The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-20

hustlers in Virginia dirt arc going to
attend tho State Real Estata Convon-
ton. Careful judges place the limit in
the neighborhood of four hundred 1t
will be great gathering.
The first session of tho convention
will bo held, on Wednesday, tho 2lst
inst, at IL noon in the rooms OF the
Real Estate Exchange on tho third floor
Of THE ROANOKE TINES building.
The convention will be composed OF
delegates from Richmond, Norfolk.
Petersburg, Lynchburg, Roanoke, Rad
ford, Salem, Pulaski, I5ucna Vista, Glas-
gov, Clifton Forge, Bedford City,
Wythevillc, and many other lively cities
of the State.
The primary sessions will be pro-
sided over by Mr.. Myers, president of
the Norfolk Real Estate Exchange,
who was elected temporary president
of the present organization of the
Virginia real estate agents ut the Nor
folk convention held last November.
1t must be remembered that the real
estate convention held at Norfolk was
for the purpose OF considering the ad-
visibility of, and taking some definite
action upon, the organization Of Il State
Real Estate Exchange. At that meet
ing it was decided that such an cx-
change should he established and the
convention decided that it should be
organized at the city of Roanoke on
January 81 and -, 1891.
Some OF tho purposes for which this
State exchange is To be organized are to
bring about concert of action among the
real estate dealers, and to advertise to
tho world the unboundcd resources of
Virginia. One of the most iml ortant
matters to come up is that of tho special
taxation of the real estate dealers by
the State, and it is highly probable that
committee will be appointed to wait
upon the State legislature at its next
session and ask that body to have
be collected yearly instead of quarterly,
or better still to abolish the tax alto
gethcr.
a prominent real estate man 6f tho
city said to TINES reporter yesterday:
''Thcrc is q tax of onc-fourth of ono per
cent. upon the gross sales of real estate
dealers at the end of each quarter, we
make report of the gross sales of the
past three months to the collector OF
revenue and pay the fourth of one per
cent. tax on those sales.
Now there arc great many of what
we call '-curbstonc.rca estate Dealers"
who will take out Il license for Il period
of three months, and after doing small
business perhaps for some timo they
will go out of business before thor
three months has expired and make no
report of their sales TO the revenue
authorities.
The State legislature will be asked
TO place specific tax upon real estate
dealers. Whe Their it be 500, 5000 or $500
or more. we arc not concerned, but only
ask to he protected from these curb
stone dealers, who rob us Of business
and pay no taxes"
Tho first session Of the State E,x-
change will be held at IL m. Wcdncs-
day, the 2lst, and in the afternoon of
that day the delegates will be driven
around the city and shown tho indus
tries of Roanoke and the signs of it's
remarkable growth and progress. A
night session will be held at p. IN.
On Thursday, the 22nd, tho meeting
organization and for tho election of per-
manent officers of the State Exchange.
The delegates will be banqueted on
on the night Of that day at the Ponce do
Leon Hotel, and Joasts responded to by
tho eloquent members of the fraternity.
LAST NIGHTS NETTING.
About fifty members were present at
the meeting of the Exchange last night
President Hockaday was in the chair.
Mr. Ludwig, OF the committee on en-
tertainment, said that nearly 200 real
estate men had announced their intcn-
ton of attending the convention
this week OF this number 90 were
from Norfolk, B from Salem, from
Newcastle, 2 from Buena Vista, from
Max Meadows, 10 from Wytheville, 5
from Lynchburg, from Bedford Citv,
from Pulaski, 8 from Buchanan, and
others from all over tho State.
A. j. Bolts e Co., and Anderson &
Bro, were admitted to membership in
the exchange, receiving thirty firm
votes, a majority of the firms in the ex-
change.
j. w. Bowsc applied for membership,
the application to be balloted on during
the week.
a long discussion as to whc Their more
than one member of each firm in the
Roanoke Exchange be admitted to The
banquet, was finally referred to The
committee on arrangements with power
to act.
registration book was ordered to be
provided for the recording of the vsi-
tors names.
The committee on arrangements was
increased to ten members
The toasts to be responded to were
read by the secretary, and after he con-
Guided Mr. Dill brought down the house
by rcmarking, 81 am glad we have got
that much of the banquet"
Tue toasts for the banquet arc as fol-
lows:
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