The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-21
Hot Weather and Spec
ulation; Good Business
for a Torrid Week.
S STILL KICKING
AGAINST BADLAW
J Man Ian. Who Talks Out in Meeting
Against Virginia's Unjust Tax
Requirements m e Com
parative Figures-Much
Business for Hot
Spell. tt

There is a marked difference OF opin-
Ion among the real estate agents con
corning the business in realty for the
past week. Just to Illustrate: one
agent butts up against the reportorial
interrogation point with this remark: 4
Dull. dull as froe; nothing DOING.
Ihis agent was at one time a staye
getter away up yonder in Hanover
county. or some other county, and that
may account for his Illustration. dull
as froe" Anyhow, he had no sales
to report. Thirty or more other agents
were in the same condition.
On the other hand. another agent,
whose office is around on Eleventh
Street. said it was a good week. and
there was lots of business Reinp
pressed for particulars, he finally ad-
hiltted that much or the goodness OF
the business was prospective. He con
tessed that his actual reportable sales
mad been rather slim, but he claimed
that Inquiry was immense and the out
look was enormous. g
sun another agent smiled broadly 40
he recounted actual sales that footed
up more than $4,000. Another said
business was good IS he could ex-
pect 1t to be with the thermom eter
standing not far under 100 in the shade
The men who had auction sales to mill
off had no complaints to make of weathll
er conditions. and they reported all
OF the public sales well attended, the
bidding spirited. and In most cases sales
erected at satisfactory prices.
As They Arc Summed Up.
fltosether. the sales-private. pub
lie and on the swapping order-footed
up more than 100000. or course,
goodly number of these transac tiona 1.
were on the swapping and trading and
srecuiatins order. and In every single
case the court clerks and the notaries
and the other officials who take in eS-
oroitant fees did not get In on the
nome stretch. or any other stretch. but
the trading was going on all the same.
Much of this trading was done away
aown on East Main Street. below Fif-4
teenth Street. That part OF the CITY
seems to have doomed IN consider blv I.
IN recent days Not that interest In
Sroad Street and Grace Street is d.
mlnishing. for II Is not, but the spec-
niators and the traders have found
that there is something worth consid VI
ering down below Fifteenth Street.
where Main and Franklin and some
other streets butt in, down In the d
H.. .
Counting Investments. speculatIons
and prospective building propositions,
and all the other things noticeab BILE. Al
HeaVy weeks business was done And
50 far this month OF May has proven to
be something of record breaker, not
only In the matter OF high Temperature &
out In the number OF real estate trans
actions reported. 3..
The I<ickers, and Why.
t Inc books of the raoI ae+,.o
at the City Hall. presided over BIZ =
prince among court clerks, whose name
Is charlie Saville. shows thus far dur
ing the month between 400 and 5oo
aeeds admitted to record, with a "ris
ing temperature" and promise OF mora
TO come. 49, -
With every deed that was recorded
the army OF ktckers which was started
10 Kicking several months ago through
inese columns on the obnoxious ad
Naiorem tax, gained an ardent recruit
Ihese unjust exactments ranged all the
way from 81 to S116 in each indfyidna1s q
case! One Broad Street merchant who
aaiready pays thousands of dollars into
the Golfers of the State and civ.
sroaned under an enactment OF sIIs
n g mad to pay on his deed; and Main
street merchant who pays equally as
large an amount annually, groaned to
the tune of $40, and another s35. and
an The way down the list: esah man
being called upon TO stand and de-
lver something that no other State
In the Union. with one exception. In
.flicts upon its citizens.
Why" said Mr.. Leroy Brown, who
1irst brought this matter to public at
tentlon. III the aggregate fgures OF \
the sales recorded last year be correct
Of which have no doubt, should the
citizens OF Richmond alone be mulcted<
In the sum OF over $4,000 for this
unjust taX?"
How Brown Talks.
The little tempest in the teapot
that was enacted in Boston a century
or so ago was from far less cause, and Il
the late Spanish. war tax is not in it
with this tax. Just to illustrate how
the people OF Richmond are suffering
compared with other cities. will
| cite just this incident that happened
last week A client OF ours transferred
his operations to washington, and
purchased there a piece OF property
for $4,000. and he informs me the cost
OF recording his deed was 81: the ex-S
animation of title cost him only $40,
and for the additional sum OF so cents
the clerk Of the court gave him guar
anteed certificate that no taxes OF
! whatever nature existed against tho
property: also that no pipe connec-
tions. sewer or paving bills or any
assessment OF any nature whatever
from time immemorial down to the
present time stood against the prop
erty. iiiiS ss
Just think OF this" continued Mr.
Brown, land think how hours OF our.
valuable time Is con sumsd in the City
Hall just 10 find out these things for 4
one year"
The cost OF similar transaction In
Richmond would have been ms follows.S
For recordation lad vALorem taxl $500