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-j«-^ troy ¥?rif jMIS jg* a^ h| I-1 [ 1 _jfo B^^^tS^. £ • H| j/k Ft Js& r \ W» ||ll||pni JUST WEST OF—- ... Choice Large Lots... I I ...Building Restrictions... |^W^^^S^STS^e« I ' Occidental Park f Shatto Place Copenhagen Trad , ) ~v k , ; i k ■ j— ' i- v Fronting Occidental Boulevard— l2o Feet Wide With Large Lots Fronting on West Sixth Street Located Cor. Wilshire Blvd. and Vermont Avenue Parkway- in Center, Planted and Cared for by* the Park Vermont Avenue, Juanita AvenUO West of Westlake Park. Department of the City of Los Angeles— a Part of Sunset Just West of Westlake Park. Go Out Today to Our r . . r»,-«««tr »,-«««t t «♦« in that Hi«rh Class Residence Section Park System. Occidental Boulevard is Just West of Branch Office, 1950 Wilshire Boulevard, and make your Choicest,^ Cheap est ] Lots in th at H ign-Cla ss R eside nee Section. Westlake Park and Extends from W. 6th St. to W. Ist St Selection. ■ • Go Out . Todav to Our Branch office « 2950 Wilshire Boulevard. Branch Office for Westlake Lots 2950 Wilshire Boulevard e^3^ST HOMES IN TRACTS GROW IN NUMBER CONTINUED DEMAND FOR LOTS ,•■ IN SUBDIVISIONS MANY NEW DWELLINGS BUILT Realty Dealers State That Inquiry Is Active for Lots of Good Size. , Excellent Car Bervlc» , . Helps Business Residents of Los Angeles and strangers of limited capital, desiring to Y acqulra California soil for . home sites and for Investment look with much favor upon the new additions platted for development. ' Owners and [promoters of the tracts have been iliberal in the expenditure of cash In advance for substantial improve ments, and nearly every subdivision placed on sale has features that serve to -win admiration and many purchag ers of lots. The Herald has called at itentlon in the past to many of the new tracts. There are more to come, as the dealers report that homeseekers and Investors continue to increase In num ber with each passing week. Good car service is one of the principal consid erations In making selections. Three Popular Tracts Mines & Farlsh report sales of lots in. the following tracts: ;In Occidental park tract, sixteen lots for $44,000. Occidental park tract lies west of "Westlake park and extends from West First street on the north to West Sixth and Sunset park on the south. The size of the lots range from 60x150 to 85x175 feet, and front on Oc cidental boulevard, that is 120 feet wida with park places in the center that will be planted and cared for by the city. The prices on the lots range from $2500 to $4000. There is a building re striction requiring all houses to be two stories and to cost not less than $4000. Among the purchasers of lots were A. S. Abbot, B. Mott Morris, Glover P. Widney, George S. Marygold, Emily C. Hardaway, S. T. Eldridge, Dr. W. W. Richardson, Mary A. Curtis, E. C. Dieter, H. B. Maxson, F. N. Coffin. It is stated that at least four of the pur chasers will build homes at once. ''in the Copenhagen tract, seventeen lots for $32,500. This tract is located at the northwest corner of Wilshlre boulevard and Vermont avenue. Lots range In size from 47x140 to 70x160 feet to 20-foot alleys, prices ranging from $1350 to $3500. There is a building re striction upon the property so as to Insure nothing but flrstclass resi dences. The street work is now being done, and it is expected that it will be completed within ninety days. Among the purchasers in this tract were William B. Oliver, Dr. W. J. Hawkes, Oscar Lawler, Helen Folsom Pratt, H. G. Mines, Frank H. Merrill and Emily C. Hardaway. '■ In Sunset Park tract, fronting on Wilshlre boulevard, between Common wealth and Virgil avenues, two Jots, 51x150 feet each, sold for the Prudential Investment company to S. T. Kid ridge; consideration, $4100. Also, in same tract a' lot 61x150 feet to Thompson Hosier for $2100, and a lot 50x170 feet on Miami avenue, between Wllshlre - boulevard and West Sixth street, for Lucy K. Wheeler to Dr. R. W. Morris, for $2000. In Wlllowbrook Tract The sound of the hammer and the saw is heard on every hand in Willow* brook tract, on the Long Beach car line. General activity In this tract Is