I THE OREGON SUNDAY, JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY. MORNING. , MAY 7, 1918.'
SALES AND HAPPENINGS -v
IN THE REALTY WORLD
u Xand Bale at t, Salens. Rumors
current hsre are that George U. Le-
- vhA awii aa lebvearse, Af lanA la
Joining St. Helena on the north, has
; sold bis holdings to aome manufacture
lng concern. Mr. Lemont refuses to 01
vluge tbe name of parties but admits
that there la an option on the land to
aome Portland parties. The price will
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ot land lies back of Columbia City,
overlooking the . Columbia river, and
has' been sought by various corpora
tions and persona for some time.
. V ' t A i Mannfaj4tiiilnr mtm. In
connection with some waterfront prop
erty adjoining and there aeema to be
well founded rumor that some large
manufacturing enterprise will aoon be
ssuujiisnea vn iuv v. - ..
i ah h. M tf 'irmlftk holdlnera
and enterprises are, on the south aide.
TJnable so Agree on JKental Bureau
5 olicy. The Portland realty board
Was unable to agree, after spending a
; great deal of time In parliamentary
, maneuvering, on a policy which should
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stores and furniture houaea of Port
land which dealre to operate rental
, bureaus. The entire matter was re
ferred to a special committee of five
to formulate a policy which should
govern the board. Some of the con
cerns interested hold affiliated mem
berships in the realty board. All of
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" mem waui lo get me muui vt w
- members of the real estate board. Some
of them want to list property which
has not first been listed with a mem
ber of the real estate board. None of
the concerna want to ern commissions
the services they perform in this re
spect. They are satisfied with the op-
lorimiiiice iv slvB iuviii w in" "
niture sales, borne of the concerns are
willing even to charge commissions on
. the listings submitted by members of
. the realty board and to pay these com-
tnlaalona to the realty men from which
the business originated. Some mem
. bers of the realty board want to re-
etrlet the listings to those which come
from members of the realty board,
and unless th concerns are willing to
abide by tljls arrangement that they
'' should withdraw from membership in
the realty board. Home members de-
cleare they have dropped their rental
'agencies because present arrangements
make the business unprofitable. Oth-
'era Interested in rental agencies de
clare it would be an Injustice to them
, to compel the concerns to live up to
the rules of the board strictly. The
1 committee to be appointed by Presl-
' dent Taylor Is expected to propose a
policy for the board on which all of
the members can agree.
Keettaff Place at Chamber of Com
merce. Hereafter the members of the
Portland realty board will hold their
regular weekly luncheons at the Port-
land Chamber of Commerce. A. L..
Pavies of EUensburg and P. C. Llchty
of Bunnyslile were elected associate
members and the names of F. W. Cart-
yon of Olympla and George A. Schneld-
, er of Lyle were proposed as associate
members.
Realtors Kasvnlnf for Office. The
following members of the Portland
realty board have offered themselves
for the suffrages of the people: Fred
A. Jacobs and Clarence R. Hotchklss
l for Republican national committeemen;
Harry Idleman, Herbert cordon and a.
C Callan for members of the state leg
islature; E. B. McXaughton for a mem
ber of the school board. At tho meet
ing of the board April 23 a motion that
the realty board should endorse all of
Its members who are running for office
-Was' lost. '
rourtb and Stark ImproTement pend
ing According to John Clark, presi
dent of the John Clark Saddlery ' com
pany, the improvement of the north
west corner of Fourth and Stark street,
owned by him, la atill undetermined.
He doea not intend to improve the
property himself, he says, but he has
received aeveral offers for ualng the
'lot. None of these thus far has come
to a head. It la the gossip of the street
that a plan la being deceloped to erect
an eight story office structure on the
alte, and that the arrangements to se
cure the necessary funds to finance
the building are under way. Another
plan being considered, la the Improve
ment of the entire frontage on Stark
Street, between Fourth and Fifth
streets, and 60 feet deep.
- -Modern Woodmen Building Begun.
Contracts have- been let and construc
tion work begun on the three story
concrete and brick building to be erect
ed by L E. Solomon at the southeast
corner of Eleventh and Burnslde
streets. . The dimensions will be the
full else of the lot, 60 by 100 feet.
