The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-19
real ESTATE AND
BUILDING | |. |. | ! !. NEWS.
What About Ninth and Broad is
the Question. Nov Generally
Discussed. i.
MAYBE. A.THEATRE OR A HOTEL
ATHEATRE5 or a HOTEl
a Few Auction Sales That Have
Been Announced for
This Week.

There seems to be aome uncertai nty
and awhole cloud OF mystery as to what
Is going to happen ut the corner OF Ninth
and Broad Streets. Tho only thing that
has been reduced to a certainty Is that
the Valentine estate. which has 80 long
owned the property. has sold 1t. and that
N. w. Bowe & Son were the real estate
agents who engineered the deal. 1t Is also
reasonably sure that the sellers obtained
In the neighborhood OF $4,000 for the
property But just who the real pur-l
chascrs are and what new use the prop
erty Is to be put to-. the people on the
inside will not tell--jnst yet.
Mr. Harry Eichelberger was the pur-
chaser named when the sale was made,
as told In The Times-Dispatch. but Il
wns very well understood at the time
that he was either acting for other par
ties or had more than one partner in
the deal. There3are all kinds OF rumors
In the air. One Is to the effect that
new thentregis to go up on the prop
erty.. and another is that n new hotel is
to ndorn the corner OF Ninth and Broad.
The only thing that Is certain about 1t
is that something new is going up there
and the evidence OF this consists In the
fact that the real estate agents who have
the property In charge have given the
present tenants the usual slxty-day notice
to ivacate. 4,a /.
Richmond Addition Not Yet.
Bids for the big Ninth Street addition
to the Richmond HotelEwere opened yes
terdEy, and all OF them were turned
down, on the ground that all were too
high. The bidders explained that their
bids had to be higher because OF recent
advances In NIL manner OF building mate
rial, and because of higher figures lately
set upon labor. These conditions put the
cost OF the building so much higher than
that Of the present hotel that Mrs. At
kinson declined MI bids III
There were a number OF bidders, anicllS
them w a. Chesterman, J. T. Wilson.
j.. =. Nuckols and a. NJ Walkup. of
Richmond; II. NJ. Weed & Co. and Thomp-
son starrett Company New York: With
Hayden Construction. Company. Norfolk:
Wells Brothers. Baltimore. and Cramp
Company, OF Philadelphia 81,
Whether this rejection OF all bids means
the Indefinite postponement OF the erec-s
tion Of the Ninth Street addition to the
Richmond remains to be seen. 5.l5
Sales This Week.
The following auction sales are an
nounced for this week:
To-day a ! o'clock, N. w. Bowe g.
Son and McVeigh 6: CHM WILL on the
premises. sell two storehouses on FIJI
teenth Street, known as Nos Is and II.
At 8 clock the same firms will sell the
four houses, Nos. 25oo, 2511 I 251s and 25l5
East Franklin Street These are two
story and basement brick residences. and
Will make desirable homes or good in
vestment properties.
This afternoon at O'Clock r. B,
Chafin & Co. will sell the valuable house
and lot, No. 800 West Marshall Street.
To- morrow "wednesday beginning at
s o'clock,.J. Thompson Brown & Co. viii
sell eight splendid West End buiking
lots, which front on Chaftln Street, near
the Randolph Street School, q