15819. Federal Bank (New York, NY)

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: December 27, 1894
Location: New York, New York (40.714, -74.006)

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Contemporary newspapers report the Federal Bank at 504 Third Avenue, New York, decided to retire from business and go into voluntary liquidation in late Dec 1894; in May 1895 a receiver (Irving C. Gaylord) was appointed and the bank's assets/liabilities were reported. No article describes a depositor run prior to suspension — this is a voluntary dissolution proceeding resulting in receivership (permanent closure).

Events (2)

1. December 27, 1894 Suspension

Cause: Voluntary Liquidation
Cause Details: Directors decided to retire from business and go into voluntary liquidation; advertised location 504 Third Avenue and stated intent to retire/go into voluntary liquidation.
Newspaper Excerpt: The Federal bank at 504 Third avenue, New York, has decided to retire from business and go into voluntary liquidation.
Source: newspapers

2. May 11, 1895 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: Irving C. Gaylord was yesterday appointed receiver for the Federal Bank in the proceedings brought by the directors for the voluntary dissolution of the corporation. His bond was fixed at $25,000, and the Knickerbocker Trust Company was designated as the depository of the funds. Charles H. Truax, the referee, reported that the assets are $105,354; liabilities, $5,508. The capital was $100,000.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (10)

1. December 26, 1894 The Weekly Register Point Pleasant, WV

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# NEWS IN A NUTSHELL of Interest Gathered From All Parts of the World. Federal bank, New York, has de- elded to go into liquidation. Diphtheria has broken out in the county jail at Springfield, Ills. The jail has been quarantined. Latest advices regarding Eugene Kelly, the New York banker, were for his death at any moment. M. Johnson of Crestline, O., died at Cedarville from the effects of a fall from a rotten telegraph pole. Bread is selling at 2 cents a loaf and hard coal at $3.50 per ton in Port Huron, Mich., the good result of a war between dealers. The United Windowglass company, at Orestes, Ind., has closed down to make re- pairs and 500 men are out of employment temporarily. Judge Seevers, formerly a member of the Iowa supreme court, was stricken with paralysis of the right side Saturday night. He can not recover. A movement is on foot among western bankers to call a convention of bankers doing business west of the Mississippi, to be held at Salt Lake City. The Rock Springs (Wy.) Coal company's mines have been sold to a syndicate of Chicago capitalists. The syndicate repre- sents a capital of $12,000,000. The business portion of Stone Mountain, Ga., was almost entirely destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $20,000, Very little insur- ance. Origin of fire incendiary. At Warren, O., the street paving firm of Davis & Caldwell of Youngstown got judgment against the city of Warren for $175. The amount sued for was about $1,000. The miners at all of the mines at Perry, Iowa, received notice of a reduction in their wages. Most of the miners will accept the reduction, yet there is considerable dis- satisfaction. Boise City, J. W. Iliff was arrested charged with forging the name of Attor- ney General Parsons to various checks ag- gregating $100 and passing them on mer- chants here. Anthony Martin, a butcher, shot his divorced wife twice, seriously but not fa- tally wounding her; then blew out his own brains—drunk and jealous. Scene, York street, Cincinnati. At Portland, Ind., Samuel Bone, the ex- city policeman who shot and killed Frank Guild on June 17, was placed on trial for manslaughter, and pleaded not guilty, al- leging self-defense. G. W. Benton of Dallas, adjuster for a harvesting machine company, was at- tacked by two unmasked men in the northern portion of Wilbarger county, Tex., and robbed of $500. Anthony Cavari shot and fatally wounded Nicholas Cott at Lattimer, a mining village near Hazelton, Pa. Both men are Italians, and both were in love with the same young woman. At Chillicothe, O., Mrs. Hannah J. Ware, wife of Frederick P. Ware, a wealthy farmer, was adjudged insane. She had made a desperate attempt to com- mit suicide. Family troubles. C. C. Hoadley, who a month ago arrived Cedar Rapids, Ia., as general agent of a insurance company, was arrested by instructions from the sheriff at Wichita, Kan., on a charge of embezzlement. F. Cromwell, the representative of the Fidelity and Casualty company of Iowa, who was shot by John Hunt, Council Bluffs bank clerk, is im- proved, and he is thought to be recovering. Samuel L. Seeley, the defaulting book- keeper of the National Shoe and Leather bank, pleaded guilty to the charge of mak- ing false entries in bankbooks and ab- stracting funds, and was remanded until Monday for sentence. While William Donahue, a miner, and John Kiersky, his laborer, were at work in the Stevens colliery near West Pittston, Pa., a huge mass of rock fell upon them. Donahue's back was broken, and Kiersky horribly bruised. The Public Examiner has requested Gov. Sheldon to suspend from office Treasurer Welber of McCook county, S. D., who is short between $5,000 and $6,000. Welber was arrested for embezzlement and held in $2,000 bonds. Washington C. H., O., the city coun- cil is investigating charges against O. S. Dungan, chief of police, for neglect of duty and other grave and sensational charges. Council has dismissed 10 of the 11 as not sustained. The other charge will be further investigated. Citizens' Stock bank of Slater, Mo., is in the hands of C. F. Storts, as- signee. The Savings bank was also closed, but will resume as soon as collections are made. The Stock bank had a capital of $50,000 and several of the depositors are wealthy. John White, an employe of the Ohio Oil company at Portland, Ind., fell in an oil tank on the Flesher lease, near Eaton, Ind., to make some repairs. He was overcome by gas and fell back into the tank and was drowned. His remains were sent to Greenville, Ind. The Court of Morton New York, has decided that it should not appoint the 12 new supreme court judges, and to allow the vacancies to be filled by the choice of the people at the next general election, as proposed and intended by the act of the constitutional convention. Hon. R. Corson, state school commis- sioner, will present, in his forthcoming an- nual report, the effect of woman suffrage upon the management of public schools in the states where women have been granted the right of franchise in matters pertain- ing to the conduct of the public schools. On application of the receivers of the Winters Art Lithograph company of Springfield, O., printers of world's fair lithographs, Messrs. B. H. Winters and J. H. Grew, Judge Miller handed down an order for the disposal of the real and per- sonal property of the plant at private sale. The property is to be offered for 60 per cent. As a result of the strike of street railway employes early last at Washington, a large number of employes of the Washington railways have organized the "Protective Street Railway Union of the District of Columbia." This is the first systematic effort to bring the railway employes of the District of Columbia into the ranks of or- ganized labor. # DEBS TO TAKE THEIR MEDICINE Terre Haute, Dec. 18.-Eugene V. Debs, president of the American Railway