The third floor la for the exclusive
use of the Modern Woodmen of Amer
ica. The first and second floors have
bean leased to a printing house. The
building will be heated by the North
western Elec trio comtnuiT mains. The
total cost of the structure is placed at
IJ5.000.
Portland Golf Club runs Beady
The building plans of the proposed
quarters for the Portland Golf club are
complete and bids on the construction
work have been asked. They were
drawn by Folger Johnson, architect
Provision has been made for the sep
arate needs of the men and women golf
players who will patronize th club. A
TIPS
To the
Home Owner
Beaver Board
T1MMS CRESS & CO.
'. 184-8 SSCOBO ST. PObVlaBD
A ' Phones Mam S033 A-aOSS
J. C. English Co.
Lighting
Fixtures
, B. Xrvlng and TTnlo Ave.
Factory to consumes
General Insurance
yB onds
McCargar, Bates & Lively
Yeon Building Mala 168. A-2694
ABSTRACTS
Union Abstract Co.
EXPERIENCED MANAGEMENT
EFFICIENT CLERICAL, FORCH
f RICES REASONABLE,
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danolng floor, a kitchen service and
other conveniences for the social en-
Quarters have been provided for men
who may want to live at the club dur
ing the summer months.
Union Stockyards Plans to Zalarg e.
Believing it win be the most eco
nomic plan tq follow, the officials of
the union stockyards are now con
templatlng making an expenditure of
160,000 on a new exchange building.
instead of building one wing at a time,
as waa originally proposed. This Is
what la under consideration, according
to President W. H. Daughtrey, but
actual decision haa not been reached.
The improvement has been under con
sideration for some time and arrange
ments were made to build one wing,
Two Farm Seals BeportedA cash
deal In Lebanon property and an ex
change of alfalfa land in Washington
are reported by Neilan & Plxkhill
Henry Nelson of Portland has pur
chased, the ranch of Mrs. Harrjet E.
Freeman, six miles --southeast of Leb
anon on the Sweet Home road, and has
already removed himself and his fain
lly to his new homer" The property
consists of 110 acres, 35 acres of which)
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are partly impiuveu, atuiuugn mere im
no house on the place. The considera
tion was $3500. The alfalfa ranch ex
changed Is situated between White
Bluff and Prieat Rapids on the Co
lumbia in Benton county. It Is known
as the Jutld Bros, property and con
stats of 66 acres of land, all under al
falfa cultivation, with its own pump
ing plant, stock nd equipment and a
good house. The land was valued at
$12,000 and the Improvements at $4000,1
a total oi Airs, settle JO..
Austin of Forest Grove and her two
sons are the new owners. She gave a
60 acre dairy ranch three miles south
west of Albany, in a highly improved
state, and 40 acres of timber land near
Slfton, Wash. Her two sons expect to
go into sheep raising on the Washing
ton ranch. Two of the Judd boys will
move to Portland and two are resi
dents of Iowa.
Department Store' Building , for
Camas. The Elite Cafe building,
which is being moved to a lot across
on Fourth street, will be replaced
by a large brick building, 100 by 70
feet, to be occupied by MacMaster St
Co. with a large department store. A
three story frame building on lower
Fourth street will be moved to a lot
on upper Fourth street The bulldlnjr
has been purchased by Frank Doherty
from the Crown-Willamette Paper
company. It wUl make way for the
new factory buildings being erected by
the paper mill. The part of Fourth
and Columbia streets vacated by the
city In favor of the paper company la ,
being prepared for new factory build
ings and as large a force is possible j
will rush the wejrk to completion.
Among other activities in this city a
new grocery store will open its doors
this week and another newspaper jlant
will be established here very soon.
Alaska Fisheries company Make In
vestment. The Alaska-Pacific Fish-1
erles company has taken title to the
one story brick building and irregular
lot at the southwest corner of Thir
teenth and Stark streets, which was
built last year by Powers & Estes and
has been leased for a term of years to
the Otis Elevator company. The con
sideration is said to have been $66,000.
