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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • 47

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47
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I RJAL ESTATE NEWS 1 "'K i Maaii fl 4 I I xmu Si'KOCTURS rOK AUxOiftOlLE COPaNy re inforced of RANK NAVIN BUYS HOME ORESTRY WORK PAYS WELL the tenant to compel a orest it not be a good idea for people Before Buying Lots Near Palmer Park 'U' Consider the5 ollowing acts 'respect park Sub 4 asons 7' I Saving to You on Buying Our Lots LOT Corner Lots 34x100 Corner Lots 29x100 Inside Lots 30x100 Inside Lots 30x100 Other Streets On All On All Other Streets LOT Each 1st Lot from Hamilton LOT Each 6th Lotfrom Hamilton LOT PER Each Hth Lot rom Hamilton Each 16th Lot from Hamilton LOTf Each 14 ol nt erest for 3 Years SALESMEN ON THE PROPERTY ALL DAY SUNDAY 3 $425 $365 $340 $355 $380 16th Lot from Hamilton v' i 'v 21st Lot from Hamilton $100 PER 50 PER i I 1 I iiben ore almost to Ep SELL LOT OR SITE BUILDING WANTS A HOME $225 Each $215 Each $205 Each $195 Each $185 Each of the 1st Lot from Hamilton V' 6th Lot from Hamilton 11th Lot from Hamilton Open Every Evening Phone Main 407 VL acing West Side Hamilton Boulevard Corner Louise Ave and ILxtending iNortn toraimer rarx certainly coat very much mon ey if the present ram shackle structures are any evidence of the from which people draw an income' these chouses can be pro vided a certain simple ordi nary type of conveniences which would improve the condltlops of living and would bring an Investor a good return? The other sugges tion is that if some such step as this Is not taken the state will be compelled to destroy what some people may consider valuable prop erty and there is no doubt that the state could compel the destruc tion of property under these con ditions absolutely wiping out any money value which these ram shackle buildings1 may possess All of the cities referred to are indus trial centers and are growing rap idly In these cities they manu facture staple articles of commerce The demand for thlr products is not based on fads but on constant and steady use and it would not be it is a "'difficult matter for some enterprising young man or young men to take the matter up not only in cities mention ed but in Chicago and other big cities They could devise homes which built in rows of 25' or 50 would soon be enormous revenue producers This can be made to apply to a thousand cities in this country When the blg ord Motor com building was being put up on Woodward avenue in Highland park many were the remarks of wonder at the extent of the struc ture but the' operations now jrolng on can not' be seen so well Back of the new re inforced concrete building on the avenue the main manufacturing section la now go ing up When this is completed the place will be a busy hive of work men Every effort has been made to construct these buildings in the Baseball Pays for Longfellow Avenue Property After a clean up of the world's series business rank Navin base ball magnate has purchased the property at 24 Longfellow avenue Including a fine house and a 100 foot frontage from Bennett The deal was made through Judson Bradway The price said to have been in the neighborhood of $18 000 It proved two things that some men are not so old as some might believe and that some are older as sore muscles will show The ball game was a greaL'suc cess particularly for Clarence Vaughn who gets a new haVy be cause his team ran up a score of 11 to 5 for Max aggregation The line up was like this: ISKUULliB Broock Lincoln IVormer Bader IVise Epsteaa lirindley Loveley Bessenger well Will Build Stores Paul Renaud has purchased the northwest corner of Cass and Adams avenues directly in the hotel and he will erect stores there THE DETROIT JREE PRESS: SUNDAY OCTOBER 24 1909 the Kahn system concrete At the front of the $200 PER $150 PER $155 $160 PER $195 PER members of the board They re garded it as so preposterous that it would die a natural death The matter of street openings necessary in the city came up and it 13 likely that a more active plan will be adopted to keep track of all the proposed openings in the in terests of the real estate men The next meeting of the board will be held in Detroit and it will doubtless be an important business session The summer outings have been a great success and all have been largely attended Monthly trips have been made to some pleasant resort for the sake of an afternoon off a good dinner and some rubbing of elbows among themselves during the summer and the real estate men now fefel that they can tackle the winter meetings and take some im portant matters of business Hutton Nall Sell Business Lo cation and Some East End Lots Hutton Nall have sold the Parker estate to the Speaker Hines Printing company a 50x80 foot lot on the south side' of Larned street between Bates and Randolph streets on which the purchasers will erect immediately a modern printing establishment Hutton Nall also have sold in the Hutton Tigchon Nall subdi vision Greater East Detroit a lot 30x122 feet on the west side of