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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
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Your Patant Miasinu7

Do you know the patent to your
land is tenfold more important than
the deed you claim under?
Limitations run against individuals,
but not against Uncle Sam.
That's how 1t comes that cases are
not infrequent of a man living on and
cultivating a farm for ten. twenty, or
thirty years and waking UP some
morning to find he has no title.
Many patents are missing from the
county records Of this county.
You can never know the true con-
dition of your own land without in
vestigating. An abstract tells it all.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
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He didn't know the exact acreage.
for no survey had ever been made.
The land had never been distracted;
but the title he thought was good, for
he had bought from old man Bill Jones,
an honest man.
Come to find out-his deed was not
on record; he would file it at once. The
patent he had never seen, but would
look that up too.
Here was an old mortgage the clerk
found "unsatisfied," yet it surely had
been paid.
The buyer wanted the farm II the
title was good, but being from Mis-
souri, he had to be shown.
So the deal fell through.
Moral: Get an abstract and be ready.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
Buying a Lawsuit.

Did you know that placing your re-
lance upon a warranty deed is simply
bidding for lawsuit?
In California this fact is so well I'M
derstood that a warranty deed Is
looked on with suspicion.
It is for this reason:
If the title is good it passes with the
deed, and that is all there is to it-no
need of a warranty. If bad, the add
ing of warranty does not make it
good.
A warranty is only sort of beta
wager that you will have no trouble;
but if you do, and finally lose out, I'll
pay your money back.
A better plan is to require an alb
stract. Don't go to law.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
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The Completeness Of Our Records.
We have one index that leads with
unfailing accuracy to every recorded
transaction affecting the title of any
lot or parcel Of land in the county.
It is a dragnet which nothing can
escape.
To get this information from the
public records at the courthouse would
be like hunting a needle in a haystack.
You could never know when your
search was ended.
Besides this index, we have all the
necessary modern helps to finding out
things about the title-taxes, Judg-
ments, liens, DEGREES. and the like.
need to go any further.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07

What an Abstract Contains.

A complete abstract Of title to a
given tract Of land contains:
A concise statement Of the trans
fers" or changes In ownership of the
tract, in logical order. from the gov
eminent down.
Special showing as to mortgages,
taxes. liens, charges, or assessments of
whatever kind that affect the title.
certificate as to the search.
The certificate must mean some
thing. The abstract Is of no value un-
less 1t can be issued by responsible
company, 1t will pass muster anywhere.
Our abstracts stand the test.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
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The Business Of Abstraoting.

The business Of abstracting titles Is
Of comparatively recent growth.
As lands increase in value the need
of title security becomes more and
more imperative.
It is just as sensible to safeguard the
title to thousand dollar vacant lot as
It is to keep your thousand dollar bond
under lock and key.
Protection In either case is the thing
sought
Good titles make real estate as nego-
table as stocks or bonds.
There Is no way of being sure about
the title except by the help Of an abb
stract.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
About Takina chanees.

The chances are ten to one that your
house will not burn up.
And yet you carry fire insurance.
The chances are five to one that you
will never lose your property through
q defect in the title.
But the fifth man does have a most
exasperating time.
Driven almost to desperation, before
he finds rest he wishes he had never
seen or heard of real estate.
With one of our abstracts showing
perfect title. the chances are ten to
nothing that you will not be disturbed,
or that your title win Withstand any
attack.
Be on the safe side. Get an abstract.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
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Getting Your Moneys Worth?

GettIn9 your Moneys WorthE
Surprising you were about to sell
piece of land for $500 which would net
you 500 to the good. You'd lose no
time in getting the required abstract
of title even at a cost Of SIS rather
than lose the sale; would you?
Any prudent, sensible man would
pursue the same course. The search
Of the title might disclose a defect that
would require time and correspondence
to cure. Suppose the purchaser mean
while got impatient and bought else
where.
Better stake ten or fifteen now, and
be ready.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
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Depositing Money in the Bank.

Would you take five twenty dollar
bills from your trunk, roll them in a
wad and drop it through the keyhole
of bank?
Would that be the way to deposit
10000?
No; as a sensible business man, you
would enter during banking hours,
make out deposit slip, hand it with
the money through the cashiers win
dow, and receive a proper credit in
your pass book.
So, in paying out good money for
real estate, the same business wisdom
dictates that you require the simple
formality of an abstract Of title. 1t is
the only safe way.
Don't poke your money in q rathole.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
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Save Your Tax Receipts.


No careful land owner would think
of sticking his tax receipts in the fire
as soon as they came into his hands.
1t is the part of prudence to preserve
not only tax receipts but all deeds or
other papers relating to lands. All sem
sible men take care Of such papers
you do yourself.
But why not go a step further and
safeguard your interest more surely
by getting an abstract of title. It's
liks driving a peg, and getting a fresh
start. You will then KNOW that
everything is o. K. up to the date Of
the abstract
1t will ease your mind
Good many surprises in store for the
man who neglects this very simple
yet important precaution. Some Of
your neighbors are now reaping the
results Of past neglect-to their sor-
row,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
RaIky Deeds.

