The evening world. Newspaper, July 18, 1914, Page 5

: Building . of the As a Matte Head of Syndicate That Has Erected and Sold Hundreds of Suburban Flathouses Says That Type of Structure Is the Most Practical for New Yorkers. BY A. F. MATHEWS. Buying a home is a matter of @conomy. The home that ninety-five per cent. of the people of New York City know ag the most economical is the flat- house, and these are the kind of hom lar. New York's millions do not live in private dwellings. According to of- ficial statistics, single family dwell- Ings are fast becoming only a mem- ory here. To own or live in one is a luxury and not economy. That ts why few new ones ai being built, but hundreds are torn down every year to make room for business buildings, apartments and flats. Any section in Greater New York that can be reached within thirty minutes from City Hall and which lea along the main arteries of trans- Portation, either subway or elevateg, is in the flathouse zone. Its land values are too high for a Single- nily house. The more people that live on one lot, the greater the econ- omy. Therefore it is a matter of economy to build a multi-family house wherever possible. METROPOLITAN MASSES MUST ALWAYS LIVE IN FLATS, It is a simple problem in arith. metic. Any lot that can be reached in less than thirty minutes on a five- cent fare with one continuous jour- ney, in any borough, should be worth least at 2,500, That ts, roughly a yearly land value at , or $20 a month, The ma- jority of paople cannot afford to pay 20 a month for ground rent alone in addition to paying interest on the money invested in the building. Therefore real economy demands that the population be housed in flats. And there are more than 102,400 apart- ment houses of all kinds in New York City. These have 918,000 apartments. The higher the land values the fewer the rooms, as a rule. In Manhattan four-room apartments predominate, there being 159,000 of them. In the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens County, where land 1s less valuable and rents lower, the five-room flat is popular. For the entire five boroughs, of two- room apartments there are 70,000; three-room, 190,000; four-room, 304,- 000; five-room, 197,000; six-room, 99,. 000; seven-room, 86,000; eight-room, 12,000, About 4,500,000 people live in these apartments, which means that nearly 90 per cent. of New York's population live in multi-family houses, Since the panic of 1907 the real es- tate market has been reactionary. Nespite this fact, we have built hun- dreds of model flats of the six-family type on a@ basis similar to that of the Ingersoll watch and the Ford auto- moh ‘ By standardizing our type of build- ing, operating on a large scale, buy- ‘ng our land at farm prices and elim- inating the cost of production, having a trained force of workmen, we cre- ated a finished product that would sive the createst returns for the least outlay. These results were obtained not in the heart of Manhattan but in the outlying section along the lines of new transporation, where land val- ves were low und all conditions favorable, provements could prices 50 per cen’ RESCUERS AND PULMOTOR IN RACE WITH DEATH, Man Dragged From Sewer After Gas Causes Collapse Near Manhole, Foreman John Horan, John Quinn and Charles Zink, employees of the Department of City Works, were in a sewer at Forty-second street and First avenue to-day clearing out some clogg- ing refuse. Suddenly they were over- come by gasoline fumes or sewer gas and staggered for the high vertical exit to the street. All got out save Quinn, and although Horan and oink were dazed they went back after their fellow workman, They found him un- conscious at the foot of the manhole shaft and Horan managed to fasten a rope ahout him. Then he and Zink clambered out only to fall unconscious when they reached the street. Police, ambulances and a pulmotor arrived and also a great crowd, and Quinn was dragged to the surface. He was almost dead. The pulmotor, however, brought him around. It was not necessary for any of them to go to the hospital, but they all knocked off work for the da There oll the latest im- be produced at r than in the DO YoU ENJOY EATING? 1" you will SIP Fs it a neseasars ert fou CAN evlos, nha Sour eat if a ‘glass or two of MAN-A-GEAWATER The Natural Mineral Spring Water tNot & Laxative.) with and leteeun your meals, or whenever you feet That Tha teas at reventa Fermente fon, Node yt Mach or Intestinal, A | trial ty cos thay ACKER, MERRADI. & CONDIT Co, tid firat Claas Groeen and Druggiste tseueraily that are practical and popu- Home r of Economy | city centres. We have created homes for 2,600 families, and at no time was the supply up to the demand. S8IX-FAMILY HOUSE WORKS WELL FOR ITS OWNER. We selected for our fleld of opera- tions the border line between Kings and Queens Counti reached by the Myrtle avenue elevated railroad. Economy was the keynote. In the model flats tenants get five rooms and bath At average rents of $15 a month, and the apartments are equal if not better than those offered in the older sections of Manhattan at $25. The demand for apartments in Ridgewood is always in