Ly caste avenue between Jefferson and Edlle avenues for 450' lot 30x122 feet on the east side of Hlllger avenue between Jefferson and Edlle avenues for $450 on which the purchaser is erecting a modern home Also for Edward Brown the cottage and lot 63 Alice avenue for $1500 for James and Edwin Nall a two story house 64 Wellington avenue for $2800 No Interest At All for All Cash 10 Premium on Etxra Payments 205 Telegraph Bldg big lots Sold OR INE HOMES HOW to Reach Our Money Saving Subdiyision Take Woodward Avenue Car to Corner Louise Avenue and Walk West to Hamilton to build cheap homes? They would In point of variety and scope the forest work done on the Biltmore estate in North Carolina is re markable The forests which cov er 130000 acres are made profitable by the production of various form? of material our million feet of lumber 5000 cords of tannic acid wood and fuel a thousand cords of tan bark and several hundred cords of pulp wood are cut every year At the same time the forest through wise management is bettered and is steadily increasing in value Workmen employed along the boundaries of the forest do duty as fire guards Thus fire protection is secured at least throughout all tne accessible parts of the tract In connection with all lumbering operations permanent logging roads are built These minimize tne pres ent cost of transportation and greatly reduce the cost of market ing future crops Thus the exten sion of the roads is steadily adding to the Investment value of the forest Moreover they serve also as linnet planting Is practiced where fire will not threaten Its success The ex perimental work in silviculture which done at Biltmore is cer tain to make important additions to the science and practice of for estry main build ing a large power house Is also be ing built at this time The otficials of the ord Motor company have expressed themselves as being high ly pleased with their new plant and are anxiously awaiting the comple tion of the manufacturing building Those' who are Interested in fine factory construction should make ita point to visit this plant of the ord Motor company Albert Kahn is the architect for the entire plant and the construction work was con ducted In the main building by the Zadeck company of Chicago and in the manufacturing section by the A Smith Construction company of Detroit Our Selling Price HAMILTON WEST SIDE $350 Each $350 Each Our Price HAMILTON EAST SIDE $450 Each $400 Each HAKES BIG ADDITION TO EXTENSIVE CONSTRUCTION WORK IN: PROGRESS REstfiENCE PROERTT BACK BIG ORD PLANT ON WOODWARD AVE Lots 140 to 1 90 Nc Interest of taxes $100 per week payments No bargains the city like these only 25 left See them Sunday On the ground all day METZEN 25 CLELAND BLDG 29 and 31 STATE STREET Sub Office Opp Palmer Park best way' possible The Kahn sys tem of re lnforced concrete which successful in the main building has been adopted for the construction of the remainder of the plant This Insures greatest possible strength fire proofness and permanency The manufacturing section is built the most approved saw tooth of design which will flood the factory with clear strong north light and shut out the glare of the sun This section extends the full length iof the building 865 feet and Is 135 feet in width Roofs and side walls are all built George Epstean Sells to Wilber Brotherton and Others on Boston Boulevard George Epstean has sold for the Park Hlil Realty Co three fine pieces of vacant property on JBos ton boulevard on two of which hand some homes will be built and gar dens laid out Wilbur Brotherton purchased a 190x165 foot lot at the southwest corner of Boston boulevard and Brush street on which he will build soon Sarah Wise and Octa Wise Case bought a lot 96x175 feet on the north side of Boston boulevard be tween John and Brush streets and have plans prepared for build ing rederick Holt purchased a lot 70x165 feet on the south side of Boston boulevard betwesn John and Brush streets adjoining his present home so that he now ha a frontage of 145 feet STEEL PULLEYS AT COST We are selling to the user our stock of Steel Pulleys at csie third off list price This is more than 25 per cent cheaper than you can buy of dealers Bushings to fit any size shaft There is no better Steel Pulley made BESSENGER MOORE REAL ESTATE MEN PLAY IN AST GAME ON AIRVIEW IELD MANY SPECTACULAR EATURES WITNESSED body said the field was buttered the ball slipped so easily out of reach There was one great difficulty nobody seemed to know exactly who was him and who agin It was hard to tell who was running bases and who playing them qntll it was too late Tfgchon was playing third and I Leach was shortstop Tigchon was I active and earnest He touched Leach out three times thinking he was trying to steal thlid mean time some other runners ran around All this happened last Wednes day afternoon out a airview field At 4 the? special car came to pick up the real estate men to take them on to Mt Clemens for at the Park hotel and the game had to be called with the finish of the fifth inning Just the same it was a good game and the errors were uuc umj lack of