The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1919, Page 7

-- iV THE EVE WAR TAXES BREAK UP PROUD FAMILY REALTY HOLDINGS Astors, Van Cortlandts, Beek- mans, Crimminses Lead the Heavy Selling. Heavy war taxes are breaking up Now York's famous old family realty estate: The Astors have sold more than $15,000,000 of gilt-edged holdings re- cently and have much more on the market, The Goelets have broken their invariable rule never to sell by disposing of downtown realty within the past few weeks. The Beekmans old a %75,000 parcel next to Del- monico's on Fifth Avenue a few days ago. The Rhinelanders and Stuy- vesants have been prominent among this year’s sellers. The H. B. Claflin holdings of 500 lots in the West Bronx and the Benjamin Stern tract were sold at auction last month. The Gerrys mave sold downtown and are negotiating a sale of their big Bristol Building on the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 42d Street to the United Retail Stores Corporation. The huge holdings of the late Juhn D. Crimmins are to be offered at auc- tion on Oct. 21. And on Oct. 14 one of the most notable auction offerings of the year will dispose of the last of the ancient V: Cortlandt estate, covering more than a mile wot Broad way frontage opposite Van Cort- landt Park, with blocks of handsome elevated residential sites adjoining to_the west. Estates lending many millions on realty likewise are liquidating as @ result of the rising tax drain. The Marshall Field estate has been call- ing in more than 000,000 on mort- gages. Col. Edward H, R. Green has been retiring millions of the Hetty Green loans on similar collateral. And among big holding institutions a con- spicuous seller is United States Realty and Improvement Company, which has sold several central parcels recently, and announces that !t will continue to retire from an ownership which has embraced some of the most prominent skyscrapers and landmarks of the metropol FEDERAL SURTAX CONSUMES BIG ReALTY INCOMES. City, State and Federal taxes all operate against the greater accumu- lations of real estate. While tl mal) investment owner, in spite of increase of rentals, complains that rising taxes leave little net return on his property, he does not ge enough income to suffer severely from Federal taxes. But larger incomes are subject to the rapidly moynting fFatio of the Federal strtax to # point where Uncle Sam takes practically all geome left after the payment of city and State levie: Such holders of realty are forced to shift their investments in order to ‘et any income at all on their money, They can put their capital into tax ?xempt Government bonds and make pure of 3 to 4 per cent,, or into other forms of corporation securities pay- ing larger returns and not subject to city or State exactions. i Small estates not only in New York but all over the country aré suffering from the efforts of large holders or lenders to avotd realty, Statistics show home ownership throughout the country to be decreasing at the rate of 8 per cent. a year, the properties asa rule passing to banks, insurance or title companies and other lending institutions through foreclosure of mortgages. Business properties, how- ever, do not show the same tendency hecause concerns have been driven by the shortage of rentable quarters to buy buildings necessary for their uses. Dearth of mortgage money, which has been one serious factor in the in- ability of builders to start a needed volume of housing operations, js due largely to the heavy Federal tax upon ‘big incomes derived from mortgage loans, Wealthy estates and institu- tions with plenty of funds to loan have not let builders get the money on account of the very small net Tre- turn after the payment of city, State and Federal taxes. ASTORS SELL GILT EDGED HOLD- INGS AT SACRIFICE. Estates selling big realty parcels Dave taken sacrifice prices in order to get free of their unprofitable load as soon as possible. Lord Astor of Eng- land and his son, Capt. John Jacob Astor, sold thelr Exchange Court offices, on Broadway, Exchange Place and New Street, for $3,000,000 to Rob- ert E. Dowling, although the ap- praised value was close to $5,000,000. Vincent Astor and the Astor estate sold the Putnam Bullding block front, on Long Acre Square, 43d to 44th Street, with dwellings and apart- ments in the rea: 200x200 feet, valued near reduction to Robert E. Simon, who r sold promptly at a good profit to F mous Players-Lasky Corporation, Bankers Trust Company paid less than $2,000,000 to the English Astors for Nos, 10-12 Wall Street, adjoining ita home skyscraper on the northwest corner of Nassau Street, as the site for an addition, the property having deen appraised above $3,000,000 a few years ago. The New York Astors sold the old Schermerhorn Buildir at No, 9 Broadway, with frontages on Wall and Pine Streets, to American Surety Company, which owns the ad- joining skyscraper on the Pine Street edrner, value and