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Monday, November 23, 2015

A Mystery Solved: The Purpose of the Clubhouse Built by the Pelham Shore Improvement Company in 1900 and 1901


On Thursday, October 23, 2014, I published to the Historic Pelham Blog an article entitled "A Mystery:  The Club House Built by the Pelham Shore Improvement Company."  In it I noted that "Yet another Pelham 'history mystery' has arisen" marked by the fact that in 1900, a group of prominent Pelham Manor residents incorporated a company named the "Pelham Shore Improvement Company of Pelham Manor" and built a wooden frame clubhouse on the Long Island Sound side of Shore Road at the boundary between Pelham Bay Park and the Village of Pelham Manor.  I noted at the time that "The purpose of the Club is not yet known."

Research since has revealed the name of the club and its purposes.  The clubhouse was built for the members of the "Pelham Field and Marine Club."   The club opened on Tuesday, August 27, 1901.  It turns out that little has been known of the club precisely because it was not successful.  According to one account published long after the demise of the club, the organization was: 

"a Field Club when the tide was out and the flats bare, a Marine Club when the tide was in.  When the club languished, because Manorites were not sufficiently marine, the place was named 'Cove House' and rented to Mr. Dorrance."

Source:  Blymyer, Mary Hall, OVERLOOKING THE SOUND IN 1910, The Pelham Sun, Apr. 17, 1931, p. 13, cols. 1-2.

The Pelham Field and Marine Club was intended as a country club that included yachting.  The club was established before the creation of today's Pelham Country Club (although the predecessor to today's Wykagyl Country Club existed at the time in Pelham along today's Fowler Avenue).  

The Pelham Field and Marine Club was founded a little more than a decade after the move of the Country Club at Pelham from its location along Shore Road adjacent to the Bartow-Pell property to Throggs Neck.  Among the facilities offered by the new club were tennis courts, a ballroom for dancing and social events, a pier for marine activities, a bathing beach, and tennis courts available to members.  The club's members also used the brand new public golf facilities at the nearby Pelham Bay Golf Course across the road from the clubhouse.  In addition, the club had a kitchen with a "luncheon department" as well as "limited sleeping accommodations for the members."

The very centerpiece of the club, however, was its substantial bathing beach.  The club constructed "a heavy sea wall the length of the grounds" then dredged the Long Island Sound in front of the sea wall to an adequate depth.  The club then brought in several barge loads of sand "to make a fine beach bottom."

The club seems to have suffered from several major issues that led to its rather quick demise.  First, it stood virtually adjacent to the New York Athletic Club facility on Travers Island including its yachting facilities.  Second, with the Priory property across the road from the Club and the Pelham Bay Park along its border, there was very little land that could be made available for the "Field" portion of the club.  Third, twice each day as the tide ebbed, the "Marine" facilities including the pier stood on massive mud flats not particularly conducive to yachting and considered maloderous by many.  Fourth, Ezra T. Gilliland, one of the guiding forces behind the construction of the new clubhouse, died on May 13, 1903, not long after the club opened.  Fifth, and finally, as one commentator noted, "Manorites were not sufficiently marine" to support an additional yachting club besides the well-established New York Athletic Club yachting facilities on Travers Island only a few hundred yards away.  

On Tuesday, August 27, 1901, virtually every prominent member of Pelham Manor society gathered in the ballroom on the second floor of the new clubhouse of the Pelham Field and Marine Club to celebrate the opening of the club.  The members of the Board of Governors of the club presented a Loving Cup to member Ezra T. Gilliland in appreciation for his successful efforts to oversea construction of the new clubhouse.  The Loving Cup was promptly pressed into service as a punch bowl for the celebration.

It appears that the Pelham Field and Marine Club opened for the season each year in about the middle of May and closed for the winter as the weather became cool in the autumn.  In addition to tennis, golf, dancing in the ballroom, and swimming in Long Island Sound, it appears that clambakes were a popular social event at the club.  The club operated for at least the next three years.  

