Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1925, Page 5

Eves Examined Graduate Dr. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone Main o e DAandMOTHER Lherr 2iolches PAIRED HERE iy awiet jou? RAMSAY WATCH SHOP 1425~F-ST. |Stap eavging Dorerany | o= gme | OLDER MIAMI CITIZENS DEPLORE (Continued from First Page) | will be removed le around here, even the conser tive ones. are forecasting a city 500,000 inhabitants in five vear | Others ¢ stop at | tions. v are heginning to_look wn on such settlements as Wash. <ton, Baltimore and Philadelphia. see. in Miami, another and better who have grown| town and who know con frankly say that Miami's I for fame is her weather. at the piffle and tosh one the street-hawking real salesman concerning Miami’s iture as an industrial center, supporting a_great industrial popula: tion. They do not want industry to come in. There is nothing that could hurt ) | dirty land forth | with the | ditions v population, = between little hom smoke-belching industrial plants think of Miami as rich man's play ground. and they believe it will de velop along such lines. One man took a pencil and pad and. jotting down his caleulations as he talked, said We here la FOR SALE New Homes—Easy Terms GALLAUDET PARK 1116 to 1126 Neal St. N.E. 9 Sold—3 Left—Act Quick! Best Values in This Desirable Location Near « lines Public had 150,000 t seas Winter tourists n. most of them here | for 90 d Daily rates here are as| high as $ an average might be §30, | but we'll work on $20 as a_minimum. | Taking the minimum of $20 a day spent by 100,000 people, we won't count the other 30,000, and that makes | £2.000,000 a day. and for 90 days that's | $180.000.600. Predict Solid Growth. There are few towns which can 1 pay roll like that for 90 days in the vear, and it will increase. Lots of people will have to live and work | here to support the visitors. Many of | ! the visitors will hecome permanent citizens. Miami will grow.’ tionary wash trays suld not lose sight of the (©Open_until 8 P.ML) s A iis a rich man’s town Any Broker It costs money to live here. Nor will Owner and Builder it ever. despite the diatrihes and sta tisties printed by the local newspapers, JAS. C. NEALON become popular as a Summer resort Linc. 5003—1000 Eyve St. N.E. 1 have talked to too many people - who spent the Summer down here to helieve that it is even comfortable It may be bearable. but that's all Miami is a tropical city. It has the advantages, as well as the disad vantages, of a tropical climate The antics of the real estate men are provinz highly amusing, very profitable. but not altozether popular with the better class of business men who have lived in Miami for vears All sorts of stories naturally go around about the cut-throats that work their zame here. and such stories tend to hurt Miami. There’s not a man here unless his boosting is zreater than his conscience. who will deny that many many of the dear visitors are =2tting badly stung. At the same time. and no one can deny it. many people ave zetting rich. Miami's bank deposits now are $200.000,000. Catholic Containi tiled bath, F ts: la hreakfast 2 poret Lots 15 n 20 ft. alley. Sta hoast HECHINGER CO. “From Foundation to Roof” ROOFING - Capitol tured by Roo Certa manufac Possibilities in Azriculture. These men who know Miami laugh at the tosh that is heing spread about the fact that agriculture will be the city’s backhone. The soil is rich in many parts of the surrounding coun try. It is helped by a climate which produces luxuriant growth. One may point out to the awed stranger men around here who have made millions in tomatoes. But what does that prove? Go further north and one may find in the State of Geo men who have made millions in pe: Go vet further north, around Winchester, Va and one will find men who have made millions in apples. But it is not everybody who can nurse a tomato. or a celery stalk, or a head of cabbage through its v stages of develop- | ment until it is put on the dinner tabls of some plutocratic Northerner who | {likes his Summer vegetables in the Winter time. Ask the farmers their | difficulties. They have them as much as the Western farmer has his trou- | bles with his wheat. If this were not THE so. it is pointed out that evervbody | HECHINGER o, 5 ik e Rlsoied Jud Crien Shite Sur- face Roofing SHINGLES —Certain-teed F 1-One Strip Shingles. S475 per squarc ; Cut-out Strip Shingles. 