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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. AUGUST 3. 1912.

MIDSUMMER REAL ESTATE NEWS-BUILDERS' PLANS-SALES AND COMMENTS MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS, HATHAWAY GROUP OF KINKO DUPLEX HOUSES FOR BROOKLYN AVENUE SECTION Brooklyn Board of Real ROOM 207. 1B MONTAGIE ST. TEL. 2MO MAIM.

IF YOU WANT TO SELL or rent a house, or if you want to buy or hire, write a postal to one of the following; real estate experts. They are members oi a reputable and strict organization that guards the interests of all concerned. Jamaica the Metropolis Of the Borough of Queens Great Traffic Center of Long Island Will Be Brought Four Miles Nearer Brooklyn Bridge Thirty-five Minutes From Manhattan for a Five-Cent Fare Over Two i Lines in Near Future Two Electric Lines of Long Island Railroad Whirl Passengers to Heart of Brooklyn and Manhattan in Seventeen Minutes Big Build- ing Boom Now On. former town of Jamaica as far east as iiWWi L1F-1 nny one would sent you well. BAI 1,10 BAHRKHA.

221 surf Conejr Uland. LOI'IS BRICK'S SONS, Ult Fulton Street. J. D. H.

HERGES (Off, J14 Court Street. M. J. BRADLEY, 1U Montaue Htreet. JAS.

L. BR1HIIKY, 18 Momacue Street. BH.KI EY HORTON Myrtle Clinton An, Bedford Bergen 3t ISAAC H. CART, 200 Fulton Btreet. SIO.

CEDERSTROlf, 201 Montague Street. THE CHAllvrKV REAL ESTATE) CO. 187 Monlarue Street. JOHN F. III HI.O, 790 Franklin Avenue.

NOAH CI. ARK, C. L. Gilbert. Pre 27 Manhattan 731 Noatrand AT.

ISAAC CORTELYOU, 19 Montague street. BARRY A. CROSBY, 293 Greene Avenue. TBOS. R.

FARRELL, 253 Flatbunh Avenue. JAMES B. FISHER, Ml Brooklyn. coney island near Beverley Koad. HENRY FLEGENHEIMER, 55 Broadway.

LOUIS GOLD, 44 Court Street. W. H. GOIiUEY, 82 Flatbunh Avenue. E.

J. A 8. GRANT, 189 Montague Street. JOHN F. JAMES A SONS, 193 Montaffue Street.

JERE JOHNSON JR. 193 Montague Brooklyn, lsj Broadway, Manhattan. KelieT. Rnvrfeim A llrnhfiiier. 147 Broadway, S7 Grand Street, Brooklyn.

B. F. KNOWLES COHirANI, 176 Broadway. Brooklyn. EVERETT KHUN, 471 Sumner Av.

GEO. E. LOVETT 806 Livingston Street Being Erected by the Kings and Westchester Land Company. Six of Them Will Be Located on Brooklyn Avenue, Between St John's and Lincoln Places, and Six Will Bo Erected on St. John's Place, 90 Feet South of Brooklyn Avenue.

PLAN NEW STATION FOR OCEANSIDE REPUTABLE BROKERS ELIGIBLE FOR MEMBERSHIP. Estate Brokers, W. J. T. LYNCH, 2 Court Street.

MEN IK. MAY, 112 Myrtle Avenue, at Broadway. Wll.l.lAM MOKR1SEX, 189 Montague street. VEWBKG1M REALTY (42 Flatbuah Avenue. S.

NOONAN, 73 Sixth Avenue, earner FlAtbnak. CHARLES PARTRIDGE, a rranklln Avenue. DAVID PORTER. 189 Unniirn. Htraefr.

JOHN PULLMAN REAL ESTATE CO union Btreet. HOWAHO c. PYI.E ot CO, 19 Montagu Street. WILLIAM P. RAE 110 Montagu 400 Noitrand Av.

REDMOMD BROTHERS, (13 Vanderbllt Avenue. WILLIAM G. REHBEIlf, 427 Seventh Avenue. THOMAS B. ROGERS, 829 Orand Btreet FRANK A.

SEAVER, Bay Ridge 680 Third Av Xryker HelgtU FEN WICK 13. SMALL, 39 Broadway. Brooklyn. CLARENCE B. SMITH, 1424 Fulton Street.

