The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-01-25
A PROMINENT VISITOR
III. III. Halliday, President of the Caro-
lima Development Co., of Greensboro,
n. c., is a Guest of the Harrington
Hotel.


n. c., is a Guest of the Harrington
Hotel.
A Star reporter met this gentleman
at the Harrington this morning and
found him bubbling over with enthus-
Iiasm over the Ocala of today and the
iOcala of tomorrow. He is an extensive
traveller, having visited twenty-five
states during the past ten months, and
said that in all his travel he had
never seen a town that was more
promising, more ideally situated more
cosmopolitan in its appearance, or
llivelier and wide-awake than our own
IOcala "The town. as he put it, with
a future, and where life is worth the
living
Col. Halliday is here for a few days
getting the beautiful suburban prop
erty on Oklawaha and Fort King ave-
nues, owned by DR.. 3. E. Chace, shaped
UP and the details worked out with
one of his assistant advertising man
layers and chief engineer, preparatory
to putting it on the market at auction
lby the famous twin auctioneers of the
Carolina Development Company, who
cry the same bid on the same lot at
the same time in the same tone of
voice, selling a lot a minute.
Mr. Halliday impresses one with his
sincerity and enthusiasm, and is one
of the most interesting men it has ever
been our pleasure to meet. The re-
porter had a long chat with him and
in leaving him went away thoroughly
convinced that he is man who can
size up a town in a minute, and we
were very much gratifed to see the
enthusiasm with which he speaks Of
lOcaIa Particularly well pleased does
he seem over the beautiful suburban
property which his company is develop
ing for DR.. Chace. He says that he
believes he knows a good thing when
he sees it and that never in his years
of experience in the developing Of
real estate has he ever handled more
| ideally situated piece of property than
!; the property above referred to and pre-
diets that values will double and
treble in the next eighteen months. He
} says he makes it a rule to never handle
a piece of property that isn't the creme
| de la creme of suburban real estate,
| and that in coming to Oca1a to develop
this piece of property he has not de-
l Waited from this fixed rule.
t From all we can learn the people Of
5 OcaIa have a rare treat IN store for
: them in being able to see these famous
l twin auctioneers," who have a ma
? tional reputation, crying the same bid
at the same time in the same tone of
2 voice on the same lot and selling lot
2 a minute, and will see the highest
c1assed autfoneering company operat-
ing in the United States today.
We feel particularly proud of hav-
ing these people with us as it gives
; us greater faith in the future Of Ocala
as it is a well known fact that they
only handle the best properties in the
: best cities in the country, turning
: down, perhaps, more property that is
2 offered them for development than they
5 make sales on, and only do they operate
: in towns where they see bright fu-
: ture, for as Col. Halliday puts it, we
l always want to come back to town
r and make another sale and sell to the
$ same people we sold to before because
t we always make them money on the
s lots they buy from us at auction.
e Among the more recent sales that
e have been conducted by these people
: was a tract of 5000 acres cut into 81
r farms near Alamo, Georgia, which
they sold in 240- minutes for over $780,
600 Two thousand acres at Cobb, Ga,
9 cut into 20 farms in sixty minutes for
over 100000 and 127 lots at Chauncey,
/ Georgia, in just $50 minutes
They are very proud of their record
4 of selling lot a minute" having
r sold sos lots in Kenefec, Okla, in 500
\ minutes, 400 lots in Jacksonville, Fla,
r lin $40 minutes, $50 lots at Fort Myers,
e Fla in 135 minutes, and many others
4 in % states last year.
1 Mr.. Halliday viii be with us for a
2 few days only when he viii leave for
s Miami, Florida, where his company
= will hold a sale during February,
t which. he says. viii be the largest
: single sale ever made at auction in
). America as he confidently expects the
a sale TO run well over a quarter of a
million dollars. He viii return in a
e week or ten days to be on hand and
e personally oversee the sale here, and
: he says that he wants the people OF
!, Ocala to distinctly understand that
/ they will have the opportunity OF
!: seeing the "king-pfns'' of the auction
/, business, who conduct the sale in q
: rapid and business like manner. free
: from by-bidding, and conducted strict
!. " on high plane. The date of the
sale will be announced later and he
i. has arranged with DR.. Chace TO bring
. the Carolina Development Company
!. famous Royal Italian Band here To
. furnish music for the occasion.
!, Again we say we are glad TO have
these people with us.
SUITS AGAINST THE CITY