You all know about ball5y horses.
You know the fellow who bought
afterwards that his team would balk.
Bought without first trying them.
Was he more foolish than the man
who paid the last dollar on the price
of tract Of land without first looking
up the title?
The search he afterwards made
showed a shaky and defective title
full of balky deeds, conveyances that
do not convey-a complete break in
the chain.
We will furnish the abstract either
before or after you buy the land.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
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Your Own Case.

You are interested, we will say, in
several tracts Of land--a home place,
a farm, and a town lot
Upon what do you rely for security
In ownership of this property?
On one of two things: a warranty
deed, or the statute Of limitations.
The first security may vanish with
the years and leave you all too soon
suspended as it were in midair.
The second security is a last resort
Throwing up your hands in the hope
that the enemy's powder is wet
Getting an abstract is the first step
toward overhauling your title If it is
wrong; and if it is all right the abb
stract is your proof.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
Ownership by Heirs.

It often happens that a man dies
owning real estate without having
made his viii.
The title TO such lands passes by
force of law to the heirs of the de-
ceased. They each then hold an equal
undivided interest.
II there are five, the deed of four
will not convey a perfect title.
Such an incomplete conveyance is
often the source Of endless trouble.
Should the purchaser not happen to
know of the existence of the fifth heir,
he may be unconscious of the flaw in
his title, and may be evicted years
afterward through no fault of his own.
Take no such chances. Demand an
abstract.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07

THE OLD WAY Va. THE NEW
In former days there was no
= safe method Of ever being sure
about titles to lands. II you got anxi-
GUS about your title you went to the
courthouse. The clerk would make the
search as best he could. He would
take such records as he might choose
and look page by page for the old
deeds to your land. He could never
know when his task was done In
the end you got very weak assur-
ance.
Now it is different. The abstracter
has stepped in and prepared marvel
ousiy accurate index-that reveals the
true condition of every tract. It is no
longer guesswork; but absolute knowl-
edge
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07

The DeIusion of Warranty Deed.
A warranty deed Is too often a de-
fusion and a snare.
It sometimes conveys an absolutely
bad title.
Your lawyer will tell you so.
The warranty in the deed is no
stronger than the present ability of the
maker to make good.
He may be dead when your defect Is
discovered; his estate may be insol-
vent.
Again, your title may be held up as
unmarketable at time when sale is
extremely desired. For this annoyance
you have no recourse on your vendor.
It is your worry-not his
Demand an abstract before you buy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
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The Importance of Little Things.

The InPortance OF Little Things.
A two-cent stamp is a small thing to
look after, compared with the letter
itself.
Yet, If omitted, that letter with fits
all important contents would be stop
ped on it's mission, and held for pos
tage."
There are little things to watch
when you deal in real estate.
Omitted, serious trouble is invited
either now or hereafter.
A little thing may cause a blenish
In your title; and a bad title is no
little thing. 1t is a big nuisance.
The two-cent stamp is bigger tax
on your letter than the cost Of the alb
stract is on the value of your land
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
About Being Sure.

Once book agent entered a front
gate and was met by vicious looking
dog. He hesitated.
Presently the woman said, Come
right in. I don't think the dog will
bite"
Did these words reassure the man?
Think was hardly strong enough.
This was a time when he wanted to
know"
So 1t will be when you go to sell
your land. Unless you can use a
stronger word than think" your as
surance will be weak indeed.
You must be able to say, II know
the title is good, and here is the abb
stract that you may know 1t too
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
To Real Estate


There son d tina
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
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Going Back to Uncle Sam.

Abe Lincoln was once asked how
long a mans legs ought to be. He
unhesitatingly replied that they ought
to be long enough to reach from his
body to the ground.
How far back should your abstract
go?
We think If you are going to look
up the condition Of your title at all,
the search by all means should go back
to Uncle Sam.
One link short and you stand in
midair.
The patent is the foundation itself,
''the root Of the title" the books say.
Make sure Of your title from the
ground UP.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-07
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The Work of the Expert.