WILLIAM H. SMITH, 181 Montague Street. CHARLES C. STELLE, tl Fifth Avenue. NATHAN STERN, 7M Flushing Avenue.

MAURICE G. STRAUS, 189 Montague at. TIMM A BEHRENS, 190 Montague Street. FRANK H. TYLER, 1183 Fulton Street.

A. J. WALDRON, 1163 Bedford Avenue. ARTHUR H. WATERMAN, 18S Montague Street.

SAMUEL WELSCH, 07 Montague Street. ROBERT A. WRIGHT, 254 Tompktna Avenue. Front Doom, Window Guard. Basement Gates Fire Escape.

CHAS. STREBEL SONS 1732-1736 Myrtle Brooklyn Telephones 4246-4247 Bushwlck. Estimates. Designs and Prices on Application. MARQUISE) CANOPIES UATGS RAILINGS WINDOW GUARDS) GRILLES FENCES SUIT PARLORS AND IRON AND GLASS FRONT DOORS A SPECIALTY.

JULIUS MOCK 777-87 Rutland BROOKLYN. Phone 4838 Flatbuah can point out places where people ar likely to settle five years hence you will be selecting the places where values are most likely to Increase. William E. Har-i man. The pavement of Bay street, from Hannah street, Tompkinsville, to Thompson street, Stapleton, Staten Island, is to be changed.

The new pavement will be of wood block. This Is one of the principal thoroughfares of Staten Island which now paved with coblestones. A Journal to be Issued now and then by the Brooklyn League is called the "Occasional. One oi tne ODjects oi in publication will be to keep the members posted on taxation matters ana to iook up the assessed valuations on their prop erty. The annual meeting of the Institute Operating Engineers will bo held at the Engineering Societies Building, New York.

September 6 and 7. DetallB will bo announced as the programme takes more definite form. Community interest is claiming the attention of realty developers on Long Island. More than ever before In the building of townB and comnlunlties have owners of vaBt tracts of land found It necessary to provide for their home-makers some objective point ot pleasure, some centrifugal force that shall draw the scattered threads of a community together for the benefit and the happiness of all. To their splendid facilities for taking care ot the amusement as well as the comfort of home seekers, the T.

B. Acker-son Company attribute much of the success of Brightwaters. Through the medium of membership in the Brightwaters Association the people enjoy the privileges of the Casino, the freedom of the large concrete bathing pavilion, moorings in the yacht harbor, canoeing on the lakes, access to the tennis courts and many other advantages found in few developments however pretentious. The tax books this year open Tuesday, October 1, and close for real estate on Friday, November 15, and on personal estate Saturday, November 30. This ap plies to taxes for 1913.

The last half of the 1912 taxes are due on November 1 next. If not paid then Interest at the rate of 7 per cent, per anum from May 1, 1912, will be charged on sums unpaid. Controller Prendergast says that the new law providing for the semi-annual collection of taxes has proven a buo-cess and that of a total tax levy of 956,705.75 for 1912 over 76,000,000 has already been collected. Henry F. Sawyer has bought the Italian cottage situated on the south side of Nassau road, between West Drive and East Drive, In KenBington, Great Neck, for a consideration of J18.200, from the Rlekert-Finlay Company.

The house is of fireproof hollow til contsruction, with stucco finish. The design was displayed at the last exhibition of the Architectural League, being published In that organization's year book. Van Wyck avenue will be served by the Liberty Avenue extension of the Kings County road, and east of that by the extension over Jamaica avenue to the easterly section of the village ot Jamaica. This great district, comprising from to acres and extending from Atlantic avenue on the north to Jamaica Bay on the south, and from the Brooklyn line out to Springfield and St. Albans, is still largely undeveloped, and lotB have not advanced to a price that Is prohibitive for the home of the man of small means.

The class of modest small buildings that have been constructed and are now being built precludes high prices for this class for a long time to come. There Ib room In this territory to provide homes for 300,000 families in one and two-family houses where the privacy of family life may be assured. Building Boom Under Way. Between 3.000 and 4.000 of the one and two-family frame dwellings have already been built in the past two or three years south of Atlantic avenue and between the easterly limits of the old village ot Jamaica and Woodhaven. Hundreds of Homes for Small Wage Earners.