Charles A. Burckhardt, president of
the flshesles company, who owni per
sonally the property at the southeast
corner of these same streets, has under
consideration the improvement of his
holding in the very near future.
Xope Presbyterian Church Awards
Contract. The contract for the erec
tion of the frame church building to be
used by the Hope Presbyterian church
of Montavnia has been let and con
struction work has begun. The cost
is estimated at $7000.
Oarage Building on Bast Side. C. X.
Lawson, 443 Larrabee street, has com
menced the erection of a one story
brick and concrete garage building, 100
reet square, at the corner of Union
avenue north and Weldler streets. The
estimated cost Is $7000.
1. C. Buby to Build Besldence. A
permit for a story and a half frame
residence at 1214 East Burnslde street,
to cosff $4500, has been let by A, C
Ruby of Qreaham to J. A. Hubbell.
YOUNG MAN'S FIELD
South America offers special attrac
tions for young men from the United
States desiring- to permanently estab
lish themselves In foreign countries.
This was the opinion expressed by O.
P. Austin, statistician of the foreign
trade department of the National City
bank of New York, In an address be
fore the Men's league of the Madison
Avenue Baptist church, New York,
where he had been especially requested
to discuss this subject.
South America, he said, has greater
promise of commercial development
than any other part of the world. Its
position In this particular is similar
to that of the United States 60 years
ago. It has enormous areas awaiting
development. The densely populated
sections of the world must be supplied
with foodstuffs, while its only surplus
manufacturing material Is cotton.
What South America, Beeds.
The next great producing area to be
developed is South America, which of
course needs men and money and
transportation for tnat development
Just as the United States did a half
century ago. Europ then sent .ua
men and loaned us capital and the
United States has thus become the
wealthiest and most prosperous coun
try of the world. It, In its turn,,should
supply some portions of the money
needed for development of South
America and there is no reason why a
limited number of young energetic
Americans should not accompany that
money and participate In the develop
ment of that continent, now the most
promising field which the world of
fers. This work has begun already, as
la Illustrated by the fact that the
National City bank of New York has
recently established a half dozen
branches In South Amecjca, and prob-
aDi iou.uoo.ouo of American capital
have passed to that continent In loans
to foreign governments, municipalities,
or for the construction of great Indus
trial enterprises since the beginning of
the war. Why should not our young
men seeking new fields of activity ac
company it, and aid in the develop
raent or tnat great rieidT
mel4 Xas Its Difficulties,
But men who are to make this ven
ture must realise that In doing so
they will go to a country Whose lan
guage, currency, weights and meas
ures differ from those of opr own,
while social and business customs also
differ somewhat, though In a less de
gree. The young man going, to South
America, Mr. Austin said, should by
all means equip himself before depar
ture with the language of the country
la which he expects to make his home,
Portuguese in Brazil and Spanish In
all other parts of the continent, and
should take with him the funds neces
sary for his personal expenses for at
least a half year. He should also real-
Is that be will have to compete with
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(1) B. M. Dealson, president; (2)
Drake, director; (8) P. L., Bishop, secretary; (6) B. K. Koapp, manager adjustment bureau; (7) W.
J. Henderson, director;
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tlonal association.
May 17, at the regular monthly meet
ing of the Portland Association of
Credit Men, the officers elected for the
ensuing year will have charge, and the
association will begin the twentieth
year of its existence. Coincident with
this, the adjustment bureau, a subsid
iary organization, which takes) care of
the adjustments, collections, bad debt
cases, assignments and bankruptcy
cases in which the member of the Cred
it Men's association are interested, has
Just moved Into new and larger office
quarters in thie Railway Exchange
building, and begins the third year of
lt existence.
At Us monthly meeting in April the
following new directors were chosen;
8. L. Eddy, credit department Ladd A
Tllton bank; P. L. Bishop, credit man
ager L Lang & Co.; W. J. Henderson,
credit manager of Closset & Devers,
who was elected to succeed himself.
The holdover members of the board
were: W. W. Downard, treasurer
Union Meat company, the retiring pres
ident; E. O. Lelhy, credit manager
Bl'umauer-Frank. retiring secretary;
Edward Drake, credit manager J. K.
Gill & Co.; B. M. Denison, credit man
ager Albers Bros'. Milling company.
