New-York tribune., 1912-04-21

The season will soon be here when many
persons will be comparing notes and dis
| covering how many realty opportunities
| they missed. Their lot Is not as sad as
those who do not know when such chances
get out Of their reach
How numerous are those unfortunates
! says the New Jersey-New York Real Es-
! tate Exchange who stick like glue to
the spot where they became located by
mere chance.
| Lacking energy, they keep on living for
years amid squalid and cramped conditions
close to some earthly paradise without taxi
! ing the trouble to discover It.
Some individuals are so stoid and phleg-
matte in thought and action that it requires
| an earthquake to stir them. Such types
are abundant in the larger cities. where
they acquire prejudices against country HE
which can only be removed by extraordi-
nary and fortuitous circumstances.
! "A casual excursion into neighboring
| section has been known not only to open
the eye but the mild also to a realization
| Of a wasted oppcrtunity-of a radical mis-
| take in the mode of life that affects fate
and fortune to the roots and carries its in
huence to generations yet unborn
Horace S. Ely & Co. have become a men,
Der Of the Merchants Association.
The real estate fraternity Is now well
represented in that organization. Many
moro wide awake brokerage and agency
houses are expected to increase this mem
bership.
When the Offices in the Woolworth Build
A,. tna NJ
available in February, 1918, the real estate
editors will probably have " visit them
many times a week to get the latest real
estate reports and particularly the details
of projects for conserving the interests OF
property owners.
The value OF an idea is Interestingly COM
puted by the April Bulletin OF the Real
Estate Board of Brokers in this way:
after all. it's only the idea plus the en-
ergy YOU put into It that counts-dollars
are but brute force. and anybody can buy
most any old thing when he has the
money in hand. No startling feat there.
But to buy on a 'shoestring, to capital
ize an idea. to reach out into thin air and
pluck something from nothing. Aye! but
II takes a man 10 do that-a man TO whom
the whole world presently holds out It's
money hags and says, like the old maid
Take me: I am yours
Some of the other titles Of articles In the
same bulletin are: Real Estate Corpora
tons" "The Tenement House Problem
"The New Primary Law" Sinking
Funds" The Trade outlook" THE New
Subways." Crime and Criminals" Coal,
Easements" Farm Tenancy" West 42d
Street Neighborhood. Memory and In
surance." Rent Insurance" "City Hall
Park" and Civic Art"
II also has a humorous column. Here
are ;wo extracts from II;
Wife-Do you remember the first time we
met?
Husband-Yes. | was In business as an
estate agent and you came TO my Office
looking for fiat.
Wife (savagely)-Well, l found one
The proprietor OF the Coke and Cobble
Coal Company knew how to look after the
pence.
Hold on there. jim" he shouted. angrily.
to an employe who was driving ont Of the
yard That coal looks a trihe large for a
ton"
It's two TONS boss" shouted Jim.
"Oh, right you are, Jim! Go ahead!'
The following associations are opposed to
the plan Of Dock Commissioner Tomkins TO
remove the new Washington Market. at
Gansevoort street. and erect In its place