The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-09-15
R. |. U,ARNES SUES
TINES-O|SPATCh

libel sust for 5000 against the
B nes-Dispatch Publishing company.
Inc. was the reply OF =. L. BARNES
FIR wnitzkusrn ftfcFs r71trnti real estate
D s,s,erator. to an article published IN
the real estate depagtmea mt OF SUNDAY
\ -i.nes~ Dispatch, considered Icy Mr'
Barnes as a gross reelection upon MS
Reputation
The suit was entered In Hastings
re,lrt. part II. early yesterday by I'm
Montague. attorney for Mir Barnes
but no bin OF particulars has as yet
tean illed. a..
!, rs sY7ws complains IL AS fellows; ..>.
'sThere were some large sales re-
rnrted. bat they were much on th~
fake order For Instance il was an
Meuneed early in the week that X IL,
Esarnas had sold most Die
I rsroz,ertv at the corner of Eighth and
& Grace streets 10 G Washington capital
Int for the goodly sum Of $4,000 H.
ciaants}ly MIR Barnes said the fiGures
should have been around $lno,uep.
The property that stands IN this deal
fronts only twenty feet on Grace. ana
runs back ninety-three feet. AZ the
very highest valuation this PROPERTY
could not figure much over the hail OF
the $50. 600 valuation. as set down In
Daily Record a Kind of circular that
ss supp .sed 10 be the organ OF the
real estate agents. and ought to be at
keaaf reliable. gloata over this fake.
and In IT'S issue of the 9th instant calls
attention 10 the figures TO prove THAI
oropeYty in that region Is ceiling read
4 sfy for So zoo per frort foot. figure
that Is ridiculously absurd. One thou
aand dollars per front foot, 81 1880 at
~ IL "a fe.x att
figure for property in that region.
How does the Record get its per 'front.'
foot figure? The answer Is plain
enough to those who know the ropes.
which the Record seems to be- iEnor-
ant Of. The sale Of this property was
10 sale AZ all. 1t was simply swap
ping of bad deals between over
financed spectators.
f.. H. Barnes sWapped this prop
: nrIg TO r.. r Wolfe. of Washington,
for some brlckyacd acreage on the out
gkirts OF the national capita. value 4
J. Saneifully tor about the same amount
That Barnes fancifuliy valued this
Nighth and Grace street property
he figures were put away UP yondef
Tor reasons ard purposes that real
estate agents very We'll understand
4 The Eighth and Grace street property
figuring in this deal il not worth more
" tifaI 4Aft "a kfAt amount Represented IN
The deed and the misleading report in
she so-called newspaper known as the
Record, This Kind of misrepresenth-
fsoE on the court books and else where
TTT7S TT : INC dayS gone by playt d
thunder with the real estate business
this town, and in a way has hurt
the business regulations OF real estate
1Gents. The Real Estate exchange,
D which claims to stand for all kinds OF
Righteousness and goodness in the real
estate business. might look into this
kind Of fake business"
When asked to make q statement
Felatluc TO the above by a Nirenian
reporter. Mr.. Bernes asked TO DC ex-
FUSED from talking at this time. fur
her than 10 state that the actual con-
NHtderation In the transfer was pr opc rly
yet cut in the deed on record He
stated that suit had been entered in
y Hastings court, part IT, on account OF
ythe crowded condition OF the docket
jDf the courts on this side Of the river