As interest waned and the club closed, the club renamed the clubhouse and grounds as "Cove House" and leased the facility to a Mr. Dorrance.  (Cove House stood for many years at 20 Shore Road in Pelham Manor.)  Pelham was ripe, yet again, for the establishment of a country club for local residents -- leading to the establishment of today's Pelham Country Club shortly thereafter.  



Detail from 1901 Map Showing Location of the Clubhouse
of the Pelham Field and Marine Club.  Source:  Fairchild, John F.,
STREET MAP OF THE City of Mount Vernon AND THE
Town of Pelham, Westchester Co., N. Y., COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY
John F. Fairchild, ASSOC. M AM SOC C. E. CITY OF MOUNT VERNON, N. Y.
(T.S. STRANGE, DEL.: Oct. 1901) (copy in collections of Museum of the
City of New York, No. 53.191.4).  NOTE:  Click on Image to Enlarge.

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"The Pelham Field and Marine Club is now building a new club house on the shore of Long Island, opposite Travers Island.  The club has an acre of ground right near Pelham Bay Park and the club house is being built exclusively for members.  It will have a luncheon department and limited sleeping accommodations for the members.  The club is to be devoted to golf, tennis, boating and bathing.  There are at present about one hundred and fifty members, and the club is open to membership from all parts of Westchester county, but has been joined chiefly by persons residing in the town of Pelham.  

Among the members of the club are Messrs. Robert C. Black, H. B. B. Stapler, William B. Randall, Charles Pond, Ezra T. Gilliland, Horace Hatch, John C. Hazen, Edward M. Fowler, Edward P. Fowler, John Butler, Benjamin L. Fairchild, Howard Scribner, Ralph K. Hubbard, Henry G. K. Heath, John M. Shinn and Edward Kelly.

The club house is to be a two story and basement house, and is to contain bath-houses on the basement floor.  On the floor above will be a large assembly room, with diining facilities.  Above will be rooms for the members, locker rooms and servants' rooms."

Source:  [Untitled], N. Y. Herald, Jul. 7, 1901, Sixth Section, p. 4, col. 6.  

"A NEW COUNTRY CLUB.
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Westchester County Gets the Club House and Ezra Gilliland a Loving Cup.

Residents of Pelham Manor, New Rochelle and along the Shore Road of Westchester County had a dance and supper on Tuesday evening in celebration of the opening of another country club, to be known as the Pelham Field and Marine Club.  The new club house stands directly upon the edge of the Sound and adjoining the upper boundary line of Pelham Park.  It has broad verandas, tennis courts, golf links and a bathing beach, the latter of which was perfected by the club governors building a heavy sea wall the length of the grounds, dredging the Sound there to a greater depth and filling in again with several barge loads of sand to make a fine beach bottom.

At the opening of the new club house on Tuesday evening there were present nearly all the prominent members of fashionable society in that part of the Westchester County.  Under the ruse of making a formal speech of welcome, General Stapler gathered the members and their guests in the dancing hall that they might see the presentation of a handsome loving cup from the other governors to Ezra T. Gilliland, as a mark of the appreciation of his fellow governors and members for the work and time he has devoted to the club project from its start to the completion of its seashore home on Tuesday.  Mr. Gilliland, to hwom the compliment of the governors was a surprise, did not permit his embarrassment to prevent him from cracking the joke that he was glad to win the first prize awarded by the Pelham Field and Marine Club.  The first prize was then pressed into service as the punch bowl."

Source:  A NEW COUNTRY CLUB -- Westchester County Gets the Club House and Ezra Gilliland a Loving Cup, The New York Press, Aug. 29, 1901, p. 7, col. 5.  

"OPENING OF NEW CLUB HOUSE.
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The Club House of the Pelham Field and Marine Club was formally opened last Tuesday evening.  The event was marked by a large reception and dance which was quite the success of the season.  The grounds were brilliantly illuminated with Chinese lanterns which were hung in and about the foliage, and extended to the end of a long pier.