2. December 27, 1894 The Sun Morris, MN

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Otherwise. Decided progress has been made by passenger officials of transcontinental lines in settling their differences. To meet the competition of lake lines an Eastern road is figuring on the use of grain cars holding 100,000 pounds. Receiver Walker, of the Santa Fe, says it is not the intention to cease operating the Atlantic & Pacific. Washington is likely to be selected as the headquarters of the Federation of Labor by the Denver convention. Furniture and manufacturers in Michigan will organize anl fight against prison labor competition. The Knights of Labor at Scranton, Pa., Powderly's old home, will withhold their support from Master Workman Sovereign. A. Murphy temperance movement has been inaugurated in Salem, Ohio, and over 1,000 people have already signed the pledge. Brook Mitchell, a farmer near Champaign, Ill., was found dead in his door yard, and the cause of his death was not known. Alabama editors are being asked to sign a compact that they will not again print the name of Reuben F. Kolb or any of his political associates. The Franklin and company, headed by B. F. and Otis Parsons of Richplant at Frankfort that will employ nearly 300 men. The Ute Indians who invaded Utah have consented to return to their reservation as soon as they round up their cattle. A strange disease resembling cholera in its symptoms has broken out among horses in the vicinity of Chester and Galesburg, III. The Federal bank at 504 Third avenue, New York, has decided to retire from business and go into voluntary liquidation. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern is planning for an extension into Great Northern and Canadian Pacific territory. Gen. William Booth, the head of the Salvation Army, has concluded his campaign in San Francisco, and left for Los Angeles this morning. State Insurance Commissioner Hahn to-day swore out warrants for agents here of insurance companies not licensed to do business in Ohio. The United States coast survey steamers Gedney and McArthur will make a new survey of the entrance to San Francisco harbor. Golden Gate has not been surveyed for twenty-two years.

