Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 19

19 BROOKLYN LIFE A Banking Tradition In Brooklyn Among the business men who have had dealings with the First National the bank has established a tradition for intelligent and friendly service. This tradition extends back to sixty-eight years ago when things were not as they are today and many of Brooklyn's most successful men and enterprises were at the beginning of their careers. This bank began with them and has followed them through to success. It can serve you in like manner. FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN BROOKLYN ESTABLISHED 1852 Broadway and Havemeyer St.

OFFICERS JOSEPH HUBER President FRED. W. KRUEGER Cashier TOHN W. WEBER Vice-President RUSSELL C. IRISH Asst.

Cashier WILLIAM S. IRISH Vice-President AUSTIN TOBEY, Jr. Cashier ANSEL P. VERITY Cashier, WILLIAM J. AHERN Trust Officer A corner of the Italian Roof Garden atop Mrs.

Jerome H. Pennock's house at 220 Columbia Heights. An Italian Roof Garden on the Heights After more than a half century, the old Sheldon house, at 220 Columbia Heights, has just been remodeled by' Lathrop Finlayson, the well known architect, into a charming duplex apartment, on the style of the luxurious apartment houses on Park Avenue, in Manhattan. The house was bought over a year ago il. T-.

TT Dy xne laie jerume n. reiiuuuv wen known in 4he Brooklyn Heights section, who planned to remodel the three upper floors to suit his practical purposes and satisfy his artistic taste. What most impressed Mr. Pennock is the superb view from the upper stories of lower Manhat housekeeping easy including an incinerator and provision for an ice machine. Connecting the dining room with the living room is a charming oval foyer, with a black and white tiled floor, whitewood paneling, and a center panel with brackets of black and silver and crystal pendants.

5 The front part of the roof garden, facing the street, is given over to the servants' quarters, with a bathroom, The master bedrooms are on the floor below the living rooms, and are fitted with three bathrooms, dressing, room and boudoir. The house is further fitted with an automatic electric elevator, exclusively for the use of this apartment, made and equipment installed. Permission has already been granted by the New York Slate Banking Department to the Brooklyn Trust Company to establish this office, and it is believed that its convenience to the fast growing Bay 'Ridge', section of the city will meet the needs of a large number ot the residents and business houses there in their banking and trust requirements. When this new branch opens the Brooklyn Trust Company will have four offices in Greater New York, all centrally located, three in Brooklyn and one 'in Manhattan, where every facility is extended its clients, for the efficient co-operation in their financial affairs personal or corporate. out over the bay, and the interior is of antique woodwork with a heavy beamed, ceiling, stained and oiled, from which are suspended two old iron candelabras.

In walking through the garden one may easily fancy oneself wandering through some fascinating corner of -old Italy, with its white stucco gleaming in the brilliant sunshine and its air of soft, lazy old-worldness. Then, a turn of the head, and there range the towering skyscrapers of New York, and the harbor filled with ships that move out to all corners of the earth. On the floor below, Mr. Finlayson has built a magnificent old English living room, paneled in oak, with a deep bay window which has a window seat running completely around it, panes of antique leaded glass, and a massive, typically English fireplace. The ceiling is a reproduction of the famous Four Feathers Inn ceiling in, Shropshire England, employing as motives the Tudor rose and Jacobean flower ornaments in a mellowed plaster design.

The dining room, was designed in the English Georgian period, with walls of whitewood paneling. In the centre is a fireplacewith a charming mantel, with a facing of black and gold marble and carved plaster ornaments of fruits and flowers on either side. The triple window fronting on Columbia Heights has a flower box below. The color; is a soft cream, and the doorway leading into the pantry adjoining is concealed in the paneling. The pantry gives into a large modern kitchen facing the street.

Here is contained every modern equipment to make tan and New York, harbor, ranging from the Statue of Liberty past the Brooklyn Bridge. Deciding to emphasize this feature to its fullest advantage, he had Mr, Finlayson design a roof garden with a summer house at the far end looking directly out upon the harbor. This is decidedly the most delightful 1 feature of the With true artistry, the architect has made of the roof an old Italian garden, on the style of the Italian riirol orrhitprtnrp Th walls are built ft MECHANICS BANK Court and Montague Streets Brooklyn, N. Y. The Oriental Way Painted and perfumed she followed the guide into the "Chinese Temple." Incense pots smoldered.

Shifting a wad of gum, she said "Gee, I smell punk." Long Tee Wah" echoed an oriental worshipper, which, translated, means "I'll say she does." -Left Go. up of stucco which in spots has fallen away to show the brick work underneath, and at one side is an old belfry tower with a characteristic little staircase leading up into the archway. The quaint doors and latticed windows are painted Italian, green, and the tiles on the roofs and the pavement are of dull red, softened with age. "At the left is a pergola with an open trellis of beams, supported by white, round columns. The summer house has tall casement windows looking An Ingenious Invention.

A new device has been gotten up to stop auto accidents. When running 15 miles an hour a white bulb shows on the radiator top, at 25 a green bulb appears, at 40 the light turns red and when the chauffeur is hitting her up at 50 or over, a music box under the seat plays "Nearer My God to Thee." 1 Capital and Surplus $2,700,000.00 Total Resources $40,000,000 MKMICR OF FEDERAL RC8ERVK 8Y8TEM LEGAL DEPOSITARY FOR COURT-AND TRUST FUNDS, Authorized to act ai Trustee, Executor. Administrator, Registrar of Stocks ana Bonds, Guardian, Assignee, Receiver, etc. mm i in. mm -t 1 i 1 1 1 i nr rrm I Brooklyn Trust Co.

Branch Office The Brooklyn Trust Company has purchased the property at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Seventy-fifth Street, Brooklyn, and will open a branch office there as soon as alterations can be -Hamilton-Trust Company No. 189-191 Montague Street Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $1,500,000 TRUSTEES Edwin A. Ames George Hadden John Anderson Walter C. Humstone Ezra D. Bushnell Charles E.

Keator David- E. Butcher F. W. Lafrenti Eversley Childt." Charles J. McDefmott Charles Cooper John C.

McGuire Daniel J. Creem Alvah Miller Julius B. Davenport Frederick H. Pouch Fredericlc H. Ecker Frank Sullivan Smith Willard E.

Edmister Meier Steinbrink -H. Folger Frederick H. Webster The Peoples Trust Company 181-183 MONTAGUE STREET THIRTY-ONE YEARS ago; this institution was or- ganized and for thirty-one years it ljas growtrv with Brooklyn and helped Brook- lyn to grow. Our facilities are complete and up-to-the-minute in every respect'. Let us make plain to you how we can serve your interests.

Resources, $40,000,000.00 A. View of the Handsome, Old English Living Room in Mrs. Pennock's house, designed and built by Lathrop Finlayson, the well-known Architect.