Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-06
MANY BUY LOTS NEAR FOREST PARK Beautiful Forest Park Addi. tion is Proving Popular
 With Local In
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IS BEING OPENED UP
Streets Graded, Lots Made Attractive and Building of Fine Homes
 COmmnce.

surroundings, especially the exclu- sive residential districts. play an i'm portant part in the development of urban centers. The American people are becoming more and mere nation cf home builders. Cities throughout this fair land are known favorablv or adversely by the advantages they of fer for the establishment of comfort able and pleasantly situated homes.
 In this respect Pine Bluff is keep ing pace With her sister cities. Pres ent> activities along his line in our city do not approximate a boom and it is fortunate that such is the case. Quite often boom, while it may confer temporary benefit, proves a boomerang. It reacts and leaves a community in worse shape than it found it. A steady, stimulating growth is much better. Such a growth is the one Pine Bluff is now enjoying.
 The Forest Park Addition to the city of Pine Bluff has been plated and improved by Felix G. Smart. It was visited yesterday by number of prospective purchasers and men in terested in the growth and advance ment of Pine Bluff. This addition, which takes in thirty blocks just south of Forest Park and contains in all 240 lots, was laid out with the intention of making it a fashionable residence district.
 For such a purpose the location is ideal. Rounded on the East by Elm street and on the west by Spruce street, and extending from Thirty first avenue to Thrty-fourth this tract contains none but level, we'll drained lots, all of them desirable from builders standpoint and equal ly so from that of the investor.
 The addition is several blocks south of the present end of the street car track on Cherry street. While no official announcement has been made it is certain that when the eX- tension of the street car company's tracks is made it will pierce the heart of the Forest Park Addition
 Near the corner of Cherry street and Thirty-first avenue D. B. NiVen has erected a beautiful residence of the bungalow type. It's appearance is that, not merely of a residence but home. It is now occupied by Mir. Niven and family and would be a credit to the exclusive residence sec tion of any city.
 A large force of men and teams with scrapers and dump carts were busily engaged yesterday, as they have been for several weeks past, in opening up broad streets and ave- nues and beautifying the addition. The scene of activity was an interest ing one Grades were being estab- lished, fills made where necessary, and drainage facilities put in. The slight undergrowth is being cut out | and burned and ere long all of the lots will present spick and span ap- pearance as the work is being rushed l to completion with all possible dis patch. The undertaking is by no means small one as an expenditure if more than $7,000 is involved.
 Of the 240 lots of which the ad dition originally consisted 40 had been sold before MT. Smart became actively interested in it. Only 75 of the remaining 200 are now unsod. One hundred and twenty-five lots have been disposed of in an amazing ly short time. On each lot that has been sold the name of the purchaser iis displayed. Among these are to be found many of the prominent people of Pine Bluff They are people who have been active in the upbuilding of the city and who believe in it's fu- i ture.
 The terms on which these lots are sold are the most favorable. The price per lot is $177. The initial payment on one lot is $5.90 and the subsequent monthly payments de- crease at the rate of ten cents per month until the final payment of ten | cents is reached, when a title deed for the lot is delivered to the pur- chaser by the Bank of Pine Bluff. The first payment on two lots is S11..- sot and the payments decrease lat the rate of twenty cents per month. Most ,of the lots have been sold in groups of two. No interest is charged for the period covered by the payments ss z s;5 sSs S4& as z M M i