5.50 per square. Also new Variegated and Color-blend Octagonal-shape Strip Shin- gles. the very latest develop- ment _in shingle manufacture hy Certain-teed Co. per square. All shingles guaranteed 10 years Main Office 6th & C Sts. Southwest Camp Meigs 5th & Fla. Ave. Northeast matoes down here. and soon there wouldn't be enough people to eat the | tomatoes. Mr. Sewall savs there are cases of men who have been able to produce of SPECIAL Advertised WEEKS Goods, fifth of a serics to Nationally At Selinger’s All This Week A Special Display of GORHAM SILVER PLATE America’s Leading Silverware for Over 90 Years ———] OME in and see onr display of Gorham’s newest and most " exquisite patterns in silverware Open a which have been sent to us direct Charge from the factory You are taking no chances when Account von wive Gorham flatware—for the ne Gorham is sure to bring de- 1t and recognition of the descrim- inating taste of the giver. 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T re you going to do | pressed as to how many people are | getting stung they counter with Gilman forecast | stories of how many people are mak- He says land is|ing money purely on speculatio worth al estate agents will advise | |in some of the outlying sections. but | ambling. Nothing is so gen- | | Miami, he argues, is growing fast and nauseating to them as gam tomatoes enough to realize $300 an | needs mors J8ople Are MAKING | bling, they say. Yet their greatest sell acre from the vield. This shou tion as |ing argument and the one most freely | nacre for their Gilman |used is that if you buy a plece of he thinks. and i | thinks he could have made $100,000,000 | property its value will ¢ himself it he had chosen to speculate. |a specified time. This nkly that | But that, of course, is bad banking. [never get a satisfactory real Values in Miami are being mi anybody as to what will estate ‘without investigating it _is a|sented so that they seem wc the man who buys las fool. This applies to people up North | they really are—but they ar without a buyer. "It is only who buy it through the mail as well | enough at that part of the g that pyramiding must stop som as to those who come hundreds of | for people properties 10| But nobedy here will admit the pos miles down here, then snap up a lot | u gnify their price. ntioned, in | bility of anything like sh without making the salesman take one of my articles, that a woman who fforts of the conservative real| them out to look at it. Mr. Sewall|sold pineapple juice in a 10-hy-15 estate men have heen direcied lately s he would not trust 99 out of {foot hole in the wall said she paid |toward eliminating the “hinder hoys.’ ¥ 100 real estate men who have |$2.000 a month rent for it. A real| About every transaction In Florida i dritted into Miami with this high tide | estate firm. one of the oldest in the made on a hinder—a small of land selling. He does not advise city, safd it was $1,000—not $2,000. ment which holds property anybody to trust them. There are | The highest price actually paid for|time. The hinder has heen established firms In Miami as well as |land on Flagler street here, the princi- |one-half of 1 per cent and 1 per cent in other cities whose reputation has | pal street in the city 000 & front | Now it is generally but 1 been built on conservaticm. Miami | foot —not square f any of the has her share of them. also her bank- | stories sales ever neral-| reached the sc $35.000 @ front 1y who will be glad to advise. There | foot—stories which have been told me is a lot of land beinz sold around here. | (o the contrary notwithstanding. | a binder if given and taken in / There are no more out-and-out sz ith. But trading in binders price—not fof any property on Flagler is @ hazardous form of speculation. Trading in “Binders.” Not long ago a lot of New Yorkers came down here with 4 smartalecky determination to get rich off the yokels They began purchasing acreage with small binders, then raising their prices, selling their land to each other and receiving a higher binder. In this way they ran prices on some property away up and they were making money on trading “binders.” But a real estate man here decided the thing had zone far enough. He