Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-05-27
Monsg. J M Lucey, Writing to the Graphic. Tells of
 the Progress There.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Of Real Estate Men Are Attractive SOmeti.in. of tue Architecture
 and Street Railway.
Editor of Ora phic-

eye of the visitor, the street railway system tie work of real estate agents and the architectHfal al appearance of very large number of buildings. 1t is probable that the!.o three things have done more for the upbuilding of the city than all other agencies com- bined.
 The street car system is owned by New York capitalists and in it's work ing order is almost perfect. In many cars, directly in front of the motorman is small time piece which holds the man at the controller down to his schedule. The lines run over the streets and out of tie city in all de sirable directions. The city is six miles square and in several cases the street railway runs beyond the city limits. Transfers are given on all lines and a nickel will carry a person 10 or 15 miles. The great benefits, social and commercial, of these lengthy runs are readily recognized. Families and individuals. for health and relaxation. rde out daily to the parks or lake which is generally at the terminus and return at their leisure. This makes money for the railway, which however. accommodating knows how to ring in it's business interests. In the Wes end of the city it hap pens that oh an avenue off the line 1 there is a considerable number of res- iiences-The railway, to please these 1 people and put money in their own ! pockets ordered their cars on the reg nlar line to make the rundown on , each return trip. It is the same as ]! if the Citizens Street Railway of Pine ! Bluff would take off the Second ave- nue car and order the Cemetery car to run down the line westward from Cherry street on its return trip.
 The good work of the street rail- l way in the upbuildir/ of San An tonic would be about as it is else | where were it not for the push and | energy of the real estate men, There ] are more of this class of men here . than in any city that l know of and i they are all workers. Some appar- ently are the agents of wealthy syn dicates, as money does not seem to be matter of concern to them. A wild | tract of land in the West End. easily bought for fifty dollars an acre few years ago, was bought up by these men in plots of hundred acres at q time. The next move was to give the street railway $3 900 a mile for ten or more miles of their line completed | and with cars running regularly The property was laid off into blocks. the streets graded and three foot con- crete walks put down. Then the lots were opened for sale at 5000 and up. The place it now beautiful suburb and much in demand for residences.
 San Antonio real estate men fol- low plan of this kind where their influence is large enough to command the necessary money. In several of the city suburbs. the real estate men get the railway out as they desire to have it. The streets are graded and macadamized as perfectly as the best l. of roadways-three-foo concrete walks are put around the blocks. which are cleared of brush, plowad up and leveleI to an attractive ap- pearance. Everything looks so charm ing that the property talks for itself. The usual side schemes are however, 1 not neglected. The block adjoining i the street railway is made especially 1 attractive by concrete curbing all 1 around and large concrete pillars at l the front corners on which is impress sed in large letters: Marlborough 1 Place, or Arlington Court, Glenwood Apartments eff they add large house to the premises, etc.)
 The real estate agents of lands in 1 the country know the tricks of trade as we'll as their city brethren In show windows of the city the following and similar dodgers are used: These Irish potatoes were planted February 15-16, '09. and dug May 15, '09-value of acreage s26O.' What prospector from Arkansas or Tennessee could re. fuse to invest in such a sure thing? The real estate men of San Antonio orght to open school of instruction tor their brethren. in. other states! They have got the business down fine. IF 3sa* sfA Ss 1