The greatest activity Is now being shown in that section south of South street, bisected by New York avenue and extending west to Fulton Heights and the Deniton section. This is a modest price home section. Hundreds of one-family. two-story, six to eight-room frame houses with all modern improvements, selling with the lot at from $2,900 to $4,500 each, are going up In every direc tion on Cumberland. Union Hall, Vine, Globe, Pacific and Atlantic streets and Merrick road.

These houses are on thirty to forty-foot lots, with air and light on every side. Several blocks of attractive and well built brick two-story two-family dwellings, wltfi every modern improvement, are being built in the same neighborhood. They sell at an average of $5,000 each. A splendid modern four-story brick grammar and primary scnooi duiiq-Ing is being erected at the corner of Cumberland and Union Hall streets. All of this district Is within from nve to twelve minutes walk of one or more or the Long Island Railroad stations, which, with the Brooklyn subway, take passengers to Wall street in twenty-flve min utes.

Connected With All the Country by Fast Trains. F. W. Scutt, in speaking of the future of Jamaica, says: "With the completion ot tne new option of the Long Island Railroad, in tho heart of this village, by next summer, the splendid electric service already In operation between hiatDusn nveuuo, Brooklyn, and Pennsylvania station, Manhattan, bringing us within seventeen nf either terminal, and the future electrification of the Montauk Division to Long Island later, with the completion of tho frniiov linn of the Manhattan and Ja maica Railroad Company from the Queensboro Bridge to this village, and with the assured extension ui mo lyn elevated lines on the north and Bouth sides of Atlantic avenue in the next two or three years, and the Inauguration of a fast express service, Jamaica will be nr.Kr o-nnri nlnep to live in. "Besides this, one can reach Flushing and College Point on the north side and the beaches on the side by trolley lines, and any part of Long Island by railroad from the nronosed new Btation of i laiAnd Railroad.

A building boom will soon be under way both north and south of the proposed new station, on -troBf Hillside avenue, Kaplan avenue and Hoffman Boulevard. Jamaica is soon dcBtlned to become the great traffic and business center of the Borough of Queens. SOCIAL LIFE AT NEPONSIT. BI-Weekly Dances at Club Attract Many From Brooklyn. The House Committee of the Neponsit Club has arranged to hold a Berles of dances on each Wednesday and Satur day night.

Heretofore these dances were held on Saturday nights only, but they have proved so popular among the residents and their friends that in response to the many requests the Wednesday nleht dances have been added. These informal affairs are being Immensely enjoyed, and at last Saturday night's entertainment more than thirty couples from New York and Brooklyn participated, returning to their homes ou the midnight train from the Rock-away Park station. The past week has been a very enjoyable one socially. A number of out-of-town people have vlBlted their friends at NeponBit; prominent among them may he mentioned Mrs. Robert C.

Black, who has been visiting her son, Wltherbee Black, at his summer home at Neponsit. Mrs. Black's yacht, the Reposo II, has been lying off the Neponsit Club Jamaica Bay. One of the principal beneficiaries of the proposed rapid transit extensions Into Brooklyn and Queens will be the en-tiro portion ot the former Town of Jamaica, north of Atlantic avenue, including Woodhaven, Richmond Hill and Jamaica, which sections will, upon the 'completion of the third tracking of the Broadway and Fulton street elevated railroad, Brooklyn, and the extension of the elevated from Cypress Hills over Jamaica avenue to the heart of the village of Jamaica, be brought from fifteen to thirty minutes nearer Manhattan for a five cent fare than the present urban lines. A similar traffic Improvement will take place on the south side with the extension of the old Kings County Elevated line over Liberty avenue, as far east as Lefferts avenue, directly south of the Morris Park station of the Long Island Railroad.

Jamaica to Be Brought to Downtown Manhattan Than the Bronx. These elevated lines will be used In connection with the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges and the Centre street loop in Manhattan to give to the former town of Jamaica, now the Fourth Ward of Queens, and the Rldgewood and Middle Village sections of the former town of Newtown a service fully equal to that of the Bronx. It is expected that after the third tracking Is completed and the elevated extension to Jamaica that the run can be made from East New York to the Centre Btreet loop by express trains in twenty minutes and from Richmond Hill and Morris Park to Centre street loop in thirty minutes, and in thirty-five mln-utes from Jamaica. The run from and Middle Village will take from twenty to twenty-five minutes to Manhattan. The tracks will be built heavy enough for third tracking when desired ell the way to Jamaica.

