Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-01-03
COLLEGE HILL ADDITION.
VIM. r. Mclean talks Of that val.
liable Property.

AufAhS 1oOC4J SOAhO Ah'O ouA AAISGp huu
secured the exclusive control Of College
Hill Addition, which lies within the in
corporate limits of our city, is about to
place the addition on the market. A
HERALD representative thought it would
be interesting for all to hear from him
on real estate matters in general, SO
called upon him and was received most
courteously.
"Mr. Mclean, shorld like to know
something about real estate said the
newspaper man?"
Certainly sir, lot II in block 26,
College Hill Addition, is most eligible
site, and the next one tc it, is quite as
good, little less, for it's not corner"
Excuse me please, am not quite
ready to purchase, mean I want you to
give me some insight irto the real estate
business"
"Well sir, you put ne in mind of a
story I once heard on gratuitous medical
advice: A certain very rich and av-
aricious man conceived the idea of re-
ceiving gratuitous advice from the Eng
lish doctor, Abernethy. For this pur
pose he invited the physician to dinner
party, and in the course of ordinary
conversation, he insinuated his own case
by remarking: Doctor, suppose man
has symptoms, thus and thus, what
would you advise him to take? and
Abernethy answered: 7 would advise
him to take medical advise Now sir, if
you want to learn real estate buy a lot
for $75 in College Hill Addition"
"Yes, know what you want, but
suppose man had walked from Palouse
City and came into your town with 25
cents and an oyercoat; paid the 25 cents
for shave and put his coat up as Sc
cur1ty for three days hotel bill, and in
three weeks had under his s1control Pull
mans best property, over a hundred
thousand dollars worth u your choicest
property, without putting up dollar,
would you think he knew anything
about real estate?"
"Why that's too laughable to think
about, its absurd, no man could accom-
pllsh such deal and hold it. I'd Just
like to see such real estate man, and
I'd believe real estate is more of a pro-
fession than I'd yet given it credence."
"Well sir, right before you sits the
man, and he's going to control such
property against all comers, and can, if
the citizens want city of 5000 popula-
tion inside of three years, give Pullman
such an impetus that cities quite near
will quake. will stake f.cls my inter
est in College Hill add 49, hat I can
dcussa oEzs.y .of prgso-ssttS1 II, q e
True's hotel to the Uriion Pacific
depot inside of one year, and I believe it
can be done in six months, laying all
jocose aside, know I can do it. But
do you suppose I'll do it?'not much, un-
til I have a guarantee indisputable, that
will compensate me for the brain work
to such an undertaking.
"Do you know the great drawback to
the real estate business?"
"No sir, do not"
"Well listen, every anatomical pro-
duction thinks he can be a real estate
man, and up goes the shingle, Render,
Diogenes, & Go, Real Estate, Loans,
etc. Then he must have few acres to
plot, secures it, the Lord only knows
where, calls in civil engineer to lay it
off to scale, adorns it with trees, few
houses, parks, rail roads, boulevards and
fountains, then says: let's catch the
suckers He sends men east, north,
south and west, and says: sell property,
sell to the Mormons or the Zulus, Sene-
bians or Africans; sell to the devil or sell
to angles, but sell property, and if he's
like a good many TYe seen he'll go to
church on Sunday, and sing: Praise
-God-from-w whom-all- -bless-ings
-fow."'
"Well you may laugh, and if you
doubt it, wait few weeks and take
trip with me, and if you don't say: o
thou who art infinite, have mercy upon
that miserable offender I'll pay for the
trip"
"Real estate is a profession. Real
estate men are made so, not born so
The world at large must be his tutor, he
must acquire his knowledge from man
and nature, keen observation of i'm
provements, varied experiences with
business men and affairs, persistent, ag-
gressive, determined and resolute at all
times. First in the field for improve
ments, and first to advance the princi-
pie upon which they can be attained; he
should be charitable toward his fellow
men, and never foreclose a mortgage if
the client shows any inclination to raise
funds for the impending payment"
"Now you say that is very odd; well,
it's not odd. Mr.. Gross, of Chicago, who
only a few years ago had nothing, is
now worth two million dollars, and his
head man told me only few months
since, that out OF the sale of eighteen
thousand (18000) lots they had never
foreclosed a mortgage. And the reason
is very simple: treat your clients as you
agreed to when you sold them the prop
erty. If your plot shows trees, houses,
parks, railroads, boulevards and foun-
tains, put them there, be man and live
up to your word and I'll guarantee every
purchaser will pay for his property. II
you want to see the two sides Of the
question go to Spokane and ask to be
driven out to Webster's Addition.
There's an addition on paper that would
knock Drexel Boulevard, of New York,
into cooked hat, and if you can find a
tree Except that planted by the Infinitely
a plank walk, boulevard, a motor, cleo
trio or any other motive power, you've
got better eye sight than I have, and Tn
inclined to think you haven't. There's
sign there with Lincoln Park on it,
and if I were the dead hero, and there is
such a place as where spirits blend, I'd
ask the Lord to spare me few moments
and I'd knock that sign into smithers or
I'd carry it back to Glory. Now I'll