Although the Club House has just been completed, every detail has been considered for the comfort of the guests, including the installation of gas, running water, etc.

One of the chief features of the evening was the presentation of a silver loving cup to Mr. Ezra T. Gilliland, as a mark of appreciation of his untiring efforts in supervising the construction of the Club House.  The presentation speech was made by Mr. Henry B. B. Stapler, and Mr. Gilliland made a few very apt remarks of thanks to the donors of the gift.

The kitchen, bathing houses, etc. are on the ground floor; on thee floor above are the dressing rooms and ballroom, and the top floor is devoted to locker space, guest rooms and servants rooms.  The exterior architecture is of the queen Anne pattern, and is most artistic, and in the bright moonlight and other various environments made a picture not soon to be forgotten.

The supper was served by Jacob Schwind, and the music was furnished by Professor Cox.

Among those present were:  Mr. and Mrs. Stapler, Mr. and Mrs. William B. Randall, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Hatch, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Gouldsbury, Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Hull, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. K. Heath, Mr. and Mrs. John Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Pond, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra T. Gilliland, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Herbert, Professor and Mrs. Vulte, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ferrin ,the Misses Ferrin, Mrs. J. Clarkson Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Secor, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Alston Gerry, Miss Gerry, Mrs. Schuyler Mills, Miss Schuyler, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Clark, and the Misses Pinckney, Renaud, Wiles, Wicks, Maynard, Roper, Jones, Messrs. Black, Tedford, Jones, Hill, Grazebach, Meighan, Roper, Nicholas, Sands, Hull, Dey, Scott and many others."

Source:  OPENING OF NEW CLUB HOUSE, The New Rochelle Press, Aug. 31, 1901, p. 8, col. 2.   

"CROWDS IN WESTCHESTER
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THOUSANDS JOURNEY TO SOUND RESORTS -- PLANS FOR THE FUTURE.
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The Pelham Field and Marine Club will give a clambake on June 28 at the clubhouse on Long Island Sound."

Source:  CROWDS IN WESTCHESTER -- THOUSANDS JOURNEY TO SOUND RESORTS -- PLANS FOR THE FUTURE, New-York Daily Tribune, Jun. 23, 1902, p. 4, col. 4.  

"DEATH OF E. T. GILLILAND.
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For Years a Prominent and Popular Resident of Pelham Manor.

Ezra T. Gilliland, one of the best-known and highly respected citizens of the lower part of Westchester County, died at his home, in Pelham Manor, yesterday morning, from heart trouble.  Mr. Gilliland had taken an important part in the early organization and establishment of the telephone business both in the United States and in Europe, and for many years was a prominent official of the Bell Telephone Company, as well as a partner at one time of Thomas A. Edison.  About a dozen years ago he retired from active business, going to live in Pelham Manor, in one of the handsomest houses of that section, where he also built a completely equipped laboratory in which, to the time of his death, he pursued his scientific studies, electrical researches and mechanical inventions more as a partime and pleasure than as a business.

Mr. Gilliland had devoted a generous share of his time and fortune to the public interest of the community in which he lived after his retirement from active business, being for a number of terms President of the village of Pelham Manor, village trustee and holding other local offices, in the administration of which he was able, with a not infrequent call upon his private purse, to obtain many benefits for the residents of his town, which endeared him to them all.  Two of his most recent achievements in that direction were the founding of the Pelham Field and Marine Club on the Sound and the erection of a club house, with bathing beach, tennis courts, etc., for the residents of Pelham.  Pelham Manor, New Rochelle and the Shore Road; and his activities in the coal famine of last year.  During the period of coal scarcity Mr. Gilliland bought coal at the mines by the train load, delivering it throughout his neighborhood at scarcely any advance above the normal prices.  At the time when coal was selling everywhere else at the highest prices Mr. Gilliland visited personally the sick and poor in the vicinity of Pelham Manor, supplying to them coal, sometimes delivered in sacks out of his own carriage in cases of extreme need and urgency.