It is expected that the express track on the Broadway line and the elevation of the tracks from Rldgewood station of Itbe Myrtle avenue elevated to Lutheran Cemetery, Middle Villnge, will be completed within from one to two years of the time of the beginning of the work of construction. It will be necessary to make a physical connection between the Broadway and the Myrtle avenue lines at Myrtle avenue crossing of Broadway. The completion of the line to Richmond Hill and Jamaica will take from two to three years from the time ot the beginning of the work. 1,000 Splendid Steel Cars to Be Built. The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Ihas made arrangements for the building of 1,000 new steel cars, to be ten feet in width and to carry BO per cent, more passengers than the present subway cars.

The total outlay for these cars will reach the stupendous total of $13,000,000. It Is said that those who oppose an extension of the service compare the present accommodations with those of the four-track subway in Manhattan. It Is expected by the officials that the ser on the new elevated lines upon the completion of the third track for express trains will, through Brooklyn, fully equal to the present subway set in Manhattan. The two track extei. to Jamaica will furnish as good a service as the two track subway section In the Bronx.

Town of Jamaica Moved Four Miles Nearer Manhattan. The effect of this splendid service and reduction of running time over the line, through Brooklyn will. It is predict, ed, be tremendous. It is equivalent to moving the whole town of Jamaica three or four miles nearer to Manhattan. It Is said that the passenger receipts of the Mnnhattan lines average $330,000 per mile, whereas on the Brooklyn lines the average is only $144,000 per mile, which showB the possibilities of future traffic on the Brooklyn and Queens lines when tlfe third tracking shall have been completed and the express service inaug urated.

The new territory served will bring such an Influx of population Into the town of Jamaica that the passenger earnings ot the Long Island lines will be doubled in a very few years. Owing to the partnership provision between the city and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com pany the city will be a very much fa vored silent partner In the operation of the lines to the extent of many millions annually and will profit by the enormoiiB Increase of assessed valuation from the thousands of buildings to be erected. Solving the Problem of One-Family Homes for Wage Earners. The extension of the above-named lines ilnto the town of Jamuica will go a great ways toward solving the question of giving the Industrious mechanic, clerk or other small wage earner an opportunity to have a home of his own and have an opportunity to bring up his family in the privacy of a one-family dwelling within Ills means. The entire south side of the TWO LONG ISLAND DOUBLE OF WOODROW WILSON W.

Durant, Besident Manager of Jamaica Estates, Who Has Been Mistaken Several Times for tlie Democratic Presidential Nominee. brick store and dwelling subject to two mortgages aggregating vr.v T. Rallnirlier sold Eugenie Ger ard and the latter sold Pauline Paradis three lots at RocKaway i-aric wun mi-tage subject to a mortgage ot $10,000. Jackson-Steinway Company sold to Currle Realty Company a plot of twelve and one-half lots at Long Island City with a frontage of 250 feet west side of Fourteenth avenue, Long Island City, 650 feet north of Graham avenue, subject to a mortgage of $14,800. West Rockaway Construction Company sold to Sidney Meyer nine lot3 west side ot Dakota street, 184 feet' south of Washington avenue and extending southerly to the Ocean, and including all rights to the ocean front, Bubject to a mortgage of $8,000.

Samuel D. Roe, executor of Sarah A. Vanderverg, sold to Eugene I. Vander. verg five acres of meadow at soutn Jamaica, west side of a creek adjoining Nicholas Everett.

Gustive C. C. Schrader sold to Amy Francis Leach a plot of one and one-tenth acres at Hopedale between Forest Hills and Newland Heights with a frontage of 100 feet south side of Hoffman boulevard, 442 feet east of Remsen avenue, subject to a mortgage of $7,080. The property is covered with greenhouses. Staphan Building Company sold to Bernard J.

Huewell five plots In the Ridgewood section. One has a frontage of 47 feet south side of Myrtle avenue 78 feet northwest side of Norman street; another 9714 feet north side of Millwood avenue and 20 feet west side of Sandol street, subject to a mortgage of another 20 feet west side of Sandol street, 60 feet north of Millwood avenue; another 20 feet south side of Myrtle avenue, 84 feet east of Stephen street and still another 20 feet south side of Myrtle avenue, 184 feet east of Stephen street. Lccorn Building Company gave to the Title Guarantee and Trust Company six mortgages of $5,000 each on six lots north side of Myrtle avenue, east of Anthon avenue. Estate of Henry Kraemer sold to William Schmidt for $11,000 a plot at White-stone 100 feet north side of Second avenue and 100 feot west side of Ninth street, College Point. Bert Tucman sold to Marie V.

