Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-08-05
SECRETS OF SUCCESS.
How the Desired End is Reached
by Proper Methods.

Peculiarities in individualism will
never cease. Simplicity in all things, the
mother of naturalness, magnifies itself,
on the same principle that virtue invar-
iably has its own reward. There is
more magnetism in one ounce of up
rightness, square dealing and truth than
there is in q pound of Righteousness.
The secret of some men s ultimate success
is invariably attributed to the magnetism
born of facts.
The real estate operator, Mr.. ID. l..
Risley, of 211 South Tenth street, Phil
adelphia, Pa, and 63 Chancery Lane,
London, England, several years ago
started business i'll a small way with
little or no capital, except a small tract
of land, which he quickly sold in building
plots, and reputation that cash could
not buy. The former was not essential
but the latter, which has stood the test
of time, has been the means of his be-
coming the largest real estate operator
in the United States, if not in the world.
One of the most interesting features in
the history of this early age of estate
operations is his London office; where
the telegraph or cable plays part in
making quick allotments of farms pur-
chased by Londoners. The tract known
as Mimay and Estelle and which COM
prises about five thousand farms has
met with the greatest success at the
hands of our mother country.
Well-to-do merchants, shopkeepers and
British farmers are purchasing large
blocks OF land with view to settling on
their estate in the near future. In fact,
number of them have already arrived
and to report the exact expression from
one of our London acquaintances, ut
far exceeds my most surprising expecta-
tions," the place may be appreciated by
those who have had the good fortune to
secure farms while the colony is in its
infancy.
Among those who have recently pur-
chased estate from Mr.. Risley's London
Office are; Robert G. Hawkey, one of
the largest furniture dealers in London; j.
Dixon Butler, London; C. 81. Gill, New
Brompton, Kent; Joseph S. May, New
Maiden, Surry; Herbert Silly, Andover;
Geo. H. Lynch, Newbury: 7. J. Souden,
Y. M. C. A., Cambridge; Mrs. T. E.
Cope, London, who represented the
English Government at the Worlds Fair;
John Illingwortb, grocer, butcher and
provision dealer, Rickmansworth, Herts;
Quartermaster Sergeant A. Pateman,
Leicester; Thos. P. Nash, Craford, Kent;
A. M. Taylor, London; Richard Meyers,
London; F. H. Parkes and Mrs. c. L..
Parkes, London; Miss Z. B. Bartlett,
London; L. J. Daily, Birmingham;
William Page, Shepherds Bush, London;
s. McCracken, Dublin; A. S. Carpenter,
Harry Maund, London; Joshua Bewick,
Newcastle-on-Tyne;G G. j. Hill, Gambler
well, London; p. Pullen, Chiswick, Lon
don; Sydney j. Keen, Mrs. Keen and
Mrs. Theodore Roche, London, W.; John
f. Low, Crewe, Cheshire; Ernest Pullen,
London; Theo. w. Sutton, Dublin; A. j.
Macfarlane, Upper Norwood; John
\ Fleming, Leicester; Joseph Wilson
DPoupard, Batteraea, London; Nicoll
i Macdonald, Manchester; Norman Mac
farlane, Oaknall, S. E. London; j. J.
Wilson, Plaistow E.; David O'Connell,
Cork; j. j. Bills, MAZDA Vale; Edward
Millwood, Stoke Newington N. E. Lon
don; Miss Butler, London; A. Hing
worth, London; A. ]. Frewing, Rick
mansworth; s. M. Kerr, Bermondsey,
London; Mrs. Mary Miles, Rickmans-
worth; Albert Gale, Mrs. Ellen M. Gale,
PaddiDgton w.; Thomas Murphy, Port
rush; A. W. T. Halstead, HoxtoD; P.
Goldsack, Bayswater W. F.; R. Lynch,
Newbury; William Nash, East Green
wick S. E; Ann Elizabeth Sharp,
Walthamstow; Thomas M. Sloper, Lon
don, w.; Fl. Medlicott. A. FL. Kincey.
Liverpool; James CrichtoD, John G
Crichton, London, and others too mum
erous to mention. Some of our English
cousins have invented the idea ofmakine
birthday or Easter presents Of these
farms to admired relatives or friends.
Sensible cousins What more sub
stantial present could father make his
son, devoted brother make to sister
or an affectionate husband to his wife
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