Mr. Gilliland, who is survived by his wife, mother, one brother and three sisters, was 56 years old.  Until within the last few months he had been in the best of health.  The funeral will be at his home, at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning, and the burial will be in Adrian, Mich."

Source:  DEATH OF E. T. GILLILAND -- For Years a Prominent and Popular Resident of Pelham Manor, The New York Press, May 14, 1903, p. 6, col. 7.  

"PELHAM NOTES.
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The Pelham Field and Marine Club has opened its club house on the Sound for the season."

Source:  PELHAM NOTES, The Daily Argus [Mount Vernon, NY], May 10, 1904, p. 6, col. 4

"PELHAM NOTES.
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The Pelham Field and Marine Club, has enlarged its club house on the Shore road and is now putting a handsome wall along the front of the property, greatly increasing its beauty."

Source:  PELHAM NOTES, The Daily Argus [Mount Vernon, NY], Sep. 28, 1904, p. 4, cols. 4-5.  


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Thursday, October 23, 2014

A Mystery: The Club House Built by the Pelham Shore Improvement Company


Yet another Pelham "history mystery" has arisen. In 1900, a group of prominent Pelham Manor residents incorporated a company named the “Pelham Shore Improvement Company of Pelham Manor.” It seems that the company’s existence was brief and involved the construction of a wooden frame club house on the Long Island Sound side of Shore Road at the boundary between Pelham Bay Park and the Village of Pelham Manor. The purpose of the Club is not yet known.

I have a very vague recollection from some time in the distant past of reading a brief, humorous reference to the creation of a social Club in the early 20th century to allow members to enjoy water activities and boating on Long Island Sound along Pelham’s tiny shoreline. Neither the Club nor its organizers were, to my recollection, named in the brief account that I read, but the account claimed that the Club was entirely unsuccessful and folded quickly because the location was particularly poor for such a club. I have not been able to locate that account again, but as best as I can recall it, twice a day as the tide rolled out, the Club was faced with extensive, unappealing, and smelly mud flats that precluded launching boats or returning launches to the Club house until the tide rose again. 

Admittedly, the account that I vaguely recall may not relate to the Pelham Shore Improvement Company of Pelham Manor but, then again, it may.  The purpose of today’s posting to the Historic Pelham Blog, however, is to document the brief history of the Pelham Shore Improvement Company of Pelham Manor as it can now be pieced together in the hope of later solving this Pelham history mystery.

For those who are interested, I have faced (and subsequently solved) such mysteries before. For an example, see:

Mon., Apr. 10, 2006:  A Mystery Yet To Be Solved: The Pelham Trading Company Incorporated in 1901.

Wed., Feb. 21, 2007:  A Pelham Mystery Solved: The Pelham Trading Company Incorporated in 1901.

Incorporation of “Pelham Shore Improvement Company of Pelham Manor”

In or about August, 1900, the “Pelham Shore Improvement Company of Pelham Manor” was incorporated with capital of $2,500.  The initial directors of the corporation were three prominent residents of the Village of Pelham Manor:  Henry Beidlman Bascom Stapler, William Bradley Randall, and Dr. Edward Payson Fowler (after whom today’s Fowler Avenue is named).  See New Corporations, N.Y. Times, Aug. 8, 1900, p. 9, col. 7; Recent New Corporations, The Daily Argus [Mount Vernon, NY], Aug. 8, 1900, p. 5, col. 1; [Untitled], New Rochelle [NY] Press, Aug. 11, 1900, Vol. XXVI, No. 10, p. 1, col. 1.