Fitzgerald a plot 119 feet west side of Eliz abeth avenue, Whltestone, 100 feet south of Fourteenth street, 197 feet in depth, subject to a mortgage of $3,000. HISTORY. 1i I ifilillllllii it llilll HHSPiplttll QUEENS REALTY MARKET ACTIVE The Real Estate Reaction Following the Boom Year Now Abating. TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS AID. A Gift by the City of $2,000,000 of Splendid Highways and Big Railroad Improvements Help Borough.

A total of 3,566 real estate papers were recorded In the Queens County Clerk's office during the month of July, the biggest July since 1906, and as there was a big slump In business toward the end of that year it is predicted that 1912 will be the banner year in the county's history. The total of papers recorded in July, 1911, was in 1910, In 1909, in 1908, 2,976. The total recorded for the first sevea months of 1912 was 20,609 as compared with 19,553 for the first seven months of 1911; 19,252 in same months of 1910; 1909, 18,523 and 1908, 15,250. There Ib a more hopeful feeling ex pressed among real estate owners in Queens than for five or six years past. The reaction that set in after the frenzied boom year of 1906 has abated and the country has gradually grown up to the advance in sections near the Long Island Railroad station and trolley lincB all over the borough.

This is largely accounted for by the immense Improvement of traffic condl tions, owing to the Long Island Rail road improvements, including the Penn sylvanla terminal under the East River, the electrification of all lines west of Jamaica and the promised completion by October of the electrification of the North Shore Division to Whltestone Land ing and by June, or July next, to Fort Washington, which will give the residents of Whltestone, College Point, Flushing, Baysldo, Douglaston and Great Neck the advantage of through electric service to Pennsylvania station without any change as at present at Woodside. Another traffic factor is the extension of the Myrtle Avenue L. to Lutheran Cemetery and the early third tracking of the Broadway line that will bring the Ridgewood section within 25 minutes of Manhattan. Another important factor in stiffening prices is the anticipated early extension of the Brooklyn line and the Klng'B County line out to Jamaica serving both the north and south sides of the town and bringing them within from 25 to 35 minutes of the Centre Street loop in Manhattan for a 5-cent fare upon the completion of the third tracking in Brooklyn to be followed by an express service. The operation of cars over the Queensboro bridge, the proposed early early opening of the Belmont tunnel, the rapid transit extensions to Corona and Astoria and the completion by next summer of the Manhattan and Jamaica line over Queens Boulevard have had a great effect.

Moreover the splendid system of highways now being built at a cost of by the city without expense to the local taxpayers is a big factor in making Queens popular. Some Important Realty Sales. Frederick Boschen and Harry V. Whipple sold to Hepsa H. L.

Donaldson 26 lots on the west side of Oak street, Richmond Hill. There are 11 two-story brick houses on 11 of the lots, a solid brick row. The other lots are unimproved, there being two old frame houses upon them. The property begins 175 feet north of Stewart avenue and extends northerly to the southerly boundary of the Bank of Long Island. The whole property is said to be worth about $76,000.

Joseph Blschoff sold to Karoltna Haug Model Homes ofOn this street Mr. Collins has erected number of bouses designed after homes he saw In Chester, England, and con trasted with the oia nomcsteaa ncxi door, they show two periods In the history of Flatbush. Mr. Collins, who lives in Flatbush and who has always shown great Interest In its landmarks, has de-elded to offer the Vanderbllt house to the Park Department to be used as a museum. Mr.

Collins believes that very 07n the last relic of old Flatbush will -'I tV. 'I 011:1 W. 4 arY 1 Will Be Located South of Pres. ent Atlantic Avenue Stop. The effects of the electrifica tion of the Long Beach Division ot the Long Island Railroad on real estate along Its route north of Long Beach itself are being realized.