selling price having been much the same as those of the neighboring parcel taken by Bankers’ "Trust Company. The recent transfer of $40,000,000 metropolitan holdings by Lord Astor to hig son,,Capt. John Jacob Astor, recently gave them some relief from tax exactions, because an income di- vided among two is not subject to such a rapid increase of the surtax as when held intact. The Astors have liquidated Bronx tracts also, and Vincent Astor succeeded this week in trading forty unproductive lots on Seventh Avenue, 149th and 150th Streets, for a $600,000 twelve-story apartment hotel at No, 105 West 724 Gtreet, designed to pay income enough to leave a fair margin above his eurtax. The tax pressure against incomes from large holdings is alarming bankers and financial institutions heavily involved in realty, They urge legislation to relieve the drain so that many mulliong more shall not be with- covering TAT GHVAYEN ALLMAN WHO ATS TOL ROBBERY With Six Patrons Lined Up by Robbers, Bartender’s Re- sistance Is Fatal. Two men walked into the saloon of William Hettendorf at Webster Ave- nue and 175th Street, the Bronx, last night at a few minutes after mid- night just as the bartender, Louis Seylock, fifty-eight years old, of No. | 88 North Sixth Street, North Pelham, was telling the only two customers in the place, Dominic Damico, No. 1754 Washington Avenue, and Theo- dore Cowdrick of No, 630 St. Paul's Place, that he was going to close up. The two newcomers brandished re- volvers and shouted: “Hands up, everybuuy " Damico and Cowdirick promptly put their hands in the «ir. Seylock reached under the bar, seized a club and ran around to confront the thieves. The nearest one fired a shot into his breast. The other man fired a shot which went wild. The two then ran to the street and disap- penred. A woman in the window of an apartment across the street, whose atiention had been attracted by the two shots leaned out and saw a man leaning against the radiator of a taxi- cab which was standing by the side door of the saloon. Three men came out, jumped into the car and after an excited altercation with this man rau away on 175th Street. She then roused other tenants and an alarm was telephoned to the Bronx police beadquarters, Detective Joseph Riley ran five blocks from headquarters to the loon, He found Seylock dead, an empty taxicab at the side door and Damico and Cowdrick being ques- tioned by persons who had run in from the neighborhood. While he was making inquiries, Alexander Dator of One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street GIBSON AD WE HN PRSON ON THO GAY CHARGES |Man Said to Have Married Five Times—One Wife Dead and One Divorced. @ (Special to The Evening World.) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Oct. 4— Frank H. Gibson of Manhattan, who {t is alleged has been married, five to be his fifth wife, were arraigned to-day before County Judge Frank L. Young at White Plains, under indict~ ments for bigamy, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson were arrested on bench warrants issued to District Attorney Davis at Richmond, Vir- | winia, Deputy Sheriffs Benjamin Craw- ford and John Kelly making the ar- rests, and the man was locked up in the White Plains Jail. Mrs, Gibson, who was Ida May Usted of Ossining, was married in that township two months ago, She is under indictment for having feloni- ously married a man who has a wife living. Gibson, who 1s fifty years old, denies that he is a bigamist and pleaded not guilty. | According to Capt. Thomas Ander-| son of New York Salvation Army! Prison reform worker, who caused his arrest, Gibson was located through the efforts of Mrs. Bessie Gibsoa, wlleged to be wife No. 3, of No. 47 West 16th Street, New York. She helped find Gibson in Richmond, after it was al- leged he had married Miss Usted, at Ossining. This was soon after he finished a term of three years in the, Eastern Penitentiary, Philadelphix, to | which be was sentenced after he had | a Westcl 5 girl, | his four wircttehester County girl, ‘ter his fifth marriage the police say Gibson, who is a proofreader, fete fained employment with the publish- of ubleday, Pagy So. Garden City, L. 1. From “hare he went to Philadelphia and then took his fifth wife with him to Richmond. De uty Sheriff Crawford says that he learned that Gibson's first wite died and the second divorced him. The last Mrs. Gibson is twenty-three years old, and during the trip from Richmond the officers say that she was very devoted to the prisoner, and Webster Avenue walked into the saloon and said he was the chauffeur who had driven the murderers to the place, Dator said that he had been at his stand at Third Avenue and 149th Street at 11.15 o'clock when a man got into the cab and told him to drive to Third Avenue and 153 Street. Two men were on the corner. One of them put a revolver at his head, he said, and ordered him to get into the ton- neau of the cab with the first