apparent, as eight houses , are now in course of erection, and It ia stated that MISSION HOME ON SOUTH UNION AVENUE Residence of Old Califor nia Style for A. I. Cohen The accompanying Illustration of the old California mission style of home of A. I. Cohen, a Los Angeles capitalist, is a creation of S. Tilden Norton, tha architect, erected at a cost of $4000. This one-story dwelling occupies a ter plans are out for five more dwellings. The class of houses on this tract is generally of bungalow design, though several two-story houses have been erected. Thirty-one lots were sold in Willow brook during the past two weeks by Harbert & Butterworth. All are half acre lots that were sold at $300 each. Many of the purchasers took two or more lots, intending to build upon one and hold the other as an Investment, in the meantime cultivating the soil and raising vegetables, small fruits and berries. This is said to be quite profitable where water Is free, as it Is at Wlllowbrook. A Bunch of Sales Strong & Dickinson report sales as follows: In Gus B. Hill's Independence tract— To J. H. Armour, lot 66, $600; B. O. Johnson, lot 61, $600. In Marsh's Central Avenue tract— To Laura Wllkins, lot 70. $350. In Hollywood High School tract— To Allison Eley. lot 18, block G, $450. In Figueroa Street tract— To M. Sun din, lot 96, $525; John P. Livonl. lot 109, $475; May Horgan, lot 229, $475; Mary B. Owens, lots 97 and 98, $1000; Julia V. Dunphy, lot 228, $475. In Crenshaw's Arlington Heights tract— To Harvey Davis, lot 19, block 41, $800. In East Jefferson Street tract— To William 8. Holland, lot 112, $800. In Salt Lake Railroad tract— To I. Ayala, lots 61 and 65, $900. Oswald Home Tract The Salak-Santon company, cham ber of commerce, report active' demand for lots in Oswald Home tract, with recent sales as follows: Lot 8, block 1, Nettle Klrby, ; $800; 10t. 6. block 3. M. A. Thompson. $750; lot U, • block Z, ;R. B. Weils, $700; , lots 1 3 and 4, block 5, Amelia Jacobson ( ' 11400; LOS ANGELES HERALD i SUNDAY MORNING,' MAY, aB, 1905. raced lot 50x150 feet, at 1017 South Union avenue. : The exterior is plastered with cement, and the trimmings are mission gal vanized iron tiles. The recessed ver anda is an artistic feature of the ex terior construction. . The reception hall is 6xlo feet. On right of the hall is the living room 12x16 feet, the dining room 11.6x16.6, at the rear the butler's pantry and kitchen, 12x14 feet with kitchen pantry and other household con veniences. lot 14, block 1, F. M. Baldauf, $725; lot 22, block 3, Alvlna Nehrlng, $750; lot 15, block 3. H. Bedford, $800. The same firm are offering large lots In their Martin tract, on the Long Beach car line, at $375 up. South Vermont Avenue Tract This tract was formally placed upon the market last week and twenty-three lots sold through the agencies of the Robert Mitchell company, A. T. Jer glns & Co. and Goodhue, Barber & So relle, at $350 each. Among the.lnves tors are C. B. Groat, H. J. Skewes, I. Conn, Phil Denitz, B. A. Jenkins, S. Sullivan, LeGrand Betts, E. E. John son, A. Silver, C. A. Sewell, C. E. Rhone, T. Burger, A. Robertson and James Manning and W. L. Adams. Tho management announce that they in tend to sell only 50 lots at $350 each, while the work of Improving the streets Is progressing. The tract is situated one-half mile south of the city limits, and fronts on the Vermont avenue and the Redondo electric car lines. The tract has been divided into lots 50x143 feet. There are 182 lots In the entire tract. WIDE LOTS IN RAMSAUR TRACT New Proposition Offered by California Land Syndicate Those who want desirable home lots of good width and depth on the Long Beach electric car line, within a short ride of the city hall, will be Interested to learn that the Ramsaur Street tract, the . property of Strong & Dickinson and M. J. Nolan, lias been subdivided by the California Land syndicate Into lots 65x154 feet. These lots will be sold at $1 down and I ', per cent a month until paid for, no Interest and no taxes. Speaking of this, proposition George B. McLaughlln, the president of the California Land syndicate, eald in an Interview: "The day of the twenty five-foot lot lor a ■ residence Is . past .' '.." ■■'•■ • " ■■■-••■ :".