Acreage in Oceanslda that one year ago was dormant has been developed along substantial lines and sold in plots ranging from 40x100 feet In size upward. About one year ago the Windsor Land and Improvement Company bought the last undeveloped area In Oceanslde, comprising 200 acres in the southern pact, overlooking Long Beach. The Long Island Railroad Company has decided to remove its station known as Atlantic avenue 2,210 feet south ot its present site and rename it Oceanslde. The old bulding will be demolished and In Its place on the new site will be erected a modern brick station 70x25 feet In size. It will be roofed with red terra cotta and adorned with white colonial columns and surrounded with a concrete promenade.

The interior will have a tile floor and other modern appurtenances The change of location of the station means a general forward movement at Oceanslde. Property along the Long Beach Division and north of the beach heretofore has not been an investment quantity because of the lack of good railroad facilities; and, the salient fea ture now in this section Is active whereas in the past the ocean front only was considered, while the intervening area was overlooked. The railroad improvement has not only Increased traffic to Long Beach, but it has helped the railroad company as well as property TalueJ in the intervening territory by increasing the traffic there. In other words greater accessibility is mutually beneficial to all concerned. A new boulevard has been built et Oceanslde to connect directly with the new station.

Known as Windsor Park way it connects directly with Long Beach road, which is the main highway between the south shore and the ocean front. The latest developing and selling is in the stretch of territory between the new sta tlon site and the highway mentioned be cause it is practically the last unde veloped section of Oceanslde! and, in the light of all the circumstances, it is destined to grow along modern lines. Five years ago it 'seemed hardly worth while for developers to undertake handling property here, and it may be said to be a case of where improvement was necessary rather than forced, because increased accessibility between 1t and New York City made property there a logical real estate proposition. CARE OF HARDWOOD DOORS They Should Not Be Hung in Freshly Plastered Buildings. When unfinished hardwood doors are placed in a damp room they quickly ab sorb moisture In the air, and consequently expand or swell; and, when they return to normal conditions (that is, when the moisture dries out), the doors are warped and the Joints open.

This can easily be prevented by a little precaution and care in handling the doors. All doors are shipped "In the white" (unfinished), and moisture must now be allowed to penetrate the doors. As quickly as possible after receiving tho doors have your finisher give them at least one coat ct filler, and immediately after fitting the doors, paint or shellac the ton and bottom edges. Front doors Before the glass is stt, fill the doors and varnish with at least two coats the best exterior varnish. Moldings around glass should be removed and two coats of shellac applied.

Class should be bedded in putty. Don't hung your doors In a damp, fresh- ly plastered building. This refers not only to doors, but to all kinds of flue interior finisli. Jlortar contains large quantities or water and until that niois ture has dried out of the walls the building is in no condition to receive hardwood doors or fine Interior finish. A manufacturer cannot be blamed for defective work if the goods upon which every care is exercised in the making are not properly handled at the building.

Artificial heat to help dry out before hardwood doors and flue interior finish are put in is always advisable. If the above suggestions are carried out, every standard hardwood veneered door can be relied on to stay perfect and prove a lasting thing of beauty. American Carpenter and Builder. GRAND STREET HOUSE SOLD. John H.

Gelhnrdt, has sold In con-Junction with the Mueller Realty Company the two-story frame dwelling at Grand street for Edna A. Delapotterle to a client, who will occupy it as a place of residence. This house Is one of tho finest of its kind in the Union Court sec tloo. em.fnrw TqiiAWD TAMI ROT.D STATEN ISiAIMX) FAUM bOhU. Sewell Brothers sold for tho Metro politan Really Company to Sydney D.

'vls of Manhattan a thlrly-five acre lurm at Huguenot. S. FChat of the I Realty World. 1 (or NE of the youngest and most act ive members of the Brooklyn Board of Real Estate Brokers is George H. Gray, of the firm of Howard C.

Pyle the Montague street brokers. He has served on many of its most lmpor tant committees and has often represent ed the organization in securing public improvements for many sections in llis borough. Mr. Gray was born in 138th street, Manhattan, December 4, 1883. He grauated from high school In the spring of 1898, with his mind made up to study law.

Just about "the time he decided to enter Columbia Law School a friend of Mb who was employed in a Brooklyn real estate office, told him of the real estate boom George H. Gray. about to start In the Flatbush section. It was about this time that the realty market generally was showing signs of unusual activity and Mr. Gray was quick to see the advantage of getting in on the ground floor-On Labor Day of 1899 he heard that John B.

