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II A TELEPHONE 325 THE HERALD M1AJM1 ELUREDA SUNDAY JULY 27 1024 HEP ALE TELEPHONE 3125 PAGE TWELVE BEAUTIFUL NORTH GATE HOME I I liked tho city so well he decided to remain Mr first work In Miami 1 is a color drawing of a view of Miami and Us bayfront which wa extensively used in 191ft In the advertising campaign of th-s Chamber of Commerce Two years lor he enlisted and wrent oversA during the World War as master engineer with the 20th Engineers and was employed In construction woik Following 15 service in France the Armistice was signed and he wa appointed instructor in architecture at the American University Beaune-Cote-d'Or He also took a course in advanced designing with a travelling class under Dorado Taft noted sculptor He returned to Miami In Jtilv 1919 and resumed a general practice During the Inst three years Mr Hampton has been architect for the Ilott I Company and during that period he designed the Miami Country Club here and the bathing Casino at Balm Beach and various other structures owned by this company He has toured tho continent and spent several month studving Spanish and Moorish architectural styles and type and he haw introduced Into the design of the proposed new $1-500000 hotel at Curat Guides manv ideas which he obtained abroad during hi travels Mr Hampton is a Fellow nf the American Institute of Architects ami member of the Florida Association of Architects Miami Architectural ('lull and Bisouyne Yacht Club He lives at 300 Fourteenth street and ha office in suite 100 Congress building operating under the firm name of Hampton 6c Ehman BOARD OF TRADE WAS FIRST CIVIC ORGANIZATION IN MIAMI Even in These Days the Keynote of Miami Was Growth and Development First Meetings Were Held in Old Slave Building By 11 TKIiSOV in th old days when Miami JAJ vas still a small hamlet there i as organized a board of trade of he most enterprising men and uom-Jpn of the colony Even in those da khe keynote of Miami was growth Snd development with members jjfworking for the good of the whole community The meetings in those diys were held in the old slave building In Fort Dallas which was the first county court house and the civile center for oung Miami In 1911 and 1912 soon after I came stn Miami as pastor of old Trinity iMethodist Church thev put me in to sere on the board of directors of the old Board of Trade In 1913 I went awav and when 1 returned in 1914 we still operated as a board of trade but in 1915 under fine administration of Douglas the Chamber of Commerce was organized and the membership was raised Preiou to Mr Douglas oung Captain Brossier served as president of the Board of Trade and ard was its secretary The name of the man who was secretary at the time of the reorganization was Paddock and one of his characterist ics was that he was a1was found with his feet on the desk and his pipe in his mot th (1 Sewell followed Mr Douglas complete drainage of the Everglades adjacent to Miami The passenger service of the Baltimore Si Carolina Steamship company wa inaugurated during the last ear from Baltimore to Miami making a stop at Charleston Announcement ha recently been made that the Clde Mallory lines will operate a New York-Xttami passenger service commencing thin fall During the month of November One of the beautiful style of homes being built in North Gate by the llennett bomber A Construction Co Ik Second uvenue 'I bis home built to sell for about 9IOOOO ami Is one of several now under way In the subdivision adlnintng Itnv Shore on Biscay ne Bav It is a semi-Spanish type built of hollow tile stuecoed and contain six rooms unit bnth 'I here Is a private garage In the rear MIAMI HOME BUILDERS AND DESIGNERS there came a slump in building and he headed for Havana shortly afterward to see the Johnson-Wills fight He stopped over in Miami and HoaucK AT Ml AM! BEACH as president of the new Chamber of Commerce and has sered as presd-'dnt of that organization ever since that time except for a short time he was acting as chairman of publicity in California Roberts served as president Mr Sewell returning to office on his return Mr pRoberts was elected to the office by Ihe one deciding ote which was cast iv Mr Sewell himself hamber of Commerce has pHE A made Boca Ratone The Coming City of South Florida BOCA RATONE is conceded by all who have seen it to be the ideal location for a city between Miami and Talm Beach Midway between these famous resorts and within one mile of the ocean beach Two beautiful little lakes and ocean inlet within the city limits A spot of natural beauty that appeals to the discriminating homeseeker and investor- Good school city water afid paved steets are existing features If you have not learned about BOCA RATONE rest assured you are going to within the next few months Now is the time to call and get details Our illustrated booklet is free on request Lots now selling from up on terms so easy that everyone can