passen- ger. The other man slipped into the drivers seat and the man with the re- volver slipped into the front besides the new driver, The cab was then driven down to 22d Street and First Avenue, he said, and then turned back, arriving at the saloon a little after midnight. ‘The man in the seat with him, he said, held him under the threat of the re- volver while the other two went into the saloon. He heard two shots, the two men came out and he drove them a few blocks away when they jumped from the cab and left him, and he returned to give himself up and aid the police. Dator was held as a material wit- ness. An examination of his taxi- meter showed that it registered but $9. A conservative amount for the register to show, detectives at Bronx Headquarters said, after careful com- putations based on Dator’s story, was $17. The woman in the window opposite the saloon was positive that three men ran from the side door of the saloon to the cab and that there was no One guarding the chaffeur who was standing beside his car when they ran to it. . ‘The police asked Dator if his cab had not stalled when his passengers ran from the saloon and if he had not run away with them. He denied this, asserting he had not moved from the vicinity after the shots. Dator said the highwaymen had robbed hm of a watch and his license. He had some money and a silver cigarette case in his pockets, Seylock wag alone in charge of the saloon. The proprietor had been away all day on a fishing excursion. wae Ba tala MARKEWICH PLEADS GUILTY. '. Ala A oe Res Laisa Pre- fusely to Jadge Mayer. Samuel Markewich, an assistant to District Attorney Swann, pleaded guilty of contempt of court before Federal Judge Mayer yesterday and offered a profuse apology for remarks which he made at a meeting Sept. 18 in Public School No, 62, on Hester Street, called to discuss Judge Mayer's order directing discontinuance of the four storage bat- tery lines because they were unprofitable to the surface railway system, Judge Mayer accepted the attorney's plea and, reserved his decision, He re: marked that he felt gratified for the honor of the profession that Markewich had geen fit to make such an apology, | Federal Attorney Francia G. Caffey made the complaint, drawn from real estate. They say the first beneficial move would be the | passage’ of the Federal measure in- troduced to exempt income on mort- gages up to $40,000. They declare it is the chance of a generation for small investors, free from heavy taxes, to secure bargains while rich , holders are forced to NEW ESSEX COURT, STILLUNFINISHED, IS FALLING APART Abode of East Side Justice’ Moves to Tombs Court To-Day. There {s joy at New Essex Market Court to-day, for the attendants and court attaches have a two-day vaca- tion, This morning the “grand old temple of justice” of the east side, for the first time in history, leaves Its | precincts and migrates to the Tombs Court at No, 110 White Street, where | all cases will be heard Saturday, Sun- | day and Monday. Monday the at- | taches of the first court will be free | places, The reason for this innovation 1s, officially, that the contractors, who were expected to finish the new court on May 1, may put in the Judge's bench, which heretofore has been an ordinary desk, No railing has been as yet placed in the court, and on that account there was much confusion and the court attaches have been kept on the jump. Every few minutes a round-up has been necessary to place the undesirables in their proper seats on the benches. Another theory is advanced by those who do not fear official eritictsm. Every time a rainstorm pervades the east side, the grand old temple st to molt, or come apart, or somethin First the cork floor came up; always. the cells are damp and musty paint was evidently called off by its walking delegate, for when court op in the morning it could b« sponged from the walls and distilled into a bucket. Thongh it was put on in May, signs “Paint” warned that it was not dry yet. Those who opened the court found that they must open negotiations with thelr tailor before Sunday; lawyers, witnesses, reporter and spectators—all received their paint coats, However, even Bar Association could not city job finished in two y is no complaint; instead, th who are daubed and smeared smile chee fully lack of the ornate decoration And the eagles, which, accordi the Essex Market to the contractor, cost a hundred dollars each, still spread their wings at the court entrance, and cry lustily that everything is peaceful and quiet at the grand old temple of justic ee DOHERTY’S DAY OF FUN. Children of New York Staff and Employees ve Outing, The children of the members of the executive staff and employees of Henry lL, Doherty & Co., No, 60 Wall Stree are enjoying an outing to-day on river and land, Instead of their parents hav- ing the care of the kiddies they are in the hands of trained nurses, and entertainers and lar kid's day, So their Joy themselves