The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-08
The Hot September Sun
Drives Buyers and Deal
ers to Shady Cover.
MUCH DULLNESS
MARKS THE WEEK.
Principal Activity Showed Up in
William Byrd Park Region.
Sales in South Richmond
Promise Residential Devel-
opment-First Auction
Sales in Exchange.

The awful September glare Of Ola
sol has had something Of witherinr
eject upon real estate agents. realtv
buyers and prospective buyers ana in
vestors and spectators. and another
very dull week has gone to record
one of the leading agents gave HE
version OF the situation in the follow
ing Language I can't exactly under
stand IL. but IT seems utterly !n,pos-
sib!e TO get buyer, or a seller. eitb
90 come 10 final conclusion in
mis- Kind OF weather They viii tank
10 you all right and discuss the con
dition. the values and the outlools
and all that. and really be enthusiast
NC and optomistic, but when YOU try
70 PIN them down to the real trade
they sweat a little more mop their
pFoWs and put the whole business off
OH untii the weather changes
presume. Now l have some deals on
tnat string you write so much about
mat VIII amount 20 many thousand
collars when the sales aye made. some
OF winch was quite sure would ma
teria!ize this week, hut have ut
sereiY failed 10 bring the buyers and
sellers together, and am positive
tnat my failure was due entirely to
the unseasonably torrld weather"
Several other agents made remarks
10 the man of news of much the Same
tenor and all agree that the weelS.s
dizziness was due entirely to the not
wave That has fluttercd over this part
OF the country now for nearly ION
days However, there has been some
thing doing. and If the total OF sales
Is not as great as il ought TO be. tho
Tact cannot be charged up to the
agents for they have worked just
as hard as II the weather had been
as serene and as pleasant as it usual
~ Is in old Virginia during the In
dian summer season.
Out Towards nyrd Park.
The principal activity of thu week
was out in the region near TO the
reservoir and about the William Byrd
Park section. Several blocks and
Large lots OF land in that section
changed hands at advanced prices ana
the job
Among the buyers we're: H. 5. Wal
ierstein and NJ. Honheimer. and it is
a well-known fact that when these
investors cast their eyes in given
section there is going 10 be some
thing doing II is likely that the very
active building operations in that part
OF the city has opened the eyes Of the
investors The busy builders are
pushing things along the Boulevard
and about the park and on the streets
near about where the old lakewood
amusement grounds used to he. and IL
begins 10 look as II that mart of the,
city with its splendid sect car facil
tiles is going TO be an ideal residential
section IL is said that within the past
month al least 100000 worth of
property (vacant grounG) has Changed
hands that immediate locality These
properties are along the Boulevard.
AIulhtrrt- =
Taylor, Dance and Wallace Streets and
Colonial Avenue and elsewhere in the
reservoir region.
The ,Iuch building Going On.
some fine buildings are going up
ont there. H. NJ Smith Jr.. is erect
ing a $4,000 home on 4 hundred foot
lot at the corner of the Boulevard
Pollock is breaking ground for the
building OF q $4,000 residence on Ce-
dar street facing the lake Otner
homes varying from 5000 to $4,000
are In course of erection. Or soon to
be started The city has been making
and is SIN making large improve
inents out that way The Sidney
School building on Meadow Street, be-
tween Beverly and Chaffin. has been
contracted for and it is said that the
work on it IS 10 be pushed forward
at once. The Street Committee is hav-
ins curblng, gutterins and sidewalk
work done on the Boulevard and Null
berry and Beverly streets ana the
last named thoronghfare is Being
macadamized for quite a distance
The agents and the buyers who have
been parties to consldera Bile sales out
that way are rather reucent. but it
leaks out that RUPERT * Schwab sold
whole block on Taylor street are
Gibboney Nuckols sold nearly
whole block ON Beverly Street for
which they obtained $50 per front foot
Other agents made quite a number OF
good sales out there, but they VIII
not tell newspaper men about them
just now
Bis noinrs in south Richmond.
The most interesting sale Of ,he
week, which was at the same time the
largest sale OF undeveloped city prop
crty OF recent date. was pulled on by
Ciolsan x Nash. They sold inc property
i'm South Richmond. adjoining Wood
land Heights and known as bellevue
The property has been owned By the
American Tobacco Company and iu
cludes about thirty-six acres OF ground.
with frontage OF over 1000 feet en-
the Forest hin car line. and running
back from there to the river ending
in high bluffs Oh the river front Tho
purchasers name has not as yet been
announced. but II Is understood mat
he OF tneN PAlG Sbufpup Iog lFc 4roAnH
and that the property VIII be DEVELOPED
at once into a residential section. TX
tensive improvements VIII. be started
this week so It is said
In addition to the above. ciolsan 81
Nash sold lo4 feet OF ground on Fll-
teenth street a $50 acre YARN in Han
over county the winston essots,
known as Woodlands" siSts-dv~ acres
OF land on thr River Road adjoininz
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