■ . ,U. ..1..T.1 .3 At the left of the reception hall Is a large chamber 12x14 feet, connected with the second chamber by a dressing room containing . lavatory, wardrobe, etc., with bath room in adjoining space. At the rear is the guests' chamber, the servants' room and a screen porch. The floors of the principal rooms are of quarter sawed oak, and the walls and ceilings are' tinted and decorated with neat ornamentations. The hot air furnace is In the base ment. .... It Is Just as easy for a real estate firm to subdivide cheap property into large lots, so a man can turn around without going out Into the street. We are sell ing adjoining half-acre lots In the Ramsaur street tract at $300, $25 down and $10 a month, no Interest and no taxes. Provision has already been made for amply supply of artesian water for every lot In the tract. The water system Is to be greatly improved by the present owners to meet all re quirements of the future. Many of the lots have been sold and a number of new homes are to be erected without delay." LOS ANGELES CAPITAL - IN SALT LAKE REALTY R. A. Rowan and wife have been visiting at Salt Lake City. Mr. Rowan journeyed to the city of the saints for a rest, but it appears t^at "good things in sight," or force of habit caused him to Invest money In business property. In the columns of the Salt Lake Tele gram of May 22, appears the announce ment that Mr. Rowan "closed a deal by which ;he becomes the owner ■ of flfty.flve feet of ground on the west side of State street, between Second and Third South streets. The sale was made by W. J. Halloran and the con sideration was $800 a front foot. Mr. Rowan Is negotiating for several other pieces of property and it la expected that the deals will be closed in a day or two." ' Tracing tho Taln't "Who'i your father, my little man?" "Mister Brown U my father." "Anil whut'i hl»bu«lne»»T" ' "H* run* * bucket ihop. "And where have you beent' ■ "I've be«a to have my hair out." "Did you pay for Itt" .:' "Sure/ ■.••:..' "And don't you know the money you save the barter waa tainted T" . "Aw, 'taint de money dat •mella »o— U'l 4« ha,lr pll."V-Cli<velaad tlala Dialer, .. REALTY DEALERS KEEP MOVING LOCAL CAPITALIST INVESTS IN SALT LAKE CITY ADAMS GOING TO VANCOUVER Illinois Home Seekers Buy Near Saw. telle— Wilbur O. Dow Is Home From Trip to Bullfrog and Goldfield Los Angeles realty dealers and capi talists are getting in on the ground floor at Salt Lake, where It is claimed there are many opportunities for profitable investments. Robert A. Rowan, who has been out of the ctly for a number of days, has made a stop at Salt Lake, and it Is un derstood.that he has purchased several business lots in the city of the saints. He bought one lot near the Knutsford hotel on State street, frontage fifty-five feet, for $42,500. . One of the first of the local Investors to reach Salt Lake after the opening of the new road was Peter Haack, who states that he contracted for property valued at $120,000. Mr. Haack is con fident that he secured a bargain. James Huddleston, an Illinois man, who some years ago bought a fruit ranch at Glendale, has disposed of his holdings at a good profit, and has pur chased a flye-acre tract near Sawtelle, where he will erect a dwelling and make his future home. W. H. Whlchel, also from Illinois, who arrived two weeks ago, has bought two acres of land near Sawtelle. He will reside on the place. J. H. Vickery of the Huntington Beach Realty j company has returned from a business trip in the east. Wilbur O. Dow of the Home Real Estate company, has returned from Las Vegas. He has made a trip in a wagon to Bullfrog and Gold field for the purpose of informing him self as to actual conditions and for recreation. Mr. Dow years ago trav eled all over the. territory that Is now so famous as a mining region, but he was not looking for gold then. Abel Augustine Adams, a local realty dealer and bond broker, Is planning to make a trip to Vancouver. He statfs that he has been so hard at work of late that he feels that he should have a rest, and it is