excess of the supply, though hundreds of houses have Ls bullt. All sections of New York con- tributed to the inflowing population. We fonsider the six-family house the only real economical home for the masses. One and two-family houses can never compete with multi-family houses. It is the broadest field of economy to buy one of the six-family houses. The hundrods that we have sold went to neople who occupy one of the apartments and rent out the re- maining five. The income from rent- als is sufficient to pay the carrying charges and help to reduce the mortgage. It works out the most practical item of economy. Sold on easy terme and by the hundreds, we have never had a foreclosure, which shows how well this system works out. During 1913 we built $1,000,000 worth of these houses and COMMITTEE OF FIFTY REFUSE FO CONFER ON TICKET WITH MURPHY Independents Appointed by Os- born Plan to Make Own State Nominations, The committee of fifty, nominated as an auxiliary committee by Demo- cratic State Chairman William Church jOsborn, 18 going to bolt the Saratoga | coateoiaee, at which a State ticket te jto be nominated. Among those who will fail to attend {the confdtence, at which it ts feared ; Tammany will name a ticket tf success | looks certain, and refuse responaibility for the ticket if defeat ts imminent, jare Corporation Counsel Frank Lyon Polk, Frederte R. Coudert, Montgomery Hare and John De Saulles. The executive committee of th Central City Committee, which is an anti-Tammany organization, will call &@ conference of independent Demo-| crate from all parts of the State for the purpose of getting up an anti- Tammany ticket. Among those who are to be asked to run are President George McAneny of the Board of Aldermen, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and several up-State Dem- ocrats of prominence. Those active on the Central City Committee are Fire Commissioner Robert Adamson, John J. Murphy, Stephen B. Ayres, Richard Wagner, William T. Butler, William Crowley, Julius Harder and John Martin. Oo M’ADOO PAID THE BILL. Secretary Replies to Criticiame of Trip on Revenue Cutter. WASHINGTON, July 18,—Secretary WcAdoo, in a letter to Representative Fitsgerald, read in the House to-day, declared that if he had violated the law by travelling on the revenue cutter Onondaga from Washington to Matta- Poisett, previous Secretaries of the Treasury, both Democratic and Repub- lcan, had similarly violated the law and that President Taft and President Roosevelt had been on the revenue cut- ters at vartous times. He said the Onondaga wes under cruising orders and that every item of established the high water mark in sales. or Renting a Home? the Same Problems. Evening World. No fixed rules can be laid down for buying or building the home, Each person must be governed by his own tastes, | conditions and resources, What would be right for one might be impossible for another, Therefore *.," who asks for such general information, should study the prob- lem further in order to decide just what type of home would be best for his individual requirements, “P, B. 8." wants to know if the home buyer should consider the possibility of future increase in value more important than the current comfort of his family. No. The home is for the family first, You can be reasonably sure of present comfort, but figuring on fu- ture values is mere speculation. “T, R." writes. “I am tempted to buy some suburban lots on the iment plan, but they, are in @ small town and I have never seen them, Would it be safe?’ It is not wise to buy anything that you have not seen or investi- gated thoroughly, "G. A. C." say “I have fin- ished paying for some lots which I bought on instalments several years ago, and have selected plans for a modest home. Could I borrow the money to build and where?" Try lending interests identified with the locality in which your lots are situated, such as savings banks, estates, building and loan assocla- tons or mortgage companies. “E, B, 8." writes: “If I buy a house on payments ‘like rent’ With only $200 initial cash, could I hold clear title to the property from the start?” Yes, if you found a seller who} would consent to such an arrange- iment. “W. C." asks: “Is there a city, State or Federal department for lending on mortgage to home- neekeras?” | No. “M. F." asks: “At the same price, which would be better, a house | with no land around it’ except a very small back yard or a coun- try home with more than an acre | of ground, both being forty min- | utes from City Hall?’ The choice would Mepend much jupon Individual considerations, The | Population tendency now 1s to spread into the suburbs, where more land) can be obtained Instead of the old movement to concentrate in cities, "ALN, W." writ ‘Some day I want to build a home and I | ~ sought J would'mart Bew'te buy HOME SEEKERS’ CLUB WHAT Do You Want to Know About Buying, Building THOUSANDS of Busy New Yorkers Are Interested in WRITE for Counsel or Advice to Real Estate Editor, expense occasioned by his presence and that of his wife was pald by him. two or three lots; Would it be better than to put my money { the bank?" LA Only the future could decide. To carry the lots would cost you the taxes, possible assessments and loss of interest on your capital, D. “My mortgage, held by: a title company, is due next fall, and the company noti- fes mo that I must pay it off or renew it by payment of the regu- lar commission, Is this charge legitimate? Yes. But ings banks, estates and many private lenders usually al- low the loan to continue without a commission charge. ‘Cc. B.” wants ‘any and all Particulars in regard to the Home- seekers’ Club,” They are all at the head of this column "G. Ro BWV." Geethe brokers in that section. “A, A. B."