3. December 27, 1894 Reporter and Farmer Webster, SD

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Foreign Gossip. A white boy is being held as a slave by the Chucklesett tribe of Indians in British Columbia. Three thousand unemployed work men invaded the city hall at Montreal and demanded bread. The Mosquito Indians have formally incorporated their reservation with Nicaragua, thus ending the Bluefields troubles. The number of persons killed in the the recent earthquake in Southern Italy is officially stated at eighty-six In addition, 600 were injured. Investigation shows that directors of the Commercial bank, which failed at St. Johns, N. F., had borrewed thou sands of dollars from the bank and had overdrawn their accounts. British army officers, under the guise of artists and tourists. tare said to have made sketches of the territory and defense in the vicinity of Toledo and other lake ports. The Guatemalan legation to settle the boundary question has arrived at the City of Mexico. It is believed that President Diaz will receive them officially very soon. The importation of cattle into Belglum from Canada has been prohibited because of pleuro- pneumonia hav ing been detected in some animals recently arrived. The Lyons society for the propagation of the faith has promised the pope an annual subsidy of 50,000 francs to found colleges and schools in the East, with a view to uniting the Eastern and Western churches. One hundred and fifty persons are ill at Freiburg, Sax ony, Germany, from what appears to be an attempt at wholesale poisoning. All the rolls turned out of a certain bakeshop were found to contain arsenic. Otherwise. Social purity reform wave has struck Little Rock, Ark. Receiver Walker, of the Santa Fe, says it is not the intention to cease operating the Atlantic & Pacific. Washington is likely to be selected as the headquarters of the Federation of Labor by the Denver convention. Furniture and manufacturers in Michigan will organize anl fight against prison labor competition. The Knights of Labor at Scranton, Pa., Powderly's old home, will withhold their support from Master Workman Sovereign. Alabama editors are being asked to sign a compact that they will not again print the name of Reuben F. Kolb or any of his political associates. The Franklin and company, headed by B. F. and Otis Parsons of Richplant at Frankfort that will employ nearly 300 men. The Ute Indians who invaded Utah have consented to return to their reservation as soon as they round up their cattle. A strange disease resembling cholera in its symptoms has broken out among horses in the vicinity of Chester and Galesburg, III. The Federal bank at 504 Third avenue, New York, has decided to retire from business and go into voluntary liquidation. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern is planning for an extension into Great Northern and Canadian Pacific territory. The United States coast survey steamers Gedney and McArthur will make a new survey of the entrance to San Francisco harbor. Golden Gate has not been surveyed for twenty-two years. Four New York shoe houses went to the wall. The firms were Samuel Cohn & Bro., Gottschalk Cohn, Archibald Fleming and Marcus Marsop. The liabilities of Samuel Cohn & Bro. are $400,000.