The Three Original Directors

The three original directors of the corporation were prominent men who were active in the affairs of the Town of Pelham and the Village of Pelham Manor. Henry B. B. Stapler was an active member of the Pelham Manor Protective Club, a predecessor organization to the Village of Pelham Manor, in the last few years of the existence of that Club before it was disbanded at the time the Village of Pelham Manor was incorporated in 1891. Stapler was born on February 24, 1853 in Mobile, Alabama. He grew up and attended school in Wilmington, Delaware. On November 10, 1880, he married Helen Louisa Gause of Wilmington, Delaware. The couple had four children. Stapler graduated from Yale University and became a “classical instructor” in the Hartford, Connecticut Public High School while he completed a law degree from Yale which he received in 1876. He clerked with the law firm Fowler & Taylor in New York City and was admitted to practice in May, 1878. Soon he formed a partnership with a classmate, John L. Wood, which continued for ten years. Thereafter, Stapler practiced on his own and served as an assistant district attorney for the City and County of New York from 1891 until 1893. After serving as an ADA, Stapler entered partnership with George P. Breckenridge and the pair practiced in the law firm of Stapler & Breckenridge. Stapler died of pneumonia at his home in Pelham Manor on December 1, 1906, at the age of 54. See Biographical Record of the Class of 1874 in Yale College – Part Fourth 1874-1909, pp. 196-97 (New Haven, CT: The Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1912).

William B. Randall lived in a magnificent home that no longer stands called The Hermitage located at 1385 Park Lane on a large plot of land that extended from Park Lane through to today’s Beech Tree Lane in the estate section of the Village of Pelham Manor. William B. Randall was born in South Lee, Massachusetts in 1859. He was a son of Abel Bradley Randall (an executive of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company), and Ann Eliza Ormsby Randall. He was educated at Prospect School in Bridgeport, Connecticut and, according to one biographer, "began his financial career as trust officer of the Knickerbocker Trust Company, 1894-1908". French, Alvah P., ed., History of Westchester County New York, Vol. III, p. 119a (NY, NY & Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Co. 1925). In 1888, William Randall married Evelyn Smith. Evelyn Smith Randall was a daughter of Addison P. Smith and Phoebe Smith. The couple had two children including Bradley Randall, born in 1890 and Phoebe Randall born in 1895. Phoebe later married Mr. Vernon Radcliffe. Id. William B. Randall eventually became President of the Security Transfer and Registrar Company and was a notable businessman with a wide variety of interests. According to his biography published in Alvah P. French's History of Westchester County New York published in 1925: "Mr. Randall's career has brought him into intimate contact with a number of large business concerns of every kind, in which he holds leading positions. He is a director of the Coal and Iron National Bank; the Mount Vernon Trust Company; Winyah Park Realty Company; vice-president and director of the Southern States Lumber Company; the Fairfax Realty Company; the Suburban Land Improvement Company; director of the Puritan Mortgage Corporation, Metropolitan Realty Corporation; Pelham Leasing Corporation; Electro Coach Corporation; Electro Bus Corporation, and the Pioche & Pacific Railroad." Id. William B. Randall was involved in public service. From 1882 until 1888 he served as a private in the 7th Regiment of the New York National Guard. He also served as President (i.e., Mayor) of the Village of Pelham Manor, 1902-1903. He also was a member and director of the Chamber of Commerce of Westchester County and held memberships in the following clubs: National Arts, St. Maurice, Pelham Country Club, Wykagyl Country Club, New York Athletic Club and the Railroad Club. Id. Randall died in 1940.

Dr. Edward P. Fowler. He resided for many years in New York City but had a summer estate with a home once known as the Grenzebach Home that once stood on the hill where the chapel of today’s Our Lady of Perpetual Help now stands. The address of the home was 4743 Boston Post Road. While Dr. Fowler owned the estate, he allowed the first Pelham Country Club (the predecessor to today’s Wykagyl Country Club) to lease large parts of the estate for use as a golf course. Though Fowler began as a summer resident of Pelham Manor, Fowler became active in Village affairs and moved to Pelham Manor to become a permanent resident late in his life. After some time, Dr. Fowler decided to divide his property into building lots, and forced the first Pelham Country Club to look for a new home. For more than fifty years, Dr. Fowler was a well-known physician in general practice in New York City. He was born in 1833 in Coshocton, New York. He graduated from the New York Medical College in 1855 and served as a visiting physician at Ward’s Island and the Hahnemann Hospital. His son, Edward Mumford Fowler, also was active for many years in the affairs of the Village of Pelham Manor. Fowler authored a number of medical works and was a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Neurological Society, and the Medical Society of the County of New York. Dr. Fowler died of pneumonia at his home in Pelham Manor on January 29, 1914. See Dr. Edward P. Fowler Dead – Old New York Physician and Author of Several Medical Works, N.Y. Times, Jan. 30, 1914.



