San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-10-01
Second Congress Nst'onab Real Es-
tate Association.
RuEPAIo n Y Semi en- lsa2

tate Association.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Sept. 50 1892.
Owing to it's commanding situation
as q railroad center, the City of Buff
falo has of late years become very
popular as convention city for meet
ings of national bodies. But never in
her history has she made prepara-
tions to receive gathering of busi-
ness men, the Importance of whose
visit will have so wide and beneficial
an effect upon her great destiny as
will the meeting of the NstiOnal Real
Estate Association of America, whose
second annual congress will be held
in Buffalo on October 4th to 7th incln.
sive.
Every business or professional man
in the United States, who is in terest.
ed in real estate as an owner, agent
or dealer, will be benefited by the
work that will be done in Buffalo by
this association, and it is, therefore,
receiving very wide atten ton. Among
the objects which this association
hopes TO accomplish. is the establish
ment or uniform laws throughout the
States for the transfer and registry of
real property; for better and simpler
and more secure legal forms to be
used in the transaction of the real es-
tate business and for the establish
ment of a central body of reference
and statistics. The association dis
courages wild speculation and ficti-
tious "bOoms," and encourages and
aims to direct, as far as possible, the
investment of money in sections pro.
missing the greatest and safest re
turns.
The association is purely national
In its character, and is not controlled
by real estate men of any section, and
the usefulness of such q body cannot
be over estimated.
The programme of the Congress at
Buffalo will include an address by
the Hon. Chsuncey M. Depew, upon
Rapid Transit and subur ban Real Els.
tate" and addresses of equal impor-
rance and interest will De made by
Ex-Gov. Hubbard, of Texas, and the
Hon. J. Craddock Simpson, of Mon
treal, Hon. A. s. COlyar, Nashville
Tenn, Hon. Seymour Dexter, Elmira
n. Y, Hon. F. g. Bowditch, Boston,
Mass, and Hon. F. c. Moore, Presi-
dent of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters.
Delegates to this Congress will find
the City of Buffalo one of the most
magnificent examples of material
prosperity and American civilization.
They will find q city with three hum
dr.G thousand Inhabitants, and they
will learn that one-half the inhabi-
tants of Buffalo have been added to
her population during the past II
years. They will find q municipal
government whose rule has been so
intelligent and progressive that 1t
has been able to keep pace with this
nprecedented growth by extending
police, fire and water protection;
parks, boulevsrds and pavements;
schools and churches, and q sewer
age system fully in keeping with the
wants of her 300, 900 people. and yet q
city which. leads sixty-five American
cities in economic taxation.
The visitors will find more than 100
miles of smooth asphalt pavement,
w3ich is nearly twice more miles of
lis perfect pavement than lie possess
Ell by any city in the world. They
will find q water supply, which fur.
water from LakeEri to every inhab.
liant.
Buffalo is now the the largest coal
distributing point in the world; the
largest sheep market; the largest
fresh fish market, and with her SUBJ
urban port of Tonawanda, the largest
lumbe market in the world. She Is
the second largest grain, cattle and
live stock market In the world, and
the value of her lake and rail COM
MERGE places her as the sixth largest
commercial city on the globe. The
five large cities which surpass her are
London, Liverpool, New York, Ham.
burg and Chicago.
Probably of more general national
interest in this real estate congress
will be the extension to Buffalo of
congratulations by every visitor upon
Buffalo's acquisition of Niagara Falls
water-power by the monstrous tun-
mel just completed at an expense Of
many millions of dollars of Wall
Street capital, which will supply to
Buffalo one hundred and twenty
thousand horsepower, for all manu-
featuring purposes land for electric
light, at q cost of one-fOurth of steam
made power and one half the cost of
the cheapest water-power elsewhere
in the world. The Hon. Peter A. POr.
ter, who was one of the projectors of
this tunnel, will address the congress
upon the inception, history and COM
pletion of the greatest of the worlds
engineering fests, and the entire Con-
gress will adjourn to Niagara Falls to
visit the tunnel.
While at Big Island, Va, last April, /
was taken with very severe attack of
diarrhoa. l never had it worse in my life.
tried several oli-time remedies, such as
blackberry wine, paragoric and laudanum