Ohnewald, who had a small frame one-story real estate office at Ocean Parkway and Prospect avenue, had ad vertised for an office boy. After turning the matter over carefully in his mind he concluded to give the real estate business a trial, and he applied for the position. Mr. Ohnewald htm at once and started him off bright and early Monday morning with a load of newly painted tor-sale and to-let signs which he attached to houses and fences in Flatbush which Mr. Ohneald had on his bookd.

After four or five months of training in this line of work, which also included showing property to prospective buyers Mr. Gray was promoted to the Important position of manager of the office. He made many valuable friends In this section ot Brooklyn and became expert in Flatbush realty values. On September 1, 1901, he was offered a position as salesman in the downtown office of Leonard Moody Co. Here ho met Howard C.

Pyle, manager at the time of tho Remsen Btreet office of the company. Mr. I'yle, who was familiar with the downtown section and its possibilities became interested in Mr. Gray, who was making rapid progress in hie new field. In the latter part of March of 1904, Mr.

Pyle decided td go into the real' estate business for himself and he offered a partnership in tho business to Mr. Gray, who accepted. They opened the office formerly occupied by Havens at 189 Montogue street. Mr. Gray recently organized the Brooklyn Brokers Athletic Club and he is chairman of its baseball commlttoe.

He is a member of the Brooklyn Club, the Brooklyn League and the Twenty-ninth Ward Taxpayers Association. Ho married Miss Bessie C. CasBtdy in June. 1906, and his son, George H. declares that ho will follow in father's footstena and become one of Brooklyn's prominent real istate brokers.

The Gray home is 173 Woodruff avenue, Flatbueh. David Johnston, a Brooklyn architect and builder, bought from Abe Feist of the firm of Feist Feist a plot with 400 feet frontage on the north side uf Second avenue, between Roseville'avenue and North Tenth Btreet, In the Rose villa oect. on of N. J. Mr.

Jonn ston contemplates erecting a number of modern Colonial style dwellings, some of which will be of the bungalow typ, and will cost from to J12.0nn each. The sale was made for the Rosoville Realty Company. The International Association of Municipal Electricians will hold its annual convention at Peoria, 111., on August 26 to 30. From the fact that 200.000 new people settle in New York every year, a tre- mendous influence Is created any enous. rece.Biuu i uiue, uuk tt Hi i -I I i i ARCHITECTURAL PERIODS IN FLATBUSH ift HI mm TRI-BOROUGH SALES.

E. Sbarum sold to different client! at the northeast corner of Grafton and Hopktnson avenues, Woodhaven, two three story tenements on a plot 25x100 each; 183 East 206th street, Bronx, a three family frame house on a plot 27x 105; Ui'2 Brook avenue, Bronx, a four story tenement on a plot 24.4x100, near 170th Btreet. Also at 144 Grattan street, Brooklyn Porter avenue, a four story tenement, 25x100, and 969 Roger Architecture of 1796. avenue, a three story brick house with store on a plot 20x66. GLEN HEAD SALE.

Burton Thompson has sold a plot located at Glen Head, on Chestnut street, 230 feet east of Glen Cove Highway, plot 60x150, for Edward T. Payne to a client who probably will Improve the property at an early date with an artistic bungalow. ThlB Ib tho last of seventeen nlotB which have been sold by tha broker this summer same broker this summer In Cloyd'i of 1912. be removed, so rapidly are the land- marks disappearing from the old town, and, anxious to see at least one of them preserved as a reminder of the past his tory of tho section, he has decided to preBent the Vanderbllt hoiiBe to the city.) Many of Collins- neighbors who havo i heard of his generosity and lcya'ty to Flatbush. have exnresscrt a wIlllncnesH to co-operate with him In taking tho necev ary steps to turn ho house over to city authorities.

1 tho'ja HEN the old Vanderbllt hou yy I in Flatbush, which is today known as 61') maiDusn avenue, was built over 100 years ago, It was one of the most modern types of homes In Its period. Styles in architecture have greatly changed Since that time, as Its neighboring buildings show, but the old house, built of the lft material uud showing wonderful preservation, may soon go the wny other well-known Flutbush landmarks that have been razed to make room for modern structures. Tho story of tht old house and Its occupants has been told In The Kagle many times. Tho Interior of the house is practically dismantled. The property was purchased by Peter J.

Collins, tho builder, sometime ago, and a new street, adjoining the old house and called Chester Court, has been opened..