practice because most of the board members haven handled ball or bat since the board game a There were some who were just a little timid about playing with a real baseball so they got out in the field and caught files using an in door baseball which was big enough for one to see and dodge and not hard enough to hurt i ar meet the day next rear of the Renaud Bros Belmont healthful surroundings Why would hotel and he will erect stores there it not good idea for people The lot Is 96 feet on Cass and 90 who are seeking good investments on Adams to build cheap homes? They would MACHINERY After two sale we have left 1 60 lnch squaring shear cuts rlnch metal 2 punch presses 1 small 6 lnch throat 1 heavy 12 lnch throat 1 alligator shear 1 circular shear 1 bulldozer 1 20 inch shaper all in first class condition and practically new Will sell at low prices Corner warren ana rsenovue Avenues Write us or Phone Ridge 2589 ACTORY PLANT OR SALE DETROIT STEEL PULLEY CO and lawyer Discussed at onthly Meeting Held at Mt Clemen? yrtant matters came be real estate board at the id at theark hotel at Wednesday evening af game and dinner tiusan chairman of the committee aepuriea the employment by the a lawyer to look after its following out the sug Hannan made at meeting embers of the board said Id be at that' while the organ ax lous to keep track of matters in' the council which affect its in iawyer could not be had he work wanted for a is within the present board Others think If there been to ca tch tthe return it is likely that the mat ave been discussed more at It was Laid on thermloubtedly will come up brre is a strong feeling' the employment of aeentative Indley's suggestion thate secured who could in his legal duties take up ctlve secretary also will ed more fully on piiay matter of importance was that it is time the a quarters" somewhereTvn where meetings can be ad where members of the each other any time This toowill come meeting called the proposed ordinance aorrpe the employment' of sed engineers to take care of heating plants private not excluded This was a joke by most of the YOU ALSO SAVE ROM 4 TQ 6 YEARS INTEREST tlon to a co: Arfe Sole Selling Agents or Position Vaughn Paterson 1 Kelly 2 Harmon I 3 ligcbon 8 8 Leach Ducharme Hehl Nall nobodv knows exactly what the batting order was some body said there wasn't any The game was remarkable for many things One was the splendid relay work of Wise Epstean Broock Wormer aggregation Kelly hit one down so near the president of the real estate board tnat ne rane ht ft: Wise tossed it stean Epstean to Broock Broock toWormer assistance for you But sad as It may seem Kelly bv that time had run to second made a home run Some JUST COMPARE THESE PRICES SUBDIVISION OICE CORNER HAMILTON BOULEVARD AND LOUISE AVENUE ranklin Hi Walker Buys South west Corner of Jos Campan and'' Jefferson ranklin' Walker has pur chased the'southweat corner of Jef ferson Campau avenues consisting of 100 feet frontage on the formera nd on the Jat ter The property adjoins Mr Walk residence at 850 Jefferson im mediately otr the cast The pur chase was made from the Cutler es tate terms private It was said about town that Mr Walker had heard that a business establishment of some sort was to be built on the lot next to his home and that he hastened to buy up be tore his place could be (Injured thereby Mr Walker said yesterday that the rumor it not true He said he made the purchase so that he'i coma maxe an aaaition on nis nonie Rrlrk wall arnnow being built around" the? side and rear of the lot and the grounds Improved Replacing SKacks WitK GoioH1 Houses 1 Paying Investment Two or three 'suggestions come to one after reading the report of Professor Jamea Tufts of the department of phllospphy of the UnlveTsitjr of Chicago on ing in Illinois at the four teenth annual 'convention' of the Illinois Conference of Charities and Correction held' in Peoria a few days ago says J'Const ruction New Attention has been called frequent ly to the: evilvinfiuence of ram shackle buildings upon individuals and upon a 'oomthuiilty and such details as have been left out in the editorials axe very carefully And authenticallyset forth in Pro fessor paper Professor Tufts and hisVasslstants surveyed Alton East 'St Louis Joliet Pe oria Qulncyy and Springfield and in each city found' certain deplora ble' conditions In some instances no one particularly is to blame while in others it easy to locate the cause As to the suggestions it is well known that a certain type of investor looks to low priced houses and cheap tenements as the profitable source of Income from real estate Investments Old and dilapidated buildings afford ing no modern conveniences and with no force Means upon the nart of landlord to his property in good shape and the' often close relationship between the landlord and the public officials prevent the enforcement of laws providing i i tv 7 a i 2 I 1 2 0 S' 7 A JTirr VTTTri Pl 6 Il I 7 ft a41 C' 3 yXrlrfS "4 i A 5 A 'L a a AS JatejmsuhiMih YBiWi 1 ta 4 Va 'I rv 4 Ksa liV £1 I A' I I rv xx i 1 HKclE rw I.

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