You would not undertake to fix your
telephone when It gets out Of order.
Nor would you risk your own hands
to mend the broken plumbing.
1t takes an expert to do an experts
work.
The work Of searching titles takes a
special knowledge as well as a special
skill A clerk cannot safely undertake
it; neither can a lawyer. There are so
many title technical points to be no.
ticed, so many knots to untangle in a
complicated title that the work has de-
veloped special talent-the title man.
HIS is an expert in his line just as
the plumber or the electrician
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-18

The Bronx. which had only one district
for a population Of 10000 people. now
has parts Of four districts.
Four districts in the State remain
unchanged. They are the district known
as the northern district. including st.
Lawrence. Franklin. Clinton and Essex
counties; the Onondaga district. the
Oneida -Herkimer district. which Vice.
President Sherman used to represent.
and the so-called southwestern district.
including the counties OF Chautauqua,
Allegany and Cattaraugus.
Congresemen j. Sloat Fassett and John
thrown together In the Thirty-seventh
dietrict. including the counties OF Steuben.
Schuyler. Chemung. Tompkins and Tioga.
Dwight's q old district was the Thirtieth
Serene f. Payne's Thirty-sixth dis
trict has been added to the Democratic
county Of Seneca. but as Seneca escaped
being Republican by only few votes at
night that Mr.. Payne was in any par
ticular danger.
The boundaries OF the districts above
Westchester and Rockland were all that
the committee was able to give last night
They are:
Twenty-sixth-Oranse. Putnam and
Dutchess.
Twenty-seventh-suliiv Ulster. Co.
lumbis. Green. and Schoharic.
Albany and part of
Rensselaer,. including $1,000 voters in Troy.
Twenty-ninth-The rest of Rensselaer,,
Washington. Saratoga and Warren.
Thirtieth-Schenectad Montgomery.
Fulton. Hamilton.
Thirty first Essex. Clinton. Franklin and
81. Lawrence.
Thirty y-second-Jefferson. Lewis. Oswero.
Madison.
Thirty-third-Onei Herkimer.
Thirty rty-fourth-Delaware. Otsego. Che
mango, Broone. Cortland.
Thirty ty-hfth-Onondaga.
rty-sixth-Cayuga. Wayne. Seneca.
Ontario. Yates.
ty-seventh-Tompkins. Tioga, Schuy
ler. Chemung and Steuben.
Thirty-eishth-The First. Second. Third
and Fourth Assembly districts OF Monroe.
Thirty -ninth-The other Assembly dis
tricts OF Monroe, Orleans. Livingston,
Genesee and Wyoming.
Fortieth-Niagara and part of Erie.
Forty y-frst-Part OF Erie.
Forty -second-The rest OF Erie
Forty third-Chautauqua. Cattaraugus
and Allegeany.
The spokesman for the committee said
that the redistricting in Manhattan would
be found to he much fairer than the old
apportionment. He said there had been
no gerrymandering and that the boun-
daries, as far as possible, were parallel
lines. The boundaries will be given out
this morning The bill will be intro.
duced at Albany tonight.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-18
THREE GANGSTERS CAPTURED.
Two Charged With Hoidup Nabbed In Bed
-Ailesed Burglar Also Taken.

The Buckley brothers. Johnny and
Arthur. ~ and 20 years old respectively.
who live at lS8 West 1oist street and be-
long to the organization known among
the police as the Pearl Button gang,
were held without bail for further exam-
ination yesterday by Magistrate McQuade
in the West Side court. charged with high
way robbery by John Costello OF I63 East
l04th street. who says that on the eve-
ming OF September l3 he met the two pris-
oners in Ninetieth street between West
End avenue and Riverside Drive and tina t
at their request he bought them q can
OF beer. When they had taken the edge
of their thirst. he said. one OF the broth
ers pushed him against fence and held
him while the other relieved him Of Ss4
in cash and a gold watch. u fob and a
stickpin.
When the robbery was reported on
Saturday at the West tooth street tation
Detectives Maddox. Stanford and Quinn
went to the address that Costello had
given and being told that the Buckleys
were not in waited in the vicinage from 7
o'clock Saturday evening until 8 o'clock
yesterday morning. Then the coming OF
the postman gave them a chance TO force
their way past the janitor, who had re-
luocu W dtIHit tnoiIi. diiu kOltlH 10 Ine
Buckley apartment they caught the two
brothers In bed.
The strong arm squad ha We been making
n special point lately. 80 they say, OF
rounding up these Pearl Buttoners and
yesterday they brought into the West
Side court a third member OF the gang,
Joseph H. Speranza OF les West l42d
street, whom they arrested late Saturday
night at the corner OF tooth street and
Columbus avenue. They are sure that
dollars worth Of jewelry and bric-a -brac
from the home OF Mrs. W. Bird OF l2I
West Ninety ninth street on September s.
A ticket with Speranzas name on il for
some Of the stolen goods pawned at
Rhodes's shop at SO8 Columbus avenue
furnished the clue
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-18