Detail from 1901 Map Showing Location of the One-Story
Frame Clubhouse Just South of the New York City
Boundary on Shore Road by the Pelham Shore
Improvement Company.  Source:  Fairchild, John F.,
STREET MAP OF THE City of Mount Vernon
AND THE Town of Pelham, Westchester Co., N. Y.,
COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY John F. Fairchild,
ASSOC. M AM SOC C. E. CITY OF MOUNT VERNON,
N. Y. (T.S. STRANGE, DEL.: Oct. 1901) (copy in collections
of Museum of the City of New York, No. 53.191.4).

"RECENT NEW CORPORATIONS
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Pelham Shore Improvement Company of Pelham Manor:  capital, $2,500  Directors -- H. B. B. Stapler, New York City; W. B. Randall and E. P. Fowler, Pelham Manor."

Source:  RECENT NEW CORPORATIONS, The Daily Argus [Mount Vernon, NY], Aug. 8, 1900, p. 5, col. 1.  


"The Pelham Shore Improvement Company of Pelham Manor was incorporated at Albany this week; capital, $2,500.  Directors -- H. B. B. Stapler, New York City; W. B. Randall and E. P. Fowler, Pelham Manor."

Source:  [Untitled], New Rochelle [NY] Press, Aug. 11, 1900, Vol. XXVI, No. 10, p. 1, col. 1. 

"Pelham Shore Improvement Company of Pelham Manor; capital, $2,500.  Directors -- H. B. B. Stapler, New York City; W. B. Randall and E. P. Fowler, Pelham Manor."

Source:  NEW CORPORATIONS, N.Y. Times, Aug. 8, 1900, p. 9, col. 7.


"REAL ESTATE STATISTICS.
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Tables Showing the Transfers, Mortgages and Plans for New Buildings Filed in Manhattan and the Bronx in Corresponding Weeks of 1900 and 1899. . . . 

RECORDED TRANSFERS. . . . 

Pelham Bay Park, at Long Island Sound, runs w 290.6 to Pelham road x n e 150x e 273.3 to Sound x s -- to beg; William B. Randall to the Pelham Shore Improvement Co. (r s $10, mtge $7,000)...............................10,000"

Source:  REAL ESTATE STATISTICS . . . RECORDED TRANSFERS, New York Herald, Dec. 23, 1900, Second and Third Editions, p. 9, col. 5.  


"GENERAL FUND.
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RECEIPTS. . . . 

Tax on Organization of Corporations -- Chapter 908, Laws of 1896. . . . 

Pelham Shore Improvement Co. . . . . . . . . . . . 3.13

Source:  Annual Report of the State Treasurer for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1900 Transmitted to the Legislature January 2, 1901, p. 65 (Albany, NY:  James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1901).  

"MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX.
CONVEYANCES . . . 

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. . . . 

Pelham Bay Park, at Long Island Sound, runs w 290.6 to Pelham Road x ne 150x e 273.3 to Sound x s -- to beginning; William B. Randall to the Pelham Shore Improvement Company, R S, $10; mortgage, $7,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,000"

Source:  MANHATTAN AND THE BRONX CONVEYANCES . . . REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS, New-York Tribune, Dec. 23, 1900, Vol. LX, No. 19,761, p. 12, col. 3.  

