The sun., 1919-10-12
PLANS ALLLAID FOR
REALTY POW wow
Work and Fun Will Be Mixed
at 3 Day State Convention
in Hotel McAlpin.

Real estate has come back and the
event is to be celebrated with proper
ceremony when real estate men from
all parts of the State get together next
Thursday at the Hotel McAlpin for .
three day powwow at the sixteenth au-
nual convention of the Real Estate AS
sociation of the State of New York. 1t
will be meeting at which much work
and much play will be done. Though the
real estate market is scudding along on
fair breeze It Is sailing over danger
Gus reefs which must be marked and
charted by these navigators Al ses-
slons which will start on Thursday, FRI
day and Saturday mornings at 10 o'clock
and will continue throughout the day all
OF these matters will be attended to.
Real estat~ legislation, which Is one OF
the especial cares of the State associa-
ton. will be discussed at length by
James Frank. and Senator Frederick NJ.
Davenport is coming to town tell tho
convention all about the State income
tax. J. Clarence Davies will speak on
real estate advertising. These are just
few of the high spots of the pro-
gramme for Thursday, which will start
at 1890 with an address Of welcome by
Robert L. Moran, president OF the Board
Of Aldermen. and talk by Police Com-
sion will end with a dinner dance. At
which the Police Glee Club will furnish
some Of the entertainment and more
will be provided by selected delegates
,, from various parts of the State, who Win
set forth the virtues OF their various
cities In five minute talks. The prize Tor
the winner is silver loving cup.
Fridays programme will start with a
story telling contest at breakfast, over
which James Frank will preside Women
visitors are expected to take part in tho
contest. The morning session will hear
speeches by ]. w. Doolittle, II. X
Twitchell of the Chemical Bank, r. j.
Childs, C. A. Hills of Syracuse, A. II.
Wagg. James II. Stryker and Assembly,
man McWhinney. Farm brokerage prob
lens will be discussed at luncheon and
then everybody will make a sightseeing
trip through Brooklyn. ending with sup
per at the Brooklyn Chamber Of Com
merce. On Friday night the delegates
will be entertained at the Hippodrome.
| At the Saturday morning session
! Clarence II. Kelsey, president of the
Title Guarantee and Trust Company will
talk on real estate financing. At lunch
! con on Saturday the Ave borough presi-
dents of Greater New York will be
| guests, after which everybody is to go
| for boat trip around Manhattan Isl
| and.
J Richard T. Childs, AZ West Thirty
| fourth street, chairman OF the Finance
| Committee, reports large advance de-
mand for tickets for the closing banquet
on Saturday pight-an annual event
which Ii one Of the most important real
estate functions OF the year. On that
occasion the McAlpin ballroom will
present an unusual spectacle Each dele
| cation is to arrange it's own table dec-
grafton with the products OF the COM
munlty from which the delegation comes,
and as a background for the whole set
ting there will be a great skyline view
of New York city as it looks at night,
which will occupy one entire side of the
ballroom.
This convention OF the Real Estate
Association of the state of New York
probably will be the most momentous in
its history, because II may result in the
consolidation of that body with the Real
Estate Board OF New York and the
Brooklyn Board Of Real Estate Brokers'
a move which long has been desired be-
cause Of the great influence which such
a united body could WELD in all matters
regarding real estate.