Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 28

BROOKLYN LIFE. 28 Social Notes. ONE of the interesting events of the spring, in amateur dramatics will be the presentation of "All the Comforts of Home" at the Cortelyou Club next week Thursday by the Alumni Association of the Manual Training High School, which this season expects to surpass all former productions. Miss J. Virginia Hawkins is coaching this year's play.

The cast is as follows: Alfred Hastings, Mr. Clarence W. Vail, Tom McDow, Mr. Paul Hesse; Theodore Bender, Mr. Sam Radnitz; Josephine Bender, Miss Blanche Anderson; Evangeline Bender, Miss Sadie Malbin; Egbert Pettibone, Mr, Arthur Schanz; Rosabelle Peitibone, Miss Louise Sharp; Emily Pettibone, Miss Florence McClockey Christopher Dab-ney, Mr.

Fordham Briggs; Judson Langhorne, Mr. Gus Collins; Fiji Oritanski, Miss Irma Clifton; Augustus McSnath, Mr. Gilbert Ackerman; Stnythe, Mr. Harry Marx; Gretchen, Miss Gladys Verfenstein; Thompson, Mr. William Marlborough; Katy, Miss Ethel Malarkey; Bailiff, Mr.

Fred Radnitz. IN the beautiful Brown Memorial Chapel, corner of Park Place and New York Avenue, the gift of James N. Brown of 208 New York on Wednesday evening of next week the annual meeting of the Brooklyn Methodist Episcopal Church Home will be held at eight clock. An interesting program has been arranged and Mr. Henry A.

Ingraham will preside. Dr. F. O. Torrey will be in charge of the devotional exercises and there will be an address by Dr.

Charles A. Flint. The soloist is to be Mr. Clarence Edgar Duryea, baritone, of the Bedford Presbyterian Church. Reports of the secretary and treasurer will be followed by a social hour and an inspection of the building.

demand than real estate developers there anticipated. With a constantly improving railroad system connecting Long Island and Manhattan it is only logical that southern Nassau County with its transit points of contact should grow apace. Because this territory is adjacent to the easterly line of the city its destiny is suburban rather than urban. Because of the growing proclivity for suburban life the greater city must divide with the suburbs the monopoly of opportunities for good real estate investments it has long held. The electric train service through suburban Long Island is bringing it into as easy reach as the elevated railroads brought Harlem in the seventies and eighties and the service on Long Island is relatively more modern than that which was then supplied to Harlem.

The significant circumstance in connection with Nassau County real estate is that the demand for it is greater than when New York City began to grow northward a generation ago. The home area of New York has reached beyond its borders. Another new era of great real estate activity is imminent on Long Island. All of the substantial land developments in this territory are within easy access of railroad stations and that means marketable property. And that is the lesson for the small investor, to stick to the line of quick transportation and as close to the center of growth as his pocketbook will allow.

Home colonies are active at Floral Park and Hempstead on the electrified part of the main line of the Long Island Railroad; at Oceanside and East Rockaway on the Long Beach division; at Lyn-brook, Valley Stream and adjacent places on the Montauk division, and at various places along the north shore. Large Hotel for Flatbush. FLATBUSH is to have a modern seven-story fireproof hotel with fifty rooms, which is to be built on the southeast corner of Flatbush and Tilden avenues. The new structure will occupy the site of a seventy-yearHold landmark, a frame building of three stories, which is to be removed to an adjoining plot until the hotel is completed, after which it will be razed' to make way for two modern six-story apartment houses. Work on the new hotel will be started on the first of May.

Removal Notice. MR. GEORGE S. O'FLYN, tax searcher, announces that he has removed his office from 215 Montague Street to Room 2, Offermann Building, 503 Fulton Street. Messrs.

R. W. Creuzbauer and Charles L. Parmalee, engineers and experts on methods and costs of construction, announce the removal of their offices to the thirty-fourth floor of the Woolworth Building, Manhattan. Sales and Leases.