The board of, directors on' April Z
elected the following officers: B. M.
Denison, president: E. G. Leihy. vice
president; P. L. Bishop, secretary. B.
K. Knapp was re-elected manager of
the adjustment bureau, E. M. Under
wood, credit manager of Faillng-tfc-Calman
company, because ha is a vice
president of the National Association
young Europeans acquainted with the
language and willing to render serv
ices at a very small compensation for
the sake of gaining a permanent foot
hold In that field. They succeeded by
this process as is evidenced by the
fact that there are large numbers of
young Europeans, especially English
and German, in? the business field In
all parts of South America and many
of them have become very prosperous
as a result of their close and persist
ent attention to business and thetrJ
aaaptaDimy to tne Dusiness ana so
cial customs of the country and com
munity, and the same qualities of ap
plication, persistency and study of
surrounding conditions would give
success to our own men In that field.
Above all things, in South America
or in any other part of the world tbe
young man who Is to be successful
must be strong, and well developed,
physically, mentally and morally. The
days of the suecess of the mere ad
venturer are past; the man who now
succeeds abroad; must have the same
sterling qualities) which assure suc
cess at homo.
BUILDING PERMITS
W. and H. EL Bra-aiaa, repair two atory er
dlnary atore aad reoma, M Cnloo are., be
tween K. Waahtagfoa end B. Stark eta.; build
er. Meyers Kopf ; : 200.
Dolph-Thompsoa A Dolph, repair three story
ordinary warebooae, 60 mat at. between Oak
and Pine eta.; MUSer, Otto Elevator Go.;
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A. CL Baby, erect one and erne self story
frame dwelling, 1214 & Burnslde at, between
B. 89th and & 41st sta.; builder, J.. A.. Hub
bell; (4500. .
B, Hay, repair feurtory erdiaary stores.
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S. Ij. Eddy, director: (3) E. G.
W. W. Downard, director; (0) E.
of Credit Men, remains as an honorary
member of the board of directors. H.
R. Dewart la the attorney for the
board. J
The Portland " Association of Credit
Men waa organized May 12, 1836, with
a membership of 11 of the business
houses of Portland. Leo Prleiie was
the first president. Today the associa
tion has a membership of 219 of Port
land's banks and business houses.
On June 23, 1896, the National Asso
ciation of Credit Men was organized at
Cincinnati. Portland was represented
at the meeting by a representative of
the firm of Closset &Devers. Today
the National association ha 116 affil
iated associations and upward of 20,000
members. It maintains a large work
ing organisation tn New York City, and
claims to have teh largest business
men's organization In the United States,
who are working together for a single
purpose.
The Portland association has been in
fluential, it Is asserted. In a stale-wide
campaign for fire protection, and has
succeeded In having placed In a statute
book a law requiring that the subject
should be brought to the attention of
the children of the schools of tbe state.
For many years It took the lnltlatlvo
In the clean-up campaigns, and stayed
by them, it Is declared, until they took
care of themselves. It was instru
mental in having the bulk sales law
placed fin the statute book, which for
bids a man to dispose of his stock of
goods without notifying all of his cred
itors. It was behind the movement
Kfl Aider t between 6th and Broadway sta.;
builder, n. R. Ktbler; J0O.
F. Verhoene, repair two story frame dwell
In. 1232 B. 81t between Jarrett and
KtlUngaworUi avc; builder; 1100.
P. Feldman, repair two atory frame dwell
ing. 68 Ella at., between waablDftoa and
Bverett sta.; builder, samei 50.
J. B. Brldgea Jr., repair two atory frame
dweUtns, 041 Montgomery at., between 16 th
and 17th etc: builder, Martin Jacobaen; (200.
Miaa Bertha Boaiman, erect one and one
hair atory frakne dwelling. 86 E. 64th at., be
tween Stark and B. Washington sta.; builder,
btokea-ZeUer Co.; I1&50.
J. W. Baasett, repair one atory frame dwell
ing 81 E. T landers et between B. 'S7ta
aad E. 2Stb ata.; builder, same; $150.
Delilah A. Yoet, erect one atory frame etore,
600 Lombard at., between ftoolaer Dwlght
ata.; builder, name; S39.