4. December 27, 1894 The Princeton Union Princeton, MN

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Foreign Gossip. A white boy is being held as a slave by the Chucklesett tribe of Indians in British Columbia. Three thousand unemployed work men invaded the city hall at Montreal and demanded bread. The Mosquito Indians have formally incorporated their reservation with Nicaragua, thus ending the Bluefields troubles. The number of persons killed in the the recent earthquake in Southern Italy is officially stated at eighty-six In addition, 600 were injured. Investigation shows that directors of the-Commercial bank, which failed at St. Johns, N. F., had borrewed thou sands of dollars from the bank and had overdrawn their accounts. British army officers, under the guise of artists and tourists. tare said to have made sketches of the territory and defense in the vicinity of Toledo and other lake ports. The Guatemalan legation to settle the boundary question has arrived at the City of Mexico. It is believed that President Diaz will receive them officially very soon. The importation of cattle into Belgiun. from Canada has been prohibited because of pleuro- pneumonia hav ing been detected in some animals recently arrived. The Lyons society for the propagation of the faith has promised the pope an annual subsidy of 50,000 francs to found colleges and schools in the East, with a view to uniting the Eastern and Western churches. One hundred and fifty persons are ill at Freiburg, Saxony, Germany, from what appears to be an attempt at wholesale poisoning. All the rolls turned out of a certain bakeshop were found to contain arsenic. Otherwise. Social purity reform wave has struck Little Rock, Ark. Receiver Walker, of the Santa Fe, says it is not the intention to cease operating the Atlantic & Pacific. Washington is likely to be selected as the headquarters of the Federation of Labor by the Denver convention. Furniture and manufacturers in Michigan will organize anl fight against prison labor competition. The Knights of Labor at Scranton, Pa., Powderly's old home, will withhold their support from Master Work. man Sovereign. Alabama editors are being asked to sign a compact that they will not again print the name of Reuben F. Kolb or any of his political associates. The Franklin and company, headed by B. F. and Otis Parsons of Richplant at Frankfort that will employ nearly 300 men. The Ute Indians who invaded Utah have consented to return to their reservation as soon as they round up their eattle. A strange disease resembling cholera in its symptoms has broken out among horses in the vicinity of Chester and Galesburg, Ill. The Federal bank at 504 Third avenue, New York, has decided to retire from business and go into voluntary liquidation. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern is planning for an extension into Great Northern and Canadian Pacific territory. The United States coast survey steamers Gedney and McArthur will make a new survey of the entrance to San Francisco harbor. Golden Gate has not been surveyed for twenty-two years. Four New York shoe houses went to the wall. The firms were Samuel Cohn & Bro., Gottschalk Cohn. Archibald Fleming and Marcus Marsop. The liabilities of Samuel Cohn & Bro. are $400,000

5. January 3, 1895 Courier Democrat Langdon, ND

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Otherwise. Decided progress has been made by passenger officials of transcontinental lines in settling their differences. Receiver Walker, of the Santa Fe, says it is not the intention to cease operating the Atlantic & Pacific. Washington is likely to be selected as the headquarters of the Federation of Labor by the Denver convention. Furniture and manufacturers in Michigan will organize anl fight against prison labor competition. The Knights of Labor at Scranton, Pa., Powderly's old home, will withhold their support from Master Workman Sovereign. A. Murphy temperance movement has been inaugurated in Salem, Ohio, and over 1,000 people have already signed the pledge. Brook Mitchell, a farmer near Champaign, Ill., was found dead in his door yard, and the cause of his death was not known. Alabama editors are being asked to sign a compact that they will not again print the name of Reuben F Kolb or any of his political associates The Franklin and company, headed by B. F. and Otis Parsons of Rich plant at Frankfort that will employ nearly 300 men. The Ute Indians who invaded Utab have consented to return to their reservation as soon as they round up their cattle. A strange disease resembling cholera in its symptoms has broken out among horses in the vicinity of Chester and Galesburg, III. The Federal bank at 504 Third ave nue, New York, has decided to retire from business and go into voluntary liquidation. The Duluth, Missabe & Northern is planning for an extension into Grea' Northern and Canadian Pacific terri tory. Gen. William Booth, the head of the Salvation Army, has concluded his campaign in San Francisco, and left for Los Angeles this morning. State Insurance Commissioner Hahn to-day swore out warrants for agents here of insurance companies not 11. censed to do business in Ohio. The United States coast survey steamers Gedney and McArthur will make a new survey of the entrance to San Francisco harbor. Golden Gate has not been surveyed for twenty years.

