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RECORD   AND   GUIDE





January 27, 1917





BUILDERS DINE.





Building   Trade   Employers'  Association

Banquet a Success.
P ROBABLY no single event in the
year contains greater interest to the
building and allied trades of the Metro¬
politan district than the annual banquet
of the Building Trade Employers' Asso¬
ciation. This function was held at the
Hotel Biltmore, Wednesday evening.
January 24, and was attended by approxi¬
mately eight hundred members of the or¬
ganization, with their guests. Reports
had been current in the trade for quite
some time the dinner of 1917 was
destined to mark an epoch in the life of
the organization and that it was certain
to be one affair that the members could
ill afford to be absent from. The dinner
and the excellent programme that fol¬
lowed fully bore out the early predic¬
tions, and many were the remarks over¬
heard  to  the  extent  that the  entertain¬





ment of the evening was by far the most
successful social event in the fifteen years
of the history of the association.

With the single exception of a very
brief address of welcome by Hugh Get¬
ty, president of the association, no
speeches were scheduled. The dinner
was followed by an interesting cabaret
consisting of singingaiid dancing.

The annual dinners of the Building
Trade Employers' Association have al-
w-ays been noteworthy and unique for the
good fellowship displayed by those in at¬
tendance and the affair of the past week
was by no means an exception to the
general rule. As soon as the dinner
proper was ended there was a constant
circulation from table to table where
greetings and views on existing and
prospective   conditions  v ere  exchanged.

The following committee had charge
of the dinner arrangements: Ronald
Tavlor, chairman: Max Baumann, W. J.
T.'Gettv, lames Gillies. T. A. O'Rourke,
Frcd.B.   tuttle  and   Nathaniel   Webb.





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THE total number of sales reported
and not recorded in Manhattan this
week was 27, against 41 last week and
24 a year ago.

The number of sales south of S9th
street was 10, as compared with 14 last
week and 7 a jear ago.

The sales north of 59th street aggre¬
gated 17, as compared with 27 last week
and 17 a year ago.

^ From the Bronx 11 sales at private con¬
tract were reported, as against 6 last
week and 11a year ago.

Statistical tables, indicating the num¬
ber of recorded instruments, will be
found on page 130 of this issue.





$2,000,000 West  Side  Apartments.

F. R. Wood, W. H. Dolson Company,
sold for the estate of Aniadee Spadone
the southeast jcorner of West End ave¬
nue and 73d street, fronting 31 feet in
the street and 76.8 feet on the avenue;
also for C. N. Simon, the adjoining prop¬
erty at 280 West 73d street, 17.3x76. The
purchaser is the Gramont Holding Com¬
pany, T. J. McLaughlin. The new own¬
er controls a plot 78.8 on West End ave¬
nue by 100 feet in the street, having
recently acquired adjoining property
through the saine broker. The site will
be improved with a high class thirteen-
story apartment house, to be ready for
occupancy in the fall of 1918. The deal
in its entirety will involve approximately
$2,000,000.





Buy  Tweniy-Four  Dwrellings.

A. L. Mordecai & Son and Potter &
Brother have purchased from the Clark
Estate, through Slawson & Hobbs, the
row of twenty-four private dwellings in
the north side of 73rd street, between
Columbus and Amsterdam avenues,
known as 105 to 151 West 73rd street,
comprising a plot with a frontage of 450
feet and a depth of 102.2 feet, beginning
50 feet west of .Columbus avenue. The
property has been in the same ownership
for more than forty years, the houses
having been built by Alfred C. Clark
about thirty-five years ago. The new
owners will offer the property for resale
to builders in plots, suitable for develop¬
ment with high-class apartment houses.
It has been calculated that when the new
apartment houses are completed the deal
in its entirety will have represented an
outlay of close to $3,000,000. The pur¬
chase marks the first large operation of
the West Side with which these opera¬
tors have been identified within the last
five years. The houses are located in a
choice residential block, being midway
betwen the 72nd street station of the ele¬
vated railroad at Columbus avenue, and
the subway station at Broadway. Mem¬
bers of the Clark family still retain ex¬
tensive ownerships in the immediate
neighborhood. The last big purchases,
in which these operators were interested
on the West Side, were the Furniss
Block, 99th to 100th streets. West End
avenue to Riverside Drive and the Ar¬
thur Curtiss James property just east of
Amsterdam, avenue in the north side of
86th street and in the south side of 87th
street, all of which land has since been
improved with high class apartment
houses.





Lessee Buys Fee.

The  Bush Terminal  Com.pany  has ac¬
quired the fee to the property -at 132 to

134  West 42d street from John Hoge of
Zanesville, Ohio, from whom it leased
the property in January, 1916, for a per¬
iod of sixty-three years. The property
was acquired by the Exhibition Building
Company, a subsidiary of the Bush or¬
ganization.    Abutting   property   at   No.

135   West'■41st street was purchased^ by
the same interests last year from William
Lustgarten. The Bush Company also
controls the adjoining property at No.
137. A first mortgage loan of $800,000 al
41/2 per cent, was negotiated by the M.
Morgenthau, Jr.,- Co., and will finance
the erection of the new Bush Terminal
Company's exhibition building. The
mortgage was made by the Dime Savings
Bank of Brooklyn and is one of the larg-