J. Layton. erect one atory frame garage,
1124 Nenalea are., between B. Beth aad E.
87th ata.; builder, W. A. Lee; M.
Girls' Effle Club
Holds First Practice
Omss Were Too Imi
Target Oronnds but
r to Paok to
They Carried
Their Own Towder.
Washington, May C Preparedness
called to arms the newly formed
Young Women's Bifle club of the
state department. Their arms were
real Springfield .rifles.
Properly chaperoned and with a
day's rations, five blondes, three bru
nettes and two neutrals headed tor
their first target practice.
The rifle were too heavy to car
ry, so the Infantry girls sent them
ahead.
They carried their own powder; ; '
Lieihy, vice president; (4) Edward
M. Underwood, vice president Na-
which had the assumed name law
placed In the statutes, and It has caused
to be enacted amendments to the re
ceivership law and other commercial
laws which make for a better adjust
ment between debtorand creditor. The
national association maintains that it
has reduced the losses from bad debts
throughout the country 40 per cent.
The adjustment bureau of the local
association is one of 65 similar organ
izations in the United States which
deal with bankruptcies, assignments.
receiverships and collections. The lo
cal office does a business amounting to
over flOOO a day for 1U member, has
zo employes and a suite of offices on
the second floor of the Railway Ex
change minding. Its principal work
deals with the. Interchange of credit in
formation among Its members, and this
part of Its activities is being extended
to all of the principal business and lob-.
mug centers oi tm country.
TOE PIECE IMPROVEMENT
& &&JPjys-i , S,T y 5 ' l li " let the responsibility be accepted
I jrV.3J i , rtfAm tfm $ as a great trust to be exercised In the
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A unique Improvement haa been
planned by Stanley S. Thomson-for a
fractional lot at the Intersection of
Thirteenth, Stark and Burnslde streets.
It will b flatiron in shape, two stories
and high basement There is but 550
square feet to the lot proper but by
utilisation of the full limit of the
space under tbe sidewalk 3739 square
feet of usable floor space is developed.
The finish will be of terra cotta and
marble, and the entire building of fire
proof construction. - Tbe total cost will
be Iia.QOO.
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INTELLIGENT-CITY PLAN
NEED OF MUNICIPALITY
Olty nlanaing ta feeing gla a great deal ef
thought ia all parta of the country at tbe
nreaeot time. As latertating dlerourM oa city
p tannine waa giren before the deUgatea to
tbe eoBTeotioa of the National Aaaociatton vt
Real Batata Exchanges ta Kew Orleans by J.
C. Nlcbols ef Kaniea City, wslefc ta, la vart.
as foUowe:
Every American city carries an ap
palling financial burden in aban
doned good residence sections, where
homes are offered for a mere fraction
of their original cost, and In its Im
mense percentage ef unproductive va
cant land, with carrying charges far
greater than the average Increase In
value.
Its shifting and declining down
town business centers entail glgantlo
loss In property values and render
speculative and unstable tne nignesi
land values of the city.
The criminal waate of land, the
fearful' and growing tax paid by
pedestrian, vehicular and atreet rail
way trafflo over narrow and con
gested streets, with few radical or
circumferential lines of trafflo are
common to moat cities.-.
The usual suburban property Just
beyond the city limits is practically
uncontrolled, and almost Impossible of
later conversion Into- unified, effi
cient city. Capital refuses to lend
more than 50 per cent on the value of
Improved city property, while It lends
80 per cent on good stocks, and we all
admit of the slowness of rel estate
In times of. stress.
There Is a general lack of civlo
order, ciyio individuality and civlo
beauty and a deplorable lack of pub
lic spirit in the making of private
gifts to our American cities. All of
these conditions and many more could
have been aaved our cities by an In
telligent city plan.
Talues Alwayg. Shifting-
The continuous shifting of the
uses and values of large sections at
city property, and the Inadequacy of
every large city to perform its func
tions and serve Its people In a con
venient and efficient manner, create
Insecurity of real estate value and
lack of confidence In our real estate
profession. This privato and selfish
use of land under practically no mu
nicipal control for the interest of ythe
community as a whole, has indeed
created a crying need for an effective
city plan.