6. March 9, 1895 New-York Tribune New York, NY

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No. 113 Fulton NEW-YORK CITY. A monthly meeting of the Ohio Society will be held at Morello's, No I West Twenty-ninth-st., on Monday at 6:30 p. m. Dinner will precede the business of the evening. Rescue mission workers and friends of rescue missions of New-York. Brooklyn and their vicinity are invited to a rally in the chapel of the Industrial Christian Alliance, No 170 Bleecker-st. this evening from R to 12 o'clock. A special musical programme is promised. The second annual reception of the New-York Academy of Sciences. with which there will be an exhibit of recent progress in science. is set for next Wednesday evening in the galleries of the American Fine Arts Society, West Fifty-seventh-st. The Rev. Dr. D. J Burrill, at the request of the Woman's National Sabbath Alliance. will preach in the Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth-ave and Twenty-ninth-st., to-morrow at 11 a. m., on "The Responsibility of the Women of America in Proserving the American Sabbath." The Rev. Dr. Newland Maynard will deliver an illustrated and historical lecture, on "India and Its People." next Monday afternoon. at the home of Mrs. George Lewis Gillespie, No. 49 East Fiftythird-st. A special meeting in the Interests of the Sabbath and in opposition to the opening of saloons on Sunday will be held in the Scotch Presbyterian Church Ninety-sixth-st. and Central Park West, to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. John E. Parsons, the Rev. W. W. Atterbury and the pastor. Dr. Wylle, will speak. Young men and Good Government clubs especially are invited The Rev. C. H. Mead. of Hornellsville. N. Y., will deliver an address before the American Temperance Union at Chickering Hall to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock: subject. "Wanted- a Man." The Silver Lake Quartet and others will furnish muste. Controller Fitch yesterday sold at public auction a five years' lease of the old Harlem Market Square, at Gne-hundred-and-twenty-frst-st. and Sylvan Place. to the present holder of the lease, Bryan G Hughes. at a yearly rental of $8,325. The Rev. Stephen S. Craig. of Oakville, Ont. will deliver an address under the auspices of the Manhattan Single Tax Club at Chickering Hall to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. on the subject "The Sin of the Church." Mr. Craig is an eloquent speaker and one of the leading Presbyterian divines of Canada. The 111th anniversary dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick will be held at Delmonico's on March 18. Dr. Emil Holub, an African explorer, will describe the customs and war methods of the Matabele tribes to morrow evening at the New-York Turn Verein, No. 66 East Fourth-st. A smoking concert will be given this evening by the Phoenix Republican Club, No. 61 East Eighty sixth-st. The Ninth Ward Ploneer Corps on Wednesday night adopted resolutions indorsing Mayor Strong's appointments and especially that of William Brookfield Todd B. Hall, chief of the detective force of Balti more, will address young men at Association Hall Twenty-third-st. and Fourth-ave. to-morrow at + p. m. L. Mandelbaum and S. Michelbacher two mem hers of the Cotton Exchange, were suspended yes terday for one week for fighting on the floor of the Exchange. Collector Kilbreth has received instructions from Washington to secure new quarters for the Nava Office. The present office of the Naval Officer is " the Phelps Building. opposite the Custom House, 1: Exchange Place. There has been some trouble this year in regard to the lease, and it has been decide to get quarters elsewhere. The new Standard National Bank will, it is said occupy the old quarters of the defunct Sherma Bank, at No. 874 Broadway, and it will no doub secure as depositors many of the clients of the Sherman Bank. and the Federal Bank, which I in process of liquidation. There is some talk of :

7. May 11, 1895 New-York Tribune New York, NY

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# REFEREES APPOINTED. Supreme Court. By Ingraham, J. Ferguson vs. Barnum-James J. Nealis. New-York Life Insurance Co. vs. Home Industry and Refuge, etc. -Thomas F. Donnelly. Gasquet vs. Pauit-Charles H. Russell. Weitfelder vs. Parbel-James J. Nealis. People, etc., vs. Commercial Alliance Life Insurance Co. -William H. Willis. Common Pleas. By Pryor, J. Matter of Godey Publishing Co. - Hugh R. Garden. Superior Court. By McAdam, J. Miller vs. Bates-Jesse K. Furlong. # RECEIVER APPOINTED. Supreme Court. By Ingraham, J. Matter of Federal Bank-Irving C. Gaylord.

8. May 11, 1895 New-York Tribune New York, NY

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RECEIVER FOR THE FEDERAL BANK. Irving C. Gaylord was yesterday appointed recelver for the Federal Bank in the proceedings brought by the directors for the voluntary dissolution of the corporation. His bond was fixed at $25,000, and the Knickerbocker Trust Company was designated as the depository of the funds. Charles H. Truax, the referee, reported that the assets are $105,354; liabilities, $5,508. The capital was $100,000.

