The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-23
Politics and New Ads.
ministration Cutting
Something of Figure.
WILSON'S VIEW S
AND OTHER VIEWS
Crazy Folks That Wait for Of
fetal Talk From High Aus,
thority-Only a Subterfuge.
Waiting for a Word OF j.
Two-Speculators
Who Wait.

well-informed resi- estate IMAM
told me yesterday that no was OF the u
opinion that tho other real estato man
for tho good month of FEBRUARY Swaa
little off in his calculation Maybe
the bis calculator OF the first week
of the month was a little off, and
maybe the latter day calculator ia !
nearer to tho truth but ali the earns
tho February business for tho roal es.
tate mon has boen right good 10
1t Is right hard to mako the real
estate fellows tell all that they know.
do not blame them Tt sometimes s
happens that " they should tell ali.
or even the half that they do know or i
a fourth of what thcy think they
know, they might be talking righx
much to thoir disadvantage.
To illustrate: 4 fellow told me yea-
tcrday that no had on hand deaf
that involved more than Z, hundred
thousand dollars. turned around two or Z
three times. This deal involves a sale y
a borrowing on the sale. a mortgage
on the borrowing, and Heaven only
knows what else, before it getaS
through. WeIl. there is business going
right along all the time: business for
the clerks OF tho courts and tho fienda
and collaborators who make the re-
cords and all tho other things ana
their business amounts to a great deeY
in tho end ~
Matter of Politics
But, am MT discussing the.a
Things They belong very much 10
politics. and the politicians must settle
them, If they may be allowed to. tn
is to be hoped that they will NOT be
aiioWed to- but don't know--the1
politicians seem to have us Ia IN
their Strip tsS
Real Estate aud Politics.
For instance: the Richmond Real Es-
tate Exchange, presided over by SONS s
i,n'ghty good men, has been talking OUT
heard that the politicians and THE fee-
seeker fiends had or soon expected "a
serve notice on the real estate follea
that they must keep little more quiet
don't know. Certainly I hope tlia
real estate men are fully honest IN,
The fight they are pretending to make
mere are tights and other fights. T.
an, tod that when the real estate
agents commence their terrific fight for
shorter fees for the clerks Of tha &
courts and the recorders of the deeds,
ana the taxes and the per diem pafd
on tho same, and all that kind of thing,
they may hear something about the
excessive, commissions that real estate
agents arc In the habit of charging
III fact l am told that there Is q kind 8
OF semi-of1cial combine between State
ofhctals and realty men. don't know
about It, I do know however tbat
tho oficeholders and the clerks and
recorders and things are claiming that s
the oft1ceholders and tho clerks are
not alone guilty. and that the real es q
tate folks and the holders of seals
and the folks who swear to deeds and u
other things. and the real estate agents
who have money to lend on real estate
security, are in the habit of collecting
nVNn 1a.,-.- u
deal more than the court officials and &
the recorders are. 7 am almost will
Ing to swear to some facts along this
line myself, but since the subject Is &
up, let It go at that.
Business Done.
The business of the past week waa
not altogether as good as the agents
had hoped FOR. a well-informed au--
thority on the real estate subject. an
authority / am bound TO believe in
told me that there is a dullness that
is In measure distressing However,.
he said: 1T is all duo to politics. Do
you know that the whole country is
waiting on Woodrow Wilson and What ~
he Is going to say In his inaugural adj
dress next week? Now, Wilson does
not know thing about Richmond real
estate. and as matter of fact moth
ing that he may say or think on ma
tional questions can in any way affect
the value of Richmond realty, but all
the same there are n lot of fools In &
this town who are holding back and
waiting to hear what the new Presi-
dent Is going to say. The result ia
that business has been dull the last
week. II makes no difference what
Wilson Will say next week, Richmond
dirt is still here, but the fact is that
the buyers and the investors are watt
Ing to hear what he does say %
Nevertheless there was some business 4
the past week. On the whole, moreJ
than 100000 worth OF real estate IS
changed hands. It is not necessary to
go into particulars. 1t is sufficient to $
say that there was good deal OF ac- e
tivity on Broad Street and out OH the
Boulevard and In the West End gem
orally and in the suburbs u good deaL
Sutton &c &c. sold during the week il
just ended the handsome brownstone &
Street to Mrs. Clara *. Brockenbrough
for the price of S2S,00O also the hand 4
some residence 800 East Grace street Sc
to DIR. W. Il. Broaddus for $1,000.
Douglas L.. Taylor reports tho fol-
lowing recent sales: two stores on
Eighth Street. between Main and 81
Franklin: dwelling $500 block West
Grace street; largo lot on Monument
Avenue. lot on Kensington Avenue and y
lot on Leonard Street These sales aE-
grcgate about $4,000.
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Now Ready for Business.
The HaifaN Record, OF South Boston, per- N
petrates tho following; Charlie l;lasscock. S.
on the streets yesterday. he said he Ind 81
finished all tho, blowing he had to do.saIE g
the necessary plant beds had been prepared. "a
had sold all OF his crop of tobacco. It would
In. 60 10. Irr.. n.