With our eountm's population
crowding into cities at an alarmingly
Increasing rate; with every city ex
pending staggering sums In the al
most hopeless endeavor to correct
only a Tew of the past evils of city
making, and with striking, evidence
on every hand that the haphazard
piecemeal, short -flighted city building
of the past Is Inefficient and wasteful
is not the planning of cities on
broad, business like and economic
lines a most vital subject for the con
sideration of our profession, on whom
this grave responsibility restsT
The time has come when we mnst
cease to foolishly and vaguely regard
city planning as simply a visionary
noheme for civic embellishment, and
we must now realize it in its funda
mental practical scope of actual mak-
IMPORTANCE OF ETHICS
FOR DEALERS IN REALTY
The reputation of the honorable
ethical broker is at all times subject
to the sharp practices of what has been
termed the real estate "shark- and
therefore there la no feature of the pro
fession that should receive more care
ful attention than the drafting of the
code of ethics, declares Jerry C. Hayes
or .Detroit in the Detroit News. His
caution regarding conduct, and the
ethics by which the broker should be
guided is In part aa follows:
"We are pleased to call our busi
ness a profession, but in laying claim
to that dignity we find that the other
professions have what is termed a
code of ethics to safeguard their good
name, o if we are to be classed with
the leading professions, it is equally
Important that we have a high stand
ard of rules of conduct and practice
for the guidance of the beginner as
well as for those of mature experi
ence. In other words, our own self-
respee ana nignest success in our
calling demands it. We need it to reg
ulate and determine upon a commonly
accepted and honorable basis our re
lations with our clients, our customers.
our fellow brokers, as well as the gen
eral public
Aid for Wavering- Member.
"Ethics as applied to real estate is
applying to your real estate transac
tions the methods that have received
the stamp of approval in all profes
sions and all lines of commercial en
deavor, via, doing business In tha.
manner dictated by your - innermost
conscience; as Webster defines ethics
as the science that treats of the princi
ples of human morality and duty. Gen
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of ground on upper
The entire, building has been leased
for three years to a publishing con
cern, the basement to be used as the
press room, the first floor as a' store
and the second story for the mechan
ical department A mezzanine floor (g
provided on. the first floor. '
The bulldine will be the same helarhtl
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as tho structure formerly occupied by ! neF tbat these Uresponelble adventur
the Merchants National at Fourth- and ; er are not included among Its mem-
Washington streets, and will be of the
same general appearance.- -
The plan were drawn by F. Manson
White.
in ana a.iermi.on oi cm mm ij
snouia do. we must not accept me
present lack of planning and hopeless
Jumble of unrelated and conflicting
parts as unavoidable.
While European, 'English and even
South American cities have been mak
ing immense strides along the line,
a wonderful olvlo awakening, led by
the splendid work of the nation city
planning conference, and the American
Civlo association in the past few
years, haa been taking place through
out our own country, for telling a
revolution in our present low stand
ards of city making.
Build for TntttTa,
An intelligent city plan thinks Im
partially for all parta of a city at
the same time and does not forget
tbe greater needs of tomorrow in the
press of today. It recognises the
economy ef preventative measures
over corrective costs. On account of
the lack of the use of proper plans.
British cities spent $U,000,000 In the
10 years from 18St to 1901 In the ef
fort to partially correot a few mis
takes In their physical structure. In
the last 60 years Chicago has spent
tST5.000.000 and New York 1400.000.
000 in municipal work that could have
been saved by a good, businesslike
city plan.
A scientific city plan should be
prepared after a most comprehensive
survey, a well-balanced, continuous
commission of the real estate man.
the citizen, tbe merchant and experts
on all phases of civil life cooperating
with the administrative officers of the
city. Compared with the coat of the
plans of any house, factory, barn,
bridge or publlo utility', the cost of
preparing a city plan is ridiculously
low perhaps not exceeding one-tenth
of one per cent of the property In
volved. Revolutionary as It may seem, in
tbe planning and replannlng of our
ciues un a uuaineu-.ixe Dasia me time
is coming when the private owner oPT
uruan vruycuji win no lunger ue per
mitted to use his own land ss he
pleases. Upon September 20, 1915, the
United States supreme court ruled
that a brickyard which had been in
operation for 15 or 20 years could be
excluded, without compensation; from
a residence district which had been
built up long after the establishment
of the brickyard. Los Angelea, by
powers granted It by the lawa of Cali
fornia, has recently created certain
residential districts which were actu
ally retroactive in that they forced
factories and other buildings already
established to move out of these resi
dence districts without compensation.