decided to get the “hinder hoyz.'" He let it be known among them that cer tain beach property could be pur chased cheaply. The binder hove bit and before long thev had bid the beach property 1o ridiculously hizh prices. Then, one morning, they found signs erected along the heach advertis ing for sale lots next to those held by D.J.KAUFMANS H!l\e “What | about it?" he as being sold for more than it r could nswer from | pen when | irgself | Who would turn down a prospect if he offered them anything as a binder There is nothing wrong in the use of believes iz unjustified in however. that there will be any cr Lots of people will lose their money in Miami real estate as they lose it in other cities. he de clared, but he has his faith in Miami's growth, and those who have hought wisely will see their investment he- | come profitabie. Opinion of Banker. James Gilman, president of the Bank of Bay Biscayne. another leadi it zen of this town, and a man who came here 25 vears ago, told me very frank Iy that he would not advise people with $2,000 or $3.000 of hard-earned savings to speculate in Florida real estate Yet. he they come to him for advice, he zives it to them and tells them not to do it. and out they walk, 2o to the nearest real and put down all they doesn’t think, -vear lease s leased 0,000 for two vears. They like to tell everybody about it, tos. It is good advertising. and they Jist the expense under adver tising. The usual price for Flagler street property is $15.000 a front foot in the downtown section of the city “Across the river,” in a section which | mizht be compared with the business section of upper Fourteenth street Washington, land is sellinz for ahout $4,000 a front foot Attitude of Bu One of the peculiar phases of the many sided situation here is the atti tude among the putahble busi men toward the speculation that h: in many cases, driven prices sky They deplore it generally, vet ess Men. when state salesman. HOME OF THE "2.PANTS™ OLD FRIENDS MEET Apples, Cider. Smokes— "Sheep in the windows and cows in the corn” —that’s the atmosphere that makes this "Barnyard™ store of D. J. Kaufman's one inviting place. The Old Harvest Home Festival 1s at its height. Good fellowship and good merchandise at good Old- fashioned Prices make it a place worth visiting. Come on down, Brother. and join the fun. Buy if you like—but come! Heica: A Harvest of Good Things 1.000 “9-Pants SUITS (835, $40, $45 Values) 1,000 Virgin Wool Overcoats (Oregon City Product) | $29.75 Such Valucs were never OQGred the men of this town before. These Two-pants Suits and Virgin Wool Overcoats are Haymakers —there's genuine cloth value and real tailor- ing hooked up in one package. Get yours NOW. LEO (LEGS) LOEB CLOTHING BUYER— A "Landmark™ of the “Some Boy!” Business. HARVEST HOME SPECIALS That Are Knockouts" $30 Knitted TOPCOATS $2 4;75 $6 Worsted TROUSERS 3485 $5 Knitted SWEATER VEST $3.95 $5 to $12 SILK SHIRTS $3.65 1724 PA. AVE $50 SILK-LINED TUXEDO, $39.75 Money's Worth or Money Back D. J . Kaufman g the “binder boys.” and at about halt| the price. At the same time the bind- | er boys found their binders were in | reality first payments, obligating them to pay the halance within a fied time. The ‘“binder hoys" were | left holding the bag. All their money had gone into building up fietitious values, and they were caught the trick. They left hehind ahout $2.500,000, bac New There's honor among thieves, but | some of the real estate men will tell you there's none among the newcom- | ers of this kind down here. A system used by the big develop. ment companies ) pick up a pros pect somewhe: and give him a num ber. Next day the prospect cal the office of the company fo ride or speech or somethin, his number he is identified as being the property of the salesman who gave it to him. Some of the hird-dogs,” male and female, who work for lhu‘ salesmen, will change these numbers on a particularly good prospect. so| that the original discoverer loses him ‘\hn(ltl in some communities outside g0, accounted a high crime. nging numbers on a prospect down here is something, in the minds | of real estate men, which should he | punished by slow forture, preferabiy '-41 the stake. First Mortgage Bonds Callor urite for Booklet .1 The E.H. Smith Co. 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