The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-12-19

The proposed establishment OF ieai
estate salesroom is very popular nloEe
! ana receives the endorsement OF men VI
business everywhere in the city.
MAJOR DooLEY.
Major James II. Dooley. when asked
his opinion of the matter, said.
When l was much yourger and more
active than i am now. / was N the
habit of attending real estate safes ~
the afternoon. / knew that IL often nap
pened that property sold under compui-
sion was sacrihced merely because peO-
pie of means, who would have been slad
! to buy, were either too busy or too IN
different TO travel from one portion OF
the city to another In search OF bar
gaiTs. 4 man Of means and Of AFFAIRS
has generally something 10 dc other than
going TO a distant part Of the city or
suburbs to attend sale, advertised Tor
an hour at which II never takes place.
and waiting on the pleasure or the
auctiOncer to commence. After he has
gone through the Inconvenience OF get
ting there and wasted his time waiting
for others to come, and has stood IN
biting wind, or a blazing sun, the proba-
bility Is that the auctiOneer Will announce
that he a instructed not 10 sell. The con-
sequence is that the very men whose
attendance Is most desirable and impor-
tant will not go.
II you want to make business Of any
kind, II you want to stimulate trading
in any department, you must Oifer facl-
tiles to customers. you must do every
thing 10 attract them and make them
comfortable when they come. Sales on
the premises are well suited perhaps 10
a village or a small toWn.,but Richmond
has grown too large and extends over
too much territory 10 justify cOntln-
uancc Of this practice
This very evening there are TO be some
very interesting sales at the corner Of
Grove avenue and the Boulevard. II II
were convenient ! would like 10 attend.
II they were held i'm the Chamber Of
T..
certainly be present; but / am not suf-
ticiently ardent TO travel two miles and
then stand IN . cold North wind. the
thermometer being At forty degrees,
while a crowd is slowly gathering. With
the prospect Of a resulting bad cold. !
believe that the way to stimulate trad
ing i'm real estate is TO use the same
means that you DO in other business
make il attractive rid il Of Instructions,
make it easy. make il just as easy for
a man to buy a lot as il is 10 buy
hat We have thrown entirely too many
difficulties and distractions IN the way
Of real estate changing hands. Let us
pursue the opposite policy and make it
as easy as possible.
JOHN r. BRANCH.
MIR. John p. Branch said: The real es-
tate sales-Toom ought 10 be established
by all means. In the FIRST place. 1T VIII
attract a much larger gathering OF buy
ers. There are great many men who
will not go through the heat Of summer
and the cold Of winter 10 wait the con-
venience of the auctioncer, who will 80
TO the salcs-roOm. Any one wishing TO
buy. and not knowing the condition of the
property. could 90 and examine it at his
leisure, and then come to the sales-TOOm
prepared 10 buy.
Real estate owners could afford TO pay
a tax TO have their property sold at
the Real Estate Exchange or sales-room,
rather than at distant points about the
city.
G. Z. WOR1HtI.