Zones la Vow fork.
And now New. York city, under a
recent law passed by the state legis
lature, is preparing to divide the city
Into three districts business, residen
tial and unrestricted, and absolutely
determining not only the maximum
height and area, but also the use of
buildings hereafter erected in these
districts.
How costly haa been the belated
acquirements of land and removal of
orally speaking, it Is well to be care-
rui or the fellow who is always prat
ing aoout his dyed-in-the-wool honesty,
but it Is hard to find anyone engaged
in tne real estate business who doea
not advocate that "honesty is the best
policy," but the great difficulty is in
getting the individual to apply this
principle to his particular transaction
and the national associations have
framed a code of ethics to coach the
wavering member to prompt him in his
dealing with the public and his fellow
member.
"There is no feature of our profes
sion that should receive more careful
attention than the drafting of the code
of ethics and a committee nf th na
tional asoclatlon spent a considerable
amount of their valuable time in draft
ing a code which has been adopted by
a majority of the boards throughout
the country. While some of the pro
visions of the, code may seem ele
mentary and' self-evident, the real need
of the code is to determine the .really
simple questions of right or wrong, and
as many of our transactions are of
such a complex nature and very often
is only consummated by the operations
Of not only one but several brokers,
besides the several principals, it is al
most mandatory that we all be guided
by the same rules.
"It cannot be expected, of course,
that the adoption of a code of ethics
by a real estate board .or any other
association, for that matter, will at
once proceed to make saints of all Its
members, but It Is a step In the right
direction, and has the stimulating ef
fect of holding the Individual member
.in line of honest endeavor and greatly
assist in raising the standard of the
; business morals of the broker not
' only among the board members them
: selves, but im also in a great measure
reflected to those outside the fold of
the association and wielding as we
do a strong influence in our commun-
the past would now. thanks to th
adoption of a general code of ethics,
be sufficient to lose your membership
in any well regulated real estate board.
The Detroit real estate board has been
particularly favored in having for Its
officers In the past few years men
who have put particular stress upon
right dealing with the public, and in
these days of our unprecedented pros
perity, Detroit has enticed real estate
operators from all quarters of the
United states and Canada, and it is
probably a fact that a part of our
newcomers, at course not all, do not
represent the best type of real estate
operator rather It is apt to be the
anark who looks for new fields to eon
quer; or as one large operator of on of
our western cities remarked a' Short
time ago, Detroit has no doubt attract
ed the pirates, as be Called them, of
tne rear estate business ef all the
hemisphere as he had noted that nearly
all of the 'pirates' of the business of his
city bad left sometime ago and upon a
visit to our city he had encountered
several of the undesirables. He fur
ther remarked that most of the solid
real estate men of his town who had
built up their business on their reputa
tion, were still there.
"The national association has
achieved such a standing in all the
states , of the union that there is now
Imposed upon It the duty of informing
the public, m some very definite man
benhip and that its members are gov
erned by a code of ethics jrnlch gives
m sign nr suuiwa to weir wuum
dealings.
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Improvemeats for "publlo balldln.
No well managed private - enterpn
wouia ran to anticipate Its futv
need of ground space nor would t
erate such scattered and dlsoonnet
ed buildings for Us transaction
business, a wlae city plan,, aa f
ready being executed in this reapi
n certain large cities like Clevsiar,
should exercise this same good JucJ
ment and roresight; and It Is aa li
disputable fact that the accumulaUv
effect of a number of good elvl
buildings Is far greater than the sut
of the units.