afford one or more lots 1924 the Gulf Southern Steamship company inaugurated a combination freight and passenger service from New Orleans to Miami and the port business with Nassau and the Bahama Islands has greatly increased during the last ear Another important question before the Board was the securing of good drinking water for the city toward which six new wells have been sunk at Hialeah which will give an adequate supply and will be available tin fall The new Bav front park which is being built by the city will be completed this fall and it is planned to be the most beautiful park in the worhl Among the civic improvements are the cleaning up of Miami streets by having electric wires placed underground Unsightly poles verandas and ragged awnings are also fast disappearing from the street Many short turns and narrows places in streets have been eliminated A number of small manufacturing plants have been started during the last year and several others are now planning to come here The Miami ('hamber of Commerce been working each year toward lengthening of the season in Miami which has been clone through co-operation of the hotel the railroad and the band which will here a week earlier and later than er before Another of the important accomplishments of the chamber of commerce which is always under way the preserving of the natural beauty of Biscay ne Bay There are so many things the Miami Chamber of Commerce has accomplished in the last few years it would a very large book to relate all them and the best we can do now to touch but biiefly on those big project which mean so much in the future of this wonder city by the called one of leading architects He i a progressive and a firm believer in the need of co-operation from the building public to create a more permanent type of construction in this section He declare that growth has been so rapid there has been but scant time to study the particular needs of the city as regard construction and he Is of the opinion that a city's architecture reflects the lives and condition of its people construction in Miami thus far indicates the lack of proper study perhaps Mr Hampton said this is true of any city growing so fast and no one really knows what to do Mr Hampton has designed some of the most magnificent hotels apartment office building and residences In this section of Florida and he i known for the high standard of work which he has set in these various jobs He designed the stately Granada Apartments in Fort Dallas Bark which were constructed at a cost of $500000 He also planned the Hotel Bancoast the $50000 structure on Ihe Ocean Front at Twenty-ninth street Miami Beach In addition to these he designed the Coral Gables country club and the golf and country club building at Hollywood Fla the Community theater and Helene Apartments at Miami Beach IN the office building line hq designed the Professional building on Second avenue and the Congress building a block south on the same thoroughfare and In which Mr Hampton has his office Mr Hampton a South Carolinian wa born at Laurens August 3 3890 and is the scion of an illustrious South Carolina family When he was 10 years old he removed to Charlotte where he was educated in schools and in the Charlotte Military Institute Mr Hampton journeved south to Columbia in 1932 and there undertook hi first real commission which comprised the planning and designing of the Jefferson Hotel built in 1912 at a cost of $3U0 0U0 He remained there until 1914 when ws work so much so that Roger Bab-kion when he was here about four years ago said "You bate the second If not the first chamber of commerce In the United States In its equipment generaL development and work was a director on the old Board Vf Trade for three years and have been on the directorship of the Chamber of Commerce for the last 30 3 ears 13 years of service in all and im the onlv director who has sorted vronseeuti vely so many years on the Aboard I remember manv of the members South Florida Sales Co Miami Florida 138 Second Ave fi a SELECTED BY GREAT MEN The big men of America are building their winter homes at Miami Beach in greater numbers than any spot in Florida Great financiers great writers artists and geniuses who have traveled the world over and can select at will are choosing Miami Beach for the place in which to live The reason for Miami Beach becoming the center of such celebrities is that it has more to offer in the pleasures and comforts of life than any other community The ocean and its wonderful bathing greatest hotels three unmatchable golf courses six polo fields and the ocean and hay within a few blocks of every home Miami Beach today is conceded the most desirable home site in Florida The person looking into the future will profit by having his home here now HOW MIAMI HAS GROWN! i The marvelous growth of the city has surprised the most conservative estimators of the old Board of Trade who were Active in its development work