—It is not Maplewood but Mapleton Park, Brooklyn, “F, P. C."—-Find them in The World advertisements, —_—__. MOTORCYCLES IN CRASH; ONE KILLED, THREE HURT Victims on Two Machines Were! Speeding to Summer Camp When Accident Happened. (Special to The Evening World.) PORT JERVIS, N. Y., July 18,—In @ collision near here to-day between two motorcycles running at high speed Irving Roger of Middletown was killed and Harry Meola and John Smith of Middletown and Rich- ard O'Nell of Goshen were seriously injured. CAUCUS ON Wilson Forces tm Ben — JONES OPPOSED, © Find € Foes Stabbo cam WASHINGTON, July 18.—Opposition to a conference among Senate Democrats on the nomination of Thomas D. Jones of Chicago for the Federal Reserve Board developed to-day when it be- came generally known that one had been suggested by Administration Senators, That no conference would be held to-day was asserted by Senator Kern, Chairman of the Democratic | pets Wl C0 Mig be call } YOUNG POLITCAN WME AMS HELD FOR MURDER ON GIRLS CHARGE, MAPA Bw | Police at Coney Istandatalled Greenpointer Indicted for Slay-| Out to Keep Order Among ing Rival in Dark After Feminine Crowds, Dance. ‘The poltce reserves of the Coney Island station were turned out to-day i, | to keep order in the crowd, princi- INDICTMENT A SECKET. (sally Weeten und it Wie cots waiting for rooms in the Municipal Baths. Crowda had assembled when the baths opened at 7 o'clock and hy 10 o'olock every room was occupied and there were 1,000 women and girie in Hine. The men’s line was shorter and there was no disorder there, ‘The heat was intense and it wot |into the, temper of the watting Still protesting his Innocence, Pat- | tick J. McGurdy, one of the beat known | Women. Firat one woman would try young politicians in the Greenpoint to steal forward in the line and the section of Brooklyn, was to-day taken | W°™men fn front would protest. From to the Queens County Jail under indict. | WOP4® they shifted quickly to blows ment for, murder in the first degree and soon along the line there were for the kifling of Benjamin Clair, He | 7%6ns of fiat Aghts and hair pulling spent the night in'the Fourth street |™Atches. All the women ecraamed Police. station, Long Island City, and|"0@ the din they raised could be will be held in jail for trial in the| Heard far down Surf avenus. Supreme Court in October. Employees of the baths tried to The arrest of McGurdy caused sur-/Tulet them, but the women patd no Prise among his friends, as, until he| heed to them pnd at last Supt. was taken into custody, there was no| Joseph Sackman called for the police hint that an Indictment had been found) Half @ dozen men came on the run against him. It had been kept secret | ®4, when they saw the task before for several months. them, they sent for additional help. McGurdy was taken into custody in| No arrests wore made but it was front of his home, No, 850 Manhattan | only by keeping policemen atationed avenue, Greenpoint, last night by De. | at close intervals all along the line tectives Powers, Mindheim and Van | that trouble was prevented. Weisenstein, —_———— ’ “Of what am I accused? demanded McGurdy, an a‘ well dressed man of twenty-five, as he drew back and demanded that the detectives show their shields, “Of murder in the first degree,” re- plied Powers, “You are under indict- ment for the murder of Benjamin Clair.” Protesting his innocence and that his arrest was an outrage, McGurdy was taken to the Hunters Point eta- tion and locked up. The murder of Clair, who was twen- ty-one years old and lived at No. 1707 Second avenue, Manhattan, followed a dance on the night of Dec. 11 in Jaék- son Avenue Park, Long Island City. After the dance Clair, who had been attentive to Miss Mary McGee during ening, escorted her to her home, No. 68 Third street. Miss MoGee testified at the Coro. ner’s inquest that while Clair was talking with her at the gate of ber home two men came up and one of them, drawing a revolver, shot Clair dead. Then the men fled. An investigation made secretly by the police showed that McGurdy and a close friend, James Cassidy of Eighth street, Long Island City, had been attentive to Miss McGee and both were at the dance, Miss McGee was called before the Grand Jury, and the evidence she gave resulted in the indictment of McGurdy and Cassidy. In some way McGurdy learned of the indictment and left his home. Cassidy was ar- rested and brought to trial recently in the Queens County Court. | There was no evidence to show Cas- | sidy had killed Clair, ar he was acquitted, but never during the pro- ceedings was the fact brought out that McGurdy was under indictment and being sought for trial. It is thought that this fact was communicated to McGurdy and he hurried back to his home, confident that no case could be made against ossibly the weakness the State's case would mean quasbing the indictment. McGurdv refuses to discuss the murder of Clair, and will only say that @ great mistake has been made. ee Drunken Chi i Gets Ye TRENTON, N. J., July 18.