his purpose to go where he can rid himself of the thought of business and take a look through a country entirely new to him. He does not even want to see a billiard table until he returns to Los Angeles. The Herald has received a copy of the Builders 1 Guide and Real Estate Record, a weekly publication devoted exclusively to realty Interests. The Service Bros, have taken posses sion of rooms in the Frost building. W. B. Merwin is in the east on a business and vacation trip. Ingram & Brlggs have enlarged their real estate quarters In the Braly build ing by leasing suite 1101. City Property Bold Ben White reports that he has closed sales as follows: Four new five room flats, with lot 60x170 j feet, atr 1111 West Washington street for Nettle A. and Milton R. Pittenger to Joseph Qecmen, $10,600. A ten room residence, with lot 40x167 feet, at 1918 Lovelace avenue, for H. Mathewson to L. Pratt, $6000; pur chased as an investment. A new six room cottage, with corner lot 45x140 feet, on the southeast corner of Eastlake avenue and Manltou,' $3000, for same parties. ; A lot 60x135 feet, with a five room cot tase, at 220 Cooper street, for A. llar PART It. mon to A. C. Sprechman, $1800; pur chased for a home. A five room cottage at 1171 East Thir ty-sixth street, together with a lot 33x 185 feet, for I. Wlldey to Martha Jenks, $2000. For Jennie M. Bull to George Dun das, a five room modern cottage, lot 50x150 feet, .at 1408 Dewey avenue, $2800. For Alida Askay to George Dundas, lot 60x150 feet, running through from Forty-seventh to Forty-eighth street, with a five room cottage thereon, being 956 East Forty-seventh, $2500. Also, for Etta Arbogast to S. M. Smith, a lot 104x288 feet, with a five room cottage on Lake Shore avenue, about 200 feet west of Alesandro ave nue, $1800. Althouse Bros, report the sale of city property as follows: Fred Grass to A. P. Fleming, twelve unimproved lots, 50x135 feet each, on Juliet street, between Adams and Twenty-fourth streets. The new owner will Improve with modern eight and nine room houses as an investment. Total consideration, $15,000. D. Fuchs to Ben L. Bear, the Bouth east corner of Pico and Hoover streets. Improved with three stores and a cot tage, lot 60x90 feet; an investment; consideration, $10,500. West Ninth Street Heights company to C. Swain, an unimproved lot on the west side of Fedora street, 200 feet south of Ninth street. Mr. Swain will Improve at once with a residence for a home to cost $4500. Consideration, $1200. L. L. Bowen has sold through the agency of the Jones & Ryder Land Co., to Caroline Burly the northwest cor ner of Twenty-ninth and Dalton ave nue, lot 50x150 feet Improved with six room cottage, new. Consideration, $3750. Mines & Farlsh report the sale of a lot, 60x108 feet with nominal Improve ments on the west side of Figueroa street, 235 feet north of Pico street from Maria Mary Mytton to W. I. Vail. Consideration, $10,000. Holmes & Walton report sales of city property as follows: Martha W. Harris to B. A. Correlles, an unimproved lot, 104x127 feet, on the southwest corner of Santa Fe and Le- Grand avenue; consideration, $3000. E. M. Draper to.L. L. Baker, a lot, 40x105 feet to an alley, on the west side of Central avenue, about ninety feet north of Twelfth street, Improved with a three-story frame store and flat, building renting for $93 per month; ccnslderation, $8500. A. Hi Stelnmayer to Charlotte Cope and Sablna Blttlnger, an^unimproved lot, 50x150 feet, on the west side of La- Salle avenue, 150 feet south of Twenty seventh street; consideration, $1200. Purchaser will improve at once. E. G. Wood to Anna C. Burger, an unimproved lot, 50x214 feet, on the east side of Ellendale place, about 550 feet south of Adams street; consideration, $2100. Purchaser wll Improve at once by erecting a dwelling. ALAMITOS BAY OPENING Special Attractions on the Coast for the People — Enjoy the Fun The grand opening of the Alamltos Bay tract will occur on Tuesday, May 30— all day. Electric cars will run direct from Sixth and Main streets to the bay, In side of forty minutes. The main attraction at the bay will be the playing of fifteen pianos at the same time. There will also be auto mobile and boat races, swimming matches and the great flre dive. Robert Marsh and Strong & Dickin son state that lots In Alamltoa Bay tract are selling rapidly and that inside ot sixty days all will bo sold. Many new dwellings are being erected. The owners are Just opening Alamltos Bay Tract No. 8. "Let me ace." began Mr. Henpeck. "the Mooden wcddlnc I* the fifth anntveraary, j bn 't__" "No!" anapp*d hl« wife. "When one marrlee a blookta««d, the ceremony ■ It telf " But the mleerable man bad fled. — Kj.Qh»i!