Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-01
REAL ESTATE MEN
MAKE GREAT VOWS
TURN OVER LEAVES TO GREET
THE NEW YEAR
Many Buster Brown Appears in the
Bunch With a Pot of Paint
to Cover Reso-
IutIons


may start the New Year in proper
FORM suggestions have been modestly
requested from the friends of the gang.
The resolutions and turning over of
new leaves cover as much territory as
do some brokers with their signs, hut
the generous impulses that govern the
crowd should make their calling the
more pleasing during the coming year
In the parlance of the street, F. M.
Phelps will swear off spending any
more than he can help, and he will not
spend his commissions, according to his
friends, until his sales are closed.
The Crippen Investment company
has resolved that it is best to have a
regular doctor handy to administer an
anaesthetic to an obstreperous owner
and to place hot water bag to cold
footed purchaser. DR.. p. Ianss has
been taken into the company, it is pre-
sumed for this purpose
A. T. Jergins will resolve to subdivide
couple of new tracts in Boyle Heights,
then retire from the real estate busi-
ness and go into partnership with Tom
Lawson in frenzying finance.
w. H. Allen & Son have made a sa-
cred vow that they will do even a
greater business than in 19O4-and that
was a big record, if quietly conducted
and with doc" Allen to hustle from
dark until dawn putting up signs that
vow should produce a row of 5 s $
$s$$S about this long.
| F. w. Flint, jr, resolves that he will
sell a lot a day at Willowbrook during
the new year.
| Robert Mitchell will swear off making
sale without first getting a deposit.
| E. S. Butterworth resolves to make
all the money he can, and then some
more. and then an extra dollar.
Frank Harbert swears off ever MAX
ing any more remarks or suggestions
about the cemeteries of the city.
Martin & Rockwell resolve to do
more business now that they have
moved into new quarters in the Mason
building.
Croak &c Mccain resolve to take over
the old room vacated by Martin &
Rockwell.
James V. Baldwin resolves to sell off
West Adams Heights again. Jim has
new office boy at his home that plays
bawl all the time.
Fred Lattimer swears off being a
director in any new club.
James A. Keeney (Sunny Jim)
swears off being q police commissioner
January and resolves to keep on sell
ing Sunny Side.
John d. Foster resolves to play golf
as often as business will permit and
remove that muscle-bound arm.
Lee Mcconnell resolves that If he is
placed on the police commission he
will see that no real estate man will be
arrested if he leaves his horse tied over
twenty minutes if he can prove he is
| trying to make sale.
Allen Jones resolves never to leave
Los Angeles again (six months in Oak
land is the cause of his swear Off.
/ Percy Clark swears off ever riding a
polo pony again; automobiles are dan
gerous enough for him.
| ~
anything but peanuts and breakfast
foods made of grated corn cobs. "Those
that eat beef get beefy and those that
eat nuts get WELL never mind, says
the chubby doctor.
| George Black swears off going on any
more Republican executive committees,
as one campaign is not all champagne.
r. A. Rowan resolves the next one
will be a boy but the new girl is doing
nicely, thank you.
Strong & Dickinson resolve they will
subdivide one hundred new tracts this
year. However. neither is a cente-
marian.
| George A. Smith of Nolan & Smith
resolves he will run for governor next
time, the councilmanship came too easy.
Clark & Bryan resolve to raise prices
in Westmoreland as soon as they get
the time (they are too busy signing
deeds now).
Hal Braly of the Cornish Braly COM
pany resolves that next year his part
ner, Herb Cornish, must not take such
an active interest in politics. Braly
claims he missed several tennis en-
gagements on account of Herbs strenu-
Gus efforts for McAleer.
C. C. C. Tatum resolves to add cou-
pie of more "C's" to his signature If the
public demands it.
Robert Marsh resolves to build n
home in every one of his new tracts.
He now has a home at Alamitos Bay,
ore at Short Line Beach, one planned
for Western Heights and one for the
Country Club terrace and several others
are in the hands of his prolific archi-
tect.
Irwin Heron swears off being an "oii
Well Supply Man" and joins the grand
fraternity of real estate hustlers. Long
may he Hustle in the land of the Flea
and the home of the Russell"
Tom Garfield resolves to stay home
this year He has seen all the Worlds
Fairs he ever wants to see.
The Golden State Realty company re-