MESSRS. FRIDAY LEHMANN have sold for the heirs of Adolph E. Lux, deceased, the five-story apartment house, No. 548 West One Hundred and Thirty-second Street, Manhattan, to an investor, who gave in payment three two-family dwellings, Nos. 718, 722 and 724 Rector Avenue, Queens.

Messrs. Henry Pierson have rented the three-story private dwelling at 125 Berkeley Place for Andrew Geraghty to a client for occupancy. Also 154 St. John's Place for Mr. L.

B. Kaigney. The renting market this spring, says this firm, is looking up splendidly. Real Estate. Tne Advisory Council of Real Estate Interests.

A MOVE of great importance with respect to its future possibilities was made last week in the formation, after a number of conferences between representatives of influential real estate organizations, of the Advisory Council of Real Estate Interests, of which Mr. John Claflin was elected chairman and an executive committee appointed, consisting of Mr. Cyrus C. Miller, former borough president of the Bronx; Laurence M. D.

McGuire, Alfred E. Marling, Adolph Bloch and Clarence H. Kelsey. The purpose of this organization is not merely to conserve the interests of real estate owners by securing to them just treatment, but to work for the sound development of the city. The functions of the council will include consultation and advice respecting all legislation ordinances or regulations affecting real estate in New York City, cooperation with the various state and city departments with a view to the harmonious development of the city and to securing just and equitable treatment to real estate owners and giving publicity through the press or otherwise of information important to realty owners.

The council is to consist of fifteen men, seven of whom will be delegates from the seven influential real estate organizations which are to" be represented in the council and eight of whom have been selected wholly on the strength of their- personal value in attaining the ends sought. Only three of the delegates were named at the organization, meeting last weekk Thursday; these being Mr. Laurence D. McGuire, representing the Real Estate Board of New York; Mr. Adolph Bloch, representing the United Real Estate Owners' Association, and Mr.

Alfred H. Marling, representing the Allied Real Estate Interests. The eight undelegated members of the council are Mr. John Claflin, Mr. Frederic B.

Pratt, Mr. Charles A. Pea-body, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company; Mr. Thomas M. Mulry, president of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Institution; Mr.

Cyrus C. Miller, who is now practicing law; Mr. Albert G. Milbank of Messrs. Nasten and Nichols, attorneys; Mr.

William J. Amend of Messrs. Amend and Amend, and Mr. Clarence H. Kelsey, president of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company.

Composed of such men as the above mentioned, the Advisory Council of Real Estate Interests can scarcely fail to be of great service, not merely to real estate owners in particular, but to New York City and its governmental authorities in general. Real Estate Activity in Nassau County. THAT well-located property on direct lines of transit is a growing asset is proven by the steady growth of population and increased building in the southern half of Nassau County. The population of this subdivision of the state is seventy-five thousand, two-thirds of which is in the communities of the south side. Taxable values are said to be increasing in greater ratio here than in any other suburban county at this time because Long Island has been linked to both uptown and downtown Manhattan.

Home sites in Nassau County during the recent winter season were in stronger Motoring. URING this month the wise motorist is making ready for an -enjoyable spring and summer season of auto-mobiling. There is now, and always has been, considerable question to whether or not a car should be overhauled once a season. In this, as in innumerable other automobile problems, the owner or driver must himself be the judge. If the car has traveled a great number of miles over bad roads during the preceding season there is no question but that it should receive attention.

On the other hand, if it has been driven carefully and only a few hours a day, this procedure may not be necessary in fact, a good car operated under such conditions will run indefinitely with but very little attention. In all cases, however, the car should foe carefully inspected at regular intervals; the! motor should be tested for compression, all wiring and electrical connections should be examined; the carburetor and strainer should be drained; the brakes should be inspected; the battery should be tested and all bolts and nuts should be tightened at intervals. In case it is deemed necessary to completely overhaul the car this work should be done by one who thoroughly understands that particular car and in case the owner himself is technically inclined and desires to either supervise or actually do this work he should first familiarize himself with the fundamentals of automobile repairing. Automobile overhauling is essentially a process of general cleaning, inspection, tightening-up and readjusting, involving, perhaps, some minor replacements..