The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-28
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS


 mingham a small group of men who got busy and kept in the background. but in spite of their .evi- dent desire to remain in the back ground I think they ought to be put on view, for each one is doer in his home town.
 They did consent to make one public appearance as the guests of Robert Jemison, Jr, at one of the lunches of the Realtors and it was there and at the hotel that I met the men whose work is to lift real estate out of mere business into a profession that requires as much study as any of the big three.
 The real estate conference which was in session here Is composed of a limited membership of 12.. Every one of the members is a developer of high class residential property in their re- spective cities. They are specialists. Now, when the father of the party E. H Bouton of Baltimore, by right or being the pioneer developer or Roland Park, beautiful and picturesque sec tion known throughout the country Tor it's attractiveness, was called upon to speak, he devoted his entire time to the praise of Bob" Jemison and his unselfish work with the emergency fleet corporation.
 To give you some idea of the men and their work I am going to give short paragraph about each Of them:
 F. H. Bouton of Baltimore, president of the Roland Park company, the plo- neer and still one of the most suc- cessful and largest residential park developments of this country. MT Bouton started the development oI Roland Park about 20 years ago, as- sisted by Frederick Law Olmstead, the famous landscape architect, of Boston. MT. Bouton has recently been inter- ested in the development of the indus trial housing projects at Sparrow's Point for housing workers in the shipyards of the Bethlehem Steel com pany. This housing project known as Dunda1ph, was financed through the housing division of the emergency fleet corporation, United States ship ping board. MT. Bouton was accom-" panied to Birmingham by MT. J. T. Harwood, vice president of the Roland Park company.
 J. c. Nichols of Kansas City is pres- ident of the J. c. Nichols Investment company, developers of the we'll known Country club district of Kansas City. which has contributed so much to the fame of Kansas City as a place ot beautiful residence sections, with it's comprehensive parkway systems and attractive city plan in which MT Nichols has been a most important fac" tor. Mr. Nichols is chairman of the conference. He is considered one of the foremost authorities of the coun. try on city planning and on the de. velopment of residential property John M Demarest of Forest Hill, Long Island, vice president of the Sage Foundation Homes company, is the developer of the we'll known Forest l Hill Gardens, which has establish ed new standards of landscape and build ing architecture in high class resideu.' tial developments adjacent to larga centers of population. such. as New York city, where land values require large number of house units per acre under the most favorable and attrac- tive conditions possible. The architec. l ture of the houses and Forest Hill inn | is most interesting and attractive and worthy of inspection of either special ists or laymen interested in housing developments.
 | Emerson W. Chailie of Indianapolis l is developing the residential subdivis" I ion of Brendonwood, consisting of ap. proximately no plots averaging three | to six acres each, which is a type Of residential development becoming very popular in many cities. MT. Chaille is
 also "a specialist in business property
 and s9-year leases.
 l H. D. Prather of Dallas Texas, has developed the Highland Park residen- | tial park of approximately 1400 acres adjoining the new Methodist univer- sity recently established in Dallas. MT. Prather has inaugurated many new 1 and progressive ideas for residence park development. He has also stated | however. during his visit to Birming" ham that our much beloved citizen, MT. R. S. Munger. is pioneer high-class residential property developer of Dal" | las, having developed the famou' Munger Place" at Dallas.
 l Paul A. Harsch of the E. H. Close Realty company of Toledo, Ohio, one oi
 the largest firms engaged in the real | estate business in this country, war
 active in the development of the Ot.
 iowa Hills of Toledo, a very extensive l and elaborate residence park in which
 John Willys of the WillysOverland Motor Car company, was interested i MT. Harsch has for the past year been engaged in war work in France as a representative of the Christian Science Church of the United States. He made
 an inspirational talk to the Realtors. Duncan MacDuffie of San Francisco developer of the very beautiful park ot St. Francis Court, was unable to at. tend on account of illness. MT. Mac. Duffie is one of the best authorities ot
 the west on residence property devel.
 opment
 King c. Thompson of Columbus, Q,
 president of the King G. Thompson
 company, developers of Upper Arling
 ton, a very large residence park of ap proximately 1000 acres. Mir. Thompson is regarded as one of the livest wire
 in the real estate business, having en .-s-