"IN THE REAL ESTATE FIELD
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Sales of Flats and Dwellings -- Records of Auctions and Building -- Important Transfers. . . . 

THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
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List of Plans Filed for New Buildings and Alterations. . . .  

Pelham Road, east side, at the intersection of Pelham Bay Park, for a one-story frame club-house.  48 by 36; Pelham Shore Improvement Company, Pelham Manor, owner; W. Lensining, 55 Broadway, architect; cost, 2,000."

BUILDING DEPARTMENT, N.Y. Times, Jul. 3, 1901, p. 11, col. 1.

"REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. . . . 

Recorded Mortgages. 
Interest is at 5 per cent., unless otherwise specified. . . . 

THE PELHAM SHORE IMPROVEMENT Company to Sidney D. Ripley and anothers [sic], as trustees; Pelham Bay Park, n s, at intersection of line of Long Island Sound, with riparian rights, &c., 5 years, gold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,000"

Source:  REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS . . . Recorded Mortgages, N. Y. Times, Jul. 31, 1901.


"Editorial Notices. 
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Notice Is Hereby Given

That a meeting of the stockholders of the Pelham Shore Improvement Company will be held at the office of the Company, at the residence of William B. Randall, in the village of Pelham Manor, on the fourth day of June, 1901, at 8:30 o'clock p.m. for the purpose of electing 12 Directors and two Inspectors of Election, pursuant to the provision of the By-Laws of said Company, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before said meeting.  Polls will remain open from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.  Transfer books will be closed from May 23, 1901, to June 5, 1901.

THEODORE M. HILL, Secretary."

Source:  Editorial Notices, The Statesman [Yonkers, NY], May 21, 1901, p. 2, col. 4.


"CORPORATION TAXES. . . . 

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE TREASURER.

Tax on Organization of Corporations. . . .

Pelham Shore Improvement Co.....................9.38

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CLASS IV -- Gas, Mining and Miscellaneous. . . . 

P. . . . 

Pelham Shore Improvement...........................4.80

Documents of the Senate of the State of New York One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Session, 1902, Vol. I, Nos. 1 to 9, pp. 88263 (Albany, NY:  J. B. Lyon Company, 1902).

"Pelham Shore Improvement Company

The certificate of incorporation of the Pelham Shore Improvement Company has been filed in the County Clerk's office at White Plains.  The purposes for which it is formed are to acquire by purchase, lease, or otherwise, lands to erect and construct houses, pavilions, piers, and buildings of every kind and to furnish the same, and to make general improvements in that line.  The capital stock is $2,500."

Source:  Pelham Shore Improvement Company, New Rochelle Pioneer, Aug. 18, 1900, Vol. Vol. 42, No. 22, p. 1, col. 6.  


"ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMPTROLLER.

CORPORATION TAXES.

SCHEDULE OF MONEYS RECEIVED IN THE TREASURY DURING THE YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1903, FROM CORPORATIONS, ETC., FOR TAXES IMPOSED IN PURSUANCE OF CHAPTER 908, LAWS OF 1896, AND ACTS AMENDATORY THEREOF.

IV.  MISCELLANEOUS COMPANIES.
(Tax based on dividend and capital only.)

Pelham Shore Improvement................................7.50"

Source:  Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, One Hundred and Twenty-Seventh Session, 1904, Vol. I, Nos. 1 to 9, Inclusive, p. 453 (Albany, NY:  Oliver A. Quayle, State Legislative Printer, 1904).

"Real Estate Transfers. . . . 

BRONX.
(Borough of The Bronx.) . . . 

Pelham Bay Park, n.a. at westerly line Long Island Sound, runs w 200.6x n e 150x e 273.3 s to beg; the Pelham Shore Improvement Co to Evelyn Randall, mtges $11,000....................11,750"

Source:  Real Estate Transfers . . . BRONX . . . (Borough of The Bronx.), The Sun [NY, NY}, Feb. 19, 1904, p. 11, col. 2.

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