among whom were MacDonald who is father-in-law of John Reillv Sewell Leffler Moore Pat Hatley Henry Ralston Theodore Hofstatler who lwavs began his talks hy saying grew' up in a little village on the Hudson river meaning New York Whuh was his home town Mr Hof-atatler was president of the Miami Bank and Trust Company I Ief-fler Sewell and Tatum have been connected with the work If the organization for more than 35 fear i And even hck in the days of the tM Roard of Trade there came up he same questions and agitations hich exist to this day many of the Questions being will we get leep water'' and transportation and the matter of the inland waterwavs canal ail of which have tome down from the old organiza ion to the present dav with the end ihuch nearer in sight than it was in those davs About 1914 the Board of Trade purchased what is now one of the most ialuable pieces of property in the itv the site of its building at the orner of First street and First venue at a mere fraction of its iresent valuation In the beginning of the present organization there were nine bureaus aith five directors at large and at the present time there are direc- i fcors on the board pHE Chamber of Commerce has had its hand on everything In the Iray of progress connected with the i pity of Miami including transporta- ion citv improvements roads induf- i rles hotel apartment houses gIFrr ftreets' sidewalk parks school Jfhere is no improvement or develop- 1 gient in this part of the state in Irhirh the Chamber of Commerce has iot In some wav been influential I have found in the last few sears i Frr mv affiliations with other civic Organization that whenever any I flatter has been brought before that ixdv for dicusbn or action the tame matter has already at some 1 time been acted upon by the Chamber Bommeree 1 1 remember once a ldv came In tpH she hd heard tint Newell bean authorised to spend $20 on iiliiidtv and she thought that was i Err: i lot of monev Thev are now au-liorized to spend from $23 1M0 to 1 per vear on one particular Ine of publicity alone The citv Jle $130 000 each ear for publicity bid other matters under the direction if the Chamber of Commerce This pudget embraces the hand which tomes here each ear and plays dur-g the season in Royal Palm Park For seven years we have had band and this year they will here 13 weeks instead of 3ft as Ji former years They have been Slid $40 000 per season The first Jand that was ever brought here was Kiltie hand which plaved nine geeks for $8000 I Among some of the accomplishment of the recent jeas hv the Chamber of Commerce its hoard of rectors and members is the bark-ka up of the cansewav the bringing jere of national and Internationa! Conventions among whom thev en- rtained the editors of the National i Idttorial Association as well as the Canadian Editor A THE annual meeting of the Chamber pf Commerce in the firing of 3923 a program was made yp of 43 important items whih was iscomended to the chamber to take Ip Manv of these items have been ully accomplished and great prog-s ha been made on many others I Outstanding on this program were Wh piojects the deep water har-r in which it as proposed that Jje harbor be deepened to 25 feet pd the ship channel widened to 200 et across the bay 1th 500 feet at outer entrance to the jetties nidtrable progress has been made Sn this In the past vear The Honorable Wallace Demp-v chairman of the rivers and bar- brs Committee of the house of iep- sentatives was invited to lt liarnl and inspect this harbor hu I did spending several week lure! Ir Dempsey returned to Washington work on putting through a bill fnlch would accomplish this lm- Movement It is practicallv assured tne present time In this work $-operation was aln received from pngreman Sears Senators iHmran I P'jetcher and Iaik Trammell iin-1 laning Reach chief nf en-Eneers of the I nited States Arms 1 Jpo veiled hcie February and is has the the he ev is take of is sea 0 1 Finest Frontier Where Nature Did Her Who Will Doubt That Within a Few Years La Si IT 4 I (' 1 will be celebrating the anniversary of the opening of the causeway which will have connected this beautiful island with the mainland of Florida? Since the causeway has been assured property on Key Largo has advanced thousands of acres have been bought for wise investors see the possibilities on Key Largo which have been in Miami We encourage you to investigate the possibilities of Key Largo and other Florida keys Charming homesites near the ocean or bay can be purchased for $250 and up Also small acreage for gardens or large tracts for farming or fruit either with water fronts or easily accessible to ocean or bay ranging in price from $100 to $500 per acre may be obtained through the BroKfrat llifry oo-operailoii given on Axk QneMlonx Emerson Realty Co 21 First Ave Miami Fla gpAro or nmtsTCMt AT MAH Be)CM IlMONtor! have large and amall tract that are ripe for lev clopment Lincoln and Washington Ave Miami Beach Fla A.