too, The Robert Fulton has been chartered for the occasion, and at Bear M arrangements have been m: kinds of games, in some of elders will participat The Doherty organization now num- bers approximately 19,000 employees in its various branches, and w York staft has 600, of which to-day's outing Ja as much of a get-together proposition as ony of enjoyment for the kiddies, teac’ arents will en- times, and his wife, Ida, who !s said) and those of the third will take their | I NING Novelists May Rhapsodize ~ Romancer’s to Bring Forth but Almost. IAT could be sweeter than a tory entitled “The Piece of | Novelists, writers of jmote, and others have for years ,Searched everywhere for an. ex- cuse for writing such an epic. It is 80 good that one would say, at first glance, that it could not be rue. Yet yesterday, at Essex Market, where all things come if one waits long enough, there came the provo- cation for writing the following, which 1s hereby titled “The Piece of Cheese, or the Mysterious Disap- pearance of the Odoriferous Product versus Michael and John be | mediately called and disposed anything they are willing to maybe unsatisfactorily, virtues besides. “This is Headquarters, report. “Whew! Call Frank at once. the case Direnzo, who happened to happen at that moment. attack?” Bill, smothered voice. “Just call the ca: _WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1919, Over ‘The Piece of Cheese,’ But Essex Market? Never! «3... The Poet's Chance to Produce an Epic and the the Great|s. who would buy. receive or steal American Novel Bobs Up inthe Grand Old Temple of Justice and Is Not Entirely Lost, That was somewhat astonishing, for | ordinarily when the wily cops nip the wheels of justice grind long and “Hello,” said Bill Beirns, who an- Swers the telephone, and has other came the We are suffocating.” “What is it?” inquired Prosecutor “Is there a gas “Is there a gas attack?" repeated “Don't make me talk,” came the 7 | John twenty-three and a halt | and Mike had the rest when arrested, They sald they had bought them from a push m recelving stolen goods, . 112. pounds worth $40, which T pald,” sald “They cost me 40 cents a pound,” are hn. The ceivers had paid less than phen | ket value of the cheese and were were open to suspicion anyway. Any | se deserved a season ticket | to Bellevue. Kssex Market fairly writhed. The Panhandlers' Local 666 | started to draw up | a formal petition \ to hold the caso in the country or somewhere. But it | went on. “The cheese | market sometimes fluctuates,” clared the att for the defense. “But this may be good cheese,” declared Mr. Direnso, who did his duty between breaths. “Don't be foolish,” returned the wyer from the depths of a towel. “A cheese is a cheese, no matter what you do with tt,” was the next argument, “They all look like rolling pins, but there is a peculiar mark and a pe- cullar odor which make ‘dentifica- | tion certain in this case,” The defendants, selves suffering, agreed to give up | such © JOONT Be 70061 S+41/) jm of, let of in of the italian Dairy.” Good? And|Oh, the choses. tho cheese if they might go into the has the punch? 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Some one in jthe throng fired two shots, | Smith threw up his pnands and yelled to Wey: “Joe, I'm shot.” a ed to Polyclinic Hosp! tal, Meantime, fully fifty other \axis Joined the chase of the fleeing one, going down Broadway to 47th street, to Ninth Avenue and thence to 44th Street, where the first taxi again turned west, skidded and landed against a sidewalk, A lone passenger within and the chauffeur had disap- peared when the pursuers reached spot, . At the Polyclinic it ~was found a bullet had entered Smith's body three inet below the heart, ni he was |quickly taken to Bellevue, where he was placed on the operating table. When the exel ent had died down in Broadway, and reserves who had been sent there had returned to the station, William Kell, 4 detec- tive of the warrant squad, appeared there and unravelled the inystery. He said he was trying t serve & warrant on George Graham fur none support and Graham leaped for @ taxicab, . As le did so the detective fired @ shot to trigbten him, Wheh Graham did not stop he fired two more shots. It déveloped that the first of the three shots had hit Smith, although it was fully two mine utes before he discovered the fact, Tt was sald at Bellevue early this morningy that Smith is seriously wounded. MAY INDIGT QUEENS WOMEN ON ILLEGAL VOTING GHARGE Grand Jury to Hear Evidence That Names of Dead Men and Non- Residents Were Voted, According to information from Dis- trict Attotney O'Leary's office In the Queens County Court House in Long Island City yesterday, women political workers in that borough are going to week. lt was rumored that after the Grand Jury meets on Monday, in dictments will be found against of the women who were active im the Fecent prinaries. 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