*e. 3 HALF MILLION DOLLARS IN MANY BIG BUILDINGS WORK ON AUDITORIUM BLOCK TO BEGIN IN JUNE Plans of the Scottish Rite Temple Are Approved by the Masonlo Corn* mlttee — Hlgglns Block on South Spring Street The plans for the Scottish Rite temple, to be erected on the west side of Hope street, between ■ Ninth . ani Tenth streets at a cost of $100,000 -when furnished, have been approved' by th 9 Masonic committee and bids for the im provement will be received by Hudson & Munsell, architects. The temple will be two and a half stories. Thomas Hlgglns will erect a $50,000 brick of six stories on a lot 43V6x150 feat on the east side of Spring street, be teen Seventh and Eighth streets, that was recently sold by Frank Schumacher 1 for $63,000. Architect Haley has been directed to prepare plans for the im provement. . The plans drawn by Architect C. F. Whittlesey and O. H. Neher for the Auditorium building to be erected . on the northeast corner of Olive and Fifth streets at a cost of $350,000 have been approved by the company building com mittee. The structure will be fireproof, nine stories and will Include Blx store rooms, a great auditorium at the rear, and 113 offices and studios. The aud itorium will accommodate 5000 people. The stage will be 40x100 feet. Active operations will begin in June, when the old building will be removed. The plans for the Elks' temple on the corner of Fifth and Olive streets, drawn by Architect Rosenhelm, have been ap proved. LAKE LAND ACREAGE FOR FARMING AVAILABLE California Land Syndicate In Charge of Colonization and Develop ment Enterprise During the past week the California Land Syndicate of Los Angeles com pleted a deal by which the syndicate will handle several large tracts of rich farming land, embracing 50,000 acres, located In the lake sections of Kings, Fresno and Tulare counties, 250 miles north of Los Angeles. Negotiations for the acreage have been pending for somu weeks, and through the efforts of President McLaughlln, Secretary Geo. A. Phillips and other officers of the syndicate, the colonization and devel opment of the land will be directed from the Los Angeles office, 133 South Broadway. The land Is located In a rich section 1 of the state and the climate Is all that could be desired. The nearest Impor tant town is Hanford, with population of about 6000, where there are seven banks with heavy deposits. A large' part of the land lies seven miles south east of Hanford and four miles from the town of Ooshen. Acreage will be sold at $15 to $25 per acre with water, privileges and at from $7.50 to $10 per acre where the purchaser will provide for water on his own account. The land Is available for the production of, heavy crops of alfalfa and wheat and also for stock raising purposes and for. vineyards. It is stated that many prosperous, farmers reside on the lake lands, and that the section is filling up rapidly with a fine class of Industrious people. Funeral Customs In Ireland A vory curious old custom U * auoclated with Intermenta In the ceremony of Labruck, I'onnemuru, Irelaud. A box of plpea— ■ ehort claya — la brought with the coffin, and a pipe of tobacco la aerved out to each mourner. The plpea are amoked In silence after the earth haa been filled In and a mound of ■tonea raised above the gra.se. - Tha ashea are solemnly knocked out on th» top anil the plpea broken or left behind. The origin of this custom la unknown, but It ia thought! lo be embleiuatlo of "ashea to ashes, dust to du»t." - vmiiJ^il WyMilgßWlMMMgl '• Everything you «■; you wiu • aa« < taltt* aiaulfled (*••< . a muJ.ru eMjrelopadla. ■