the property and affairs OF the department
The Department OF Docks and Ferries
remains as now constituted
The provisions of the existing Charter
rcauiring the advertising Of a hearin g
upon proposed lease OF dock property
are continued.
Each member Of local board includng e
the Borough Presidents Is authorized to
initiate local improvements.
The power Of the Borough Presidents to
compel restoration OF pavcments after
streets have been opened has heen extended.
As to the differences which have arisen
~ to the composition OF the Board OF Educa-
ton II seems TO the committee that sub
stantially all parties will he satisfied with
a Board OF Education composed OF fifteen
members Of which the president alone
snail receive a salary. Accordingly the
committee has provided for such board.
the members Of which shall be appointed.
hve from Manhattan. four from Brooklyn.
two from The Bronx. one from Queens. one
from Richmond and two AZ large. one OF
whom IL to he designated as president and
receive salary of si2,oo
The changes made in the educational
thnptr- chiefly affect the powers and duties
of the city superintendent and the board
OF examiners.
There has been restored TO the city super
and also the power to make assignments
Of di strict superintendents.
The number of associate superint endents 4
has been limited to eight. as In the present
charter. and the number of district super
intendents has not been increased.
The number OF members OF the board of
examiners has been increased ~ five ap-
pointed from civil service lst-. The tenure
Of once has been made permanent instead
OF for a term OF years.
The assignment OF associate superintend-
ents shall be nv the board only after con-
sultation with the city superintendent
There has been restored to the city super
ntendent power to Issue all teachers
licenses.
The city superin, endent has been en-
powered 10 call together all members Of the
supervising stan of teachers for consulta-
tion and instruction and to prescribe suita-
ble registers. blanks. forms and regulations
for the making of reports.
The merging Of eligible lists has been left
4 discretionary matter with the Board OF
Education.
The board of superint endents shall make
all examinations for members Of the teach
ing stan.
II In provided that no permanent licenses
shall he issued to any one who is not citi-
zen OF the United States.
10 the city superintendent is restored
the power to prefer charges against q
member OF the teaching or supervising
etah.
Equal pay provisions have not been dis
turbed.
The pension of retiring principals has
been increased from 81 500 to o.. $50.
The section authorizing the temporary
service has been omitted. leaving the law
AZ IL is at present.
The requirement making seven years
experience in the city schools a necessary
qualification for appointment as a superin-
tendent hns been eliminated
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-18
STRIKERS WANT TO CONFER
hut Employ Ing TaIiors REFUSE 70 See
Them at Al.

Meyer London and John A. Dyche. two
Of the union leaders in the tailors' strike
tried to reopen negotiations with the
employers yesterday. They called at the
Victoria Hotel to propose another con-
ference. but the employers refused to
see them.
1t was stated emphatically by Walter
H. Bartholomew. secretary OF the Mer-
chants Association. that there was M
conference. The employers at the Vic
toria Hotel met informally. A well known
New Yorker came to these employers
and said it was an unfortunate thing
that the strike could not he settled.
He asked II the employers had any OBJ
lection TO his making an effort to talk
the strikers into better frame Of mind.
The employers told him to go ahead.
The East Fifty first street police station
was called UP on the telephone yesterday
and to the desk lieutenant voice said:
This Ia Henry Rosenfeld. My men
are going to work to-day and want the
protection Of the law against the strikers. y
The man on the wire said that he was
a ladies' tailor and that his shop was
at % East Forty fifth street. where he
hou stA HiCh oiiu q iOi WI NH ios
him.
The desk lieutenant touched a button
and Sergt. Fogarty came out from the
back room.
Sergeant. here's a man that wants
protection for working on the Sabbath.
Take Policeman Burnell with you and
do your duty. You know the section Of
the Penal Code applying to such cases. y
Il do. very well. But it hasn't been
used for long time now said Fogarty
as he and the policeman went over to the
East Forty fifth street address and found
the street door open.
They entered. and going to the third
hoor they. found seven men very. busy
with needle and thread and scissors.
One OF the men came forward and said
he was Henry Roeenfeld. The others.
he explained. were his employees
you are all under arrest for breaking
the Sabbath laws. said the sergeant.
The men had to drop the women g
lands were marched to the station at house @
and then to the Yorkville police court.
Roeenfeld there said taat he had not
telephoned to the police for protection.
In fact he didn't want any protection.
His men were making from Ss5 to So6 a
week and had refused to 50 out on strike
ference by strikers the men slept in the
shop.
The boss tailor had q suspicion that
some Of the strikers had sought to eve q
up matters by bringing the police upon
a Sunday job with the probability Of an
arrest.
When the men were arraigned on a
charge OF breaking the Sunday laws
Magistrate Kernochan asked Policeman
Burnell II the neighborhood was die
turbed by the tailors at work. There was
no disturbance. the policeman said
did you ever hear Of these tailor
shops being open on Sunday?' went on
the court.
mo. sir
well. there are plenty Of them open
on Fifth avenue II these men observe
Saturday as their Sabbath and do not
disturb the neighbors by their Sunday
work l do not think they violate the
law, said the Magistrate. He discharged
the nrisopors