The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-20
REAL ESTATE AND
BUILDING NEWS
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OF any would-bc buyer. could per-
haps I'll colume OF description OF
the 1000 shade trees already set out,
and the several others that are to be
set out to make Monumen; Avenue
Park beautiful. and OF the three and a
half miles OF cement sidewalk already
laid, and the five or more miles yet
TO be laid and all OF the curbIng and
other things to make the suburb SUI
preniely beautiful. and I might go on
further to tell OF the plans for next
fall, when several thousand dollars of
money will be spent in the setting out
OF dogwood trees and other shrubbcry
AVID adornments to make Monument
Park the beauty that IT'S founders have
designed It TO be, but maybe II would
be better to let these things speak for
themselves as they develop from time
to time.
To make a lo7g story short. I am
assured by the company that n large
sum OF money is going TO be spent on
the park way and the other develop
ments that Will make the extreme
western Monument Avenue vastly
more beautiful and attractive than the
eastern end of 1t. where the monuments
are. ever dared to be. II Uncle Sam s
dollars and the judicious expenditure
OF the same can do the thing the
managers of this. beyond the limits de-
velopment, will see to it that Monu-
ment Avenue Park will be the best OF
all OF the Greater Richmond develop
ments.
Things In General.
Numerous agents tell me or right
good sales they made last week. all OF
which show that there Is good deal
of business going on in quiet and a
most conservative way in all sections
ff ba Ci Cover
Smith, for instance. say they have made
quite a number of sales in Laburnan,
Fark. and are encouraged to believe
that with the big improvements that
are being made there. much larger
sales arc yet in store sor them.
There was some activity no West
Eroad and West Grace Streets. and sew
eral more or less large sales were made
in those regions, but some of the silly
agents who made the sales arc afraid
of thir shadows, or OF their voices. and
Will not tell anything about the bust
ness done. One OF these agents, who
ought to have applied part OF his
| commissions. If he made any, to a
barber account and taken n shave
positively refused to give the partic-
| ulars of n sale he alleged he made IN
| the early part of the week. which par
| ticulars wre made public In the local
columns of The Times Dispatch last
| Wednesday.
| Some of the details and prospects OF
| tho sales of lots and acreage in the
West End beyond the Boulevard might
prove interesting. but I am not sure
| that such facts or alleged facts as
have are strictly reliable: for instance
| | am not sure that the man who wink ed
his eye at me and told me that big
charitable institution is to go up or
the Boulevard near Wallace Street was
really winking the truth or merely
specializing with his wink. The lat.
ter. I fear. is the fact
Taken altogether. the past week
showed n great deal of activity in the
real estate realm. and all of the agents
tell me they are nightly hopeful OF
I, the early future.
! o. A. Hankins. manager Richmond
Trust Company. real estate depart
ment, reports: Business has beer
somewhat interesting during the past
| week. We are onw engaged in draw.
| ing up papers on account of sales made
covering values of about $4,000. 4
larger measure of interest in real cs.
| tate Is being manifested than durine
February and March, and values are
| fully maintained.