Also, a complete city plan, pre
videe at the proper' time, well ' dU
trlbuted parks, boulevards and play
grounds for the,, health, pleasure in
morality or its people, advertising tn
best Impression to its visitors; an
perhaps second only to an efficen
street system and soning of " a city
offers the greatest opportunity of sav
lng publlo oost by the adoption of S'
eariy plan. I believe no city offor
a more notable example of this, thai
the famous park and boulevard sys
tern or Kansas City. v t (
Housing Vroblem Considered v
An efficient city plan cooes, wit:
the housing problem of the poor, e
serious In every city. It provides th'
cheaper land in tracts of economics
else, for the poor man. Instead ef th,
highest, priced land, as is generally
the custom.
A godl arrangement of a cltv die
tributes the publio markets, fir sta
tions, police stations and all 'sue!
utilities from the standpoint of effl
clency and the interests of the whole
city. For Instance, the reoent Nswarl
city planning commission discovered
that the cost of living could be re
duced from 10 to IS per cent by 'an
efficient arrangement of markets and
handling of food freight.
The future needs of a bualnesr
street should be carefully studies be
fore deciding upon .Its width. Itl.re
latlon to topography; ita grades, it.,
connection to freight yards and In
dustrial centers, relation to possible
outlying development and towns, lt
relation to lot sizes and hilght'of
buildings "should all be determining
factors. There Am even more reason
thi
at business streets should not all
of the same width than that rest-'
dence streets should not all be of the
same width; and while It Is a general
ly accepted real estate axiom that
business abhors a vacuum, and that
too wide streets may check business1
growth, it is equally true the time
will come when congestion and in-1
convenience will drive business from
inadequate, poorly related streets. It1
la equally true, to aay nothing of the
rights, convenience and safety of the
public, that a street of a sufficient !
width to accommodate the trafflo of
the business upon it. Is much more
unlikely to ever lose that business
once acquired, than the narrow street; ,
where the transaction of business
aoon becomes almost Intolerable. ;
Consider Transportation. ' "
We must not forget the, increase
In size of the transportation unit up
on our street, such as the lncreate of
else of streetcars, increased else and
number of automobiles and trucks and
the startling lncrrased percentage of,
our population crowding to Cities,'
thereby Increasing by the square of
the population, the load upon our,
business streets. t
It is a significant fact thajr in our
business, that the population of the
United States from 1900 to 110 In
creased 4.8 per cent In cities and
only 11.2 per cent in rural districts.
The complexity of commercial Ufa of '
all kinds in a city has increased In ,
geometrical ratio; and the city that
is falling to make a careful survey of !
Ita traffic needs, and at once setting
about the acquirement of trafflo ways i
for the next 25 or 60 years, will Just
as surely run the risk of losing its i
commercial supremacy in the toll that
It levies upon its trade and the move-
ment'of its people. .
Any far-reaching plan, proposing
any considerable change or innova
tion, will require years for education
ana fulfillment, and whether or not1
all of an ideal plan may ever be ac
quired, we can render no greater serv
ice to our respective cities than in
giving each of them their own,, par !
tlcular picture of their future great
ness, convenience, efficiency, order arfd, 1
useiuinesa Know their future needs i
and functions and guide their future
growth through the new conditions' t
ever arising, and In tha constantly
cnanglns administrations of evarvr
American municipality. J
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II. II. Mauaatb to II. E. James, W. 41
ft. L. 4. B. 1. Rarard Add
UH'aeppc Oattuecto to Gloaeppe Tebtna
OattiK-cio. L. I, B. 4, Home Add......
GluarpiM Oattucrlo to Uluaenne RoblaS
Oattqecio, L. 24, 25, B. i. Ior.,.,
Title A Truat Co. to Wellealer Lead
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Harriet F. Htrphetia th Georfa C. Bam.
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Soutfaiiort Land Co. to Amanda Nelao.
L. 0, B. H. Kouthport 2
J. P. Hoffman et al to Mary Evans
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Parker. L. 21. 22. H. "B." Leaa Add.
B L. Croft to . MrKinner at al, L. 4.
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Bertha lftiecol! and hba. to Marr M.
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V. 11, 18. 14, B. 1A. IrTinaton Park..
Frank Tufts and wf. to William W.:
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Winkle, U s. B. 2, Crest View i Vh 10.
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