9. May 23, 1895 Iowa County Democrat Mineral Point, WI

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TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF. AT HOME. Joseph Casey, a young Roanoke, Va., rocer, was killed by lightning. The Standard Oil company advanced the price of oil to $1.55 a barrel. Stocks advanced on heavy dealings for the foreign account. Chicago deaths: Horace Roland Witt and Mrs. Frank H. Brooks. Secretary Gresham's condition remains unchanged. Ex-Governor Ira J. Chase, of Indiana, died at Lubec, Me. It is believed in Washington that the decision of the supreme court will be against the income tax law. Joseph Dorsey, aged 57, a former prietor of Barnum's hotel, Baltimore, Md., is dead. Justice Ingraham, of New York, appointed Irving C. Gaylord receiver for the Federal bank. The supreme council of the American Protective association met in Milwaukee. Dr. James M. Byron died from consine' die in great confusion, the resumption in New York. It is understood that Richard Croker will come back from England with his horses soon. Chicago deputy sheriffs made another raid on the Hawthorne track, but few arrests were made. George F. Fay, president of the Vermont and Massachusetts railroad, IN dead. The international convention of the Y. M. C. A. opened Its annual session at Springfield, Mass. A handsome $35,000 library building was formally presented to the town of Chelmsford. Mass. In the senate the bill for the consolidation of New York Brooklyn and other cities into one municipality was again defeated. W. C. Donnelson, allas W. K. Crow. has been arrested in San Francisco. for a $2,000 postoffice burglary at Colville, Kansas. The tanners' strike at Sheboygan, Wis., Is at an end, the men having returned to work at a restoration of n cut made in their wages in 1892. The Imperial Varnish company's plant at Akron. Ohio, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $125,000; insurance, not known. The ensign of Rear-Admiral R. W. Mende was lowered at the Brooklyn navy yard. and he resigned command of the squadron prior to retirement. Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg started east over the Central and Union Pacific. He goes direct to Chicago and from there to Niagara. The entire business portion of Cres-

10. October 18, 1895 New-York Tribune New York, NY

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REAL ESTATE. BUSINESS AT THE EXCHANGES. At the Broadway Real Estate Salesroom yesterday D. P. Ingraham & Co. sold Nos. 443 and 445 East One-hundred-and-twenty-third-st. two three-story brownstone dwellings, lots each 16.8x100.11, to R. J. Rosenthal for $10,350. George R. Read sold the right, title, etc., of Irving C. Gaylord, as receiver of the Federal Bank, to the lease to May 1, 1896, of the ground floor and basement of No. 504 Third-ave., to William J. Meyer for $500. Richard M. Montgomery sold No. 205 East Seventysixth-st., a four-story building, lot 28x102.2½, to Mary Thomas for $22,500. At the iLberty Street Exchange, R. V. Harnet & Co. sold No. 92 to 96 Chrystie-st., three four and five story brick and brownstone basement houses, respectively, 25.1½, 25.6 and 24.61/x100, to Charles T. Silberhorn for $69,250. At private contract Max Marx has sold No. 229 West One-hundred-and-thirteenth-st., 16.8x100, to Remigio Lopez Trujillo for $17,300. Nos. 98 and 100 Franklin-st., a six-story business building, 36.2x78.6x33.8xirregular, has been sold by the Jarvis Slade estate for $100,000. The three three-story old-fashioned dwellings, plot 60x92, Nos. 29, 31 and 33 East Nineteenth-st., adjoining the Goelet property, has been sold by D. B. Silliman. Cummings & Ferguson have sold for about $35,000 the five-story brick flathouse, No. 939 Amsterdamave., 25x81. which they bought in April last. Daniel Watson, broker, of Newport, R. I., has sold the well-known Greene Farm, consisting of fifty-eight acres, on Conanicut Island, opposite Newport, to a St. Louis syndicate, comprising Ephraim Catlin, James Tausig and others, for $75,000. The farm was owned by Edwin Greene, of Eau Claire, Wis.: Mrs. Kelley, of Newport, and others. There is to be $75,000 to $100,000 :aid out at once in improvements on the farm. A. E. & E. A. Karelsen report the sale of seventyfive lots and the ocean front at Edgemere, Long Island, to David S. Gluck, of this city, for William Sheer, of Brooklyn. Dr. George Meyers and Lewis Friedman are to build houses in Ocean-ave. in Arverne-by-the-Sea, Long Island, on the ten lots just purchased from the same brokers. The Frank L. Fisher Company has sold for A. B. Kight, builder, a four-story whitestone American basement dwelling, 20x65x100, No. 333 West Seventysixth-st., to T. F. White, for about $45,000.