—Judge Gnichtel to-day sentenced Thomas E. Rhoades of this city to one year in the workhouse for driving an auto whil was intoxicated, Judge Gnichtel | the State laws make a@ penal sentence compulsory in all such cases. | | Well-Known Brooklyn Man’s | Arrest Comes as Surprise to His Friends. Cigarette Destroys Cotton Cargo. lomebody dropped @ match or a cigar- ette Into fifteen bales of cotton which stood outside the office of the Eastern Steamship ‘Corporation in West # ‘eet, near Murray, to-day, and the cotton blazed. Longshoremen went at it with cotton hooks and succeeded only in rip- ping the bales open and making tho Progress of the fire more rapid. At last & fire alarm was turned fn and when the firemen got through there wasn't enough left of the cotton to pay for moving it. —_——-—__ Gives 17,000 PARKERSBURG, To avoid paying t ing compan: deputy int . Va. July 18. Federal tax, « local y to-day had R. i. Haye, vii u deat ction of collector, super: ise the destruction of 17, Beer which ha in left over when Virginia went dry July 1. The beer 8 run out of the vate into Lit Kanawhe Rive: Heats REAL’ ESTATE FOR SALE— ROOKLYN, MATHEWS MODEL FLATS oa th) ae ¢ heat real e: our 6-family “Model Flats” adjoin seven minutes from City I, N. income and will make MORE MONE, required, to 20 per cent. on money invested, Not a single vac L stations on proper! Office No. 185% Putnam a THE HONEST PROPRIE- TARY MEDICINE, fills a national need in the land and it will take more than the cry of “fraud” and “fake” from the avaricious, over-reaching physician to overthrow an hon- est, reliable and standard prep- aration like Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound, which is made from the roots and herbs of the field, and has cured more women of female ills than any other remedy we know of. Ready Help in time of physical trouble caused by indi; stion, biliousness resulting from torpid liver, inactive bowels, is al- ways given, quickly, certainly, safely by the most famous of family remedies BEECHAM’S PILLS treatin Sith | Spend Sunday, July 19 in the Mountains ing City Ticket OMcea: Broadway, 1460, 1496, 401, 96 BRIDGEPORT 57 99] | Every Sunday | | STR. “MONTAUK” | A ney ayy Sajl—120 Miles on tanger tae Bee ea a | BPM Siuale “ate Ly, Bridgeport MISUSE OF FINDS. [a-ak > pvvewierie COU BAS FSU HERE Minority Stockholders Attempt to Make Directors Give an Accounting. Suft in equity was instituted here to-day in behalf of some minortty | stockholders of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Ratlroad against | directors of the railroad and the rail- road Itself to compel them to answer charges of maladministration and mis- use of ful ‘The action ts brought by the firm | of Robinson & Lauber of this city, and | 1s somewhat similar to the action in Boston, which demanded restitution | of $806,000,000, alleged to have been | mimised. One of the two claima made aske “individual defendants be that the 'y_in 600 apartments. Open for inspection, The G, X. MATHEWS CO. cor, Onderdonk, Get off at Forest or Covert av, station, Myrtle av. L compelled to account for all sume of money and @hares of stock misap- Piied and misappropriated, and all Profits which they recelved by reason of unlawful acts.” The second claim asked that the defendants bo enjoined from further management of the system, The action specifically alleges that the directora, acting for the corpora- transportation with rolling atock upon payment of sums of money greatly in exceas of the value of the property. fers to the acquisition of the Boston and Westchester road, which figures In the Boaton sult and tn the recent Interstate Commerce Commiasion re- tion, acq port. The action further demands that be rendered against directors for the amounts ascertained to be dus from their alleged unlawful Judgment practices, julred ‘These amounts, according to the complaint, were obtained for the personal intereat and profit of the directors by conspiracy. This re- t Several hundred marines are mobilis- Ing at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for service in Hayti or Santo Domingo, They will go first to Norfolk, Va. where they will be joined b; From Guantanamo, Cuba, they will be to the towns where th. deapate! are 600 more. REAL ESTATE FOR SALS— BROOKLYN. Ridgewood, Nothing like it an ‘where, that they PAY better, give a SU Lope Isl ale lation, OCK ISLAND EVERY SUNDAY with Direct Service to ROCKAWAY BEACH From Uptown, N. Y. nd, 4 RoW way) at frequent "Lo Pay "Sagamore Wet Htanate Y than anything else in the market. 350 HOUSES SOLD. 150 NOW READY the best'evidence of what they are. Rental income $1,128 per year. 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