, since iast Saturday on the olf Morris belle McDonald, the Pettit Family, Hil. ton and Maillon, and Daisy Harcourt, BEACHES AND PARKS. William H. Thompson will head the anniversary programme at the New Brighton Theatre, Brighton Bea: Among others will be “The Purple Sens, " Billy McDermott, tramp mono Jullette Dike in fongs, and Her. idamith in “The Dance of For a Limited Time 50 Fruit Trees 50 Chickens (FREE) #tase ‘en.’ ph Hera will be the Gerson's Musiq Hall, “Dainty Marie" will sing while doing a trapeze act [fe will present “Freah From Col- id McIntyre and Sutten will he Pumpkin Girl," @ comedy henue and ihe Farm of good, 695 productive soi! oi city Improvements, Small Amount Down $10 Monthly or y aketch, New equestrienne acts have been added to the open air show at Luna Park, The surf bathing tank at Palisades Amusement risus will be opened this afternoon & carnival, There will ‘be eight in the rustic theatre, iria ‘Elisabet! in Value, On Tine of Write, 1 gs or Hnoge tor for Palag a Pr. A Kline Realt C Dept. E. W., 25 Guach SONY. ad ee wont bi mw STEAMBOATS. tana end Albany, uy connections, Muse, ‘Sedoonat Str. “Washington Irving” a Ruetliperftredaye and Boturdare “?*| # At Hammerstein's ‘roof egarden will] iy. Leaves Mar |” 10,20, sri tei 1 tHe Steamer SAAD REPUBLIC) Special Up Hudson Trip Sunday, June 8th 2% WOURS AT HIGHLAND FALLS, 1 HOUR Pago SUNDAY EXCURSIONS TTT TO NEW HAVEN nie atien race ui | bebe a Sor Moist | c negeetiot op’ aa HUDSON I] tne ons Downton | cecaterne cee | eod WEEKLY i wd bas ets he ep est FALL RIVER LINE Tickets sales limited to half ti on tt Were only on day of ia is MEU cama Cie | for Bishiag Banks, pad bast, SUNDAY WORLD “WANTS” = | Losi WORK MONDAY WONDERS. To the Public: BDAY, JUNE 7 1918. | RBAL terare ar auction. | ngaL grate at auction. |__ neat ESTATE AT AUCTION. Bulletin, June 7th Morris Park Race Track Auction Sale Authorized by State of New York Banking Department Do You Realize That Lots Valued at $1,500 Are Sellingfor $700tc $800 “ $3,500 “ * $1,750 If You Think this is a mere advertising statement go up your- self—investigate—find out what lots are selling for in the neighborhood—compare them with these—see the ridiculous prices these Morris Park lots are bringing compared to their actual value. Then Think of Their Value in the future, with the growth of population and new | \ subways within two years, in addition to their present - unusual transit facilities. If you have just plain, ordinary __ COMMON Se€NSe you must appreciate this opportunity to make era Many have taken advantage of it, and we know of a number of buyers who have made profits and many more who have refused to take profits offered to them! TO SPECULATORS: : This is your chance if ever there was one! You who know the value of the property know that it is selling at a lower price to-day, after thousands have been spent on it, than it sold for as a whole acreage tract ten This is due to the fact that so many lots have to be marketed at one sale, to the creditors’ of the failed Banks. “Well bought is half sold.” You can go in here and buy with safety and quickly at a profit. t You know that with rapid transit coming, with the ridiculous prices the selling for, and with the tremendous advertising the district has had, that hundreds want to buy after the sale is over who have not taken advantage and bought at the That always is theway, always will be the way, and that is your —_ for quick What risk do you take? You know from past experience that the minute the is opened the values will double and triple. ‘ to be developed almost The terms are certainly easy enough. The lots are going immediately. A contract has already been made to dig cellars on lots purchased. Get busy! Some of the choicest lots are going to be offered Today, including the Club House and four dwellings. Go This Afternoon or This Evening! The Sale Is Now Drawing to a Close! 10:30 A. M. Sale Commences. | 8:00 P. M. Eve’ 6:30 P. M. Recess for Dinner. 10:00 P. M Today’s Offering Will Include Lots in All Sections of the Property, in the Following Blocks: No. 8 No. 10 No. 40 No. 46 No. 57 No. 9 No, 28 No. 45 No. 52 No. 66 70% CanRemainon Mortgage. 7" M“i* fs99 “it Bay 2 Tot Selling tor sito, Ete Titles Insured Free by Lawyers’ Title Ins. and Trust Co. Savings Bank Books Will Be Taken as Deposit on the Purchase of Lots To Get to Morris Park Race Track, take: The Subway Morrie vant volley cata direct te the Breoorty Ae At phestetign. At ATT Stroeg. take the The Second ‘or ‘Third Avenue Elovatea sired "G'isbd 0S in w ace tou eeaR rsh Toots ata, Au All crosstown : Bronx cars ‘onnes eli all in ait Rientted od adbnay sa lneg‘eltbes a Send for mape and particulars to J. Clarence Davies, 149th St. & 3d Ave., New York City Joseph P. Day, 31 Nassau St., New York City Agents and Ancti>.ecrs. ession Be: M. Senos for Ne